Researchers from IBM and the EPFL in Switzerland announced they would begin building a simulation of the neocortical column of the human brain on the Blue Gene/L IBM supercomputer. The neocortical column contains over 10,000 nerve cells and makes up "grey matter." The computer "consists of enough independent processors for each to be programmed to emulate an individual nerve."
read more in the June 9th issue of the Economist
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