Human Brain Project: the process has started!
The European Union begins the implementation of the Human Brain Project
DailyTechInfo based on Forbes: The Human Brain Project BeginsJust a few days ago, a meeting of representatives of 135 scientific institutions and organizations that are participants in the Human Brain Project was held in Switzerland.
This meeting was the first step in the implementation of a 10-year global project, the results of which will give people a deep understanding of all the features of the structure of the human brain and the principles of its work. Currently, the Human Brain Project is rightfully considered the largest project in the history of science dedicated to the fields of neurobiology, neuroinformatics and other areas related to the human brain.
More than 130 European scientific institutions and research institutes are involved in the implementation of the Human Brain Project, and the main role, the role of the project coordinator, is given to the Swiss Federal Polytechnic University of Lausanne (Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, EPFL). Since the launch of the project, neuroscientists, physicians, programmers and roboticists will begin to carry out work in six main areas - in the direction of neuroinformatics, brain modeling, high-performance computing, medical informatics, neuromorphic computing and neuro-robotics. Each of the directions will use its highly specialized equipment, research methods and software algorithms in order to ensure maximum efficiency of the work performed, which is a kind of guarantee of achieving ultimate success.
At the first stage of the Human Brain Project, which will last about 30 months and will end in 2016, all technical means and software in all the main areas of the project should be created and ready for the testing phase, which will be carried out by the project coordinators, involving scientists from all over the world.
Neural network modelIn the field of neuroscience, during the first stage, researchers will have to collect the maximum possible amount of information from all possible sources, systematize it and create something like a catalog that covers all levels of the organization of the brain, from a single nerve cell, individual sites to the entire brain as a whole.
Researchers leading the direction of neuroinformatics will have to develop tools for managing and processing huge amounts of information, part of which will be the information collected by neuroscientists.
In the direction of neuro-robotics, it is planned to combine neural network technologies with the functions of robotic devices, which, thanks to this, will gain a share of their own intelligence and flexibility in making independent decisions. In other areas of research, it is planned to create chips consisting of silicon analogues of neural networks, and many other technologies related to the principles of the structure and functioning of the brain.
As we have already told earlier, the Human Brain Project, due to its globality and complexity, became the winner of the Future and Emerging Technologies competition, and many countries of the European Union, whose scientists are involved in this project, took over the financing of its implementation in the amount of 1.2 billion euros.
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