HRL Laboratories’s Information and Systems Sciences lab (ISSL) conducts groundbreaking research in neuromorphic computing, robotic manipulation, brain-machine interfaces, trusted computing, multi-sensor object recognition, and automated knowledge and content extraction.

The Center for Neural and Emergent Systems (CNES), part of ISSL, is dedicated to exploring and developing an innovative neural & emergent computing paradigm for creating intelligent, efficient machines that can interact with, react and adapt to, evolve, and learn from their environments.

 

Web Information

HRL website: http://www.hrl.com/

ISSL pages: http://www.hrl.com/laboratories/labs_issl.html

CNES pages: http://www.hrl.com/laboratories/cnes/cnes_main.html

 

Contact Information

Email: HRLcontracts@hrl.com

PI for ICArUs and KRNS programs: Rajan Bhattacharyya

Phone: 310.317.5000

Address: HRL Laboratories, LLC 3011 Malibu Canyon Road Malibu, CA 90265-4797

HRL Laboratories

Our Mission

Strengthen our LLC Members and enhance the mission of our government and commercial customers through the development and application of world-class science, technology and engineering.

Our Vision

Lead the nation in our chosen competencies. Within those competencies be the foremost applied science and engineering capability of our LLC members, anticipating, innovating and delivering solutions for their most challenging problems.

Be a premier destination for our nation’s very best scientists and engineers.

Our Focus

Enhance and expand our understanding of our LLC Members’ strategies, plans, and needs; and continuously improve the transition of our solutions into our LLC Members’ products.

Enhance and expand our presence in the broad national security ...

 

Inscopix believes that uncovering causal neural circuit dynamics is the key to truly understanding the brain.

Inscopix recognize that current challenges in studying brain function and dysfunction are handicapped by the inability to monitor large groups of neurons at single-cell resolution. Inscopix understands the need to acquire large-scale neural circuit activity data in naturally behaving subjects. With their flagship miniaturized microscope system, nVista HD,  Inscopix is enabling you to gather unprecedented data sets in any brain area in awake behaving subjects, to make breakthrough scientific discoveries.

 

Web Information

Website:  inscopix.com/ YouTube Channel:  youtube.com/channel Twitter:  twitter.com/Inscopix

Contact Information

Email:  info@inscopix.com Phone: 1 (650) 600-3886 Address: 2462 Embarcadero Way Palo Alto, CA 94303

Organization

Chief Scientist and Co-Founder: Mark Schnitzer, PhD Team Directory

Background

The BRAIN Initiative Fact Sheet 9/30/14

Inscopix is doubling the number of grants that it will award to advance the mechanistic understanding of the brain:

Inscopix is a provider of end-to-end solutions for imaging and interpreting large-scale neural activity during natural behavior. This past summer, in response to the BRAIN Initiative, Inscopix launched a $1 million scientific grant program, Deciphering Circuit Basis of Disease (DECODE), to catalyze the mechanistic understanding of the brain in health and disease. ...

 

Google engineers are building tools and developing infrastructure to analyze petabytescale datasets generated by the BRAIN Initiative:

Google is working closely with the Allen Institute to develop scalable computational solutions to advance scientific understanding of the brain and with Janelia Research and several academic partners. Google is building the software tools and supporting infrastructure needed to analyze petabyte-scale datasets generated by the BRAIN Initiative to better understand the brain’s computational circuitry and the neural basis for human cognition.

 

Web Information

Website:   

Contact Information

Email: Phone: Address:

Organization

Director:

Background

The BRAIN Initiative Fact Sheet 9/30/14

Google engineers are building tools and developing infrastructure to analyze petabytescale datasets generated by the BRAIN Initiative:

Google is working closely with the Allen Institute to develop scalable computational solutions to advance scientific understanding of the brain and with Janelia Research and several academic partners. Google is building the software tools and supporting infrastructure needed to analyze the datasets generated by the BRAIN Initiative to better understand the brain’s computational circuitry and the neural basis for human cognition.

Principal Investigator: Baldwin Goodell

Gray Matter Research focuses on Microdrive Systems and Recording Chamber Systems. For the BRAIN Initiative, Goodell and his colleagues aim to develop optrodes, which are implantable columns of lights and wires for simultaneous electrical recording of neurons and delivery of light flashes to multiple brain areas.

 

 

Web Information

Website:  graymatter-research.com/ Brain Initiative Grant – “Large-Scale Electrophysiological Recording and Optogenetic Control System”

Contact Information

Email: baldwin@graymatter-research.com Phone: (406) 672-1915 Address: Gray Matter Research 920 Technology Blvd. Suite 106 Bozeman, MT 59718

 

 

Our vision for bioelectronic medicines is one of miniature, implantable devices that can be attached to individual peripheral nerves anywhere in the viscera. 

