Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States (FACETS)

The FACETS project is an European Project funded by the European Union gathering scientists from different fields related to neuroscience (neurophysiology, computational neuroscience, neural hardware) aiming at advancing our knowledge on the computational properties of the brain. FACETS stands for "Fast Analog Computing with Emerging Transient States".

The FACETS project aims to address the unsolved question of how the brain computes with a concerted action of neuroscientists, computer scientists, engineers and physicists. It combines a substantial fraction of the European groups working in the field into a consortium of 13 groups from Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. About 80 scientists join their efforts over a period of 4 years, starting in September 2005. A project of this dimension has rarely been carried out in the context of brain-science related work in Europe, in particular with such a strong interdisciplinary component.