PEOPLE
THE INFN-LED WAVESCALES CONSORTIUM WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE HUMAN BRAIN PROJECT
Interview with Pier Stanislao Paolucci, researcher at the INFN and head of the WAVESCALES project
The INFN will participate in the European Commission's international Human Brain Project (HBP). It will lead the WAVESCALES (WAVE SCALing Experiments and Simulations) Consortium, one of the 4 winning projects selected from among the 57 proposals submitted in response to the Call for Expressions of Interest (CEoI) launched by the HBP. The WAVESCALES Consortium will be coordinated by Pier Stanislao Paolucci, a researcher at the INFN. We asked him what this achievement means and to tell us about the winning project.
What is the Human Brain Project (HBP)?
The Human Brain Project is an international research effort funded by the European Union with a budget of about € 500 million between 2013 and 2023. It is one of the two Future and Emerging Technology (FET) Flagship projects that will run for the next ten years. The other FET Flagship project is Graphene. The project's ultimate goal is to improve our understanding of the human brain, and to build and simulate the first model of its cognitive capabilities. The HBP is running in synergy - but also scientifically competing - with other research collaborations, such as the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the BRAIN Initiatives of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), both in the US. The specific mission of the HBP is to construct an "information technology infrastructure", ...
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International Collaboration
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Dissemination
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Space
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