Course detail
Evolutionary and Unconventional Hardware
FIT-EUDAcad. year: 2010/2011
This course introduces computational models and computers which have appeared at the intersection of hardware and artificial intelligence in the recent years as an attempt to solve traditionally hard computational problems. The course surveys relevant theoretical models, reconfigurable architectures and computational intelligence techniques inspired at the levels of phylogeny, ontogeny and epigenesis. In particular, the following topics will be discussed: evolutionary design, evolvable hardware, cellular systems, embryonic electronics, DNA computing and nanotechnology. Typical applications will illustrate the mentioned approaches.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Understanding the relation between computers (computing) and some natural processes.
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Course curriculum
- Introduction: Traditional models of computation, their limits and super-Turing computing
- Computer hardware, implementation limits
- Natural computing: inspiration, computational platforms, classification
- Reconfigurable devices
- Creative evolutionary design, Cartesian genetic programming
- Evolutionary design of digital circuits
- Evolvable hardware
- Evolvable hardware, applications
- Evolution and development, cellular automata, L-systems
- Embryonic electronics, cellular computational platforms, Cell Matrix, POEtic
- Nanotechnology and molecular electronics
- DNA computing
- Recent trends
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- Introduction: Traditional models of computation, their limits and super-Turing computing
- Computer hardware, implementation limits
- Natural computing: inspiration, computational platforms, classification
- Reconfigurable devices
- Creative evolutionary design, Cartesian genetic programming
- Evolutionary design of digital circuits
- Evolvable hardware
- Evolvable hardware, applications
- Evolution and development, cellular automata, L-systems
- Embryonic electronics, cellular computational platforms, Cell Matrix, POEtic
- Nanotechnology and molecular electronics
- DNA computing
- Recent trends