Hardware Evolution: Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits in Reconfigurable Hardware by Artificial Evolution (Distinguished Dissertations) [Hardcover]

Adrian Thompson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1999 | ISBN-10: 3540762531 | ISBN-13: 978-3540762539 | Edition: 1

The Distinguished Dissertation series is published on behalf of the Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing and the British Computer Society, who annually select the best British PhD dissertations in computer science for publication. The dissertations are selected on behalf of the CPHC by a panel of eight academics. Each dissertation chosen makes a noteworthy contribution to the subject and reaches a high standard of exposition, placing all results clearly in the context of computer science as a whole. In this way computer scientists with significantly different interests are able to grasp the essentials - or even find a means of entry - to an unfamiliar research topic. This is the first book in the area of Hardware Evolution. It uses a series of experiments to explore the practicalities of removing the constraints on circuit structure and dynamics which are normally needed to permit design abstractions, culminating in a simple but non-trivial application.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 115 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (January 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540762531
• ISBN-13: 978-3540762539
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,387,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Insight and Innovation in a young field, December 14, 1999

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This review is from: Hardware Evolution: Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits in Reconfigurable Hardware by Artificial Evolution (Distinguished Dissertations) (Hardcover)

Thompson is an expert in the field. I stumbled upon his work a couple years ago in a fairly short Discover magazine article and pursued his website to read his other papers. This work is really interesting and is pioneering a new generation of evolution on a medium other than flesh. Thompson is a professor at the COGS school of Cognitive Sciences at Sussex University at Brighton. Another expert in this field is Inman Harvey. If you are interested in research in this field - buy the book, but if you are just curious to read bits of his papers and get a grasp of what all this is about see Thompson's personal website - http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.html -Good book, worth the research book bucks if it's a career/research step