Chris Eliasmith’s team at the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience has built Spaun, the world’s largest simulation of a functioning brain.  Spaun is able to shift between diverse tasks — from copying human handwriting to finding hidden patterns in a list of numbers. Understanding the intricate connections between 2.5 million simulated neurons will lead to better understanding of how changes in the brain affect changes to behaviour.

Financial literacy should be part of the high school curriculum. Informed investors build strength in financial markets, prof says

Almost seven decades after the end of the Second World War, lessons of the Holocaust continue.

The world’s largest working brain model helps show how brains break, and how we can fix them.

World Health Organization honours Waterloo researcher Geoffrey Fong for his global anti-tobacco efforts through the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project.