Countdown to Singularity -- "A Computer Model of the Human Brain Will Be Completed in 12 Years"
"It's a new brain. The mammals needed it because they had to cope with parenthood, social interactions, complex cognitive functions. It was so successful an evolution from mouse to man it expanded about a thousand fold in terms of the numbers of units to produce this almost frightening organ. It is evolving at an enormous speed."
Henry Markram, Director, Project Blue Brain.
Dr. Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, has assembled a team of nine top European scientists to build a computer model of a human brain in 12 years, which is excellent news for fans of computer technology, neuroscience, and people who think that humans telling the machines what to do is totally backwards. The Blue Brain project was launched in 2005 and aims to reverse engineer the mammalian brain from laboratory data
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