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The Blue Brain Project

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Posted: Jan 2, 2012

the leader of the Blue Brain Project, Henry Markram, presents an explanatory speech

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leebert • • Jan 4, 2012

I haven't viewed this yet, but the underlying technical strata are being established - the analog 400-transistor synapse recently developed at MIT, the recent discovery of the memristor (it was there all along in automotive O2 sensors), the silicon/optical computing, and quantum computing (get an answer without asking the question...).

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