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24cs492 [2024-09-28] – [Unconventional Computing (CS492A) @KAIST in Fall 2024] Martin Ziegler24cs492 [2025-01-12] (current) – Martin Ziegler
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 The past decades have seen an exponential growth in digital electronic computing. The past decades have seen an exponential growth in digital electronic computing.
-But as Moore's Law turns to stagnation, focus turns (back) to alternative 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.  such as analog computing or cellular computing and also quantum computing. 
  
-In this experimental course we survey, and look into,  +In this experimental course we survey and look into these and other “unconventional” computing paradigms.
-some of these "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//
  
-Grading: S/U, students must get assigned and, after the Midterm, present (40~60min) one topic from the textbook 'Unconventional Computing'+Grading: S/U. Students must get assigned and, after the Midterm, present (40~60min) one topic from the textbook 'Unconventional Computing'
  
 Absences: 4 "spontaneous" absences, plus any reasonable pre-excused absences Absences: 4 "spontaneous" absences, plus any reasonable pre-excused absences
  
-===== Syllabus (Tentative) =====+===== Syllabus =====
  
 0. Introduction ({{:ucnc0.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc0.pdf|PDF}}) \\ 0. Introduction ({{:ucnc0.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc0.pdf|PDF}}) \\
 1. Conventional Computing ({{:ucnc1.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc1.pdf|PDF}}) \\ 1. Conventional Computing ({{:ucnc1.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc1.pdf|PDF}}) \\
 2. Asymptotic Computing  ({{:ucnc2.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc2.pdf|PDF}}) \\ 2. Asymptotic Computing  ({{:ucnc2.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc2.pdf|PDF}}) \\
-3. Analog Computing \\ +3. Analog Computing  ({{:ucnc3.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc3.pdf|PDF}}) \\ 
-4. Quantum Computing \\+4. Quantum Computing ({{:ucnc4.ppt|PPT}}, {{:ucnc4.pdf|PDF}}) \\
 5. Cellular Automata \\ 5. Cellular Automata \\
 6. Swarm Computing \\ 6. Swarm Computing \\
-MIDTERM \\ +7ff. Student presentations: \\
-10.~20: Student presentations: \\+
   * Artificial Chemistry + Reaction-Diffusion + Membrane + P Computing (4x)   * Artificial Chemistry + Reaction-Diffusion + Membrane + P Computing (4x)
   * DNA+Molecular+Bacterial+Cellular Computing (4x)   * DNA+Molecular+Bacterial+Cellular Computing (4x)