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Scientists create circuit board modeled on the human brain

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  • The Mask 9 years ago

    Encouraging news. We must promote competitions which bring out the best in our students which would also promote the love of learning, knowledge and wisdom in our students from kindergarten to the tertiary level.

    The nat ...
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  • ELINAM 9 years ago

    Sad today's PRESEC boys are up to nothing due to bad educational policy.
    Kwabena was a recipient of the last remaining of Kwame Nkrumah's strong educational policy that every other govt helped destroyed with lack of funds.

  • ROYAL AKANLAND 9 years ago

    OH MY BAD, HE IS NOT

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    A little humor isnt bad at all, anyway schooling up to high school in Ghana is fine however tertiary education is seriously lacking.

  • GELEKOPE 9 years ago

    AFTER THE STEALING OF OUR MONEY AND SENDING THEIR KIDS TO ABROTSI TO STUDY AND GET BRAINS THAN US. I DONT EVEN UNDERSTAND ANYTHING BECAUSE THE WICKED NPP SYOLE ALL OUR MONEY TO ABROTSI.....

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 9 years ago

    HOW WILL THIS HELP THE HUMAN RACE?
    Now Boahen stands ready for the next steps -- lowering costs and creating compiler software that would enable engineers and computer scientists with no knowledge of neuroscience to solve pr ...
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  • Yaa Nkosuo 9 years ago

    His dad was never a member of the NPP government but rather one of the founding fathers who campaigned tirelessly at great risk to himself and his career as an eminent Historian for the restoration of a democratically electe ...
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  • Kojo Billy Duncan 9 years ago

    Brilliant, this illustrates the importance of inculcating the study and appreciation of mathematics, science and technology in our youth.

  • IDI AMIN DADA 9 years ago

    AND SO WHAT???

  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    You know where you are driving to. The man in person is not from your tribe and you are pissed. Hate and envy is a deadly virus that will ruin the clear mind.

  • Ahunahuna 9 years ago

    AND SO YOUR MOTHER!!!

  • EDUCATED FOOLS - WAKE UP ! 9 years ago

    YOU STUPID FOOL

  • TWEAAA 9 years ago

    Brainless rat!

  • CASH MAN 9 years ago

    This is a copy and paste news. please try to break it down to a layman's understanding.

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    Way to go, Baxter! You make all of us Ghanaians proud. The article neglected to mention that you won the Junior Scholar award at Mfantsipim prior to your sixth form at Presbyterian boys. You follow in the steps of your father ...
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  • WINNIE 9 years ago

    TECHNOLOGY

  • Tango & Cash 9 years ago

    Odade3/Kwabotwe Hybrid! This is superb stuff! Congratutions!

  • Dabi 9 years ago

    When you have black people who adore European empty culture and education,this is what happens to your country in 2014.
    Ghana, a county owned by foreigners and run by Ghanaian colonial sympathizers.
    EPA is coming,deal with ...
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  • Yaa Nkosuo 9 years ago

    As if the subject of this article isn't complex enough.
    "Dabi" confuses us with his diatribe.

    What are you doing about EPA now that it has been ratified?

  • Nansei 9 years ago

    You know this happened in the US, right? He had both the undergraduate and graduate education in the US, so don't make any noise! Ghana has no single leader or person who's smart enough to improve on our failed and miserable ...
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  • Dabi 9 years ago

    As usual,belittling yourselves to show how clued up you are on how smart another nation is than you.
    Typical .
    Oh by the way Yaa,get your facts right,EPA has been initialled,not yet signed.
    I did not expect you guys to und ...
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  • Yaa Nkosuo 9 years ago

    Who the hell do you think you are Mr know-it-all!!!???....and what do you mean by
    " I did not expect you to understand what I meant"
    Spare us your insinuating rhetoric if
    "you know" the EPA's hasn't been concluded.

    Min ...
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  • Dabi 9 years ago

    You have psychedelic English yet lack basic vital information.
    How typical.

  • Yaa Nkosuo 9 years ago

    Got out of bed the opposite side this morning huh?
    People like you spoil interesting discussions for everyone.
    Just crawl back down into your hole mister!!!

