The Blue Brain Project is the first attempt to reverse-engineer the brain of mammalian, so that simulations of the function of brain can be understood. BLUE BRAIN is the name of the world's first virtual brain, which is a machine that can function as human brain. Today, scientists are attempting to create an artificial brain that can think, respond, take decision, and store anything in memory as like humans do. The primary goal of this project is to preserve the knowledge, intelligence, personalities, feelings and memories of a person that can be used for the development of the human society.

1. Presented by
Sadhana Singh
M.Tech final year
THE BLUE BRAIN PROJECT

2. Outline
• Introduction
• Why Blue Brain?
• Objectives of Blue Brain Project
• Functioning of human brain
• Functioning of Blue Brain
• Methodology
• Research work
• Merits and demerits
• Conclusion
• References

3. Introduction
• Blue Brain would be world’s first virtual b
rain
• IBM is developing “BLUE BRAIN”, an
artificial brain that can think, respond,
take decision, and keep anything in
memory.

4. Why blue brain
• Human society is developed because of our intelligen
ce.
• After the death of a person, virtual brain will act as a
person so we will not lose the knowledge, intelligenc
e, personalities, feelings and memories of that man t
hat can be used for the development of the human s
ociety
• super brains like that of Steve Jobs, or Stephen Hawk
ings could be interfaced with computer to develop su
per computers.

5. Objectives of Blue Brain Project
• The goal is to reverse engineer the brain into a comp
uter, in order to understand the brain function and
dysfunction through simulation.
• To build a complete framework that can orchestrate t
he reconstruction of human brain from genetic to wh
ole brain level.
• Blue Brain could also help to cure the Parkinson's dis
ease.

6. Functioning of human brain

7. • 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 b
rain.
• Motor Output.
Receiving of electric responses from the br
ain to perform any action .

8. Functioning of Blue brain
• The uploading of human brain is possible by the use of small r
obots known as the nanobots.
• These robots are small enough to travel through out our circul
atory 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 biologic
al form .

9. Methodology
• The three main steps to building the virtual brain:
• 1) data acquisition,
• 2) simulation,
• 3) visualisation of results.

10. • Data acquisition involves taking brain slices, placing them u
nder a microscope, and measuring the shape and electrical
activity of individual neurons. This is how the different ty
pes of neuron are studied and catalogued.
• The simulation step involves synthesizing virtual cells using th
e algorithms to describe real neurons. The algorithms and par
ameters are adjusted for the age, species, and disease stage o
f the animal being simulated.
• The BBP SDK (Blue Brain Project-Software Development Kit
) is the set of software classes which are used for inspect
ing models and simulations. The Blue Brain simulation uses
one microprocessor per 10,000 neurons in the cortical col
umn of a cerebral cortex .

11. •RTNeuron is the primary application used by the BBP
for visualization of neural simulations. The software
was developed internally by the BBP team.
•It is written in C++ and OpenGL.
•RTNeuron takes the output from Hodgkin-Huxley
simulations in NEURON and renders them in 3D.
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12. RESEARCH WORK
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13. • 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 fr
om the brain to input signal, which is to be received by the com
puter and vice versa.
• very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface between the nat
ural brain and the computer.

14. progress
By 2005 the first single cellular model was completed.
By 2007, the first phase of project was completed,
delievered a data-driven process for creating,
validating, and researching the neocortical column.
first artificial cellular neocortical column of 10,000 cells
was built by 2008.
By 2011 Simulation of multiple columns, cellular
mesocircuit of 100 columns was built. And By 2014 The
BBP completes validated digital reconstructions of
neural micro circuitry in the brain of young rats.
Finally a cellular human brain is predicted possible by
2023 equivalent to 1000 rat brains with a total of a
hundred billion cells

15. • Merits
– Remembering things without any effort.
– Making decision without the presence of a person.
– Using intelligence of a person after the death .
– Understanding the activities of animals .
– Allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve stimulation.
• Demerits
– We become dependent upon the computer .
– Others may use technical knowledge against us.
– A very costly procedure of regaining the memory back.
– If in future surrogates to humans are developed then, there will be no
human interaction and the world will run on computers only.

16. conclusion
• we will be able to transfer our brain content into computers.
• The intelligence, skills, memory and knowledge of a person
can be preserved and can be used in future and it offers a
better understanding of human consciousness
• It will bring both benefits and harm to human society.
• It’s a process towards building the thinking machines.

17. References
1. Swapnil S. Bachate, Prof. Vamshi Krishna,” A Survey Paper on Blue Brain T
echnology”, International Journal of Advance Research in Computer Scien
ce and Management Studies Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2015
2. Henry Markram, "The Blue Brain Project", Nature Reviews Neuroscience,
7:153-160, 2006 February. PMID 16429124.
3. Ramanjyot kaur, tajinder kaur, “Blue Brain: An Approach towards creation
of virtual brain”,International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Compu
tational and Applied Science, 10(4), September-November, 2014
4. http://www.artificialbrains.com/blue-brain-projects
5. The Blue Brain project http://bluebrainproject.epfl.ch.
6. https://www.livescience.com/29365-human-brain.html