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Wednesday, March 21
08:25-08:40 Welcome by Stephen R. Lee, Computer, Computational & Statistical Sciences (CCS) Division Leader
08:40-09:20 Eric Drexler Unconventional Fabrication From Bits to Atoms and Back Again
09:20-10:00 Ann Bouchard, Dynamic Self-Assembly as Computation: An Unconventional Approach to Software Implementation
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:10 Klaus-Peter Zauner Biological Computing Substrates
11:10-11:30 Ferran D. Revilla and Hywel Morgan and Klaus-Peter Zauner Physarum Polycephalum on a Chip for Bio-hybrid Information Processors
11:30-12:10 Andy Adamatzky, Computing by propagating patterns: semantics of reaction-diffusion and Physarum machines
12:10-02:00 Lunch (on your own)
02:00-02:40 Michael L. Simpson, Cell-Like Computation in Complex Synthetic Nanoscale Systems
02:40-03:20 David H. Wolpert, On the computational capabilities of physical systems
03:20-03:50 Coffee
03:50-04:30 Norman Margolus, Both Continuous and Discrete
04:30-05:10 Leon Chua, CNN: A Brain-like Computer on a Chip
05:10-05:30 Maria-Magdolna Ercsey-Ravasz, Cellular neural network computing in physics
05:45-08:00 Poster session and reception
Thursday, March 22
08:30-08:35 Announcements
08:35-09:15 Seth Copen Goldstein, Programming Programmable Matter
09:15-09:55 Darko Stefanovic, Biomolecular Automata Using Deoxyribozymes: Accomplishments and Open Problems
09:55-10:25 Coffee
10:25-11:05 Chris Dwyer, DNA Self-assembly and Computer System Fabrication
11:05-11:50 Howard Barnum, Quantum Computation: How Goes It?
11:50-12:10 Karoline Wiesner, John Mahoney, and James P. Crutchfield, Intrinsic Computation in Quantum Processes: An Information-Theoretic Analysis Using Quantum Finite-State Machines
12:10-02:00 Lunch (on your own)
02:00-06:00 "Computation in the Brain," organized by Chris Wood, Santa Fe Institute
06:30-09:00 Conference dinner at La Fonda (food service begins at 7:00)
Friday, March 23
08:30-09:10 Steen Rasmussen, Self-replicating materials, information processing, and the Omega-Machine
09:10-09:50 Jake Beal, Properties for Engineered Emergence
09:50-10:10 Melanie Mitchell, Four Principles of Adaptive Information Processing in Decentralized Systems
10:10-10:40 Coffee
10:40-11:00 Susan Stepney, Robust, adaptable, powerful computation, as inspired by Nature: A Grand Challenge for Computing Research
11:00-11:20 Yoshihiko Horio and Kazuyuki Aihara, Real-Number Computation through High-Dimensional Analog Physical Chaotic Neuro-Dynamics
11:20-12:00 Hava T. Siegelmann, Analog State Space in Memories and in Stochastic Supra-Turing Computation
12:00-02:00 Lunch (on your own)
02:00-02:40 Jean-Louis Giavitto, The Chemical Paradigm, Programming in Space and the Implementation of Autonomic Systems
02:40-03:20 Erik Winfree In vitro synthetic biology: from self-assembly to biochemical circuits
03:20-03:50 Coffee
03:50-04:30 Fredric Gruau, Programming self-developing "blob machines" for spatial computing.
04:30-05:10 Jonathan W. Mills, Dr. Strangestuff or: How I Learned to Stop Programming and Love Plastic Foam
05:10-05:15 Closing remarks
Posters
Genaro Juarez Martinez and Harold V. McIntosh and Andrew Adamatzky and Juan C. Seck Tuoh Mora
Designing collision-based computers in elementary cellular automata
Eleonora Bilotta and Pietro Pantano
Modelling the growth of artificial organisms by using 2D Self-replicating CAs
Luca Gammaitoni
Computing with noise takes time
Christian Jacob
Spatial Swarms: A New Computing Paradigm?
Rene Doursat
Embryomorphic Engineering: How to Design Hyper-Distributed Architectures Capable of Autonomous Segmentation, Rescaling and Shaping
Philip H. Goodman, Rene Doursat, Quan Zou, Milind Zirpe, and Oscar Sessions
RAIN Brains: Mammalian Neocortex as a Hybrid Analog-Digital Computer
Paul Bogdan
In Network Computation through On-Chip Stochastic Communication
Nebu John Mathai and Takis Zourntos
A Hierarchical Dynamical System Analog Computation Architecture for Embodied Cognition
Moise Valvassori
Components and Aspects Oriented Language for Amorphous Computers
Simon D. Levy
Continuous States and Distributed Symbols: Toward a Biological Theory of Computation
Ralph Hollingsworth
Spatial Design Using Binding P-Systems
Brian F. Rossa
An analogical definition of computation
Hideaki Suzuki
Towards self-organized computation with a network
Elebeoba E. May
Bits and Bases, Parallel Paradigms for Communication
Gabriele Scheler
Computing with cortical microcircuits---new suggestions for parallel programming models
Harold Fellermann, Steen Rasmussen, and Hans-Joachim Ziock
Self-replicating Nanocells as Possible Substrate for Chemical Computation
Reid Porter and Garrett Kenyon
Fault Tolerance via Local Adaptation