The University of Illinois has been a champion of supercomputing since 1985, when the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) became part of the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) – at a time when the internet, and modern-era computers, had just entered the early stages of development. Illinois continued to advance the computational game when the first widely used web browser, Mosaic, was built. However, there is one computer even these researchers can’t seem to beat: the human brain. For this reason, Illinois ECE student Noyan Cem Sevuktekin is looking to learn from it, instead.