TY - GEN
T1 - Heterotic computing examples with optics, bacteria, and chemicals
AU - Stepney, Susan
AU - Abramsky, Samson
AU - Bechmann, Matthias
AU - Gorecki, Jerzy
AU - Kendon, Viv
AU - Naughton, Thomas J.
AU - Perez-Jimenez, Mario J.
AU - Romero-Campero, Francisco J.
AU - Sebald, Angelika
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Unconventional computers can perform embodied computation that can directly exploit the natural dynamics of the substrate. But such in materio devices are often limited, special purpose machines. To be practically useful, unconventional devices are usually be combined with classical computers or control systems. However, there is currently no established way to do this, or to combine different unconventional devices. In this position paper we describe heterotic unconventional computation, an approach that focusses on combinations of unconventional devices. This will need a sound semantic framework defining how diverse unconventional computational devices can be combined in a way that respects the intrinsic computational power of each, whilst yielding a hybrid device that is capable of more than the sum of its parts. We also describe a suite of diverse physical implementations of heterotic unconventional computers, comprising computation performed by bacteria hosted in chemically built material, sensed and controlled optically and chemically.
AB - Unconventional computers can perform embodied computation that can directly exploit the natural dynamics of the substrate. But such in materio devices are often limited, special purpose machines. To be practically useful, unconventional devices are usually be combined with classical computers or control systems. However, there is currently no established way to do this, or to combine different unconventional devices. In this position paper we describe heterotic unconventional computation, an approach that focusses on combinations of unconventional devices. This will need a sound semantic framework defining how diverse unconventional computational devices can be combined in a way that respects the intrinsic computational power of each, whilst yielding a hybrid device that is capable of more than the sum of its parts. We also describe a suite of diverse physical implementations of heterotic unconventional computers, comprising computation performed by bacteria hosted in chemically built material, sensed and controlled optically and chemically.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84866686692&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-32894-7_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-32894-7_19
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866686692
SN - 9783642328930
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 198
EP - 209
BT - Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation - 11th International Conference, UCNC 2012, Proceedings
T2 - 11th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2012
Y2 - 3 September 2012 through 7 September 2012
ER -