Human Brain, the most valuable creation of God. The man is called intelligent because of the Brain. But we lose the knowledge from a Brain when the body is destroyed after the time of death Is it really possible to create a human brain? “YES", the IBM and EFPL is now developing a virtual brain known as the BLUE BRAIN

1. BLUE BRAIN
Presented by
D.SHENBAGA DEVI

2. Contents
• Introduction
Working of a natural brain
Brain Simulation
Blue Brain Project
Advantages
Hardware and Software Requirements
Applications
Future Work
References

3. Introduction
Human Brain, the most valuable creation of God.
The man is called intelligent because of the
Brain.
But we lose the knowledge from a Brain when
the body is destroyed after the time of death
Is it really possible to create a human brain?
“YES", the IBM and EFPL is now developing a
virtual brain known as the BLUE BRAIN

4. Working of a natural brain

5. Brain Simulation
Natural Brain Simulated Brain
INPUT
Through Natural neurons
By sensory cells
INPUT
Artificial neurons with silicon chips
Electric impulse
INTERPRETATION
By different states of neuron in the brain
INTERPRETATION
By a set of bit in a set of register
OUTPUT
Through Natural Neurons
OUTPUT
Through Silicon Chips
PROCESSING
Arithmetic and Logical Calculations
PROCESSING
Arithmetic and logic calculation and Artificial
Intelligence
MEMORY
Through permanent states of neuron
MEMORY
Through Secondary Memory

6. Blue Brain Project
Goals and Objectives
• IBM’s blue brain project will search for
insights into how human beings think and
remember
• To upload contents of natural brain
• To keep the intelligence and skill of any
person forever
• To remember things without any effort

7. Blue Brain Project (Cont)
Architecture of Blue Gene

8. Blue Brain Project (Cont)
Steps to build a virtual brain
• Data Acquisition
• Simulation
• Visualization

9. Blue Brain Project (Cont)
Data Acquisition
• Taking Brain slices and studying it under a
microscope
• Neuronal 3D morphologies are
reconstructed using Neurolucida software
package
• Electrophysiological behaviour of neurons
is studied using a 12 patch clamp.

10. Blue Brain Project (Cont)
Data Acquisition

11. Blue Brain Project (Cont)
Simulation
• Primary software called NEURON
• Written in C,C++ and FORTRAN
• BBP-SDK is a set of classes

12. Blue Brain Project (Cont)
Simulation

13. Blue Brain Project (Cont)
Visualisation of Results
• RTNeuron is the primary application used
by BBP
• Written in C++ and Open GL
• Animations can be stopped started and
zoomed

14. Blue Brain Project (Cont)
Visualisation of Results

15. Hardware and software
requirements
Blue gene supercomputers

16. Hardware and Software
Requirements
• Memory with a large storing capacity
• Processor with a very high processing
power
• A program (written in Linux or C++) to
convert the electric impulse from the brain
to the input signal
• Very powerful Nanobots to act as the
interface between the natural brain and
the computer

17. Nanobots

18. Advantages
Gathering and Testing many years of data
Curing the Parkinson’s disease
Tool for Drug Discover for Brain Disorders
No more medicinal trials on animal

19. Applications
• We can remember things without any effort
• Decision can be made without the presence of a
person
• Even after the death of a man his intelligence
can be used
• The activities of different animals can be
understood
• It would allow the deaf to hear via direct nerve
simulation

20. Future work
• Researchers at Microsoft’s Media
Presence Lab are developing a “virtual
brain” called MyLifeBits
• Project aims to make database of human
memories
• By 2047,almost all the information will be
in cyberspace including all knowledge and
creative works

21. Conclusion
• We will be able to transfer ourselves into
computers at some point
• It will bring both benefits and harms to the
human society
• Blue Gene Supercomputers can simulate upto
100 cortical columns,1 million neurons, and one
billion synapses at a time
• Despite the sheer complexity, it is predicted that
the project will be capable by the year 2023.

22. Discussion
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