Brain Mapping A new initiative
Brain Mapping A new initiative President Obama announced a brain-mapping initiative which will require heavy use of cutting-edge and yet-to-be invented data processing and imaging technologies. The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative could help scientists unlock the secrets to Alzheimers and Parkinsons disease, strokes and even human cognition. More than $100 million will be invested in the initiative which will include National Institutes of Health, DARPA, National Science Foundation, outside academics and private companies. The director of National Institutes of Health said that this initiative might eventually require the handling of yottabytes of data which is equal to a billion petabytes and collection of data could stretch the limits of modern information science. The director Francis Collins said "There have been some conversations about whether the amount of data, if you are going to collect data from tens of thousands of neuron...