These Blue Brain folks represent the future of biologically realistic computational neuroscience. The conceptual infrastructure has been in place for 55 years (Hodgkin and Huxley) but we are finally getting to the point where we can link a bunch of these suckers together and simulate large-scale dynamics. It’s an exciting time. In my mind (as a neuroscientist) this is one of the most promising and exciting developments in systems/computational neuroscience.
These Blue Brain folks represent the future of biologically realistic computational neuroscience. The conceptual infrastructure has been in place for 55 years (Hodgkin and Huxley) but we are finally getting to the point where we can link a bunch of these suckers together and simulate large-scale dynamics. It’s an exciting time. In my mind (as a neuroscientist) this is one of the most promising and exciting developments in systems/computational neuroscience.