Abstract:
CPU and RAM computing is finally showing its age. Clock speed growth has stalled, multicore cache coherence scales poorly, and host-based computer security is a global living nightmare. Indefinite scalability is a first-principles design criterion aimed at encouraging a major evolutionary transition in computer architecture, in which hardware determinism is abandoned and scalability and robustness are prioritized ahead of efficiency and even correctness.

Biography:
Dave Ackley is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico, with degrees from Tufts and Carnegie Mellon. Over twenty-five years his work has involved neural networks and machine learning, evolutionary algorithms and artificial life, and biological approaches to security, architecture, and models of computation.

Host:
Dr. Charles Ofria