by JAMES GORMAN
September 30, 2014
The New York Times today covered the White House’s continuing commitment to and update on the Brain Initiative:
“The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it has recruited new federal agencies and a number of universities, foundations and businesses to help pursue the goals of the Brain Initiative, which the president started in 2013.
Tom Kalil, deputy director for technology and innovation, in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said that private institutions were joining by “aligning” $270 million of their neuroscience research with the goals and plans of the initiative.
Google, General Electric, companies involved in optics and other technologies, several universities and the Simons Foundation, which recently started its own brain study program, will be included in the announcement.
Federal agencies that are planning involvement are the Food and Drug Administration and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, which supports research of interest to government intelligence agencies.”
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The article refers directly to press release dated Sept. 30, 2104.
CBMM was mentioned as one of the ongoing NSF Brain Initiative projects:
“NSF also funded many more interdisciplinary neuroscience projects that span computing, engineering, and the mathematical, physical, life, social, and behavioral sciences, including support for the Science and Technology Center on Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT
… For more information, visit www.nsf.gov/brain”