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Scientists threaten to boycott €1.2bn Human Brain Project

7 July 2014

Over 130 neuroscientists including UCL researchers have written to the European Commission to express concerns about its funding of the Human Brain Project, which aims to develop a supercomputer simulation of the human brain. Professor Peter Dayan (UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit) describes the project as "radically premature". Read: The Guardian, More: BMJ, Science (£)