Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:20:44 GMT
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"Den Mu" wrote:
>Here is a site on evolvable hardware
>http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/drhw_lib/ehw_embryonics.html
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>Apparently Lausanne, Switzerland is leading this research.
>With The United Kingdom and the United States coming after.
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>Stanford is doing alot of this stuff, but I don't think much of
>Stanford they have messed up on robotics research before and even God
>forbid MIT which I loathe is still way ahead of those Stanford AI
>people.
>Even though Marvin Minsky and Ray Kurzweil got it all wrong.
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Evolving hardware is interesting, I think that the nano electro-static assembly
stuff conjures visions of liquid metal Terminator robots, but also it could be
evolving micro circuits, huh? Genetic algorithms...
Correspondent:: nenslo
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:59:39 -0800
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Den Mu wrote:
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> Here is a site on evolvable hardware
I like that old SF story about how paper clips grow up to be coat
hangers which is why you run out of paper clips and have too many coat hangers.
Correspondent:: HdMrs. Salacia the Overseer
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:10:51 -0600
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:59:39 -0800, nenslo wrote:
>Den Mu wrote:
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>> Here is a site on evolvable hardware
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>I like that old SF story about how paper clips grow up to be coat
>hangers which is why you run out of paper clips and have too many coat hangers.
Correspondent:: nenslo
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:31:59 -0800
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"HdMrs. Salacia the Overseer" wrote:
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> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:59:39 -0800, nenslo wrote:
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> >Den Mu wrote:
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> >> Here is a site on evolvable hardware
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> >I like that old SF story about how paper clips grow up to be coat
> >hangers which is why you run out of paper clips and have too many coat hangers.
I agree with this post.