The Blue Brain Project, developed by IBM and EPFL, aims to create a virtual brain that captures human knowledge and intelligence, allowing for the possibility of eternal memory. This project involves detailed data acquisition from natural brain slices, simulation using advanced software, and visualization of results for insights into human thought processes. Its applications could include memory preservation, drug discovery for brain disorders, and understanding animal activities, ultimately leading to significant implications for society by enabling memory storage beyond death.

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