  • DARK DAYS IN GHANA 9 years ago

    Let all doubters find the speech of
    Dr. Kwame Nkrumah when he laid the foundation for the construction of Ghana Atomic Reactor at Kwabenya in November 1964. Had the CIA not overthrown him, Ghana would be producing 1000 scien ...
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  • Dabi 9 years ago

    Thank you for sharing my point exactly.
    I don't blame Yaa and Nansei too much because they are products of our environment.
    No or little self belief thanks to years of slowly killing the Ghanaians pride by copy and paste le ...
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  • Kojo Annan 9 years ago

    Why don't you show us said speech from that beloved dictator?

  • Kejebi 9 years ago

    The point you are missing is the fact that as far back as the 60's,Ghana was advancing to even have such institutions in the country,owned by Ghana.
    It doesn't surprise me though that you still missed Dark's point.
    That "di ...
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  • DARK DAYS IN GHANA 9 years ago

    OK Kojo Annan. I have the speech but it is too long to post in the Comment Section so I will send it to Ghanaweb and see if they will post it for all to see. By the way Nkrumah was not a "dictator". The opposition United Part ...
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  • Kojo Annan 9 years ago

    No one could defeat he because he suspended elections.

  • Popo 9 years ago

    Dark pls don't bother with people like Kojo.
    They are lost.

  • JUSTICE 9 years ago

    THE NAYSAYERS AND HATERS WOULD HAVE US THINK WE ARE DOOMED; EITHER BECAUSE THEIR PET IDOL IS NOT IN FLAGSTAFF HOUSE OR THEIR LIMITED MINDS& LIMBS FAIL THEM. BELIEVE IT, EVERY GHANAIAN HAS IN HIM OR HER THE CAPACITY TO FLY. IT ...
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  • MARCUS 9 years ago

    MR.DABI,THANK YOU 4 JUST MENTIONING DR,KWAME NKRUMAH NAME,TRULY NKRUMAH WOULD HAVE TAKE US TO THAT LEVEL

  • Kodwo Gyakye 9 years ago

    Buster (Prof Kwabena Adu Boahene) was an Mfantsipim boy... we only loaned him to Presec :)

  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    Thanks

  • Tango & Cash 9 years ago

    Honestly speaking and few would admit but most of us lucky ones who experienced Sixth Form Science education at PRESEC were able to upscale our craft at this rugged but fine Ghanaian High School. And by the way I was in Motow ...
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  • yes 9 years ago

    He was an augusco guy...lol

  • Yaa Nkosuo 9 years ago

    My God isn't he a chip of the old block and his sister?

    Fantastic, Excellent!!!

  • Kwame atobodzemafi 9 years ago

    who is he trying to please? This is a show off business. Please give me a break. he did not invent computers.

  • Ahunahuna 9 years ago

    Fuck off! you envious bastard. Go and build your own if you can. fool. if you don't have anything to say, you better shut the fuck up!

  • peki akobi 9 years ago

    fools like you make life difficult for the world. Go to school and get some common sense. the rest for you "Fuck off! if you don't have anything to say, you better shut the fuck up! "

  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    The son of the historin: A. Adu Boahen

  • Nyansasem 9 years ago

    If you spend too much of your time on Ghanaweb with your PhD, you will not achieve anything.

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    What a great message to Akadu who poses as a woman yet seemed like a former PRESECAN.

  • Conventional Youth 9 years ago

    STE

  • kretz - d 9 years ago

    We have more of Ghanaians like Mr Boahene in different fields but the question is why don't they help Ghana to move technology and other fields forward? The answer is Ghana lacks the "magnet" to attract these professionals. T ...
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  • OGYA 9 years ago

    Ghana doesn't lack anything, its the excuses we make all the time for being lazy and not studying the right way or help other Ghanaians to succeed. All we do is play football and thats it.

    The one's that have achieved any ...
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  • Nana Oben 9 years ago

    Many Ghanaian professionals DO actually come down to practice and help the country develop in their professions. Most often they are discouraged by (a) lack of capital (venture or modest rate bank loan), (b) lack of govt. sup ...
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  • T'pau 9 years ago

    "...Ghana lacks the "magnet" to attract these professionals". No! Ghana has the magnet but aligns the magnet in a way that you always get repelled.

