[jasongullickson]

"...a scientist whose brain is uploaded into a supercomputer' while trying to create the first ever sentient computer"

It's hardly creating sentience if you're just installing an existing intelligence on another piece of hardware...just sayin'....

[Simucal]

It says that he goes on to continue his research once he is uploaded. So perhaps him being uploaded to the machine is distinct from him trying to create the first sentient computer.

He is trying to create a sentient machine before he dies and his uploaded self is continuing his research along those same lines.

[jasongullickson]

Ah that makes more sense.

[sp332]

He was trying to create a sentient computer. It's like trying to make a blue car: just adding blue paint to a (previously) brown car still counts.