Blue Brain Technology

1. BLUE BRAIN
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2. Contents
1. INTRODUCTION
2. WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN
3. WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN
4. FUNCTION OF NATURAL BRAIN
5. BRAIN SIMULATION
6. CURRENT RESEARCH WORK
7. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQIREMENT
8. ADVANTAGES
9. DISADVANTAGE
10. CONCLUSION
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3. INTRODUCTION
◦ Human Brain—The most valuable
creation of GOD
◦ The intelligence of a person is lost
after his/her death
◦ Is there any solution for this?
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4. WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN?
◦ BLUE BRAIN—The world’s first virtual
brain.
◦ IBM is now in research to create a
virtual brain. It is called "Blue brain ".
◦ A machine that functions as human
Brain.
◦ An artificial brain that can think,
response, take decision, and keep
anything in memory. 4

5. WHY DO WE NEED VIRTUAL
BRAIN??
◦ The main aim is to upload human brain into
machine.
◦ So that man can think, take decision without
any effort.
◦ After the death of the body, the virtual brain will
act as the man .
◦ So, even after the death of a person we will
not loose the knowledge, intelligence,
personalities, feelings and memories of that
man that can be used for the development of
the human society.
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6. FUNCTIONING OF HUMAN
BRAIN
 Sensory Input :-
Receiving input such as sound
,image, etc through sensory cell .
 Interpretation.
Interpretation of the received input by
the brain by defining states of
neurons in the brain.
 Motor Output.
Receiving of electric responses
from the brain to perform any action .
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7. BRAIN SIMUALATION
Natural Brain vs Artificial
Brain
 INPUT
 Through the
natural neurons
 INTERPRETATI
ON
 By different
states of the
neurons in the
brain
 INPUT
 Through the
silicon chip or
artificial neurons
 INTERPRETATI
ON
 By a set of bits in
the set of
register
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8. BRAIN SIMUALATION
Natural Brain vs Artificial
Brain
 OUTPUT
 Through the
natural neurons.
 PROCESSING
 Through
arithmetic and
logical
calculations
 OUTPUT
 Through the
silicon chip .
 PROCESSING
 Through
arithmetic and
logical
calculation and
artificial
intelligence
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9. BRAIN SIMUALATION
Natural Brain vs Artificial
Brain
 MEMORY
 Through
permanent states
of neurons
 MEMORY
 Through
Secondary
memory
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10. ARTIFICIAL NUERAL NETWORK
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11. UPLOADING HUMAN
BRAIN
 The uploading is possible by the use of small
robots known as the nanobots.
 These robots are small enough to travel through
out our circulatory system.
 Traveling into the spine and brain, they will be
able to monitor the activity and structure of our
central nervous system.
 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.
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12. RESEARCH WORK
 IBM developing the “Blue
brain”
 IBM, in partnership with
scientists at Switzerland’s
Ecole Polytechnique Federale
De Lausanne’s(EPFL) Brain
and Mind Institute will begin
simulating the brain’s
biological systems. 12

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14. Software & Hardware
Requirement
 22.8 TFLOPS peak processing speed.
 8,096 CPUs at 700 MHz (downgraded
to handle massive parallel
processing).
 256MB to 512MB memory per
processor.
 Linux and C++ software.
 100 kilowatts power consumption.
 very powerful Nanobots to act as the
interface between the natural brain
and the computer. 14

15. ADVANTAGES
 Intelligence of a person is not lost
even after his death
 Things can be remembered easily
without much effort
 Allowing deaf to hear via nerve
simulation
 Making decisions without the
presence of the person
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16. DISADVANTAGES
We become dependent
upon the computer
Others may use technical
knowledge against us.
Another fear is found today
with respect to human
cloning
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17. We will be able to turn
ourselves into computers
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18. References
 www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project
 Blue Brain Project: modelling the human brain in
the lab - D. BALASUBRAMANIAN dbala@lvpei.org
 Pictures from-http://
www.gizmowatch.com/entry/blue-brain-steadily-moving-
brain-simulation-into-reality/
 Articles of Professor Henry Markram from the Brain
Mind
Institute at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne (EPFL) and International Business
Machines (IBM)
 Positive Technology Journal - Mind, brain, and
emerging technologies - By Andrea Gaggioli, Ph.D
 http://www.bbrws.org Lots of references related
to Blue brain e-journal
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19. ANY QUERIES
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20. THANK YOU
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