The European Union has decided to invest in a big way in research on the human brain. See James Kanter, [Two] Science Projects [Each] to Receive Award of a Billion Euros, NYTimes (Jan. 28, 2013):
BRUSSELS — Projects to imitate the brain and to develop new materials
for information technology have won awards of about 1 billion euros each
that will be announced Monday by the European Commission.
The awards, the largest of their kind ever made by the European
authorities and equivalent to about $1.35 billion each, are aimed at
helping innovative industries in the European Union and nonmember
countries like Switzerland.
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The
Human Brain Project
aims to create the most accurate simulation to date of the brain and
its functions. The project could help aid diagnoses of diseases, help
with the testing of new drugs, and develop supercomputing techniques
modeled on the brain.
The project involves scientists from 87 institutions and will be led by
Henry Markram, a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
in Switzerland. Partners in that project include the Institut Pasteur in
France, I.B.M. in the United States and SAP in Germany.
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