Director Henry Markram of the IBM-Swiss Blue Brain project believes that his team of up to 125 researchers is on target to
create the world’s first artificial brain by as early as 2015.
In June 2005, IBM and the Swiss Brain Mind Institute announced a plan to create a digital 3D replica of the human brain.
Named after the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer, the Blue Brain Project has started modeling, in precise detail, the cellular
infrastructure of the cerebral neocortex.
Although Markram expects his creation may eventually learn to speak, he is not holding his breath waiting for
consciousness to rise from its brain. What he is after is something far more useful than a talking machine.
By creating a better understanding of how human brains perform, doctors will learn more about why our brains fail.
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Probing the secrets of the brain (Swiss Blue Brain Project - Dr Henry Markram)
An ambitious project to understand the functioning – and malfunctioning – of the human brain is hoping to attract
major European funding.
The Human Brain Project (HBP) builds on work already being done by a team at the Federal Institute of
Technology Lausanne (EPFL), under the name of Blue Brain, which is headed by Henry Markram.
The HBP will use everything we know about the brain to make computer models that can then be used to
simulate the way it actually works. The ultimate aim is to simulate the complete brain.
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Blue Brain Project: Build a virtual brain in a supercomputer
In 2005, a team of researchers at the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique in Lausanne,
Switzerland set out to do some truly wonderful things. Led by neuroscientist Henry Markram, the team,
known as the Blue Brain Project, spent two years tearing down rat brains to the molecular level and using
what they learned to reverse-engineer a highly detailed, functioning computer model of a rat's cortical
column—a basic building block of brain structure.
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