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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium - The Human Brain Project
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DESCRIPTION:Henry Markram - EPFL\nAbstract:\nUnderstanding the human brain
  is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an under- 
 standing will lead to fundamentally new computing technologies\, transform
  the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases\, and provide profound insi
 ghts into our humanity. Today\, for the first time\, exponential improveme
 nts in the capabilities of modern ICT open up new opportunities to investi
 gate the complexity of the brain. The goal of the Human Brain Project (HBP
 ) is thus to build an integrated ICT infrastructure enabling a global coll
 aborative effort to address this grand challenge\, and ultimately to emula
 te the computational capabilities of the brain. The infrastructure will co
 nsist of a tightly linked network of six ICT platforms\, which\, like curr
 ent large-scale physics facilities\, will operate as a resource both for c
 ore HBP research and for external projects\, chosen by competitive call. T
 he HBP will drive innovation in ICT\, creating new technologies for i) int
 eractive supercomputing\, visualisation and big data analytics\; ii) feder
 ated analysis of globally distributed data\; iii) simulation of the brain 
 and other complex systems\; iv) objective classification of disease\; v) s
 calable and configurable neuromorphic computing systems\, based on the bra
 in’s principles of computation and cognition and its architectures. Expe
 cted outputs include simulations of the brain that reveal the chains of ev
 ents leading from genes to cognition\; simulations of diseases and the eff
 ects of drugs\; early diagnoses and personalised treatments\; and a comput
 ing paradigm that overcomes bottlenecks in power\, reliability and program
 mability\, captures the brain’s cognitive capabilities\, and goes beyond
  Moore’s Law. Overall\, the HBP will help to reach a unified understandi
 ng of the brain\, reduce the economic and social burden of brain disease\,
  and empower the European pharmaceutical and computing industries to lead 
 world markets with enormous potential for growth.Biography:\nHenry Markram
  is a professor of neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technol
 ogy (EPFL). He is the founder of the Brain Mind Institute\, founder and di
 rector of the Blue Brain Project\, and the coordinator of the Human Brain 
 Project\, one of two ten-year one billion Euro Flagship Projects selected 
 in January 2013 by the European Commission. After earning his PhD at the W
 eizmann Institute of Science\, with distinction\, he was a Fulbright schol
 ar at the National Institutes of Health\, and a Minerva Fellow at the Max-
 Planck Institute for Medical Research. In 1995 he returned to the Weizmann
  Institute\, becoming an Associate Professor in 2000. In 2002 he became a 
 full professor at EPFL. Markram’s research has focused on synaptic plast
 icity and the microcircuitry of the neocortex\, in which he has discovered
  fundamental principles governing synaptic plasticity and the structural a
 nd functional organization of neural microcircuitry. Other key discoveries
  include the concept of Liquid Computing and the Intense World Theory of A
 utism. In 2005 he launched the Blue Brain Project to develop a data integr
 ation strategy for neuroscience. Markram has published more than one hundr
 ed papers and has one of the highest citation records in his area of resea
 rch and stage of career. Since 2002\, he has spearheaded Switzerland’s a
 mbition to become a world leader in high performance computing and to prio
 ritize simulation-based research\; these fields are now two of the three n
 ational research priorities declared by the Swiss government. Markram is a
 lso co-founder of Frontiers (frontiersin.org)\, a new model for peer-revie
 wed open-access publishing.
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