• Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Invests $300 Million Into Mapping the Brain
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[QUOTE]Paul Allen’s commitment to tackling big questions in neuroscience grows larger still. The Microsoft co-founder has already contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to brain science, much of it to the establishment of the Allen Brain Institute, a nonprofit charged with building a massive database of information about the brain. Now, seemingly from a frustration with the slow pace of discovery elsewhere in the field, Allen has committed another $300 million over the next decade to expanding his institute to include it’s own lab for neuroscience investigation. Previously, the Allen Brain Institute’s mission was to provide brain “atlases” of both human and mouse brains, maps that showed various aspects of how brains work, including how various genes are expressed within the brain. The idea was to create an open-access tool for researchers that would hopefully accelerate the pace of innovation in neurological science. The Institute has done well, Allen said in a press release, but it could do better. The new expanded ABI will tackle big questions in neuroscience concerning the way the brain stores and encodes information and what cellular building blocks underlie all brain function, the idea being that this will provide even more information to the neuroscience community and in turn drive research on the whole to more and faster innovations. If it’s a shot in the arm Allen is looking for, a $300 million investment might just do the trick.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-injects-another-300-million-his-brain-research-institute[/url] Yet Apple gets attention for donating its billions to dividends.
Paul Allen is a science-bro. And he had the manliest beard ever in the 80s. [img]http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2008/04/gates_and_allen_450px.jpg[/img] And he's a bad-ass even as an older guy without the beard: [img]http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/10/2009/paul-allen.jpg[/img] In short: Paul Allen is a bad-ass and a science-bro.
Paul Allen continues to amaze me.
These guys have so much money it's not even funny. It's good that they use a lot of it for great causes though.
This would make for an interesting watch/read
I dunno why, but I couldn't help but think of Max Headroom when I read the words "mapping the brain".
Mapping the brain could have many advantages in terms of both AI and processors. It's a good thing Paul Allen's supporting this stuff; we might even invent the brain cylinder this century.
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;35256228]Paul Allen is a science-bro. And he had the manliest beard ever in the 80s. [img]http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2008/04/gates_and_allen_450px.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] that is one MOTHERFUCKING beard.
Next up - Interface with the brain!
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Today is good day for neuroscience. Hopefully this'll lead to more efficient medications and neuro-therapy's for those with brain trauma.
i give it 10 years before we all start flying around in gundams and shit fighting over tokyo
Brain mapping? Should have worked on it years ago.
doesnt he handle the fisher account but still this is cool
The Respectable Rich If there were more people like Paul Allen, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet I wouldn't give two damns about financial equality.
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