If you’re interested in learning more about what goes on behind-the-scenes at the Blue Brain Project, an effort to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, this short documentary is a good start. It features interviews with project leader Henry Markram explaining more about the project and shows how his team is going about its important work. This [...]
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Henry Markram: We will develop simulated brain by 2018
The Daily Mail features a very in-depth feature story about the work of Henry Markram and the Blue Brain Project, an effort to “reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.” Markram and team, who have already been able to simulate the workings of “about 10,000 neurons,” firmly [...]
Did IBM overstate “simulated cat brain” claims?
Last week I wrote about IBM’s announcement that a research team had created the “largest artificial brain ever,” which they compared to the size of a cat’s brain. It turns out that some of these claims may have been hyperbole. Henry Markram, the lead at the Blue Brain Project (which describes itself as the “first [...]