A new species of hardware
Sipper, M.
Ronald, E.M.A.
Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne;
This paper appears in: Spectrum, IEEE
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Volume: 37,
Issue: 3
On page(s): 59-64
ISSN: 0018-9235
References Cited: 0
CODEN: IEESAM
INSPEC Accession Number: 6532766
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/6.825661
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
If natural evolution is so successful a designer, why not simulate
its workings in an engineering setting, by using a computer to evolve
solutions to hard problems. Researchers pursuing this idea in the 1950s
and '60s gave birth to the domain of evolutionary computation. Four
decades later, the domain is flourishing, both in industry and academia,
presenting what may well be a new approach to optimization and
problem-solving. Published in 1859, Charles Darwin's “On the
Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” shook the
foundations of not only science but also society at large. Now with new
uses for the evolutionary model coming into being, researchers and
scientists are beginning to create hardware that can grow and improve
itself over time, evolving steadily as it finds new and better ways to
do the tasks it has set before it
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