DARPA Wants To Chat With 1 Million Neurons Through Brain-Computer Interface Program

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been working on neural interfaces since 1974, when agency-funded scientists used encephalogram signals to help participants move cursors around a maze. Now, through its Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program, the agency is sponsoring research into a new generation of technologies that could better enable communication between devices and the brain.