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Nature 424, 369 (24 July 2003) | doi:10.1038/424369b

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Military: brain machine could benefit millions

Alan Rudolph1

  1. Defence Science Office, DARPA, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22203, USA

Your News Feature "Remote control" (Nature 423, 796–798; 2003) misrepresented some aspects of the brain–machine interface programme funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The DARPA programme is basic research, defined by the Department of Defense as "systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without specific applications toward processes or products".