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Wanted: Big community to unlock big data in big brain

last yearTechnology : GigaOM

In his quest to map the connections in the brain, MIT professor Sebastian Seung is turning citizen science into a game. In this video, he talks about his project, Eyewire, and how prior experience with coloring books is all you need to play.
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Crowdsource your carbon: power plant mapping project seeks location, CO2 data

Technology : GigaOM (last week)

Ventus, a citizen science project based at Arizona State University wants eagle-eyed environmentalists to map power plants and hopes to use the crowdsourced data to improve global carbon cycle models. Read Post

I Am My Connectome [Video]

Technology : Geeks are Sexy (3 years ago)

Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our “connectome,” and it’s as individual as our genome — and understanding it could open a new ... Read Post

TEDTalks: Sebastian Seung: Mapping the connections inside our brains

Technology : Huffington Post: Technology Blog (3 years ago)

Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our "connectome,"... Read Post


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