Rival Scientist Calls IBM Cat Brain Simulation a Scam   Claims
by an IBM researcher that he and other scientists were able to
simulate a cat's brain using a new algorithm running on an IBM
supercomputer are being disputed. Henry Markram, heading up
another project called Blue Brain, calls the claims by IBM
scientist Dharmendra Modha a scam and a hoax and argues that
what Modha's group accomplished only proved that it had access
to a massive supercomputer.  Not everyone is impressed by IBM
researchers' claim that they are on track to develop a
supercomputer that can simulate the human brain.  At the
Supercomputing show Nov. 18, IBM scientists said they had
reached two milestones by simulating a brain similar to that of
a cat. In their presentation, the researchers also said they had
developed an algorithm that makes use of IBM's Blue Gene
supercomputer to map connections between cortical and
subcortical areas in the human brain.  However, a researcher
with another, similar project called the presentation a "sc