THE first attempt to build a complete simulation of the human brain has begun.
On 6 June, IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne announced the launch of the Blue Brain Project, an attempt to model the entire electrical circuitry of the brain using a supercomputer based on IBM’s Blue Gene design.
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Drawing on more than 10 years’ worth of biological observations of how the brain’s 10 billion neurons behave individually and how they are wired together, the…
