Hello.
Here you go...
"Yorktown Heights, NY and Lausanne, Switzerland, June 6, 2005 ? IBM
and The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are today
announcing a major joint research initiative ? nicknamed the Blue
Brain Project ? to take brain research to a new level.
Over the next two years scientists from both organizations will work
together using the huge computational capacity of IBM?s eServer Blue
Gene supercomputer to create a detailed model of the circuitry in the
neocortex ? the largest and most complex part of the human brain. By
expanding the project to model other areas of the brain, scientists
hope to eventually build an accurate, computer-based model of the
entire brain.
Relatively little is actually known about how the brain works. Using
the digital model scientists will run computer-based simulations of
the brain at the molecular level, shedding light on internal processes
such as thought, perception and memory. Scientists also hope to
understand more about how and why certain microcircuits in the brain
malfunction ? thought to be the cause of psychiatric disorders such as
autism, schizophrenia and depression."
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/news.20050606_CognitiveIntelligence.html
Also see:
http://bluebrainproject.epfl.ch/
--------
search strategy:
brain model "the molecular level"
I hope this helps. |