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Launched with much fanfare in 2003 with 100 million dollars in start-up money from Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, the Paul Allen Brain Atlas now appears to be on its deathbed and on its way to a quiet death after having blown through most of its money and after being abandoned by many of its [...]

The Blue Brain Project is an overly ambitious project aiming to simulate real brains. Two models are planned to be built, one a molecular model of the neurons involved. The other will clone the behavioural model of columns thousands of times to produce a complete neocortex, and eventually the rest of the brain. [...]