Markram describes the impressive aims of the Blue Brain Project, in which the enormous computing power of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer is being harnessed to build biologically accurate models of ...

The Brainstorm Project’s ultimate goal is to develop greater awareness and understanding between scientists and ethicists and—beyond the duration of the project—to provide guidance for future ...

European Commission favours efforts to model the mind and to develop new materials. After a two-year contest, the European Commission has selected two research proposals that it will fund to the tune ...

Miryam Naddaf, science reporter with the publication Nature, discusses some of the scientific advances that emerged from the Human Brain Project as well as some of the problems it encountered.

A new high resolution model of the CA1 region of the human hippocampus has been developed by the Institute of Biophysics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IBF) and University of Modena e ...

The Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco–based startup Piramidal to develop a large-scale AI model that will be used to monitor patients’ brain health in intensive care units. Instead of ...

A decade later, the US project is winding down, and the EU project faces its deadline to build a digital brain. So how did it go? Have we begun to unwrap the secrets of the human brain?

The most comprehensive model of the brain’s metabolism, incorporating more than 16,800 biochemical interactions, has identified key targets to reverse the age-related decline in brain function.

Is a billion euros enough to understand the human brain? The Human Brain Project thinks it’s a good start, and on January 28th, the European Commission agreed. The Human Brain Project was one of two ...

Is the Brain a Useful Model for Artificial Intelligence? Thinking machines think just like us—but only up to a point. Photograph: John M. Lund/Getty Images The AI Database → ...

Swiss Academy of Sciences members are uneasy about a project to simulate the entire brain and explore how neural circuits give rise to behavior and cognition It wasn't quite the lynching that Henry ...