Henry Markram has ambitious goal: fully map and simulate the human brain inside a supercomputer. Now he has funding - $1.3 billion - sized to match his ambitious plan.
In 2009, Markram announced during a Ted Talk that he "would deliver a fully sentient hologram within a decade" and "dedicated himself to wiping out all mental disorders and create a self-aware artificial intelligence." How? He would build a complete model of the human brain - all 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections - and simulate it on a supercomputer.
