Anewproject to simulate the human brain could make computers more powerful and less energy hungry, researchers claim. Teams from nine European countries, including the UK, are contributing to proposals for €lbn (£875.8m) of fundingto support the Human Brain Project, which could also aid medical research into neurological conditions. The researchers plan to create a virtual human brain on a large supercomputer, using existing research to build up mathematical models of how it works. 'It's about modelling what we know about the brain,' project spokesman and chief proposal editor Richard Walker told The Engineer. 'Neuroscientists have done a huge amount of work on the brain and there's a high number of papers, but they tend to be extremely fragmented.
展开▼
