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[主讲人: Barry McMullin] [时间: 2010-10-13 14:30:00]
主讲人：Barry McMullin 教授（爱尔兰都柏林城市大学）
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The idea of "living software" is software that exhibits certain characteristic organisational features of living organisms. In particular, it should self-maintain or self-repair in the face of error (for example, malfunction of the underlying hardware, or interference from other software components); it should be capable of self-reproduction; and, ultimately, it should be demonstrate spontaneous growth of complexity through a process directly analogous to Darwinian evolution. The quest to devise such living software is virtually as old as the digital computer itself. Even as von Neumann's first general purpose (but strictly serial) computer was being commissioned at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the early 1950's, he was already describing a detailed design for highly evolvable self-reproducing software to be embedded in a massively parallel hardware architecture (his so-called "tesselation" or "cellular" automaton). In this presentation I will trace the history of research into the design of living software from this beginning, almost 60 years ago, through to its most modern incarnations in "coreworlds" and "artificial chemistries". I will summarize the deep, and poorly understood, problems that that still seem to beset the field; and then look forward to the prospects for progress, and ultimately for practical applications.
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