East-West paths to unconventional computing
Journal 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.
East
Unconventional computing
Spirituality
West
Author
Andrew Adamatzky
Selim Akl
Mark Burgin
Cristian S. Calude
José Félix Costa
Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi
Yukio Pegio Gunji
Zoran Konkoli
Electronics Material and Systems
Bruce MacLennan
Bruno Marchal
Maurice Margenstern
Genaro J. Martínez
Richard Mayne
Kenichi Morita
Andrew Schumann
Yaroslav D. Sergeyev
Georgios Ch Sirakoulis
Susan Stepney
Karl Svozil
Hector Zenil
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
0079-6107 (ISSN)
Vol. 131 469-493Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
DOI
10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.08.004