Such devices would be able to decipher and modulate neural signalling patterns, bringing about therapeutic effects targeted at single functions of specific organs. GSK operates an exploratory research funding program; we have established a $50 million venture arm dedicated to technology and early bioelectronic treatment manifestations and an innovation challenge focussed on rapidly bringing visceral nerve research platforms to the community.

Web Information

Website: http://www.gsk.com/en-gb/partnerships/bioelectronics-randd/

 

Contact Information

Email: roy.m.katso@gsk.com

Background

The BRAIN Initiative Fact Sheet 9/30/14

GlaxoSmithKline is announcing up to $5 million in new funding for the research community to develop innovative peripheral neurotechnologies:

In 2013, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced its ambition to develop new treatments for disease through neuronal control of visceral organs systems, an area where GSK believes there is opportunity for translation of innovative neurotechnology to create precision treatments for chronic diseases such as asthma, hypertension, and arthritis. Since then, the GSK Bioelectronic Medicines program has furthered work in the research community in this area through multiple efforts, including exploratory funding for academic scientists, a $50 million venture capital fund, and ...

 

Leaders of the National Photonics Initiative (NPI), an alliance of top scientific societies uniting industry and academia to raise awareness of photonics, launched its Photonics Industry Neuroscience Group at the White House BRAIN Initiative launch conference.

Members of the NPI industry group are committing to invest upwards of $30 million in existing and future research and development spending over the next three years to advance optics and photonics technology in support of the White House BRAIN Initiative.

 

Web Information

Website: lightourfuture.org/  

Contact Information

Email: epappas@podestagroup.com (media contact) Phone: 231.357.6330

Organization

Director:

Background

The BRAIN Initiative Fact Sheet 9/30/14

U.S. Photonics Industry Leaders are committing $30 million to tackle challenges of the BRAIN Initiative:

The National Photonics Initiative (NPI), an alliance of major scientific societies, industry and academic organizations, is convening a Photonics Industry Neuroscience Group to focus on developing new optics and photonics technologies in support of the BRAIN Initiative. This multidisciplinary industry group is comprised of influential U.S. industry leaders including Accumetra, LLC; Agilent, Applied Scientific Instrumentation; Coherent; Hamamatsu; Inscopix, Inc.; Spectra—Physics; and THORLABS. The Photonics Industry Neuroscience Group will work closely with the BRAIN Initiative leadership and with the neuroscience research community to advance optics and photonics research ...

University of California, Berkeley and Carl Zeiss Microscopy are investing $12 million to create the Berkeley Brain Microscopy Innovation Center (BrainMIC).

The BrainMIC will fast-track microscopy development for emerging neurotechnologies and will run an annual course to teach researchers how to use the new technologies. The UC Berkeley Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute is creating a program that will generate innovative devices and analytic tools in engineering, computation, chemistry, and molecular biology to enable transformative brain science from studies of human cognition to neural circuits in model organisms.

 

 

Web Information

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute website:  http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/ (no website yet for the Brain MIC) Brain Imaging Center (BIC):  neuroscience.berkeley.edu/BIC-campus-resource/ Zeiss Neuroscience Research: zeiss.com/microscopy/en_us/solutions/bioscience-research-areas/neuroscience-research

Contact Information

Email: At Zeiss contact Dr. Jochen Tham  at jochen.tham@zeiss.com

Organization

Director: Staff Directory

Background

The BRAIN Initiative Fact Sheet 9/30/14

University of California, Berkeley and Carl Zeiss Microscopy are announcing $12 million to create infrastructure for neurotechnology development:

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has invested in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute to create a program that will generate innovative devices and analytic tools in engineering, computation, chemistry, and molecular biology to enable transformative brain science from studies of human cognition to neural circuits ...

Mitre Corporation role in IARPA’S ICArUs program was the Test and Evaluation (T&E) of the neural-computational models developed by several teams of performers. Mitre performed these tasks through its National Security Engineering Center (NSEC).

Mitre also explored the potential for transition of T&E products beyond ICArUS to practical applications and future research in the Intelligence Community.

 

 

Web Information

NSEC Web pages: http://www.mitre.org/centers/national-security-and-engineering-center

Sensemaking book: http://www.mitre.org/publications/all/sociocultural-behavior-sensemaking

 

Contact Information

Email: https://register.mitre.org/site/contact/

Phone: (703) 983-6000

Address: 7515 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102-7539

 

About National Security Engineering Center

The Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community look to MITRE’s National Security Engineering Center (NSEC) for technical leadership and systems thinking to address complex challenges.

Our sponsors turn to MITRE for excellence in technical areas such as sensors, electronics, digital systems, IT, and cybersecurity. These fields lie at the core of the NSEC’s capabilities. But NSEC, like MITRE itself, is about more than technology. Our engineers, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, and experts in an array of disciplines bring deep technical knowledge and analytic understanding of the sponsors’ missions and operations. This diverse talent pool allows our sponsors to benefit from our widespread knowledge, innovation, and institutional memory.

