https://techcitement.com get excited Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:35:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://techcitement.com/culture/big-science-big-money-and-a-levitating-frog/ Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:35:12 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=16169

“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 […]]]>