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In a laboratory at the top of the Electrical and Electronics department at Imperial College, london, a complete network of servers is demonstrating how techniques used to model neurons in the brain can help get packets of data on the Internet to their destinations faster. We??re with Professor Erol Gelenbe FIET, the winner of the 2010 IET oliver lodge Medal for Achievement in Information Technology, when I spy a little plastic box sticking out of the back of one of the blade servers.