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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                       

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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)                       

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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

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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