Neuroinformatics: the human brain project

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2001 - 00:22:21 MDT


The August issue of Wired has a nice little article on this. It shows
again how the advance in computing power is opening up new things that
previously weren't doable. In this case they are working on putting
together a vast database of brain related material.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/neuroinformatics/index.cfm
http://www.brainmapping.org/
more URLs in the article...

Now I wonder if 5 years from now there will be breakthroughs in brain
scanning similar to what happened with the human genome race... if
those guys had simply waited a couple more years they could have done
the whole sequence in two hours using that new nanopore technique.

-- 
Brian Atkins
Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/



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