Professor Andrew I. Adamatzky
Andrew I.
Adamatzky is
Professor in Unconventional Computing in the Department of Computer
Science, Director of the Unconventional Computing Centre, and a member
of the Bristol Robotics Lab, University of the West of
England.
Andy is also Editor-in-Chief of the
International Journal of
Unconventional Computing and of the
Journal of Cellular Automata.
He is an editorial board member of the
Studia Humana,
International Journal of
Parallel, Emergent, & Distributed Systems,
Parallel
Processing
Letters, the
Journal of Computational Science,
Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing,
the
International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular
Computation,
the
International Journal of Artificial Life Research, the
International Journal of General Systems,
Nano Communication Networks,
Journal of Computer Science,
The Open
Cybernetics & Systemics Journal,
Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,
and
The Open Bioinformatics Journal.
Andy undertakes research in
reaction-diffusion computing, cellular automata,
physarum computing, massive parallel computation, applied mathematics,
collective intelligence and robotics, bionics, computational psychology,
non-linear science, novel hardware, and future and emergent computation.
He is known for his research in unconventional computing. In
particular, he has worked on chemical computers using reaction-diffusion
processes. He has used slime molds to plan potential routes for
roadway systems and as components of nanorobotic systems,
and discovered that they seek out sedatives in preference to
nutrients. He has also shown that the billiard balls in billiard-ball
computers may be replaced by soldier crabs.
Andy authored
Reaction–Diffusion Automata: Phenomenology, Localizations,
Computation,
Identification Of Cellular Automata,
Physarum Machines: Computers from Slime Mould,
Dynamics of Crowd-Minds: Patterns of Irrationality in Emotions,
Beliefs
And Actions, and
Computing in Nonlinear Media & Automata Collectives,
coauthored
Reaction–Diffusion Computers,
edited
Bioevaluation of World Transport Networks and
Collision-Based Computing and
Game of Life Cellular Automata, and
coedited
From Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers,
Molecular Computing,
Artificial Life Models in Hardware,
Artificial Life Models in Software,
Chaos, CNN, Memristors, and Beyond,
Unconventional Computing 2005: From Cellular Automata to
Wetware, and
Unconventional Computing 2007.
Watch
Physarum approximates highways in Brazil,
Slime music,
Voronoi diagram calculated by means of a hot ice computer,
and
Trans-Canada Slimeways: Slime mould imitates the Canadian transport
network.
Read
The Wisdom of Slime.
Read his
LinkedIn profile and his
Wikipedia profile.
