NEW YORK: Artificial brain models will let scientists understand the brain and cure its diseases, says Professor Henry Markram.
Markram, formerly of the Weizmann Institute, is director of Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is coordinating the HBP among its 135 partners in 21 countries. As part of the broader project, hundreds of researchers are working on esoteric applications of brain research, like neurorobotics (providing robots with “pre-validated brain models” that let robots function independently in specific tasks), neuromorphic computing (simulating human neurons on computer chips), brain simulations (that will be accessible to researchers over the Internet), and much more…