This document discusses the Blue Brain project, which aims to create a virtual human brain through detailed biological simulations. It describes how the Blue Brain is being constructed by scanning brain tissue to measure neuronal properties, translating these into mathematical models, and running large-scale simulations. The Blue Brain would function similarly to a natural brain, processing inputs, interpreting them through neuronal states, and producing outputs. It could allow human intelligence and memory to be uploaded and stored digitally. The Blue Brain may one day help treat conditions like memory loss and allow life-like artificial intelligence.

1. SEMINAR : BLUE BRAIN TECHNOLOGY
UNIVERSAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE, VALLIVATTOM- 680123
Bachelor’s of Technology in Mechanical Engineering
Presented by -
AMITH K P – UEANEME018
Guided by -
Asst. Prof. DENNY
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
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2. CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN
 WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN
 FUNCTIONING OF HUMAN BRAIN
 CONSTRUCTION OF BLUE BRAIN
 UTILIZATION OF BLUE BRAIN
 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIRMENT
 BENEFITS OF BLUE BRAIN
 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BLUE BRAIN
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES
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3. INTRODUCTION
 Human brain, the most valuable creation of God. The man is called intelligent because of the
Brain. But we loss the knowledge of a brain when the body is destroyed after the death .
 “BLUE BRAIN”- The name of the world’s first virtual brain. That means a machine that can
function as human brain.
 The IBM developed a virtual brain known as the Blue brain.
 Is it really possible to create a human brain? The answer is YES.
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4. WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN
 The IBM is now developing a virtual brain known as the BLUE BRAIN.
 It would be the worlds first virtual brain. Within 30 years, we will be able to scan ourselves
into the computers.
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5. WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN5
We can say Virtual brain is an artificial brain,
which does not actually the natural brain, but can
act as the brain.
A machine that can function as brain .
 It can take decision.
 It can think.
 It can respond.
 It can keep things in memory.

6. WHY WE NEED VIRTUAL BRAIN6
To upload contents of the natural brain into it .
To keep the intelligence , knowledge and skill of any
person for ever .
To remember things without any effort .

7. FUNCTIONING OF HUMAN BRAIN7
 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 .

8. CONSTRUCTION OF BLUE BRAIN
There are three main steps to build the virtual brain
 Data Acquisition
 Simulation
 Visualization of Results
Data Acquisition :-
The brain slices are placed under microscope and the shape as well electrical activity of
individual neurons is measured. The neurons are examined by their shape called as
morphology, electrophysiological behavior and their population density Then these
observations are translated into mathematical algorithms which describe the form,
functions and position of neurons. The algorithms are then used to generate biologically-
realistic virtual neurons ready for simulation.
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9. Simulation :-
NATURAL BRAIN SIMULATED BRAIN
INPUT: Through natural neurons INPUT: through silicon chip or artificial
neurons.
INTERPRETATION: by a set of bits in the
set of register
INTERPRETATION: By different states of
the neurons in the brain.
OUTPUT: through natural neurons. OUTPUT : through the silicon chip.
PROCESSING: through arithmetic and
logical calculations.
PROCESSING: through arithmetic and
logical calculation and artificial intelligence.
MEMORY: through permanent states of
neurons
MEMORY: through secondary memory.
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10. Now there is no question how the virtual brain will work.
 But the question is how the human brain will be up loaded
into it.
This is also possible due to the fast growing technology.
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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.
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 .
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12. UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN(CONT….)12
 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.

13. Visualization of Results :-
 RT NEURON is a primary application used for visualization of
emergent behavior of neural simulation. RT Neuron is ad-hoc
software written in C++ especially for neural simulations.
 RT Neuron takes the output from Hodgkin-Huxley simulations in
NEURON and renders them in 3D and visualization are multi-scale
as well 3D animation can be stopped, started and zoomed at any
stage of process.
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14. UTILIZATION OF BLUE BRAIN14
 A very good example of utilization of blue brain is the case "short
term memory".
 In some movies we might have noticed that a person might be
having short term memories.
 A another situation is that when a person gets older, then he starts
forgetting or takes a bit more time to recognize to a person.
 For the above reason we need a blue brain. It is simple chip that
can be installed into the human brain for which the short term
memory and volatile memory at the old age can be avoided.

15. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIRMENT
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A Super computer.
Memory with a very large storing capacity.
Processor with a very high processing power.
A very wide network.
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.

16. Blue brain technical specifications
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 4,096 quad-core nodes
 Each core is a PowerPC 450, 850 MHz
 Total: 56 teraflops, 16 terabytes of memory
 4 racks, one row, wired as a 16x16x16 3D torus
 1 PB of disk space, GPFS parallel file system
 Operating system: Linux SuSE SLES 10

17. BLUE BRAIN IN
LAUSANNA,SWITZERLAND
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The "Blue Brain" supercomputer in Lausanne, Switzerland.

18. BENEFITS OF BLUE BRAIN
 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.
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19. Advantages
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. That means by
interpretation of the electric impulses from the brain of the animals,
their thinking can be understood easily.
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20. DISADVANTAGES OF BLUE BRAIN
We become dependent upon the computers.
Another fear is found with respect to human
cloning.
A very costly procedure of regaining the memory
back.
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21. CONCLUSION
Will be able to transfer ourselves into the computer at
some point.
Eventually aim of applying terrific computer power to the
simulation of an entire brain.
Very soon this technology will be highly accepted whole
over the world.
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22. REFERENCES
 “Blue Brain: An approach towards creation of virtual brain”-Ramanjyot Kaur,
Tajinder Kaur, International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computational
and Applied Sciences, 10(4), September-November, 2014, pp. 406-410
 “BLUE BRAIN ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY”-S. Mondal, S. Parvin, S. F.
Ahmmed, International Journal OF Engineering and Techniques – Volume 1 Issue
1, 2015
 “Blue Brain - The Future Generation”-Siva Kumar Avula, Vedrucha S Pakale and
Sheetal V Kashid, International Journal of Application or Innovation in
Engineering & Management-Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2013
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