The Grand Challenge in Non-classical Computation York Workshop




Agenda

17th April, 2005

19.00

Welcome reception and dinner at St. William's College

18th April, 2005

09.00-09.45

Registration at King's Manor

Tea / coffee

09.45-10.00

Opening : Susan Stepney

10.00-11.00

Keynote: Sam Braunstein – Quantum Computing

11.00-11.30

Tea break

11.30-13.00

1. Non-classical substrates

Computing with weird science

 

Chair:   Andy Adamatzky – reaction-diffusion chemistry

 

Panel:

 

1. Julian Miller  – LCD robot controller

 

2. Jonathan Mills  – analogue  “jelly ”

 

3. Klaus-Peter Zauner  – molecular

13.00-14.30

Lunch

14.30-15.30

Keynote: Luca Cardelli  – Abstract Machines of Systems Biology

15.30-16.00

coffee

16.00-17.30

2. From Classical to Non-Classical

Getting there from here: using classical ideas to bridge the gap

 

Chair: Cris Calude  – computing with quantum randomness

 

Panel:

 

1. Samson Abramsky  – quantum categories

 

2. John Clark  – trajectories

 

3. Peter Welch  – massive parallelism  

19.00

Workshop Dinner, York National Railway Museum

19th April, 2005

08.30-9.00

Registration at King's Manor

Tea and coffee

09.00-10.00

Keynote: Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz  – Languages of Morphogenesis

10.00-10.30

tea

10.30-12.00

3. Bio-Inspired Computation

 

Chair: Andy Tyrrell  – evolutionary hardware

 

Panel:

 

1. Jon Timmis  – AIS

 

2. Martyn Amos  – cells  

 

3. Wolfgang Banzhaf – evolutionary programming

12.00-13.30

Lunch

13.30-14.30

Keynote: Christopher Alexander  – Harmony-seeking Computation

14.30-16.00

4. Engineering the future

 

Chair: Susan Stepney  – emergent properties

 

Panel:

 

1. Tom Addis – socially sensitive computing

 

2. Rob E. Smith – complex systems

 

3. Andy Weunsche  – cellular automata

16.00-16.30

Coffee break

16.30-17.30

5. The Way Forward

 

Chair: Stephen Emmott – neuroscience  

 

Panel: (Previous session chairs were also asked to sit on this panel.)

 

1. Seth Bullock  – complex systems

 

2. Aaron Sloman  – intelligence


19.00

Workshop Dinner, Kings Manor



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