The Open Source Brain Initiative: enabling collaborative modelling in computational neuroscience

Collaborative modelling: the future of computational neuroscience?

Given the complexity of biological neural circuits and of their component cells and synapses, building and simulating robust, well-validated, detailed models increasingly surpasses the resources of an individual researcher or small research group. In this article, I will briefly review possible solutions to this problem, argue for open, collaborative modelling as the optimal solution for advanc...

Principles of Neuronal Modelling OR Principles of Computational Neuroscience OR Computational Modelling in Neuroscience

A Commitment to Open Source in Neuroscience

Modern neuroscience increasingly relies on custom-developed software, but much of this is not being made available to the wider community. A group of researchers are pledging to make code they produce for data analysis and modeling open source, and are actively encouraging their colleagues to follow suit.

Enabling DNSSEC in Open Source Applications

The Domain Name System (DNS) [1] [2] has been recently improved by the addition of DNS security extensions (DNSSEC) [3] [4] [5]. These improvements secure DNS against information forgery, modification and other attacks [6]. The DNS infrastructure needs to be upgraded to take advantage of the benefits offered by DNSSEC. Servers will need to serve DNSSEC enabled records and applications will need...

AGI and Neuroscience: Open Sourcing the Brain

Can research into artificial general intelligence actually benefit from research in neuroscience and vice-versa? Many AGI researchers are interested in how the human mind works. After all, within reasonable limits we can posit that the human mind is a working general intelligence. There is also a strong connection between work on human enhancement and AGI. We note though, that there are serious...