BRAIN Initiative Obama

<p>Also see wiki article on this below.</p>

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Jun 12, 2014 04:25 PM

see James Gorman article in NYT on June 5 2014:</p>

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NIH seeks 4.5B dollars for crack the code...</p>

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to go ten years: &nbsp;2015 to 2020 for tool development and

2020 to 2025 for applications of tools.</p>

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Nov 20, 2013 09:04 PM &nbsp;(from wiki article also see below)</p>

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see my article on BobBlum.com on precursor proposal &nbsp;(the BAM brain activity map Project)

proposed by the same group (from Kavli Fnd).</p>

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BRAIN Init. announced by Obama admin April 2, 2013 (but mentioned in the State of the Union in 2013)</p>

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300M per year for 10 years.</p>

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started with Sept 2011 conf in London org. by Miyoung Chun of Kavli Fnd.</p>

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intil expend. of 100M for FY 2014: &nbsp;also supported by Allen Instit, HHMI, Kavli, and Salk.

plan to be formulated by WG from NIH, DARPA and NSF led by Cori Bargmann and Bill Newsome.</p>

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Expt approaches: &nbsp;goal map all 100 B neurons in humans;

initl studies in mice and other animals.</p>

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develop a functional connectome:

do &nbsp;C elegans then Drosophila then zebrafish, mice and Etruscan shrew:

ultimately to primates and humans</p>

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see WG: 15 researchers: &nbsp;top neurosci.</p>

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Jan 2013: &nbsp;project would gen &nbsp;300 exabytes of data per year! &nbsp;huge barrier.</p>

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