Future Neuro Projects

It appears that The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) has just recently announced 12 new research grants for 2008. These grants are awarded to a variety of different investigators from 20 institutions. Some of them look like they cover the fields of neurotechnology and neuroscience. The main article is at this website

Interdisciplinary teams will pursue transformative, fundamental research in two areas of great promise: understanding the brain and how its abilities may be used through cognitive optimization and prediction; and developing ways to make complex, interdependent infrastructure systems more resilient and sustainable.

See this page for more information.

Creating a learning algorithm of the brain
The project “Deep learning in the mammalian visual cortex” (grant #0835878) will be led by Andrew Ng of Stanford, in collaboration with Ed Boyden of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yann LeCun of New York University, and Yang Dan of the University of California, Berkeley.

Modeling control of the electric power grid on the brain
The project “Neuroscience and neural networks for engineering the future intelligent electric power grid” (grant #0836017) will be led by Ganesh Venayagamoorthy of the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T, formerly University of Missouri-Rolla), in collaboration with Donald Wunsch of Missouri S&T, and Ronald Harley and Steve Potter of Georgia Institute of Technology.