DocumentCode :
1450019
Title :
Answering the Big Questions in Neuroscience: DoD´s Experimental Research Wing Takes on Massive, High-Risk Projects
Author :
Mertz, Leslie
Volume :
3
Issue :
1
fYear :
2012
Firstpage :
20
Lastpage :
26
Abstract :
When the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) asks research questions, it goes big. This is, after all, the same agency that put together teams of scientists and engineers to find a way to connect the worlds computers and, in doing so, developed the precursor to the Internet. DARPA, the experimental research wing of the U.S. Department of Defense, funds the types of research queries that scientists and engineers dream of tackling. Unlike a traditional granting agency that conservatively metes out its funding and only to projects with a good chance of success, DARPA puts its money on massive, multi-institutional projects that have no guarantees, but have enormous potential. In the 1990s, DARPA began its biological and medical science research to improve the safety, health, and well being of military personnel, according to DARPA program manager and Army Colonel Geoffrey Ling, Ph.D., M.D. More recently, DARPA has entered the realm of neuroscience and neurotechnology. Its focus with these projects is on its prime customer, the U.S. Department of Defense, but Ling acknowledged that technologies developed in its programs “certainly have potential to cascade into civilian uses.”
Keywords :
biomedical engineering; brain; neurophysiology; DARPA; neuroscience; neurotechnology; DARPA; Neuroscience; Research and development; Safety; US Department of Defense; Animals; Biomedical Research; Government Agencies; Humans; Neurosciences; Prosthesis Design; Research Support as Topic; United States; United States Department of Defense;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Pulse, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
2154-2287
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/MPUL.2011.2177197
Filename :
6153119
Link To Document :
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