[liberationtech] DARPA Restoring Active Memory (RAM) program

[Gregory Foster]

On 7/14/14, 12:33 PM, Gregory Foster wrote:
> DARPA (Jul 9) - "Restoring Active Memory Program Poised to Launch":
> http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/07/09.aspx
> 
>> Specifically, RAM performers aim to develop and test wireless, fully implantable neural-interface medical devices that can serve as “neuroprosthetics”—technology that can effectively bridge the gaps that interfere with an individual’s ability to encode new memories or retrieve old ones.


IEEE Spectrum (Aug 27) - "DARPA Project Starts Building Human Memory
Prosthetics":
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/darpa-project-starts-building-human-memory-prosthetics

> “They’re trying to do 20 years of research in 4 years,” says Michael Kahana in a tone that’s a mixture of excitement and disbelief. Kahana, director of the Computational Memory Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, is mulling over the tall order from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In the next four years, he and other researchers are charged with understanding the neuroscience of memory and then building a prosthetic memory device that’s ready for implantation in a human brain.

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