Richard A. Normann

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Richard A. Normann is a Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Utah. He is known for inventing the Utah array in-vivo electrode array for brain–computer interfaces and is presently on the advisory committee of the White House BRAIN Initiative.{{cite web|title=Bios|url=http://physicsoflivingsystems.org/brainstructureandfunction/bios/|website=Physical and Mathematical Principles of Brain Structure and Function|publisher=National Science Foundation|accessdate=22 May 2017|date=3 May 2013}}{{cite web|title=University of Utah Neuroscience Initiative|url=http://brainmapping.onair.cc/university-of-utah-neuroscience-initiative/|website=Brain Mapping Hub|accessdate=22 May 2017|date=30 March 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Collins|first1=Francis S.|title=NIH and the BRAIN Initiative|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/PCAST/PCAST_May3_Francis%20Collins.pdf|publisher=Obama White House Archives|accessdate=22 May 2017|date=3 May 2013}} He received his PhD in 1973 from UC Berkeley in electrical engineering.{{cite journal|last1=Kim|first1=S.|last2=Tathireddy|first2=P.|last3=Normann|first3=R. A.|last4=Solzbacher|first4=F.|title=Thermal Impact of an Active 3-D Microelectrode Array Implanted in the Brain|journal=IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering|date=1 December 2007|volume=15|issue=4|pages=493–501|doi=10.1109/TNSRE.2007.908429|pmid=18198706|s2cid=18358994|issn=1534-4320}} He received an honorary doctorate in 2012 from Miguel Hernández University in Elche, Spain.{{cite web|title=Distinguished Professor Awarded Honorary Degree|url=https://www.coe.utah.edu/2012/06/06/distinguished-professor-awarded-honorary-degree/|website=College of Engineering at the University of Utah|accessdate=22 May 2017|date=6 June 2012}}

The Utah array was first developed, under his guidance and this technology is currently in use at other centres around the world, where it provides a vital link between the central nervous systems of rats, cats, monkeys and other laboratory animals, and the computers used to study their brain patterns.Cyborgism: Cyborgs, Performance and Society [https://books.google.co.uk/books?

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