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Evolution through natural selection has been going on for a very
long time. Evolution through artificial selection has been
practiced by humans for a large part of our history, in the
breeding of plants and livestock. Artificial evolution, where we
evolve an artifact through artificial selection, has been around
since electronic computers became common: about 30 years. Right
from the beginning, people have suggested using artificial
evolution to design electronics automatically.l Only recently,
though, have suitable re configurable silicon chips become
available that make it easy for artificial evolution to work with a
real, physical, electronic medium: before them, ex periments had to
be done entirely in software simulations. Early research
concentrated on the potential applications opened-up by the raw
speed ad vantage of dedicated digital hardware over software
simulation on a general purpose computer. This book is an attempt
to show that there is more to it than that. In fact, a radically
new viewpoint is possible, with fascinating consequences. This book
was written as a doctoral thesis, submitted in September 1996. As
such, it was a rather daring exercise in ruthless brevity.
Believing that the contribution I had to make was essentially a
simple one, I resisted being drawn into peripheral discussions. In
the places where I deliberately drop a subject, this implies
neither that it's not interesting, nor that it's not relevant: just
that it's not a crucial part of the tale I want to tell here."
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Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware - Third International Conference, ICES 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, April 17-19, 2000 Proceedings (Paperback, 2000 ed.)
Julian F. Miller, Adrian Thompson, Peter Thomson, Terence C. Fogarty
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R1,662
Discovery Miles 16 620
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third
International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to
Hardware, ICES 2000, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, in April
2000.
The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected for inclusion in the proceedings. Among the topics covered
are evaluation of digital systems, evolution of analog systems,
embryonic electronics, bio-inspired systems, artificial neural
networks, adaptive robotics, adaptive hardware platforms, molecular
computing, reconfigurable systems, immune systems, and self-repair.
Melly Still's production of Janacek's rural opera set in the
forest-covered rolling hills of Moravia. Produced for the 2012
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the opera is performed by the London
Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and sung in
Czech with English supertitles.
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