TDT22: Unconventional Machines: Design and Architecture.

Faglærer: Lecturer: Students:	Gunnar Tufte Gunnar Tufte List

• Start-up: TBA at TBA in room TBA IT-building.
• Classes: TBA. Please contact Gunnar Tufte if you would like to participate.
• You also need to sign up for the course to make it one of your "theory modules".

• The list of topics is preliminary. Topics chosen by the student will be added later.
  
• Eksamen: oral exam (in december)

Description: Unconventional is here defined to be vast parallel machines that are not restricted to the Von Neumann stored program concept. The course will introduce topics connected to unconventional computer architectures, design and computation. Architectures considered are mainly vast parallel architectures in the form of sparsely connected networks. Bio-inspired (artificial development and evolution) is the design methodology topic in the course. Computation is considered on a more abstract level, including topics like emergent computation, general computation, self-.replication, complexity.

Keywords: Cellular computation, sparsely connected networks, cellular automata, state space, basin of attraction, boolean networks, emergent properties, complex systems, neural networks, bio-inspired systems, evolution, development, life universe and everything.

Structure: Lectures are orginized as discussions on selected scientific publications. The introductionary part of the course curriculum is fixed, while the students will expand the curriculum chosing additional scientific publications.