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Stockholm will soon have a new research centre for so called corticotronics, or brain electronics. The centre will be based at the Karolinska Institute and funding will come from Ericsson and from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.
How does the brain handle communication? What does the brain's network architecture look like? How can knowledge about the brain be utilised in mobile phone systems? And how can the modelling experience of the developers of telecommunication help brain researchers to understand the brain?
Researchers at the Karolinska Institute will try to answer these questions in a project called "Cortical dynamics and corticotronics for telecommunication systems".
The brains behind the project are professors Per Roland and Giorgio Innocenti at the Department of Neuroscience at the Stockholm-based institute, and Jan Johansson of Ericsson Research. Ericsson will support the project with SEK3m for three years, and the Foundation for Strategic Research will contribute with the same amount of funding.
Ericsson hopes to make use of the results in its mobile phone development. In a few years' time, when mobile phone systems are used simultaneously by one billion users, new real-time systems will be needed to localise handsets and to connect calls. Today's technology would make systems too large, expensive and complex. Ericsson intends to develop flexible and self-learning systems which will handle the task in a more dynamic manner than today.
Researchers at the Karolinska Institute will try to answer these questions in a project called "Cortical dynamics and corticotronics for telecommunication systems".
The brains behind the project are professors Per Roland and Giorgio Innocenti at the Department of Neuroscience at the Stockholm-based institute, and Jan Johansson of Ericsson Research. Ericsson will support the project with SEK3m for three years, and the Foundation for Strategic Research will contribute with the same amount of funding.
Ericsson hopes to make use of the results in its mobile phone development. In a few years' time, when mobile phone systems are used simultaneously by one billion users, new real-time systems will be needed to localise handsets and to connect calls. Today's technology would make systems too large, expensive and complex. Ericsson intends to develop flexible and self-learning systems which will handle the task in a more dynamic manner than today.
Gittan Cedervall
