Link to main course page: Biologically-Inspired Computing

 Powerpoint slides

 Von Neumann UC movie (AVI)

 Useful reading:

	G. Tempesti, "A Self-Repairing Multiplexer-Based FPGA Inspired by Biological Processes". Ph.D. Thesis No. 1827, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, 1998, pp. 31-57.
	Weisstein, Eric W. "Cellular Automaton." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CellularAutomaton.html and sub-pages.

Additional reading::

	S. Wolfram, “Statistical Mechanics of Cellular Automata”. Reviews of Modern Physics, 55 (July 1983) 601-644.
	M. Gardner, “Mathematical games: The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "life"”. Scientific American 223 (October 1970): 120-123. Available online at http://www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns/october1970.html.
	U. Pesavento, “An implementation of von Neumann's self-reproducing machine”. Artificial Life 2(4), 337-354, 1995.
	J.A. Reggia, H.-H. Chou, and J.D. Lohn, “Cellular Automata Models of Self-replicating Systems”. In Advances in Computers, M. Zelkowitz (ed), vol. 47, Academic Press, New York, 1998, pp.141-183.
	C. Langton, “Self-Reproduction in Cellular Automata”, Physica 10D, 1984, 135-144.
	G. Tempesti. “A New Self-Reproducing Cellular Automaton Capable of Construction and Computation”. Advances in Artificial Life, Proc. 3rd European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL95), Granada, Spain, LNAI 929, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995, pp. 555-563.

 Powerpoint slides


 Useful reading:

	G. Tempesti, "A Self-Repairing Multiplexer-Based FPGA Inspired by Biological Processes". Ph.D. Thesis No. 1827, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, 1998, pp. 31-57.
	D. Mange, A. Stauffer, L. Peparolo, G. Tempesti. "A Macroscopic View of Self-Replication". Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol.92, No.12, Dec. 2004, pp. 1929-1945.

 Powerpoint slides - Lecture 3

    MOVE processor replication

 Powerpoint slides - Lecture 4

    SSSP simulation
    MPEG implementation
    BioWatch


 Useful reading:

	G. Tempesti, P.-A. Mudry, R. Hoffmann. "A MOVE Processor for Bio-Inspired Systems". Proc. 2005 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH05), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp.262-271.
	G. Tempesti, P.A. Mudry, G. Zufferey. "Hardware/Software Coevolution of Genome Programs and Cellular Processors". Proc. 1st NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS06), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 129-136.

Additional reading::

	P.A. Mudry, G. Zufferey, G. Tempesti. "A Dynamically Constrained Genetic Algorithm for Hardware/Software Partitioning". Proc. 2006 Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO06), ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 769-777.
	J. Rossier, Y. Thoma, P.A. Mudry, G. Tempesti. "MOVE Processors that Self-Replicate and Differentiate". Proc. 2nd Int. Workshop on Biologically-Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology (Bio-ADIT 06), LNCS 3853 (2006), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 328-343.
	P.A. Mudry. "A Hardware-Software Codesign Framework for Cellular Computing". PhD Thesis, EPFL (Swtizerland), 2009 .