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Post #32 – The Intersection of Engineering and Neuroscience: Dan Bacher from Speak Your Mind & BrainGate

Dan Faggella

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March 23, 2014
Post #32 - The Intersection of Engineering and Neuroscience: Dan Bacher from Speak Your Mind & BrainGate

Dan Bacher is a Senior Research and Development Engineer at Brown University. He is also the Founder of the Speak Your Mind Foundation, which is a nonprofit organization that emerged out of the BrainGate lab at Brown University and Massachusetts General Hospital.

In this interview, Dan speaks about the synthesis of electrical engineering and neuroscience, which ultimately led to the creation of Brown’s BrainGate Group & the Speak Your Mind Foundation. Bacher discusses the future of Assistive Technologies & the new technologies that BrainGate is currently developing.

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