10-28-04
Behrend SEET Speaker Series presents seminar applies evolutionary concepts to computer systems
Dr. Lukas Sekanina, Fulbright Scholar from the Czech Republic, will lead a seminar titled "Evolvable Hardware and Evolvable Computing." His presentation will be held at noon on Thursday, November 18, in Reed 114 at noon.
Evolvable hardware and evolvable computing applies evolutionary concepts to computing systems. Systems then automatically reconfigure themselves. "Let's say you have a rover that is sent to another planet," said Dr. Ralph Ford, associate professor and program chair of electrical, computer, and software engineering at Behrend. "If something fails, then [evolvable computing] is a method of self-repair. The idea, though, is that you don't know how it will fail. Using evolution as a model allows the system to self-heal based upon how it fails.
Dr. Sekanina will demonstrate the evolutionary circuit design on some digital circuits. He will present a novel method that utilizes development in evolutionary algorithm in order to evolve arbitrary large circuits A brief introduction of evolvable component theory will be offered.
Dr. Sekanina is an assistant professor at Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, and is currently a Fulbright scholar conducting research at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the Merit Award at the GECCO Human Competitive Result Competition (2004).
All seminars will be held in Reed 114 from noon-1:00 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month and will focus on applied research. For more information regarding the SEET Speaker Series, call the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at 814-898-6125. Media Contact: Jen Town, 814-898-6522, jlt234@psu.edu