Hardware Evolution by Adrian Thompson
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.-
Accurate Visual Metrology from Single and Multiple Uncalibrated Images
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Image Mosaicing and Super-resolution
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Asynchronous System-on-Chip Interconnect
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User-Developer Cooperation in Software Development
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Strength or Accuracy: Credit Assignment in Learning Classifier Systems
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Theorem Proving with the Real Numbers
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Extensional Constructs in Intensional Type Theory
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Models of Sharing Graphs
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Stochastic Algorithms for Visual Tracking
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Randomized Algorithms: Approximation, Generation, and Counting
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Architecture-Independent Loop Parallelisation
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Large Scale Collaborative Virtual Environments
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Games and Full Abstraction for a Functional Metalanguage with Recursive Types
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Automated Theory Formation in Pure Mathematics
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Inheritance Relationships for Disciplined Software Construction
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Dynamic Flexible Constraint Satisfaction and its Application to AI Planning
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A Combination of Geometry Theorem Proving and Nonstandard Analysis with Application to Newton's Principia
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447134169 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447134168 |
| Title | Hardware Evolution |
| Author | Adrian Thompson |
| Series | Distinguished Dissertations |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer London Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 117 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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