The Blue Brain Project aims to create a synthetic brain through reverse engineering the human brain down to the molecular level. The project began in 2005 as a collaboration between EPFL and IBM to simulate brain functions. It uses a supercomputer called Blue Gene to model neurons, connections between neurons, and neural circuits in order to simulate a small section of the brain's neocortex. The goal is to advance understanding of brain diseases and potentially upload a human brain into a computer system.

1. Blue brain PROJECT
By
Sonawane Vipul
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A Seminar on
Guided by:
Prof . Pranalini Joshi

2. INTRODUCTION
• Human Brain is the most complex and undiscovered part of human body.
• Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse
engineering the human brain down to molecular level in order to
understand brain functions.
• Blue Brain is the name given to the worlds first virtual brain. That means a
Machine can Function as Human Brain.
• Project began in July 2005 as collaboration between Professor Henry
Markram from EPFL and IBM and now having 13 institutes, 80 partners
and thousand of scientists.
• The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)has a billion
euros, or $1.38 billion, from the European Union to spend over the next ten
years.
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3. Why Do WE NEED???
• Intelligence ,Knowledge and skill of a person can be used even after
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death
• To find cure on brain diseases
• We can upload the contents of natural brain into it
• Cracking the Neural Code
• we cannot keep doing animal experimentation unless we have
discovered ourselves completely
• it is essential for us to understand the human brain if we do want to
get along in society

4. Neuron and NCC
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5. UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN:NANOBOTS
• The uploading is possible by the use of small robots known as
the nanobots
• These robots are small enough to travel throughout 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 while
we still reside in our biological form
• Nanobots could also carefully scan the structure of our brain,
providing a complete readout of the connection
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6. • This information, when entered into a computer, could then
continue to function as us
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7. High Performance Computing
• Neurons receive input from thousands of other neurons and
contains thousands of synopsis.
• To load this information a massive increase in computational
power is required which is handled by IBM
• IBM developed a new supercomputer to match the
requirements of this project called Blue Gene Supercomputer
• A super computer with 400TB of storage and 8000 plus
processors is now holding this information with 1 PF
computational power
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8. Blue Gene/P
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9. Modeling the Brain
1. Modeling the neurons:-
• The team will start by modeling the electrical structure of neural circuits
repeated throughout the brain and then map and model their behavior.
• infrared differential interference microscopy allow the systematic
quantification of the molecular, morphological and electrical properties of
the different neurons
2. Modeling connections:-
• Precise density & Volume of the Cell provides essential information for
constructing cortical circuits.
• Blue Gene is used in intensive calculation to fix the synapse locations
• This modeling is done by neuromorphic computers
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10. 3. Modeling the column[NCC]:-
• The result of all these calculations is a recreation at the cellular
level of the NCC.
• As the electrical impulse travels from neuron to neuron, the
results are communicated via inter-processor communication
• All the 8192 processors of the Blue Gene are pressed into
service, in a massively parallel computation solving the
complex mathematical equations that govern the electrical
activity in each neuron when a stimulus is applied
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11. NATURAL BRAIN VS SIMULATED BRAIN
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12. ADVANTAGES
• We can remember things without any effort
• Many decisions can be made without presence of that person
• The intelligence of a person can be used even after his/her
death
• A Novel Tool for Drug Discovery for Brain Disorders
• Allowing a deaf to hear via direct nerve stimulation
• Understanding the activities of other animals
• Provide vast area of research in neuroscience
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13. DISADVANTAGES
• We become dependent upon computer systems
• Others may use technical knowledge against us
• Very costly procedure of regaining the memory back
• Another fear is found with respect to HUMAN CLONING
• Computer viruses will cause an increasingly critical threat
• Real human intelligence or value will reduce as computers will
do things for us even thinking too
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14. CONCLUSION
• At some point we will be able to transfer ourselves into
computer
• Human brain is an immensely powerful, energy efficient, self-learning,
self-repairing computer.
• If we could understand and mimic the way it works, we could
revolutionize information
• technology, medicine and society.
• It will bring both benefits and harm to human society.
• Very soon this technology will be highly accepted whole over
the world.
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15. THANK YOU
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