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24cs492 [2024-09-03] – [Syllabus (Tentative)] Martin Ziegler24cs492 [2025-01-12] (current) – Martin Ziegler
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 ====== Unconventional Computing (CS492A) @KAIST in Fall 2024 ====== ====== Unconventional Computing (CS492A) @KAIST in Fall 2024 ======
-The past decades have seen an exponential growth in digital computing, +{{ :978-1-4939-6883-1.jpeg?direct&200|}} 
-captured by Moore's Law. This has arguably left a blind spot on alternative  +The past decades have seen an exponential growth in digital electronic computing. 
-approaches to data processing.  +But as Moore's Law approaches saturation, focus turns (back) to alternative approaches to data processing:  
- +such as analog computing or cellular computing and also quantum computing. 
-In this experimental course we survey, and look into,  +
-some of these "unconventional" computing paradigms. +
  
 +In this experimental course we survey and look into these and other “unconventional” computing paradigms.
 ===== Administration ===== ===== Administration =====
  
 Teacher: [[cs492@theoryofcomputation.asia|Martin Ziegler]] (use only this email address!) Teacher: [[cs492@theoryofcomputation.asia|Martin Ziegler]] (use only this email address!)
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 +Teaching Assistant: [[cs492@theoryofcomputation.asia|Abbas Mammadov]] (use only this email address!)
  
 Location: online Location: online
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 Preferred: additional background in (one of) //Physics// OR //Chemistry// OR //Biology// or //CS322// or //CS422// Preferred: additional background in (one of) //Physics// OR //Chemistry// OR //Biology// or //CS322// or //CS422//
-===== Syllabus (Tentative) ===== 
  
-1. Conventional Computing \\ +Grading: S/U. Students must get assigned and, after the Midterm, present (40~60min) one topic from the textbook 'Unconventional Computing' 
-2. Analog Computing \\ + 
-3. Quantum Computing \\ +Absences: 4 "spontaneous" absences, plus any reasonable pre-excused absences 
-4. Cellular Automata \\ + 
-5. Molecular Computing \\ +===== Syllabus ===== 
-6. DNA Computing \\ + 
-7. Swarm Computing \\ +0. Introduction ({{:ucnc0.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc0.pdf|PDF}}) \\ 
-8. Optical Computing \\ +1. Conventional Computing ({{:ucnc1.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc1.pdf|PDF}}) \\ 
-9. Fluidics \\ +2. Asymptotic Computing  ({{:ucnc2.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc2.pdf|PDF}}) \\ 
-10.~20: Student presentations+3. Analog Computing  ({{:ucnc3.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc3.pdf|PDF}}) \\ 
 +4. Quantum Computing ({{:ucnc4.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc4.pdf|PDF}}) \\ 
 +5. Cellular Automata \\ 
 +6. Swarm Computing \\ 
 +7ff. Student presentations: \\ 
 +  * Artificial Chemistry + Reaction-Diffusion + Membrane + P Computing (4x) 
 +  * DNA+Molecular+Bacterial+Cellular Computing (4x) 
 +  * Slime Mold Computing 
 +  * Reservoir Computing 
 +  * Amorphous Computing 
 +  * Social Algorithms 
 +  * Inductive Turing Machines (requires CS422!) 
 +  * Unconventional Problems 
 ===== Miscellaneous ===== ===== Miscellaneous =====
   * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconventional_computing   * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconventional_computing
   * https://sites.google.com/view/ucnc-2024/conference/previous-conferences   * https://sites.google.com/view/ucnc-2024/conference/previous-conferences
   * https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68834-1   * https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68834-1
 +  * http://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6883-1
 +  * http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvcvykdwsGNFI1Gz-z4CZXZAtrIdEWTS6