BY-

Durga devi A

CONTENTS

ABSTRACT

The Blue Brain Project was started and successfully

carrying over by IBM (International Business Machines)

and the main objective of this project is to create a virtual

brain.

“BLUE BRAIN”- world’s first virtual brain which means

a machine that can function as human brain.

The research involved in the study of slices of living brain

tissue using microscopes.

A full human brain simulation (86 billion neurons) should

be possible by 2023 provided sufficient funding is received.

It is estimated to be completed around 2025A.C.

It has been used for many applications and mainly to gain

better development in the field of medical science.

INTRODUCTION

Blue Brain Technology was first framed out in the year of 2002

by Henry Markham. He founded the Brain Mind Institute at

EPFL that stands for École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

and after that in 2005 June,EPFL and IBM agree to launch Blue

Brain Project.

IBM installs Blue Gene-The 8th super computer in the world

and the project named after this super computer.

The project is headed by the founding director Henry

Markram and co-directed by Felix schurmann and Sean Hill.

Using Blue gene supercomputer running Michael

Hines's NEURON software, the simulation does not consist

simply of an artificial neural network, but involves a

biologically realistic model of neuron.

It is hoped that it will eventually shed light on the nature

of consciousness.

PRINCIPLEREVERSE ENGINEERING:

Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the process of

extracting knowledge or design information from anything man-made and

re-producingitorreproducinganythingbasedontheextractedinformation.

PHYSICAL OBJECT

INITIAL GEOMETRY

CAD MODEL

PRODUCT

-Data Capturing

-Noise filtering

-Data Processing

-Product Development

-Manufacturing Process

Digitization

phase

Reconstruction

Phase

Production

Phase

VIRTUAL BRAINA machine that can function as brain which can take

decision, think, response and also can keep things in

memory just like a human brain is simply called as a

virtual brain.

Visualization of results

Simulation

Data acquisition

There are three main steps to building the virtual brain .

They are:

DATA AQUISITIONIt involves taking brain slices, placing them under a microscope,

and measuring the shape and electrical activity of individual

neurons.

The Blue Brain simulation uses one microprocessor for each of

the 10,000 neurons in the cortical column of a rat's cerebral

cortex.

It helps to build a brain microcircuit, in order to scale it in

human brain.

SIMULATION

VISUALIZATIONIt is a part of this project to create a biologically accurate,

functional model of the brain using IBM's Blue Gene

supercomputer

The Visualization Environment provides the interface between

the user, modeling tools (Builders) and the simulation and

analytics environments, with which it shares a common data

model.

REQUIREMENTSA 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, which is to be received by the

computer and vice versa.

Very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface

between the natural brain and the computer.

The Blue Brain has some 8,000 processors which map

one or two simulated brain neurons to each

processor, making the computer a replica of 10,000

neurons.

Nanobots are the smallest robots of size of the

order of 1*10^-9m.Advanced nanobots will be

able to sense and adapt to environmental

stimuli such as heat, light, sounds, surface

textures, and chemicals.

They perform complex calculations.

They can move, communicate, and work

together.

They conduct molecular assembly and to some

extent repair or even replicate themselves.

NANOBOTS

SUPER COMPUTER

The primary machine used by the Blue Brain Project is “Blue

Gene” supercomputer built by IBM.

A supercomputer is a computer with great speed and

memory. They are usually thousands of times faster than ordinary

personal computers made at that time.

PROCEDUREThe uploading is possible by the use of small robots

known as the nanobots which are small enough to travel

through 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

that is as close as our mind can be 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.

GOALSFour broad motivations behind the Blue Brain Project are:

Brain disease treatments

Scientific curiosity about consciousness and the human mind

Integration of all neuroscientific research results worldwide

Progress towards building thinking machines

PROS…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.

CONS…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

As the technology is having a numerous benefits, it

is in progress towards the end. It is has been estimated to

be completed around 2025 and many scientists have been

working for this. Very soon this technology will be highly

acceptable whole over the world. We will be able to

transfer ourselves into Computers at some point of time &

this is just the beginning…….

“Technology does not create Brain but Brain

creates Technology”.