The document discusses Blue Brain, an artificial brain project that aims to simulate the human brain on a supercomputer. Blue Brain seeks to reverse engineer the brain into a computer by mapping neurons and neural connections into a digital simulation. The goals of Blue Brain include uploading human intelligence, knowledge, and skills into an artificial brain to preserve them after death and treat neurological diseases. The document outlines the requirements, functions, examples, pros, cons, and future perspectives of the Blue Brain project.

1. PSNA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY

2. ABSTRACT
Introduction
What is Blue Brain?
Why we need Blue Brain?
Functions of Blue Brain.
Requirements.
Brain Simulation.
Example of Blue Brain.
Pros .
 Cons.
 Future Perspective.
Reference.
Closing Thoughts.

3. INTRODUCTION
 Blue Brain Technology was first framed out in the year of 2002
by “Henry Markram”. He founded the Brain Mind Institute at
EPFL that stands for Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne
and after that in 2005 June , EPFL and IBM agree to launch Blue
Brain Project.
 Human brain is 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 is the worlds first virtual brain. That means a
machine that can function as human being.

4. WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN?
Blue Brain is an artificial brain that can think, responds,
take decision, and keep anything in the memory .
It is a simple chip that can be installed into the human
brain .
The goal is to reverse engineer the brain into a
computer.

5. WHY WE NEED BLUE BRAIN?
To upload the content of natural brain into it.
To keep intelligence, knowledge and skill of any person.
To remember things without any effort.
Great inventory brains can be reused for further inventions.
To treat diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson’s.

6. FUNCTIONS OF NATURAL 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.

7. REQUIREMENTS
The hardware & software
required to build a Blue
Brain…
 8,096 CPU s at 700MHz each
of which can map one or two
simulated brain neurons.
 256MB to 512MB memory per
processor.
 100 kilowatts power
consumption
 Processor with a very high
processing power.
 22.8 TFLOPS peak processing
speed.
 Linux and C++ software.

8. BRAIN SIMULATION
Natural Brain Blue Brain
 Input :
~ Through natural Neurons.
~ By Sensory cells.
 Interpretation:
~ By different states of Neurons in the
brain.
 Output:
~ Through Natural Neurons.
 Processing:
~ Arithmetic and Logical Calculations.
 Memory:
~ Through Permanent stores of
Neurons.
 Input:
~ ANN with silicon chips or artificial
Neurons.
~ Electric impulses.
 Interpretation:
~ By a set of bits in the set of registers.
 Output:
~ Through Silicon Chips.
 Processing:
~ Arithmetic and Logical Calculations and
Artificial Intelligence.
 Memory:
~ Through Secondary memory

9. EXAMPLE OF BLUE BRAIN
A very good example of utilization of blue brain is the
case “Short Term Memory”.
A another situation is that when a person gets older,
then he start forgetting or takes a bit more time to
recognize to a person.

10. PROS
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.
Improvements in processing speed and memory could make
entire human brain simulated.
The activity of different animals can be understood.
Helps deaf and mad people.

11. CONS
We become dependent upon the computer systems.
Other may use technical knowledge against us.
Computer viruses will pose an increasingly critical threat.
Possibilities of human cloning.
If in future surrogates to humans are developed then, there
will be no human interaction and the world will run on
computers only.

12. FUTURE PERSPECTIVE
Prosthetic devices to restore vision, hearing or limb
control might be the next step.
In future the real dreams would be the realization of
the “brain-in-computer and chip-in-brain”
arrangement.
Creating Surrogates.
This is just “blink of an eye”… there’s lot more to
come…

13. REFERENCE
The Blue Brain Project –Henry Markram’s Lecture,
Neuro Informatics 2008.
Simulated brain closer to thought – BBC News 22 April,
2009.
NCS Documentation.

14. Closing Thoughts
Very soon this technology will be highly accepted
whole over the world but wisdom lies in right use.
“Technology does not create Brain but Brain creates
Technology”.
We will be able to transfer ourselves into computers at
some point & this is just the beginning….!