1. The Human Brain Project Between Politics, Science, and Engineering.
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Kim, Jongheon
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DIGITAL technology , *INFORMATION technology , *ENGINEERING , *PRACTICAL politics , *INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) , *CONSTRUCTION projects - Abstract
This article investigates the unfolding of increased political interest in research infrastructure at the practical level. As a case study, I examine the European Commission's (EC) Human Brain Project (HBP). The HBP is a large-scale interdisciplinary project that aims to build a web-accessible digital research infrastructure for neuroscience, medical research, and information technology. The project provides a unique study case for observing interdisciplinary interaction within a large-scale project for infrastructure building in brain science, where small-scale research has been the norm. I analyze how the stances of the EC and the HBP members on the project's goal and organization have co-evolved by focusing on the project's two radical reorientations. Thus, I describe the HBP's tangled trajectory as the result of the project's shifting definition between research and infrastructure construction or between politics, science, and engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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