THIS PRESENTATION IS ABOUT THE DEVELOPEMENT AND PROGRESS OF BLUE BRAIN PROJECT

1. BY-
Durga devi A

2. CONTENTS

3. ABSTRACT
The Blue Brain Project was started and successfully
carrying over by IBM (International Business Machines)
and the main objective of this project is to create a virtual
brain.
“BLUE BRAIN”- world’s first virtual brain which means
a machine that can function as human brain.
The research involved in the study of slices of living brain
tissue using microscopes.
A full human brain simulation (86 billion neurons) should
be possible by 2023 provided sufficient funding is received.
It is estimated to be completed around 2025A.C.
It has been used for many applications and mainly to gain
better development in the field of medical science.

4. INTRODUCTION
 Blue Brain Technology was first framed out in the year of 2002
by Henry Markham. He founded the Brain Mind Institute at
EPFL that stands for École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
and after that in 2005 June,EPFL and IBM agree to launch Blue
Brain Project.
 IBM installs Blue Gene-The 8th super computer in the world
and the project named after this super computer.
 The project is headed by the founding director Henry
Markram and co-directed by Felix schurmann and Sean Hill.
Using Blue gene supercomputer running Michael
Hines's NEURON software, the simulation does not consist
simply of an artificial neural network, but involves a
biologically realistic model of neuron.
 It is hoped that it will eventually shed light on the nature
of consciousness.

5. PRINCIPLE
REVERSE ENGINEERING:
Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the process of
extracting knowledge or design information from anything man-made and
re-producingitorreproducinganythingbasedontheextractedinformation.
PHYSICAL OBJECT
INITIAL GEOMETRY
CAD MODEL
PRODUCT
-Data Capturing
-Noise filtering
-Data Processing
-Product Development
-Manufacturing Process
Digitization
phase
Reconstruction
Phase
Production
Phase

6. VIRTUAL BRAIN
A machine that can function as brain which can take
decision, think, response and also can keep things in
memory just like a human brain is simply called as a
virtual brain.

7. Visualization of results
Simulation
Data acquisition
There are three main steps to building the virtual brain .
They are:

8. DATA AQUISITIONIt involves taking brain slices, placing them under a microscope,
and measuring the shape and electrical activity of individual
neurons.
The Blue Brain simulation uses one microprocessor for each of
the 10,000 neurons in the cortical column of a rat's cerebral
cortex.
It helps to build a brain microcircuit, in order to scale it in
human brain.
SIMULATION
VISUALIZATION
It is a part of this project to create a biologically accurate,
functional model of the brain using IBM's Blue Gene
supercomputer
The Visualization Environment provides the interface between
the user, modeling tools (Builders) and the simulation and
analytics environments, with which it shares a common data
model.

10. REQUIREMENTS
A Super computer.
Memory with a very large storing capacity.
Processor with a very high processing power.
A program to convert the electric impulses from the
brain to input signal, which is to be received by the
computer and vice versa.
Very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface
between the natural brain and the computer.
The Blue Brain has some 8,000 processors which map
one or two simulated brain neurons to each
processor, making the computer a replica of 10,000
neurons.

11.  Nanobots are the smallest robots of size of the
order of 1*10^-9m.Advanced nanobots will be
able to sense and adapt to environmental
stimuli such as heat, light, sounds, surface
textures, and chemicals.
 They perform complex calculations.
 They can move, communicate, and work
together.
 They conduct molecular assembly and to some
extent repair or even replicate themselves.
NANOBOTS

12. SUPER COMPUTER
The primary machine used by the Blue Brain Project is “Blue
Gene” supercomputer built by IBM.
A supercomputer is a computer with great speed and
memory. They are usually thousands of times faster than ordinary
personal computers made at that time.

13. PROCEDURE
The uploading is possible by the use of small robots
known as the nanobots which are small enough to travel
through our circulatory system.
Traveling into the spine and brain, they will be able to
monitor the activity and structure of our central nervous
system.
They will be able to provide an interface with computer
that is as close as our mind can be while we still reside in
our biological form .
Nanobots could also carefully scan the structure of our
brain, providing a complete readout of the connection.
This information, when entered into a computer, could
then continue to function as us.
Thus the data stored in the entire brain will be uploaded
into the computer.

14. GOALS
Four broad motivations behind the Blue Brain Project are:
 Brain disease treatments
 Scientific curiosity about consciousness and the human mind
 Integration of all neuroscientific research results worldwide
 Progress towards building thinking machines

15. PROS…
It acts as a supercomputer.
Improvements in processing , speed and memory could
make entire human brain simulated.
Things could be remembered without any effort.
Use the intelligence of the person after death.
It can make decisions entirely of its own.
Allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve simulation.
CONS…
We become dependent upon the computer .
Others may use technical knowledge against us.
Another fear is found with respect to human cloning.
A very costly procedure of regaining the memory back.

16. CONCLUSION
As the technology is having a numerous benefits, it
is in progress towards the end. It is has been estimated to
be completed around 2025 and many scientists have been
working for this. Very soon this technology will be highly
acceptable whole over the world. We will be able to
transfer ourselves into Computers at some point of time &
this is just the beginning…….
“Technology does not create Brain but Brain
creates Technology”.