What is a connectome, and why does it matter?
Look inside the mind with Sebastian Seung in this Q&A, originally published in Time.
Sebastian Seung is a multi-disciplinary expert whose research efforts have spanned the fields of neuroscience, physics and bioinformatics. He was a professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is now a professor at Princeton University.He also was an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Seung leads a team working on the citizen science game EyeWire. It is human-based computation game about tracing neurons in the retina. The game was developed by MIT and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research.
Read the interview on blog.eyewire.org/
http://blog.eyewire.org/qa-with-sebastian-seung/