East-West paths to unconventional computing
Review article, 2017
Unconventional computing is about breaking boundaries in thinking, acting and computing. Typical topics of this non-typical field include, but are not limited to physics of computation, non-classical logics, new complexity measures, novel hardware, mechanical, chemical and quantum computing. Unconventional computing encourages a new style of thinking while practical applications are obtained from uncovering and exploiting principles and mechanisms of information processing in and functional properties of, physical, chemical and living systems; in particular, efficient algorithms are developed, (almost) optimal architectures are designed and working prototypes of future computing devices are manufactured. This article includes idiosyncratic accounts of ‘unconventional computing’ scientists reflecting on their personal experiences, what attracted them to the field, their inspirations and discoveries.
West
Unconventional computing
Spirituality
East
Author
Andrew Adamatzky
University of the West of England
Selim Akl
Queen's University
Mark Burgin
University of California at Los Angeles
Cristian S. Calude
University of Auckland
José Félix Costa
University of Lisbon
Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi
Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
Yukio Pegio Gunji
Waseda University
Zoran Konkoli
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Electronics Material and Systems
Bruce MacLennan
University of Tennessee
Bruno Marchal
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Maurice Margenstern
University of Lorraine
Genaro J. Martínez
National Polytechnic Institute Mexico
Richard Mayne
Mayne Bioanalytics
Kenichi Morita
Hiroshima University
Andrew Schumann
University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow
Yaroslav D. Sergeyev
University of Calabria
Georgios Ch Sirakoulis
Democritus University of Thrace
Susan Stepney
University of York
Karl Svozil
Vienna University of Technology
Hector Zenil
LABORES Scientific Research Lab
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
0079-6107 (ISSN)
Vol. 131 469-493Subject Categories
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
DOI
10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.08.004