After Paul Allen Co-Founded Microsoft, He Changed Brain Science Forever
In 2003, Paul Allen created an institute to figure out how the human brain works. That institute has already made contributions that may turn out to be part of his greatest legacy.
by Jon Hamilton
Oct 16, 2018
2 minutes
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who died Monday, made his fortune from software that ran computer brains.
But Allen's own passion was for the human brain.
"The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate," he told NPR during an interview in 2003. "Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in
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