Remember how Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain project claimed in summer that an “artificial brain is 10 years away” (see Reverse-engineer the brain to build it)? The same boffin now dismissed last weeks news of IBM simulating a cat’s brain as a “hoax”. Still, the paper on the cat cortex simulation was awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize and IBM is one of the Blue Brain project’s technology partner. So, what do you think?(Via theregister.co.uk)

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