Project description Bio-ICT convergence Show the project objective Hide the project objective Although the density and speed of integrated circuits has grown exponentially during the last decades, so too have costs of fabrication and test facilities. Current computational methods depend on completely reliable hardware, a constraint that greatly increases the degree of fabrication precision required to avoid failure of individual components, and also increases the amount of post-fabrication testing required to confirm correct function. Nature has solved these production problems. The neocortex, is a cellular computer that generates intelligent behavior. But more than this, it constructs and configures itself by replication of a few precursor cells. Each derived cell is equipped with a set of related rules inherited from its functional parents, and by each cell implementing these locally, the overall cell mass is able to achieve global coherent action. Harnessing these principles for artificial fabrication would revolutionize computer technology. Here we propose some first steps towards understanding these developmental construction mechanisms. We will demonstrate, by a fusion of experimental neuroscience, detailed physical simulation, and theoretical analysis, the principles by which a population of real or artificial neurons can grow and assemble themselves into functioning circuits. We will apply these principles by engineering some first self-constructing applications, in which a designed genetic code is inserted into a precursor cell, and so initiates a developmental process of cell division, cell migration, neurite growth, and synaptogenesis. The final global organization of self-constructed neural networks appears to be an attractor in which component neurons are able to satisfy their own local organizational objectives. Thus, unlike existing artificial processing systems, we expect our self-constructed networks to respond to damage or environmental changes by significant self-repair and axonal re-wiring. Fields of science natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiologynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputational sciencenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2007.8.3 - Bio-ICT convergence Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE EU contribution € 1 922 590,00 Address RUE DE TOLBIAC 101 75654 Paris France See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Dominique Pella (Mr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all SOFTWARE COMPETENCE CENTER HAGENBERG GMBH Austria EU contribution € 48 750,00 Address SOFTWAREPARK 32 A 4232 HAGENBERG See on map Region Westösterreich Oberösterreich Mühlviertel Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Klaus Pirklbauer (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ Austria EU contribution € 564 378,00 Address RECHBAUERSTRASSE 12 8010 Graz See on map Region Südösterreich Steiermark Graz Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Wolfgang Maass (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data University of Zurich Switzerland EU contribution € 549 792,00 Address RAMISTRASSE 71 8006 ZURICH See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact David Lawrence (Mr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH Switzerland EU contribution € 531 600,00 Address Raemistrasse 101 8092 Zuerich See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Zürich Zürich Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact David Lawrence (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STIFTUNG FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES Germany EU contribution € 425 306,00 Address RUTH MOUFANG STRASSE 1 60438 FRANKFURT AM MAIN See on map Region Hessen Darmstadt Frankfurt am Main, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Gisbert Jockenhöfer (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK HOGER ONDERWIJS WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK EN PATIENTENZORG Participation ended Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Siko Westmaas (Drs.) 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