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President’s Brain Initiative gets a shot in the arm

Nov 22, 2013

NBC News - A new initiative to understand the human brain, announced by President Barack Obama earlier this year, has left people wondering exactly...

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A Neuroscientist’s Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious

Nov 14, 2013

Wired - It's a question that's perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from?

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Neurotechnology: BRAIN storm

Nov 6, 2013

Nature - Barack Obama announced his BRAIN Initiative on 2 April. Ever since, neuroscientists have been scrambling to work out what it actually is.

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Inside Paul Allen’s Plan to Reverse-Engineer the Human Brain

Oct 24, 2013

Wired - In 2003, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen spent $100 million to build the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.

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Microsoft’s other mogul

Sep 5, 2013

The Economist - “THE brain is quite unlike a computer. Instead of memory and a few calculating elements, evolution designed every little bit of it...

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When you show a mouse a movie: Allen Institute opens window into brain

Jul 16, 2013

The Seattle Times - Are mice fans of film noir?

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Decoding ‘the Most Complex Object in the Universe’

Jun 14, 2013

NPR - The human brain contains some 100 billion neurons, which together form a network of Internet-like complexity.

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Maja Larson: Finalist, Outstanding Corporate Counsel for a Nonprofit Organization

Apr 12, 2013

Puget Sound Business Journal - Maja Larson: Finalist, Outstanding Corporate Counsel for a Nonprofit Organization

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Allen Institute a key research partner in Obama’s BRAIN initiative

Apr 2, 2013

Puget Sound Business Journal - The Allen Institute for Brain Science has earmarked $60 million annually toward research that will support President...

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Inside Paul Allen’s Quest To Reverse Engineer The Brain

Oct 7, 2012

Forbes - Paul Allen, the 59-year-old Microsoft cofounder who has plowed $500 million into the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a medical Manhattan...

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