[Links] Brain mapping/emulation news

post by John_Maxwell (John_Maxwell_IV) · 2013-02-21T08:17:27.931Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 2 comments

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Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain - Like the Human Genome Project, but for brain mapping (Feb 17)

Human brain and graphene projects chosen for one billion euro grants: official press release (Jan 28)

Gary Marcus reacts

Edit: If anyone is going to email the people behind Obama's human brain project and offer suggestions, it's probably best to do so ASAP before they make the details of their project public and risk losing face by changing them.

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comment by gjm · 2013-02-21T22:50:20.617Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

This is currently at -1. It seems like a perfectly reasonable post to me. What, if anything, am I missing?

comment by tgb · 2013-02-21T20:47:00.475Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Ars Technica provides some more details on the US project.