BLUE BRAIN

Guided By Presented By:

Mr.Deepak K.P Prakash.T

Assistant Professor R11U012

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering S7,CSE

•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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•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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•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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•INTRODUCTION(CONT)

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• 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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•Working of a Natural Brain

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•Working of a Natural Brain(Cont)

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EAR

TONGUE

NOSE

EYES

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 SimulationNatural Brain Simulated Brain

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•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

•Blue Brain Project(Cont)

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Architecture of Blue Gene

•Blue Brain Project(Cont)

Data Acquisition

Simulation

Visualization

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Steps to build a Virtual Brain

•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

•Blue Brain Project(Cont)

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Data Acquisition

•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

•Blue Brain Project(Cont)

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Simulation

•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

•Blue Brain Project(Cont)

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Visualization of Results

•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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• HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIRMENT

• BLUE GENE SUPERCOMPUTER

•Operating system: Linux SuSE SLES 10

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• 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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•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.

•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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•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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•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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Discussion

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