The Blue Brain project was founded in 2005 at the Brain and Mind Institute in Switzerland to create the first virtual brain. It is led by Henry Markram and uses the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to simulate a brain, called the Blue Brain. The goal is to upload a natural human brain using nanobots that can monitor brain activity and provide an interface with a computer. A virtual brain could allow storing human intelligence after death and help understand animal thinking. However, it could also make people overly dependent on computers and allow others misuse technical knowledge.