Mar 10, 2016
IARPA awards $18.7 million contract to Allen Institute to reconstruct neuronal connections
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, information science, neuroscience, robotics/AI
Allen Institute working with Baylor on reconstructing neuronal connections.
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has awarded an $18.7 million contract to the Allen Institute for Brain Science, as part of a larger project with Baylor College of Medicine and Princeton University, to create the largest ever roadmap to understand how the function of networks in the brain’s cortex relates to the underlying connections of its individual neurons.
The project is part of the Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) program, which seeks to revolutionize machine learning by reverse-engineering the algorithms of the brain.