Michael Perkins

The Blue Brain Project, led by Henry Markram, is an attempt to use a supercomputer to simulate the operation of the mammalian brain. The research team is painstakingly examining and cataloging regions of the brain neuron by neuron. This information is then used to build a detailed computer model of a single region of the brain. Markram believes that he will have a complete simulation of the human brain in ten years. In the following TED presentation, Markram provides an overview of the project and some of its ramifications.