Developing a Super Computer like the Human Brain

Did you know that you are actually a super computer? That inside your head is the most complex piece of equipment that has ever been studied by scientists? Yes, your brain is yet to be replicated by anyone anywhere in the world. There are three major projects around the world that are looking to replicate the functioning of the human brain.

The first is the European Union’s Human Brain Project, which aims to simulate a human brain on a supercomputer. The second one is the  U.S. BRAIN Project. Here BRAIN is an acronym for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies. This project is using a tool-building approach like the scientists at Stanford who have some up with the Neurogrid.

The third comes from IBM and is called the SyNAPSE Project, which is short for Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics. As its name suggests this project hopes to redesign chips to emulate the ability of neurons to make a great many synaptic connections. It is this feature of the brain that allows it to work quickly and solve any problem it faces.

As you can see each team of scientists has picked up a different focus to conduct its research. However each one essentially is a science project based on the functioning of something every human being has, a brain.