[ACT-R-users] Anybody in ACT-R funded by The HUman Brain Project?

[Bonnie E John]

Folks,
I heard a great talk today by Prof.Sean Hill of the EU's Human Brain
Project.
In it he alluded to their being some researchers that work from high-level
theories of human behavior, like problem-solving and other things that
ACT-R has traditionally done, but he didn't know the names off the top of
his head of those researchers. (Evidently there are 200+ researchers
currently funded). It seems like a natural for ACT-R involvement if they
indeed want converging research approaches from high-level down as well as
low-level up.
So I wondered if anybody from ACT-R was in this project.
Anyone?
Thanks,
Bonnie




Title:  "The Human Brain Project: Building the Brain from Big Data”
Abstract:
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges
of our time. Such an understanding will lead to fundamentally new computing
technologies, transform the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases, and
provide profound insights into our humanity. The goal of the Human Brain
Project (HBP) is to pull together all our existing knowledge about the
human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in
supercomputer-based models and simulations. The models offer the prospect
of a new understanding of the human brain and its diseases and of
completely new computing and robotic technologies. The HBP infrastructure
will consist of a tightly linked network of six informatics-based
platforms, which will operate as a resource both for core HBP research and
for external projects, chosen by competitive call. The HBP will drive
innovation in information technology, creating new technologies for
interactive supercomputing, visualization and big data analytics; federated
analysis of globally distributed data; simulation of the brain and other
complex systems; objective classification of disease; scalable and
configurable neuromorphic computing systems, based on the brain’s
principles of computation and cognition and its architectures.

Link: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/
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