The fallacy of general purpose bio-inspired computing Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:701501, author = {Bullock, Seth}, booktitle = {Artificial Life X : Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems}, citeulike-article-id = {701501}, comment = {in http://www.citeulike.org/user/eldan/article/697597 ---=note-separator=--- Argues for the nichiversality of both biology and bio-inspired computing. Makes the point that a computing system being provably general in competence does not inform us as to its performance, or which sorts of tasks it is a \_sensible choice\_ for. Ironically, one of the drivers of bio-inspired computing has been the understanding that Turing machines, while provably universal, are a poor architectural choice for many tasks. (additional level of irony: for the most part we institute our bio-inspired computing systems as models implemented on a Turing machine platform)}, day = {1}, editor = {Rocha, Luis M. and Yaeger, Larry S. and Bedau, Mark A. and Floreano, Dario and Goldstone, Robert L. and Vespignani, Alessandro}, keywords = {methodology}, month = {August}, organization = {International Society for Artificial Life}, pages = {540--545}, posted-at = {2006-06-20 01:44:10}, priority = {0}, publisher = {The MIT Press (Bradford Books)}, title = {The fallacy of general purpose bio-inspired computing}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:701501 L3 - citeulike-article-id:701501 OR - International Society for Artificial Life EP - 545 TI - The fallacy of general purpose bio-inspired computing PB - The MIT Press (Bradford Books) T2 - Artificial Life X : Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems SP - 540 KW - methodology N1 - in http://www.citeulike.org/user/eldan/article/697597 N1 - Argues for the nichiversality of both biology and bio-inspired computing. Makes the point that a computing system being provably general in competence does not inform us as to its performance, or which sorts of tasks it is a _sensible choice_ for. Ironically, one of the drivers of bio-inspired computing has been the understanding that Turing machines, while provably universal, are a poor architectural choice for many tasks. (additional level of irony: for the most part we institute our bio-inspired computing systems as models implemented on a Turing machine platform) AU - Bullock, Seth A2 - Rocha, Luis A2 - Yaeger, Larry A2 - Bedau, Mark A2 - Floreano, Dario A2 - Goldstone, Robert A2 - Vespignani, Alessandro PY - 2006/08/01/ ER -