[HBP][Choe] A documentary on the 1 billion Euro European brain project

Dec 8, 2020

This is about the 1-billion euro European human brain project. This was a big news 10 years ago when the European union announced the funding, and they hoped this to have greater impact than the humen genome project (which was highly successful and revolutionary). It seems that understanding the human brain is a much more tougher job than understanding the genes.

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Noah Hutton’s documentary In Silico captures a sense of what it was like behind the scenes of the project, which was supported with great fanfare by the European Commission. It had been hyped as a quantum leap in understanding how the human brain works. Instead, it left a trail of angry neuroscientists across Europe. Yet aspects of what went so expensively wrong still remain elusive.

In Silico is more about the back story of the Human Brain Project (HBP). Hutton was 22 years old when he watched a 2009 talk by Henry Markram, the controversial figure who later became the first director of the HBP. Markham was speaking about the Blue Brain Project, a major initiative he had launched a few years before at one of Europe’s top universities, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, with generous funding from the Swiss government. He claimed that he would — with the help of a supercomputer related to the one that beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 — simulate an entire rodent brain within a decade. He planned to build it from information about the brain’s tens of millions of individual neurons.”

Documentary follows implosion of billion-euro brain project

NATURE.COM

Documentary follows implosion of billion-euro brain project

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03462-3

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