Handbook Of Unconventional Computing (In 2 Volumes): 0 (Wspc Book Series In Unconventional Computing): Theory / Implementations - Hardcover

Andrew Adamatzky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9811235031 ISBN 13: 9789811235030

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

Did you know that computation can be implemented with cytoskeleton networks, chemical reactions, liquid marbles, plants, polymers and dozens of other living and inanimate substrates? Do you know what is reversible computing or a DNA microscopy? Are you aware that randomness aids computation? Would you like to make logical circuits from enzymatic reactions? Have you ever tried to implement digital logic with Minecraft? Do you know that eroding sandstones can compute too?This volume reviews most of the key attempts in coming up with an alternative way of computation. In doing so, the authors show that we do not need computers to compute and we do not need computation to infer. It invites readers to rethink the computer and computing, and appeals to computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists and philosophers. The topics are presented in a lively and easily accessible manner and make for ideal supplementary reading across a broad range of subjects.

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About the Author

Andrew Adamatzky is Professor of Unconventional Computing and Director of the Unconventional Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He does research in molecular computing, reaction-diffusion computing, collision-based computing, cellular automata, slime mould computing, massive parallel computation, applied mathematics, complexity, nature-inspired optimisation, collective intelligence and robotics, bionics, computational psychology, non-linear science, novel hardware, and future and emergent computation. He authored seven books, mostly notable are Reaction-Diffusion Computing, Dynamics of Crow Minds, Physarum Machines, and edited 22 books in computing, most notable are Collision Based Computing, Game of Life Cellular Automata, Memristor Networks; he also produced a series of influential artworks published in the atlas Silence of Slime Mould. He is founding editor-in-chief of Journal of Cellular Automata and Journal of Unconventional Computing and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems and Parallel Processing Letters.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811235031
• ISBN 13: 9789811235030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1208
• Editor: Adamatzky, Andrew