Dr. Gunnar Tufte  Computer Architecture and Design  IDI ,  NTNU ,  Trondheim Contact

Associate Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science. I am a member of the Computer Architecture and Design Group. My research is within one of the groups main research fields Unconventional Machines: Architecture, Design and Computation.

In addition I am involved in the work of Soundscape Studios AS, a company working in the multidisciplinary areas of art, technology and science.

Research interests:
Vast Parallel Architectures, Artificial Development, evolutionary computation, evolutionary hardware, bio-inspired hardware, artificial life, cellular computing, cellular automata, artificial self-replication, Evolution In Materio, reconfigurable hardware, evolutionary art.....
(Hardware = anything from transistors to living cells)

 Links to publications:
 Publications

 Course autumn 2012/ spring 2013:
 TDT4258 Microcontroller System Design
 TDT4160 Computer Fundamentals
 TDT22 Unconventional Machines: Design and Architecture

 Avilable Master Thesis and Project - "Datateknikk" 5.grade
 Computational Materials: Experimental Platform
 Interpreting of data and functions in cellular machines
 Toward energy efficient microprocessors: Instruction set, arcitecture and logic design
 Liten lavbane student-satellitt: planlegging, spesifikasjon og konstruksjon (Hardware/software design, prototyping, testing etc)
 Analysis of Cellular Machines, Artificial Development and Artificial Evolution
 Andre oppgaver innen datamaskinkonstruksjon, datamaskinarkitektur og/eller ukonvensjonelle maskiner

 Information that may be helpful if you want one of my projects

 Links to people I work with, research related stuff and some slightly amusing, but not really helpful stuff.
 Crab Lab research group at IDI I cooperate with
 Computer Architecture and Design group at NTNU
 Soundscape Studios
 Espen Gangvik an artist I work with. Espen is involved in many interesting projects including electronics and computation.
 Øyvind Brandtsegg Musician and composer. His works include electronics and computers related to the making of sound
 Intelligent Systems Research Group, University of York
 TEKS Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre
 NTNU student satelitt NTNU participation in the Norwegian Student Satellite Program (ANSAT)

Mechanisation of Thought Processes (MTP):
A symposium held in London in 1958. The book is rare and out of print years ago.
Includes work of: M. L. Minskey, G. Pask, W. Ross Ashby, F. Rosenblatt, D.M. MacKay.......
I have scanned the two volume book from this event. If you are interested (you should be) you can download the OCR processed pdf documents:

 volum1_cover_toc_ocr.pdf
 volum1_session1_ocr.pdf
 volum1_session2_ocr.pdf
 volum1_session3_ocr.pdf
 volum1_back_cover_ocr.pdf
 volum2_cover_ocr.pdf
 volum2_session4A_ocr.pdf
 volum2_session4B_ocr.pdf
 volum2_lectures_demos_ocr.pdf
 volum2_appendices_ocr.pdf

"This Symposium was held to bring together scientists studying artificial thinklng, character and pattern recognition, learning, mechanical language translation, biology, automatic programming, industrial planning and clerical mechanization. It was felt that a common theme in all these fields was "The Mechanization of Thought Processes" and that an interchange of ideas between these specialists would be very valuable."