A SEMINAR REPORT ON

BLUE BRAIN TECHNOLOGY

Submitted by

GREESHMA G NAIR

Regno:18132462

S5 COMPUTER ENGINEERING
A report submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of

DIPLOMA IN ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING

MGM TECHNOLOGICAL CAMPUS,

KILIMANOOR,

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695612
 MGM POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE

TECHNOLOGICAL CAMPUS,

KILIMANOOR,

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

695612

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE
Certified that seminar work entitled “BLUE BRAIN TECHNOLOGY” is a bonafide work
carried out in the fifth semester by “GREESHMA G NAIR” in partial fulfilment for the
award of Diploma in Engineering in “COMPUTER ENGINEERING” from Board of
Technical Education during the academic year 2020-2021, who carried out the seminar work
under my guidance.

Mrs .Abhila A. G Mrs. Sandhya K.R Mrs. Sandhya K.R

Guide Coordinator Head of Department
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all, I am indebted to the GOD ALMIGHTY for giving me an opportunity to excel in
my efforts to complete this seminar on time. I am extremely grateful to Mr. RAJU G
Principal,
MGM POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE KILIMANOOR and Mrs. SANDHYA K R, Head of
Department, Department of Computer Engineering, for providing all the required resources
for the successful completion of my seminar. My heartfelt gratitude to my seminar guide
Mrs. ABJILA A.G, Lecturer, Computer Engineering, for her valuable suggestions and
guidance in the preparation of the seminar report. I express my thanks to Mrs. SANDHYA K
R, Coordinator, and all staff members and friends for all the help and co-ordination extended
in bringing out this seminar successfully in time. I will be failing in duty if I do not
acknowledge with grateful thanks to the authors of the references and other literatures
referred to in this seminar. Last but not the least; I am very much thankful to my parents who
guided me in every step which I took.

GREESHMA G NAIR

Regno:18132462
 CONTENT

TITLE PAGE NO

ABSTRACT............................................................... 4

INTRODUCTION..................................................... 5

BLUE BRAIN............................................................ 6

WORKING OF HUIMAN BRAIN......................... 7

HOW TO BUILD A BRAIN WORKS.................... 10

REQUIREMENTS.................................................... 12

PROS AND CONS.................................................... 13

FUNCTIONS OF A BLUE BRAIN......................... 14

FUTURE SCOPE...................................................... 15

CONCLUSION.......................................................... 16

REFERANCES.......................................................... 17
 ABSTRACT

This paper discusses advent of the screen less display which is an emerge new
technology ,has become a good prospect in the near future for a wide range of
applications. As the name implies it deals with the display of several things
without the use of screens using projector. It involves the following 3 different
working principles. The visual image, Visual retinal display, Synaptic
interface. This paper mainly illustrates and demonstrate how the screen less
displays works and its applications in various fields of science. This
technology would bring about the revolution in the field of displays and
monitors that are costly, huge and are proven difficult to manage the power
requirements and constraints. It is also the futuristic technological innovation.

INTRODUCTION

Blue Brain is an artificial brain which can think, take decisions, and respond
as a natural brain. The most important question that arises here is that “Is it
possible to create a human brain?” Yes, it is possible with the help of
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technology because everything that is created by man today, he always
followed the nature. So, a super computer with high amount of storage
capacity, processing power and an interface between the human brain and
this virtual one can be used for creating it. This is not happening today or
tomorrow. But we are expecting this in near future. If we finally achieve this
then even after death of human body, we preserve his knowledge and
intelligence. It is the latest invention in the field of neural network. This
technology opens new door in the field of artificial intelligence. It provides
comprehensive simulation of the internal connectivity of cerebral part with
the external artificial intelligence network

BLUE BRAIN
The BLUE BRAIN is a reverse engineering project of recreation of the
human brain. The project is headed by the founding director Henry Markram,
who also heads the European Human Brain Project, and co-directed by Felix
Schürmann and Sean Hill. IBM is now in research to invent a virtual brain
that can function as a human brain, called BLUE BRAIN. If possible, then it
would be the first virtual brain of the world. Within coming years, we will be
able to scan ourselves into the computers. The goals of this project are:

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i) To gain complete understanding of the brain ii) Better

and faster development of brain disease treatments.

Aim of blue brain

The main aim of Blue Brain is to transfer human brain into machine. So that,
without any effort a man can think and take decisions.

