"Bluebrain is an independently produced, fourteen-year documentary film-in-the-making about the twenty-first century race to understand the human brain. In 2009, neuroscientist Henry Markram publicly announced that he seeks to reverse-engineer a human brain with digital simulations of all the physical properties of every neuron, powered by IBM Blue Gene supercomputers, by 2020. To do this, he created the Blue Brain Project, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, and instantly became one of the highest-profile neuroscience projects in the world. In 2013, Markram and Blue Brain led a group of scientists from across Europe to unify their research aims and win a historic 1 billion Euro flagship award to become the Human Brain Project and pursue their brain simulation project on a much larger scale over the next decade. Director Noah Hutton began shooting in 2009, focusing exclusively on Markram's Blue Brain Project. Starting in Year 3, and continuing in Year 4, the scope of the film has expanded to include the work of other prominent projects and labs seeking to understand the brain through different methods, including U.S. President Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative, Sebastian Seung and Jeff Lichtman's connectomics work, and the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle."
via Jedediah Walls, Media Psychologist http://ift.tt/1l93Mlk