Mar 8, 2008 Status Update
We have updated the Results section of the project's page. We created a new page with a summary of the results. We have released a new version of the Windows and Linux client for 32 bit systems. We have changed the Technical Issues forum name to Project Development. Most of the forum threads have been removed. The bug report form provides more suitable means of reporting issues. We have now provided a link to the future graphics image on the main screen. The image can be accessed by clicking on the large left image located besides the Project Status section.

To date over 1.4 billion neurons have been simulated. The human brain has an estimated 100 billion neurons.

We would like to thank to all the participants for making this possible. This has been and will continue to be, a collective effort. We are still very much in the beginning but the project's future looks bright. Artificial Intelligence will soon hit the mainstream and many things will be positively transformed. We can play our part only if we choose to. Changing the perspective may seem like a little thing but in time its implications will be deeply felt.

We would like to acknowledge the effort of countless participants who have donated their computer time and volunteered for this project. Every effort counts. I would like to name some of the participants that have provided contributions in certain areas of the project. The list covers only a small portion of the entire participant community whom we would like to acknowledge.

Aurobind for offering to help with development. Cori for keeping an eye on the web site. Jason for being concerned about the future of the project. Michael for helping with the knowledge acquistion module. Carsyn for providing interesting news. Nicolas for correcting and teaching. Jord for helping with the simple view grahics. Radiohead for taking the lead in the number of processed workunits followed closely by Kutime, Buster Gunn, Louw, Balmer and Jlpoveda. Augustine for helping with the Linux client compilation without the X11 library. Crunch3r for porting the application to 64 bit platforms and helping with the 32 bit Windows version. Raidvvan for helping with the project's infrastructure.

We have almost completed the design for the UNIVERSAL DATA STORAGE component. We will release soon a system document. Implementing the neuronal generation application will provide learning and reasoning capabilities to the system. This program is one of the three major modules of the project along with the neuronal simulator and visual system; we will develop it in phases.

We appreciate your support. We continue as planned.

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Furthermore, the new client version 1.04 has been released which is expected to fix many of the errors that were occuring in the previous version. So if you left due to errors, it's time to give it another try! Thanks!

Carsyn
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