Computation with Motile Biological Agents

Colloquium on Computer Systems Seminar Series (EE380) presents the current research in design, implementation, analysis, and use of computer systems. Topics range from integrated circuits to operating systems and programming languages. It is free and open to the public, with new lectures each week.

Introduction.
Acknowledgements.
Outline.
Some concepts and definitions......
Biocomputation vs. biosimulation.
Motile biological agents.
Examples.
Example: Computation network for the SSP (2, 5,9)..
Computation with networks - and agents.
Example: Computation device for the SSP (2.5,9)..
Example: Computation device for the SSP (2, 5, 9)..
Solving SSP (2,5,9).
Scalability.
Energy consumption.
Biological traffic.
Biosimulation of traffic.
Types of motile computing agents.
Fungi: efficient space searching machines.
Biological mechanisms behind space searching algorithms.
Fungal intelligence.
Are some species "smarter"?.
Biological algorithms.