The Great Brain  Neurology Now March/April 2009 Volume 5(2) p
14-17   Paul Allen's Institute for Brain Science is as visionary
today as his idea of Microsoft was in the 1970s.   Click here to
enlarge Back to top  After you've built one of the world's
largest and most successful software companies, becoming a
billionaire along the way, what do you do for an encore? If
you're Paul G. Allen, you try to solve the mysteries of the
human brain.  If you haven't heard of Paul Allen, you're not
alone. Let's try another name: Bill Gates. Heard of that guy?
Well it was Allen, a classmate of his at Seattle's Lakewood
School, who co-founded Microsoft with Gates and helped build it
into the software behemoth it is today.  Like Gates, Allen was
fascinated with computers back in the 1960s, when the new
machines weighed thousands of pounds each and the idea that one
day people would carry them around in briefcases would have
gotten you laughed out of the room. The two friends started a
business generating data for traffic eng