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Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer

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7 November 2010
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Robotics, GPU and research
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henry-markram-builds-a-brain-in-a-supercomputer / 194
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Originally published 7 November 2010 on the earlier martinpeniak.com site.

Preserved from the old research notes as a full article. The article keeps its period voice, with light formatting cleanup.

Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved — soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.

go to the TED Talks source page

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