If portable phones and other consumer devices keep getting smarter, practically anything under the sun is going to be export controlled... This is NOT a sig.
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We elders have been kicked outa the house by our kids. But in spite of the spam can schadenfreude, rumors of Usenet's death are --like Twain opined on reading his own obituary-- grossly exagerated.
Evolvable Hardware has been done at a variety of places, with FPGAs. Look up Adrian Thompson and Hugo de Garis and Koza... I myself have evolved neural nets, a lot of people do this sort of stuff. Evolving Software is fun too, see John Koza's Genetic Programming books. Compiler optimization by evolution (the fastest reordering or register allocation survives) is probably feasible at present, if you have an instrumented processor.
The Kiss Institute has an incredible Lego kit, with a handiboard, LOTS of Lego pieces, and some neat sensors eg, rangefinder... Problem is price. I have used this in a course at AAAI this summer, taught, I believ by Dave Miller, and after a few hours we were making a robot which scooped Pingpong balls into the kitbox lid, and holding a tournament. Warmly recommended! http://www.kipr.org
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If portable phones and other consumer devices keep getting smarter, practically anything under the sun is going to be export controlled ... This is NOT a sig.
We elders have been kicked outa the house by our kids. But in spite of the spam can schadenfreude, rumors of Usenet's death are --like Twain opined on reading his own obituary-- grossly exagerated.
Evolvable Hardware has been done at a variety of places, with FPGAs. Look up Adrian Thompson and Hugo de Garis and Koza... I myself have evolved neural nets, a lot of people do this sort of stuff. Evolving Software is fun too, see John Koza's Genetic Programming books. Compiler optimization by evolution (the fastest reordering or register allocation survives) is probably feasible at present, if you have an instrumented processor.
The Kiss Institute has an incredible Lego kit, with a handiboard, LOTS of Lego pieces, and some neat sensors eg, rangefinder... Problem is price. I have used this in a course at AAAI this summer, taught, I believ by Dave Miller, and after a few hours we were making a robot which scooped Pingpong balls into the kitbox lid, and holding a tournament. Warmly recommended!
http://www.kipr.org