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The Challenge:
to produce a fully mature science of all forms of computation, that unifies the classical and non-classical paradigms

• UKCRC Grand Challenges Website

• GC-7 presentation (31 slides, Apr 2006)
• Full statement of GC-7 (30 pages, updated, May 2004)
  • subsequently published in two parts as:
    Int. J. Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems 20(1):5-19, 2005
    Int. J. Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems 21(2):97-125, 2006
• Overview of GC-7 (4 page summary, June 2004)
• Summary of GC-7 (1 page executive summary, Aug 2003)

• UCNC 2013: Unconventional Computation & Natural Computation
  1-5 July 2013, Milan, Italy (paper deadline 2 February, 2013)

• TRUCE: Training and Research in Unconventional Computation in Europe
  • Coordination Action, EU FET, 2012-2015

• UCNC 2012: Unconventional Computation & Natural Computation
  3-7 September 2012, Orleans, France
• UCOMP: FP7 FET Proactive Initiative in Unconventional Computation
• HyperNet 2011
  6-10 June 2011, Turku, Finland
• ERCIM News 85 , April 2011
  • Unconventional Computation -- keynote
• FET Proactive Expert Consultation Workshop, November 2009
  • Unconventional Formalisms for Computation -- report
• Novel Computing Substrates workshop
  7-11 September 2009, Azores, Portugal
• Science and Philosophy of Unconventional Computation
  23-25 March 2009, Cambridge, UK
• GC-7 presentation: Computation and growth
• BCS Visions of Computer Science
  22-24 September 2008, London, UK
  • GC-7 paper
  • GC-7 presentation
• Grand Challenges in Computing Research - GCCR '08
  18-19 March 2008, London, UK
• 2007 Conference on Unconventional Computation
  12-14 July 2007, Bristol, UK
  • The Neglected Pillar of Material Computation: presentation (PDF)
• Unconventional Computation: Quo Vadis?
  21-23 March 2007, Santa Fe NM USA
  • The Neglected Pillar of Material Computation. Physica D 237(9):1157-1164, 2008
• International Interdisciplinary Workshop on Future Trends in Hypercomputation
  11-13 September 2006, Sheffield, UK
  • Hypercomputation and GC-7: presentation (PDF)
  • Non-Classical Hypercomputation. IJUC 5, 2009
• The 5th International Conference on Unconventional Computation
  4-8 September 2006, York, UK
• GC Conference
  22-24 March 2006, Glasgow, UK
  • GC-7 presentation (PDF)
  • Summary of progress and Workshop discussions (PDF)
• The Grand Challenge in Non-Classical Computation International Workshop
  18-19 April 2005, York, UK
  • Special issues: IJUC 2(4) 2006 ; IJUC 3(3) 2007
• GC Conference
  30-31 March 2004, Newcastle, UK
  • GC-7 presentations and panel notes
• GC-7 Workshop
  30 September 2003, Department of Computer Science, York, UK
  • Notes from the Workshop (PDF)