Complete detail about Blue Brain Project (BBP) or Human Brain Project (HBP) & Blue Brain Concept.

1. BLUE BRAIN
Guided By Presented By:
Mr.Deepak K.P Prakash.T
Assistant Professor R11U012
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering S7,CSE

2. •CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• WORKING OF A NATURAL BRAIN
• BRAIN SIMULATION
• BLUE BRAIN PROJECT
• ADVANTAGES
• HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT
• APPLICATIONS
• FUTURE WORK
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
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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.
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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.
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5. •INTRODUCTION(CONT)
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6. • 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.
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7. •Working of a Natural Brain
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8. •Working of a Natural Brain(Cont)
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EAR
TONGUE
NOSE
EYES

9. 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 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 Logical Calculations
and Artificial Intelligence.
MEMORY
 Through Secondary memory
•Brain Simulation
Natural Brain Simulated Brain
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10. •Blue Brain Project
• IBM’s blue brain project will search for insights into
how human beings think and remember.
• To upload contents of natural brain.
• To keep the intelligence and skill of any person forever.
• To remember things without any effort.
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Goals And Objectives

11. •Blue Brain Project(Cont)
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Architecture of Blue Gene

12. •Blue Brain Project(Cont)
 Data Acquisition
 Simulation
 Visualization
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Steps to build a Virtual Brain

13. •Blue Brain Project(Cont)
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• 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.
Data Acquisition

14. •Blue Brain Project(Cont)
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Data Acquisition

15. •Blue Brain Project(Cont)
• Primary Software called NEURON.
• Written in C,C++ and FORTRAN.
• BBP-SDK is set of software classes.
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Simulation

16. •Blue Brain Project(Cont)
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Simulation

17. •Blue Brain Project(Cont)
• RTNeuron is the primary application used by
the BBP.
• Written in C++ & Open GL.
• Animations can be stopped,started & zoomed.
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Visualization of Results

18. •Blue Brain Project(Cont)
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Visualization of Results

19. •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.
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20. • HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIRMENT
• BLUE GENE SUPERCOMPUTER
• Operating system: Linux SuSE SLES 10
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21. • HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIRMENT(CONT)
• Memory with a very large storing capacity.
• Processor with a very high processing power.
• A very wide network.
• A program (written in Linux or C++) to convert the electric
impulses from the brain to input signal.
• Very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface between
the natural brain and the computer.
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22. •APPLICATIONS
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• 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.

23. •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.
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24. •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.
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25. •REFERENCES
[1] “Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society”, 2012. EMBS
2012. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
[2] Henry Markram, “The Blue Brain Project”, Nature Reviews
Neuroscience 2013 February.
[3] Simulated brain closer to thought BBC News 22 April 2013.
[4] Blue Gene: http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene
[5] The Blue Brain Project: http://bluebrainproject.epfl.ch
[6] Blue Gene: http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene
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26. Discussion
Thank You
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