it aims to create a digital reconstruction of the brain by reverse-engineering mammalian brain circuitry

1. BLUE BRAIN

2. CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• WORKING OF A NATURAL BRAIN
• BRAIN SIMULATION
• BLUE BRAIN PROJECT
• ADVANTAGES
• APPLICATIONS
• CONCLUSION

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

4. INTRODUCTION(CONT)
• What is a Virtual Brain ?
•Virtual brain is an artificial brain.
•interface the data stored in the natural brain.
• Why we need Virtual Brain ?
•Intelligence , knowledge and skill of a person
can be made eternal.
• How is it possible ?
•Nanobots.
•These robots are enough to travel throughout
our circulatory systems.

5. UTILIZATION OF BLUE BRAIN
• Short Term Memory.
• In some movies we would have noticed that some
person will be having short term memories.
• When a person gets older, they starts forgetting or
takes a bit more time to recognize to a person.

6. Working of a Natural Brain

7.  INTERPRETATION
By different states of Neurons in
the Brain.
OUTPUT
 Through Natural Neurons.
PROCESSING
Arithmetic and Logical
Calculations.
MEMORY
 Through permanent states of
Neurons.
INPUT
 Artificial Neurons with silicon
chips .
 Electric Impulses.
INTERPRETATION
 By a set of bits in the set of
register.
OUTPUT
 Through Silicon Chips.
PROCESSING
 Arithmetic and LogicalCalculations
and Artificial Intelligence.
MEMORY
 Through Secondarymemory
Brain Simulation
Natural Brain
INPUT
 Through natural Neurons.
 By Sensory cells.
Simulated Brain

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

9.  Data Acquisition
 Simulation
 Visualization
Blue Brain Project(Cont)
Steps to build a Virtual Brain

10. Blue Brain Project(Cont)
Data Acquisition
• Taking brain slices & 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.

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

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

13. ADVANTAGES
Gathering and Testing many years of Data.
 Curing the Parkinson’s disease.
Tool for Drug Discovery for Brain Disorders.
No more medicinal trials on animals.

14. 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 activity of different animals can be
understood.
• It would allow the deaf to hear via direct nerve
stimulation.

15. 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 information will be in cyberspace
including all knowledge and creative works.

16. CONCLUSION
• We will be able to transfer ourselves into computers
at some point.
• It will bring both benefits and harm to human society.
• Blue Gene supercomputers can simulate up to 100
cortical columns, 1 million neurons, and 1 billion
synapses at once.
• Despite the sheer complexity, it is predicted that the
project will capable by the year 2023.

17. Thank You