BLUE BRAIN

BY-Sumit Kumar

Mentor:Mr. Vivek Sharma

Asst. ProfessorCs/It

INTRODUCTION• Human brain the most valuable creation of God.The

man is called intelligent because of the brain.

• Today we developed because we can think, which other animals cannot do, but we loss the knowledge of the brain when the body is destroyed after the death of man.

• That knowledge might have been used for development of the human society.

• What happen if we create a brain and upload the content of natural brain into it??

What Is Blue Brain?

• IBM is now developing blue brain which is going to be the world’s first virtual brain within 30 years.

• We will be able to scan ourselves onto the computers.

• Artificial brain that can think, response,take decision and keep anything in memory.

• After the death of the body the virtual brain will act as a man.

OBJECTIVES

• The main objective of the project are to gain a complete understanding of the brain

• To enable better and faster development of brain disease treatments.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

• The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to reverse engineering the human brain and recreate it at the cellular level inside a computer simulation. The project was founded in May 2005 by Henry Markram at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.

•The research involves studying slices of living brain tissue using microscopes and patch clamp electrodes. Data is collected about all the many different neuron types. This data is used to build biologically realistic models of neurons and networks of neurons in the cerebral cortex. The simulations are carried out on a Blue Gene supercomputer built by IBM. Hence the name "Blue Brain". The simulation software is based around Michael Hines's NEURON, together with other custom-built components.

BRAIN SIMULATION

NATURAL BRAIN

INPUT

• By neurons

• By sensory cells

INTERPRETATION

MEMORY

VIRTUAL BRAIN

INPUT

• ANN(artificial neutral network) with silicon chip

• Electric impulses

INTERPRETATION

MEMORY

Uploading Human Brain

• The uploading is possible by the use of small robots known as the nanobots.

• These robots are small enough to travel throughout are circulatory system.

• Travelling 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 the 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.

• This information ,when entered into a computer ,could then continue to function as us .

• Thus the data stored in the entire brain will be uploaded into the computer.

EXAMPLE OF BLUE BRAIN

• A very good example of utilization of blue brain is the case “short term memory”.

• In some movies we might have noticed that a person might be having short term memories.

• A another situation is that when a person gets older, then he starts forgetting or takes a bit more time to recognize to a person.

• For the above reason we need a blue brain . It is a simple chip that can be installed into the human brain for which the short term memory and volatile memory at the old age can be avoided.

BLUE BRAIN PROJECT OBJECTIVES

• The project will search for insights into how human being think and remember.

• Scientists think that blue brain could also help

to cure the Parkinson's disease.

• The brain circuitry is in a complex state of flux, the brain rewiring itself every moment of its existence . If the scientists can crack open the secret of how and why the brain does it , the knowledge could lead to new breed of super computers .

RESEARCH WORK

• IBM developing the “BLUE BRAIN” .

• IBM , in partnership with scientists at Switzerland’s Ecolab polytechnique .

• Brain and mind institute will begin simulating the brain’s biological systems.

ADVANTAGES

• Remembering things without any effort .

• Making decision without the presence of person.

• Using intelligence of a person after the death.

• Understanding the activities of animals.

• Allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve stimulation.

DISADVANTAGES

• We become dependent upon the computer.

• Others may use technical knowledge against us.

• Another fear is found with respect to human cloning.

• A very costly procedure of regaining the memory back.

CONCLUSION

• We will be able to transfer ourselves into computers at some point.

• It will bring both benefits and harm to human society.

• Very soon this technology will be highly accepted whole over the world.

REFRENCES

•“Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society”, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

•Henry Markram, “The Blue Brain Project”, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2006 February.

• Simulated brain closer to thought BBC News 22 April2009.

•“Project Milestones”. Blue Brain. http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/Jahia/site/bluebrain/op/edit/pid/19085

• Graham-Rowe, Duncan. “Mission to build a simulated brain begins”, NewScientist, June 2005. pp. 1879-85.

•Blue Gene: http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene

•The Blue Brain Project:http://bluebrainproject.epfl.ch

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