The goal of the Human Brain Project is to pull together the highly fragmented knowledge in the neurosciences and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. It should lay the technical foundations for a new model of brain research that is based on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), driving integration between data and knowledge from different disciplines, and catalyzing a community effort to achieve a new understanding of the brain, new treatments for brain disease and new brain-like computing technologies.
The Human Brain Project will pursue four goals, each building on existing work, and acting as a catalyst for new research:
- Data: generate strategically selected data essential to seed brain atlases, build brain models and catalyze contributions from other groups.
- Theory: identify mathematical principles underlying the relationships between different levels of brain organization and their role in the brain’s ability to acquire, represent and store information.
- ICT platforms: provide an integrated system of ICT platforms providing services to neuroscientists, clinical researchers and technology developers that accelerate the pace of their research.
- Applications: develop first draft models and prototype technologies that demonstrate how the platforms can be used to produce results with immediate value for basic neuroscience, medicine and computing technology.
http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/
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