A Conversation With John P. Donoghue - A System for Connecting Brains to the Outside World - NYTimes.com

A Conversation With John P. Donoghue - A System for Connecting Brains to the Outside World - NYTimes.com: "About four years ago, John Donoghue’s son, Jacob, then 18, took his father aside and declared, “Dad, I now understand what you do — you’re ‘The Matrix’!” Dr. Donoghue, 61, is a professor of engineering and neuroscience at Brown University, studying how human brain signals could combine with modern electronics to help paralyzed people gain greater control over their environments. He’s designed a machine, the BrainGate, that uses thought to move objects. We spoke for two hours in his Brown University offices in Providence, R.I., and then again by telephone."