Artificial Intelligence Update

Another step forward in the reverse engineering of the human brain?

http://www.physorg.com/news157717611.html

"Thirty-seven scientists from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and 20 other major research institutions in the U.S. and Europe have issued a major challenge to the neuroscience community. At long last, the time has come, they argue in a just-published paper, to assemble a comprehensive map of the major neural circuits in the mammalian brain."

Artificial Intelligence Update

DARPA funding "cognitive computing" intended to "engineer the mind by reverse-engineering the brain":

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/hunting-for-a-brainy-computer/