Moreover, MITRE doesn’t manufacture products or compete with industry. As an FFRDC sponsored by the Defense Department, NSEC helps the government make choices based ...

As part of the IARPA SHARP program,Honeywellis leading a team of top researchers from Northeastern University, Oxford University, and Beth Israel Dea­coness Med­ical Center.

The goal of the SHARP program is to develop, demonstrate, and validate methods to augment intelligence analysts’ adaptive reasoning and problem-solving capabilities (ARP) and to enhance their ability to reason through complex problems common to the intelligence community.

Web Information

website:

 

Contact Information

Email:

PI for ICArUs and KRNS programs:

Phone:

Address:

 

Article

Honeywell researchers measure brain waves

AOPA by Sarah Deener Dec. 12, 2013

After a long flight in instrument conditions, a commercial flight crew begins a challenging approach, and the pilots’ attention suddenly turns to a landing gear light malfunction. With the autopilot engaged in cruise, a pilot loses focus and misses a pertinent radio call. Danger can lurk at either end of the workload spectrum: Pilots are more liable to make errors when overloaded or underworked and inattentive.

But what if a system could tap into pilots’ brain waves to automate tasks when they’re overwhelmed and snap them out of it when their attention drifts? Honeywell Aerospace researchers have used electroencephalography (EEG) sensors to quantify brain activity and cast light on when someone is ...

As part of the IARPA SHARP program, Charles River is leading a team of top researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of New Mexico, and Harvard University to test the effectiveness of a Multifaceted Intervention for Robust, ARP-Focused Customized Learning and Enhancement, or MIRACLE.

The goal of the SHARP program is to develop, demonstrate, and validate methods to augment intelligence analysts’ adaptive reasoning and problem-solving capabilities (ARP) and to enhance their ability to reason through complex problems common to the intelligence community.

 

Web Information

Charles River Analytics website: https://www.cra.com/

 

Contact Information

Email: https://www.cra.com/contact-us

PI for SHARP program: Victoria Romero

Phone: 617) 491-3474

Address: Charles River Analytics Inc 625 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

 

About Charles River Analytics

Since 1983, Charles River Analytics has been delivering intelligent systems that transform our customers’ data into mission-relevant tools and solutions to support critical assessment and decision-making. Charles River continues to grow its technology, customer base, and strategic alliances through research and development programs for the DoD and the Intelligence Community, addressing a broad spectrum of mission areas and functional domains, including: sensor and image processing, situation assessment and decision aiding, human systems integration, and cyber analytics. These efforts have resulted in ...

Dr. Francisco Pereira, staff scientist at Siemens Healthcare, leads the IARPA KRNS team which comprises 12 people across five institutions (Siemens, Princeton University, MIT, MGH and Harvard University).

Their models are based on learning distributed representations of individual words from text corpora, as well as resources such as FrameNet and WordNet, and using recursive neural network approaches and other techniques to assemble them into the representation of a sentence. The models are validated by decoding mental content from brain imaging data acquired with our own experiments.

 

 

Web Information

Siemens Healthcare website: http://usa.healthcare.siemens.com/

 

Contact Information

Email: communications.ct@siemens.com

PI for KRNS programs: Francisco Pereira

 

About Siemens Healthcare in US

Siemens Healthcare develops innovations that support better patient outcomes with greater efficiencies, giving providers the confidence they need to meet the clinical, operational and financial challenges of a changing healthcare landscape. As a global leader in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, and healthcare information technology, we have a keen understanding of the entire patient care continuum—from prevention and early detection to diagnosis and treatment.

 

Combination of Tim® 4G’s integrated coil technology and Dot – the next movement in MRI – MAGNETOM Skyra

IARPA KRNS program

The main goal of the project is to build a model of how semantic ...

eCortex is a research and development company dedicated to the idea that the most important advances in artificial intelligence will come from a deep understanding of the mechanisms in the human brain.

eCortex performs basic and applied research for defense and intelligence agencies in programs where the challenges are broad enough to defy narrow algorithmic solutions. Ultimately, we aim to develop commercial products for robotics and analysis of image, video, and other data.

 

Web Information

Website: http://www.e-cortex.com/

 

Contact Information

Email address: seth.herd@e-cortex.com

Location:  Boulder, Colorado

 

About

The company was founded in 2006. It is the exclusive commercial licensee of the Emergent neural network simulator and IDE, along with models of the human visual system originally developed at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Randall C. O’Reilly, Ph.D., Chief Scientist

Dr. O’Reilly is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has authored over 50 journal articles and an influential textbook on computational cognitive neuroscience. His work focuses on biologically-based computational models of learning mechanisms in different brain areas, including hippocampus, prefrontal cortex & basal ganglia, and posterior visual cortex. He has received significant funding from NIH, NSF, ONR, and DARPA. He is a primary author of the Emergent neural network simulation environment. O’Reilly completed a postdoctoral ...