New $12m project aims to 'reverse-engineer' the brain

Feb 03 2016 10:30 EST
Led by Tai Sing Lee, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), the five-year project seeks to unlock the secrets of neural circuitry...

Carnegie Mellon joins IARPA project to reverse-engineer brain algorithms

Feb 03 2016 09:30 EST
Carnegie Mellon University is embarking on a five-year, $12 million research effort to reverse-engineer the brain, seeking to unlock the secrets of neural circuitry and the brain’s learning methods. Researchers will use these insights to...

MICrONS (Machine Learning from Cortical Neural Networks)

Jan 29 2016 15:00 EST
In this large-scale IARPA moon-shot Apollo project of the Brain, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins, Harvard, MIT, Cold Spring Harbor and Columbia University, we seek to characterize the neural codes, anatomical circuits and computational rules...

We launched the new website!

Jan 29 2016 10:00 EST
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