WORKING OF HUMAN BRAIN

The ability of human to see, interpret, feel is controlled by our nervous
system.
The human brain is the command center for the nervous system.

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 Fig 1.1(structure of a brain)

There are basically three steps in the functioning of brain:

• Sensory Input
• Integration/ Interpretation
• Motor Output

Sensory unit

Sensory input to the brain enters through pathways that travel through either
the spinal cord (for somatosensory input from the body) or the brain stem (for

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everything else, except the visual and olfactory systems) to reach the
diencephalon. In the diencephalon, sensory pathways reach the thalamus.

Integration /Interpretation

The left-brain interpreter attempts to rationalize, reason and generalize new

information it receives in order to relate the past to the present Left-brain
interpretation is a case of the lateralization of brain function that applies to
"explanation generation" rather than other lateralized activities

Motor Output

Sensory input is converted into electrical signals called nerve impulses that
are transmitted to the brain. Muscles and glands are called effectors because
they cause an effect in response to directions from the nervous system. This is
the motor output or motor function.

Fig:1.2(functioning of a nervous system)

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Brain Simulation in natural and virtual brain

Fig:1.3(brain simulation)

HOW TO BUILD A BLUE BRAIN

There are basically several steps to build a Blue Brain.

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1. Data Acquisition

In this step, all the data from brain is collected and after being analyzed under
a microscope, we can understand the electrical behavior individually of the
neurons. For further simulation, observations are transformed into
algorithms.

2. Data Simulation

In this step, mathematical models are used to recreate various situations to

estimate the outcomes more accurately. There are 2 aspects of simulation

i) Speed of simulation

The speed of simulation is 200 times slower than the real one.

ii) Simulation Workflow

In simulation step, virtual cells are synthesized by using the algorithms.

Uploading Human Brain

A research paper is provided by Raymond Kurzweil on this topic. In which

he stated that the uploading of human brain into the computer can be done by
the use of small robots known as the Nanobots. These robots can travel all
over our circulatory system as they are very small. They can even monitor all
the activities going on in our body and structure of CNS. They can provide
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complete readout of the structure of our brain and connection by scanning it.
This information can be saved into a computer and then continue to work as
the human brain

Fig:1.4(nano robots)

REQUIREMENTS

The “Blue Gene” supercomputer built by IBM is used for the development of
Blue Brain. This is where the name “Blue Brain” originates from. The series
includes Blue Gene/L, Cyclops64, (formerly Blue Gene/C), Blue Gene/P and
Blue Gene/Q. The hardware & software required to build a Blue Brain are:

1. 8,096 CPUs at 700 MHz

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 2. 256MB to 512MB memory per processor.
3. 100 kilowatts power consumption.
4. Processor with a very high processing power.
5. 22.8 TFLOPS peak processing speed.
6. Linux and C++ software

PROS AND CONS

PROS

✓ Remembering things without any effort is possible.

✓ We can make decisions without the physical existence of a person.
✓ Usage of the intelligence of a person after his/her death.
✓ The actions of animals can be understood easily.
✓ Via direct nerve stimulation, the deaf is able to hear.

CONS

 We will more rely on computer.

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  Technical knowledge can be used against us.
 There are more power constraints as the supercomputers may use as
much as 1MW or an order of 100,000 more.
 Human Cloning is also possible.

FUTURE SCOPE

In future this technology will be useful in diagnosis of malfunction of human brain as

well as development of treatments for neurological disorders. Since this technology
is useful to study the flow of the signals transferred from brain to the sensory cell and
from sensory cell to brain.

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 FUNCTIONS OF BLUE BRAIN

▪ Data of 100 years can be gathered, stored and tested.

▪ Cracking of Neural code.
▪ Process of Neocortical information can be easily understood.
▪ Complete brain simulations.
▪ Brain function molecular modeling.

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 CONCLUSION

Hence, we can say that with some improvement in today's technology, the
Blue Brain can be implemented in future and transferring ourselves into
computer would be possible. The intelligence of human brain will be stored
even after the death for betterment of society. We can make decisions
without the actual presence of a person. But it is also true that we will depend
on the computer. It will bring both positive and negative effects to human
society. This technology will be accepted all over the world widely very
soon.

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 REFERANCES

ooo www.google.com/bluebrainwww.ieee.org/bluebrain
www.wikipedia.com

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