Scientific American: The Human Brain Project

by Henry Markram
Narrated by Mark Moran
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06-04-12
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Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, reports on how a digital construction of the human brain could transform neuroscience and medicine and reveal new ways of making more powerful computers..

This article was published in the June 2012 edition of Scientific American.

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