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Unite neuroscience, supercomputing, and nanotechnology to discover, demonstrate, and deliver the brain's core algorithms.

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                    Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 8
                    August 2011
                    129 pages
                    ISSN:0001-0782
                    EISSN:1557-7317
                    DOI:10.1145/1978542
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