  • Minta 9 years ago

    Your answer is NDC Politicians and their accomplice no gooders like big mouth Kwesi Pratt will frustrate them every step of the way. If Ghanaians living overseas were given the encouragement to participate fully in shaping Gh ...
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  • Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris!. 9 years ago

    Very good nd ......Amen!, fr Samms!
    nd God bless u oman Ghana!...

  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    The brain is the creation of the Omnipotent creator of the universe and humans cannot invent anything that will match the power of it. No and never. Why? Well, because any human that tries to invent something powerful than ...
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  • Yaa Nkosuo 9 years ago

    Very True, "Pelicles"
    We can clone anything but one cannot alter nature's original and best creation.

  • OGYA 9 years ago

    Its about time a Ghanaian Engineer actually did anything meaningful. Its interesting how this was pulled quickly to from Stanford website to Ghanaweb site to showoff before it became a meaningful product, all because there i ...
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  • Oheneba Osei Yaw Akoto 9 years ago

    GREAT AKAN BRAIN POWER!

  • Sakyi 9 years ago

    Pointless immature statement.
    We have to get rid of people like you in Ghana.

  • LARYEAH 9 years ago

    ADU , JUST BOAHEN IS IN EWE, ACCORDING TO KOLA THE FOOL.

  • 8-P 9 years ago

    Baster is MOBA 81, M1

  • Joe Turkey 9 years ago

    Jerry Rawlings and his Marxists PNDC killed the brains of Ghanaian children with JSS carpentry, hairdressing, butchering etc instead of developing the National Vocational Training Institute. Then he sent his children out of i ...
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  • yes 9 years ago

    HE WAS IN ST.AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE IN CAPE COAST..

  • Whatever 9 years ago

    What does it take to create a transistor or a silicon semi-conductor that has come to represent most languages of electronic machines? It is sad the way we are there doing nothing and the Government too is another. What stops ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    That NPP prof adu boahen son....

  • ken 9 years ago

    Trust me if he were to come to Ghana and involve himself in politics, likely his late father party, Fiifi Kwetey, Alotey Jecobs, Felix Kwakye and others will say he doesn't know anything.

  • TWEAAA 9 years ago

    Please check your facts, this is not the youngest son of the late Prof. Adu Boahen. The youngest is called Christopher (Galaxy).

  • sam fleischer-djoleto 9 years ago

    prof adu-boahen is the son of the late prof adu-boahen and a proud member of the mfantsipim old boys association 1981 group.

  • Nana Phillip-Quarque 9 years ago

    Akyemkwaa a onus Birimu we'll done!

  • 123 9 years ago

    Stop that nonsense, Adu Boahene is from Juaben, Ashanti.

  • peki akobi 9 years ago

    Prof adu-boahene is from Osiem in okyeman mu

  • Okponglo Guy 9 years ago

    Stop the ethnic nonsense.

  • Sammy 9 years ago

    Who really understands this article it is all about scientific jargons so the message is poor here because information is incomplete if readers can not get to the bottom of what it is trying to convey.It could be better.thank ...
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  • YAKUBU 9 years ago

    Speak for yourself young man. In other circles science, technology, research & development and innovation rules. That is the direction of forward moving and forward thinking societies; the intellectual development of the brai ...
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  • Yaa Nkosuo 9 years ago

    Yeah Right "Yakubu" what this US genius has created is a Robot which rivals Your brain and mine and which in no time would be doing the thinking for you!!! If you think about it; stop being an African Fool (pardon my French) ...
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  • YAKUBU 9 years ago

    Ignorance is a disease.

  • Yaa Nkosuo 9 years ago

    Them, yeah!!!

  • w3 9 years ago

    Brain box

  • EDUCATED FOOLS - WAKE UP ! 9 years ago

    WE NEED MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN OUR MOTHER LAND GHANA .

  • Okponglo Guy 9 years ago

    Nuff said

  • Bonsoe 9 years ago

    I first knew this guy from the New York Times. Very smart but what makes him news in Ghana? He's a professor in America and not Ghana. What Ghana gave him have been taken away by another country because of the black chip God ...
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  • foxnews 9 years ago

    Imagine billions of dollars those companies in silicon valley make out of him in a day.His inventions could be mimic to manufacture high-tec CNC machines,industrial robots in welding,assembling,processing and manufacturing of ...
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