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The Global Brain Institute (GBI) was founded in January 2012 at the </span><a href="http://www.vub.ac.be/english/index.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:small">Vrije Universiteit Brussel</span></a><span style="font-size:small"> (VUB) to research this phenomenon. The GBI grew out of the </span><a href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GBRAIN-L.html" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:small">Global Brain Group</span></a><span style="font-size:small">, an international community of researchers created in 1996, and the </span><a href="http://ecco.vub.ac.be/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:small">Evolution, Complexity and Cognition</span></a><span style="font-size:small"> research group at the VUB.</span><br/><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:18px;font-size:small"><br/></span></font></div></span><div><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#444444">People</font></b></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><span style="font-family:Palatino,Palatino Linotype,serif;line-height:25px"><font color="#000000" size="3"><b> Director</b></font><br/> </span></blockquote> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"> </blockquote> <div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;margin-left:2em"> <ul><li style="list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:square"><a href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html" style="color:rgb(169,7,7);text-decoration:underline;background-image:url('https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/');background-color:initial;font-weight:bold;padding-top:2px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-left:2px;background-repeat:repeat no-repeat" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:small">Francis Heylighen</span></a><span style="font-size:small">: overall theoretical development and strategy</span></li></ul> </div> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"> <div><span style="font-family:Palatino,Palatino Linotype,serif"><font color="#000000" size="3"><b>Researchers</b></font></span></div> </blockquote> <div> <div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lucida Grande,Lucida 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style="color:rgb(169,7,7);text-decoration:underline;background-image:url(https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/);background-color:initial;font-weight:bold;padding-top:2px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-left:2px;font-size:small;background-repeat:repeat no-repeat"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/viktoras-veitas/3/119/a82" style="color:rgb(169,7,7);text-decoration:underline;background-image:url('https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/');background-color:initial;font-weight:bold;padding-top:2px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-left:2px;background-repeat:repeat no-repeat" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Viktoras Veitas</a></span><span style="font-size:small">: system implementation and agent simulation</span></li> <li style="list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:square"><a href="http://clement.vidal.philosophons.com/" 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Weinbaum (Weaver)</span></a><span style="font-size:small">: theoretical foundations and survey of new trends</span></li></ul> </div> <h3 style="font-family:Palatino,Palatino Linotype,serif;margin-top:1em;margin-left:40px"><a name="TOC-Scientific-Board-"></a><font color="#000000" size="3"><b>Scientific Board </b></font></h3> <div style="margin-left:2em"> <ul><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:square"><a href="http://informatics.indiana.edu/jbollen/Home.html" style="color:rgb(169,7,7);text-decoration:underline;background-image:url('https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/');background-color:initial;font-weight:bold;padding-top:2px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-left:2px;background-repeat:repeat no-repeat" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:small">Johan Bollen</span></a><span style="font-size:small"> (Indiana University)</span></li> <li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:square"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%ABl_de_Rosnay" style="color:rgb(169,7,7);text-decoration:underline;background-image:url('https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/');background-color:initial;font-weight:bold;padding-top:2px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-left:2px;background-repeat:repeat no-repeat" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:small">Jo�l de Rosnay</span></a><span style="font-size:small"> (Biotics International)</span></li><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:square"><span style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.soms.ethz.ch/people/dhelbing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dirk Helbing</a> (ETH Z�rich)</span></li> <li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:square"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Joslyn" style="color:rgb(169,7,7);text-decoration:underline;background-color:initial;font-weight:bold;padding-top:2px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-left:2px" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:small">Cliff Joslyn</span></a><span style="font-size:small"> (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)</span></li> <li style="list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:square"><a href="http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/%7Ecgg/" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:small">Carlos Gershenson</span></a><span style="font-size:small"> (Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico)</span></li> <li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Goertzel" style="color:rgb(169,7,7);text-decoration:underline;background-image:url('https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/');background-color:initial;font-weight:bold;padding-top:2px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-left:2px;background-repeat:repeat no-repeat" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:small">Ben Goertzel</span></a><span style="font-size:small"> (Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</span></li> <li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://markorodriguez.com/" style="color:rgb(169,7,7);text-decoration:underline;background-image:url('https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/');background-color:initial;font-weight:bold;padding-top:2px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-left:2px;background-repeat:repeat no-repeat" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:small">Marko A. Rodriguez</span></a><span style="font-size:small"> (Aurelius LLC)</span></li></ul> </div> </div> <blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;color:rgb(102,102,102);border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><div><span style="font-family:Palatino,Palatino Linotype,serif"><font color="#000000" size="3"><b>Affiliates</b></font></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;color:rgb(102,102,102);border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><div><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19px;font-size:small"><a href="http://perspective-numerique.net/wakka.php?wiki=OlivierAuber" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Olivier Auber</a>: collective computer-supported artistic creation</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19px;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/corinaciechanow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Corina Ciechanow</a>: crowdsourcing</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19px;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/bencollinsdigital" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ben Collins</a>: public relations </span></li></ul></div></blockquote></div><div><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#444444">Contact</font></b></div><b><span style="font-size:small">Postal address</span></b><span style="font-size:small">: Global Brain Institute<br/>CLEA, Vrije Universiteit Brussel <br/>Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.</span><div><font size="2"><span style="line-height:19px"><b><br/></b></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="line-height:19px"><b>Phone</b>: +32-2-640 67 37</span></font><div><b><span style="font-size:small">E-mail:</span></b><span style="font-size:small"> info [at] globalbraininstitute [dot] org</span><br/><br/><div><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#444444">Intranet</font></b></div><a href="https://complexity.vub.ac.be/gbii" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:small">GBI issue queue</span></a><span style="font-size:small"> (password protected)</span><br/></div></div></div></td><td class="sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-content-2"><div dir="ltr"><div> <div><span style="color:rgb(169,7,7);font-family:Palatino,Palatino Linotype,serif;line-height:36px"><b><font color="#444444" face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:x-small"><br/></span></b></font></b></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(169,7,7);font-family:Palatino,Palatino Linotype,serif;font-size:24px;line-height:36px"><b><font color="#444444" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Mission</b></font></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size:small">The </span><span style="font-size:small">GBI</span><span style="font-size:small"> scientific methods to better understand the evolution towards ever-stronger interconnections between humans, software and machines across the planet. 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