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100			_aAdamatzky, Andrew _eed.
245			_aPost-apocalyptic computing
260			_bWorld Scientific, _c2025 _aNew Jersey :
300			_axi, 533 p. ; _bill., (some col.), _c24 cm.
365			_b188.00 _c$ _d88.60
490			_a WSPC book series in unconventional computing. _vv.5
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aAn apocalyptic event reverses civilisation's control over nature. Instead, civilisation is placed under the control of nature. The domains of science and engineering that will adapt to a post-apocalyptic world are those whose status was marginal in the former civilisation. In this edited volume, specialists from various fields (computer scientists, chemists, mathematicians, engineers, biologists, physicists and philosophers) share their insights on how information acquisition, information processing, decision-making, and reasoning might evolve after apocalyptic events, with the aim of shaping the design of the next post-von Neumann generation of computers. The book explores diverse topics such as the theory of computation, eternity of civilisations, computable knowledge, analog computation, bio-inspired fault tolerance, reversible cellular automata, catastrophe theory and the collapse of complex systems, bio-inspired soft robots, computing with exotic substrates (like clocks, stones and sticks, fluids, slime moulds, minimal resources), decomposition of meanings, collective computing, biological computing, neo-sentience, parallel algorithms and the metaphysics of the apocalypse. The book is for readers with inquisitive minds that wish to understand the future of computing from multiple perspectives. Readers are not required to possess prior expertise in any field.
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650			_aEffect of Climate
650			_aHuman Ecology Nature
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