“It’s crap.” That was the candid response of one eminent scientist towards Henry Markram’s Human Brain Project (HBP) at a meeting of the Swiss Academy of Sciences last January. The meeting was ostensibly reviewing the progress of high-performance computing in the neurosciences. For Markram, it felt like the inquisition. But on Monday it seemed like Markram’s […]
Big Science, Big Money, And A Levitating Frog
