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AFAIK, Markram (leader of Blue Brain) isn't officially connected to SyNAPSE. He's one of the external advisors for a closely related project housed out of my department, though, so…

Well, it depends. :-) Drop me an email with some information on where you're coming from and what kinds of roles you're looking for and I may be able to point you to the right peop…

The BBC article left out a critical constraint from DARPA. The final deliverable (with the "complexity of a cat's brain") isn't just a model or a simulation. It has to be a physica…

It doesn't necessarily matter that he wasn't working with highly dangerous or toxic chemicals. My roommate works in quality at a medical devices company, and many of the regulation…

Read the original article: http://www.telegram.com/article/20080809/NEWS/808090323/1008... Neither source is all that complete, but the original article indicates this guy was viol…

I strongly agree. The PhD is an apprenticeship, so the people you'd be working for (and with) are the most significant factor. Make sure you fit with the research and social philos…

Try taking a look at part II of this: http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2008/05/twitter-imagined-ident... (complements of HN a day or two ago) Personally, I'm still not a user, but the…