{"id":21751,"date":"2016-02-08T01:47:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T09:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/cmu-announces-research-project-to-reverse-engineer-brain-algorithms-funded"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:12:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:12:33","slug":"cmu-announces-research-project-to-reverse-engineer-brain-algorithms-funded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/cmu-announces-research-project-to-reverse-engineer-brain-algorithms-funded","title":{"rendered":"CMU announces research project to reverse-engineer brain algorithms, funded by IARPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cmu-announces-research-project-to-reverse-engineer-brain-algorithms-funded.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"neural network - CMU\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cmu-announces-research-project-to-reverse-engineer-brain-algorithms-funded.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"322\" \/><b><center>Individual brain cells within a neural network are highlighted in this image obtained using a fluorescent imaging technique (credit: Sandra Kuhlman\/CMU)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Carnegie Mellon University<\/a> is embarking on a five-year, $12 million research effort to reverse-engineer the brain and \u201cmake computers think more like humans,\u201d funded by the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iarpa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity<\/a> (IARPA). The research is led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.cmu.edu\/%7Etai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tai Sing Lee<\/a>, a professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC).<\/p>\n<p>The research effort, through IARPA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iarpa.gov\/index.php\/research-programs\/microns\" target=\"_blank\">Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks<\/a> (MICrONS) research program, is part of the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/BRAIN\" target=\"_blank\">BRAIN Initiative<\/a> to revolutionize the understanding of the human brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A \u201cHuman Genome Project\u201d for the brain\u2019s visual system <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMICrONS is similar in design and scope to the Human Genome Project, which first sequenced and mapped all human genes,\u201d Lee said. \u201cIts impact will likely be long-lasting and promises to be a game changer in neuroscience and artificial intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/cmu-announces-research-project-to-reverse-engineer-brain-algorithms-funded-by-iarpa\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual brain cells within a neural network are highlighted in this image obtained using a fluorescent imaging technique (credit: Sandra Kuhlman\/CMU) Carnegie Mellon University is embarking on a five-year, $12 million research effort to reverse-engineer the brain and \u201cmake computers think more like humans,\u201d funded by the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,41,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-information-science","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68563,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751\/revisions\/68563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}