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CONTENTS Introduction What is blue brain? What is virtual brain? Function of brain Blue Brain Project Blue Brain Project Objectives Hardware and software requirement Advantage and Disadvantage Applications Future perspective Conclusion

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HUMAN BRAIN, 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”- The name of the world’s first virtual brain. That means a machine that can function as human brain.

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The IBM is now developing a virtual brain known as the BLUE BRAIN.

It would be the worlds first virtual brain.

So, even after the death of a person we will not loose the knowledge, intelligence, personalities, feelings and memories of that man that can be used for the development of the human society.

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WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN?

A machine that can function as brain

It can take decision.

It can think.

It can respond.

It can keep things in memory.

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Function of a Brain Sensory Input :- Receiving input such as sound ,image, etcthrough 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 .

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Patch Clamp Electrode

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The Blue Brain Project

Founded in May 2005 in Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Laussane or Swiss Federal Institute of Technology located in Lausanne, Switzerland.

HENRY MARKRAMNeuroscientist ,EPFL

Director of BLUE BRAIN PROJECT

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'Blue Brain': An Artificial Brain Comes To Life In Switzerland

The goal is to build a much bigger electronic thinking machine one that would ultimately replicate the human brain .

This piece of hardware consists of about 10,000 computer chips that act like real nerve cells.

The simulation was created at the Technical University in Lausanne, Switzerland, where 35 researchers participate in maintaining this artificial brain.

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The IBM’s Blue Brain at Lausanne Switzerland

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BLUE BRAIN PROJECT OBJECTIVES

The project will search for insights into how human beings 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 supercomputers.

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HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIRMENT

Hardware for Data Acquisition

A patch-clamp microelectrode is a micropipette with a relatively large tip diameter. The microelectrode is placed next to a cell, and gentle suction is applied through the microelectrode to draw a piece of the cell membrane (the 'patch') into the microelectrode tip; the glass tip forms a high resistance 'seal' with the cell membrane.

The part of cell is then studied under microscope.

Patch Clamp Electrode

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A Super computer

Memory with a very large storing capacity.

Processor with a very high processing power.

A program to convert the electric impulses from the brain to input signal. Technical specification of Blue Gene

>> 4,096 quad-core nodes >> 16 terabytes of memory>> Operating system: Linux SuSE SLES 10>> Hourly process log>> Full-HD passive stereo display connected to two GPUs on head node

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Architecture of Blue Brain

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Nanobots

Very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface between the natural brain and the computer.

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Software Requirements

“NEURON” SOFTWARE

For neural simulations

“RTNeuron” SOFTWARE

For visualization

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ADVANTAGES It acts as a supercomputer.

Improvements in processing,speed and memory could make entire human brain simulated.

Things could be remembered without any effort.

Use the intelligence of the person after death.

It can make decisions entirely of its own.

Allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve simulation.

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DISADVANTAGES

We become dependent upon the computer .

Others may use technical knowledge against us.

Computer viruses will pose an increasingly critical threat.

A very costly procedure of regaining the memory back.

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Applications Gathering and Testing 100 Years of Data

Cracking the Neural Code

A Foundation for Molecular Modeling of Brain Function

Understanding Neocortical Information Processing

A Novel Tool for Drug Discovery for Brain Disorders

A Global Facility

A Foundation for Whole Brain Simulations

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FUTURE PERSPECTIVE

Prosthetic devices to restore vision, hearing or limb control might be the next step.

Further in the future, the real dreams would be the realization of the “brain-in-computer and chip-in-brain” arrangement.

This is just ’blink of an eye’…there’s lot more to come…

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CONCLUSION

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……..!

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References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene

http://www.artificialbrains.com/blue-brain-project data

http://technology-report.com/category/artificial-intelligence/blue-brain-artificial-intelligence/

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