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Science 22 December 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5500, p. 2233
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5500.2233b
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Neural Net Contest Draws Online Crowd

John S. MacNeil

When two computational neuroscientists announced an online contest last September to reverse-engineer a simulated set of neurons, neither thought the event would attract much attention beyond a small group of their colleagues. But The New York Times ran an article on the competition, and 25,000 people visited the site. Now, the researchers think they may have found a new method for stimulating scientific communication.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)