Army Gives $4M Grant for Synthetic Telepathy
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Michael D’Zmura the chair of cognitive sciences at the University of California at Irvine reports landing a $4M grant to develop an advanced brain computer interface for the Army. According to the press release:
“The brain-computer interface would use a noninvasive brain imaging technology like electroencephalography to let people communicate thoughts to each other. For example, a soldier would “think” a message to be transmitted and a computer-based speech recognition system would decode the EEG signals. The decoded thoughts, in essence translated brain waves, are transmitted using a system that points in the direction of the intended target.”
Talk about designing for how minds work!
Spin-out applications are years away but this shows seriousness about continuing to develop the technology.
[Two people writing "how are you?"]
The discovery channel has covered the UC Irvine grant as the news story, Helmet to Convey Messages by Thought.
Connecting this to the items I blogged earlier on Brainwave Binoculars (that interface with the solider’s brain) we get a glimpse of how far the military is taking the disciplines of cognitive engineering and design.
