Henry Markram was awarded the Bell Labs Shannon Visionary Award
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Prof. Henry Markram, Head of the Neural Microcircuitry Laboratory and Frontiers’ Editor-in-chief and co-founder was honored with the Bell Labs Shannon Visionary Award at the Bell Labs Shannon Conference on the Future of the Information Age on April 28. The award recognizes global luminaries and visionaries for their work and contributions in advancing research.
This year the award was given to: Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc.; Irwin Jacobs, Co-founder of Qualcomm; Bob Metcalfe, Co-inventor of Ethernet and formulator of Metcalfe’s Law; Henry Markram, Director of the Blue Brain project and creator of the Human Brain Project; and Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist