Brain Science and Computing at Jülichs End-of-Year-Lecture
“Brain, Computers, Comprehension” was the title of this year’s keynote lecture at Forschungszentrum Jülich’s end-of-year ceremony on Nov 21st 2017. The lecture was given by Prof. Dr. med. Katrin Amunts, head of the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) and the Cecile und Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research at Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf and Scientific Director of the European Human Brain Project. More than 350 guests from politics, science, and industry as well as employees of Forschungszentrum Jülich and partners from the Human Brain Project attended the lecture at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts in Düsseldorf. A video of the talk (in German) as well as a picture gallery can be found here: Festvortrag 2017: Gehirn, Computer und Erkenntnis
In addition, an accompanying exhibition presented the activities of the Human Brain Project in the areas of neuroscience, neuromorphic computing and neurorobotics.
Short summary abstract of the talk:
Brain, Computers, Comprehension
How our brain gives rise to the multiplicity of feelings, thoughts, speech, and actions is one of the greatest mysteries of science. In order to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the brain and its functions, researchers have to interlink insights from various fields of science. A multimodal brain atlas is therefore required which pools all the findings available on the brain in a vast, generally accessible database.
Further Information:
Effzett, 2/2017: Using supercomputers to understand the brain