"Computing with cells: Membrane Computing" Seminar and Discussion on Membrane Computing
Date: 2nd December 2009,
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, EH2 2PQ
Booking Status: Expired
Pierluigi Frisco will give a seminar and question and answer session on membrane computing
Title: "Computing with cells: Membrane Computing"
Program:
14:00-15:00 Seminar
15:00-15:30 coffee and networking
15:30-16:30 Q & A session
Membrane Computing originates from the observation that eukaryotic cells have an internal organisation defined by membranes. In the framework provided by Membrane Computing several biological processes and phenomena occurring in eukaryotic cells have been studied from a computational point of view or have been used to develop algorithms for solving computationally hard problems.
Some of the questions that this fascinating field of research tries to answer are:
- How could we use living cells to perform computation?
- Would our definition of computation change as a consequence of this?
- Could such a cell-computer outperform digital computers?
In this talk Pier will give an overview on Membrane Computing and an answer to the questions above.
