snippet Brains May Hold the Secret to Efficient Computing Kwabena Boahen grew up in Accra, Ghana, and vividly remembers his father bringing home the family’s first digital computer when Kwabena was 16 years old [1]. He immediately began learning all of its ins and outs in an attempt to program the classic
Issue 28 The Mechanisms of General Anesthesia For many, the thought of undergoing surgery can be a terrifying fear. Operations in the United States often come with an exorbitant price tag and without any guarantee of success. At the extreme end, there is even a risk of death.
Issue 1 Do Electric Rats Dream of Cheese? A group led by Dr. Henry Markram in Switzerland is working on building a computer model of the brain. Initially, the group modeled a single rat cortical column. Now, however, they are working to construct an entire rat brain using as many as 100,
