Title:
How a Crowdsourcing Challenge Turbocharged Brain Research During Lockdown
Author:
Shelly Fan
Published:
SingularityHub, 2 June 2020
https://singularityhub.com/2020/06/02/how-a-crowdsourcing-challenge-turbocharged-brain-research-during-lockdown/
From the article:
"In mid-March, a trifecta of academic, non-profit, and commercial neurotech companies united to launch a neuroscientific challenge that embodied a more collaborative future for solving the brain, while physically apart and working from home. (Full disclosure: I was fortunate to be involved in the very initial organization of the project.) The challenge embraced a one-two formula for accelerating scientific progress, most recently encapsulated by research into Covid-19. One, large open databases enabling AI-based tools for analysis; and two, global interest and unity."