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.
[LINK] Human Brain Project aims to emulate brain by 2024
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/05/henry-markram-and-human-brain-project.html
Markram’s TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.html