An article
in the New Jersey Star-Ledger says DARPA has "quietly killed" their
project to reverse engineering the human brain. The project, known as Biologically
Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA), had been compared to other
very difficult projects such as the atomic bomb or moon landing. DARPA
has denied requests to explain why they dropped the project and
neuroscientists who were involved said, "All we know is it's dead". The
first phase was a $9.5 million project planning stage. The
cancelled phase 2 was to be a $50-100 million attempt to design
"psychologically-based and neurobiology-based cognitive architectures"
based on the human brain. There is speculation that DARPA concluded
phase 2 was simply to ambitious. For more detailed information see
DARPA's BICA
Information Pamplhlet (PDF format) or the reports from
Phase 1 participants.
Source: http://www.netchain.com
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