[LINK] Human Brain Project aims to emulate brain by 2024

http://​​nextbigfuture.com/​​2011/​​05/​​henry-markram-and-human-brain-project.html

Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved—soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they’re made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain’s 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.

Markram’s TED talk:

http://​​www.ted.com/​​talks/​​henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.html