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FM 88.5 Edmonton cjsr.com worldwide 6 PM Mountain Time Although five centuries of economic and social exploitation have slowed African technological development, they haven’t stopped it, and that’s partly because people such as Dr. Kwabena Boahen continue to be fascinated by the possibilities of science and technology. Boahen is a Ghanaian-American computer engineer working to create artificial intelligence by mimicking human brain functions inside machines. He holds a PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology, and has received numerous awards including the Sloan Fellowship for Theoretical Neurobiology from Cal-Tech, a Young Investigator Award from the US Office of Naval Research, and the US National Institute of Health Director’s Pioneer Award. Boahen aims to decode how the properties of neurons, the brain’s communication network, allow consciousness to exist. As an engineer, Boahen uses silicon integrated circuits to simulate neural computatio...