%0 Book Section %1 Con88 %A Conrad, Michael %B The Universal Turing Machine A Half-Century Survey %D 1988 %E Herken, Rolf %I Oxford University Press %K DNA algorithms, and automata, cellular computing computing, evolvable genetic hardware, molecular programming, quantum %P 285--307 %T The Price of Programmability %@ 0-19-853741-7

@incollection{Con88, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:35:00.000+0200}, author = {Conrad, Michael}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a292a894f722fd604414e20b0ab4a500/brazovayeye}, booktitle = {The Universal Turing Machine A Half-Century Survey}, editor = {Herken, Rolf}, interhash = {c456b96f56ee70fc2b49156335e8e047}, intrahash = {a292a894f722fd604414e20b0ab4a500}, isbn = {0-19-853741-7}, keywords = {DNA algorithms, and automata, cellular computing computing, evolvable genetic hardware, molecular programming, quantum}, notes = {Essex Library Classmark Q 312 Evolution of programs. p287-288 {"}A real system is (effectively) programmable{"}...if {"}the user's manual{"} is {"}finite{"}. {"}as programs become large it is inevitable that they will in some measure be incorrect (see Avizienis 1983){"}. p294 stuff about evolution which seems to have wrong mutation rates and ignore the possibility of neutral mutations or gene duplications. p296 fitness landscapes referred to as {"}adaptive surface{"}. Redundancy...{"}opens up extradimensional bypasses to higher adaptive peaks (Conrad 1979). p303-304 {"}Quantum mechanical tunnelling...and electron diffusion...(Biological macromolecules, eg DNA) excellent type of dynamics for (computing) modules in an evolutionary architecture{"}. p304 {"}Evolutionary programming{"}. p304 {"}substrate is of such immense importance{"}. p305 {"}Human intelligence (brain)...we cannot understand them in terms of a computer program and at the same time put our understanding to the test by running the program on a machine.}, pages = {285--307}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, size = {23 pages}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:38:05.000+0200}, title = {The Price of Programmability}, year = 1988 }