Evolution in materio: Looking beyond the silicon box

Proceedings - NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 167-176

  Miller, J F ^a   Downing, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Chemistry; Circuits; Computer science; Genomics; Hardware; Organisms; Physics; Proteins; Silicon

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; HARDWARE; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NASA; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PHYSICS; PROTEINS; SILICON;

COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; ELECTRONIC FUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES; GENOMICS; ORGANISMS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 84949190050     PISSN: 15506029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EH.2002.1029882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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