Using WWII Cryptography to Develop Mind-Controlled Prosthetics

U.S. researchers have used a WWII-type code-breaking technique to predict from neural activity how a rhesus monkey will move its arm. The approach, developed by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University, is not dissimilar to that of Alan Turing’s Bletchley Park team, which applied the statistics of how letters and words construct sentences, to crack Germany’s WWII Enigma code. Led by Konrad K ö rding, Ph.D., a