News: 27 Jan 2010, 1653 hrs IST, Joe Scaria, ET Bureau
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: PIT Solutions based at the Technopark in Thiruvananthapuram, which focuses on IT solutions to the small and medium sector, has extended its comprehensive IT support to the Blue Brain project.
The project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse re-engineer the mammalian brain in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.
PIT Solutions will continue to partner Dr Henry Markram, director of the Swiss Federal Institute’s (EPFL) Brain Mind Institute, for the Blue Brain project. Dr Markram said the mysteries of the mind could be solved, and that it was possible to have a supercomputer that models all the brain’s 100 trillion synapses.
The project attempts to build a computerized copy of a brain, starting with a rat’s brain, and progressing to a human brain, inside one of the world’s most powerful computers. The project hopes to bring into being a mind that will be able to think, reason, express will, lay down memories and perhaps even experience different emotions including love, anger, sadness, pain and joy.
PIT Solutions CEO Rafeek K Mohammed and head of business development, Thomaskutty Sebastian said the partnership would help the company enter an exciting and niche area in software development. Accordingly, PIT Solutions will deploy its IT infrastructure and expertise in supporting various research programmes undertaken as part of the Blue Brain project.
PIT Solutions officials said the company had successfully executed a number of small, medium and large projects with diverse, cutting-edge technologies over the past nine years.
Read more here:
Du musst angemeldet sein, um einen Kommentar abzugeben.
