IBM announced today that it will work with one of the leading human intelligence researchers in the world to map how the brain works, a project that Big Blue said emphasizes the continued importance of supercomputers and could produce advances in both medicine and technology. IBM said it will give access to a Blue Gene supercomputer to the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Luasanne, or EPFL. The machine will be used to first map the nerve circuitry in the neocortex, the largest and most complex part of the human brain.
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IBM, Researchers Team Up for Brain Research Project
Posted by: Keith Regan June 6, 2005 06:15 AMIBM announced today that it will work with one of the leading human intelligence researchers in the world to map how the brain works, a project that Big Blue said emphasizes the continued importance of supercomputers and could produce advances in both medicine and technology. IBM said it will give access to a Blue Gene supercomputer to the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Luasanne, or EPFL. The machine will be used to first map the nerve circuitry in the neocortex, the largest and most complex part of the human brain.