The "Human Brain Project" was also an NIH funding initiative in the 1990s, which was hugely influential in kickstarting the field of neuroinformatics (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroinformatics)
I know several people who have done PhDs in neural simulation and then gone on to work in industry (e.g. banking, IT consultancy). I've also come across a couple of startups building on brain-inspired computing. The…
Henry Markram, the coordinator of the Human Brain Project, is also one of the founders of Frontiers (http://frontiersin.org), a scientist-led, open-access publisher, so I think it's fair to say there is already a strong…
The "Human Brain Project" was also an NIH funding initiative in the 1990s, which was hugely influential in kickstarting the field of neuroinformatics (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroinformatics)
I know several people who have done PhDs in neural simulation and then gone on to work in industry (e.g. banking, IT consultancy). I've also come across a couple of startups building on brain-inspired computing. The…
Henry Markram, the coordinator of the Human Brain Project, is also one of the founders of Frontiers (http://frontiersin.org), a scientist-led, open-access publisher, so I think it's fair to say there is already a strong…