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The project was created in February 2006 by Eugene M. Izhikevich, while he was a researcher at the Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California.

[15] Scholarpedia's maintenance and server costs is currently funded by Brain Corporation,[16] a robotics company which Izhikevich is the co-founder and CEO of.

[18] As of May 2009[update], the list of authors included four Fields Medalists and sixteen Nobel Prize winners.

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