Artificial Connections.

The article discusses research into using supercomputers to simulate the neural pathways of a mammalian brain in a 3D model, conducted by researchers such as Henry Markram from the Blue Brain Project at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne technology institute in Switzerland. Molecular and genet...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 15 - 18
Main Author: Subbaraman, Nidhi
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2013
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Summary:The article discusses research into using supercomputers to simulate the neural pathways of a mammalian brain in a 3D model, conducted by researchers such as Henry Markram from the Blue Brain Project at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne technology institute in Switzerland. Molecular and genetic simulations of the brain are discussed, as well as research in neuroscience, computer programming by computational neuroscientists, and models of rat brains. Chris Eliasmith from the University of Waterloo's brain project, brain synapses, and the size and shape of neurons are also discussed.