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March 2011:
Get our second take on Slamming Chocolate Bars Episode 2: Kvikk Lunsj, check out on YouTube!
October 2010:
Start of the PAnDA project !
July 2010:
Gene Coded Image (GCI) demo is available.
Projects:
Programmable Analogue and Digital Array
PAnDA homepage
Intelligent Systems Group, York
Automatic Design of Adaptive Systems using Unconstrained Evolution and Development on the POEtic Platform
The reasearch project has three objectives: first: to design novel mechanisms for growth on silicon using unconstrained evolution. Second, to grow higher-level adaptable entities without human intervention and third, to investigate the properties of such novel ontogenetic/emergent systems and their potential for self-repair and adaptation.
ADS project page
Intelligent Systems Group, York
Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States
(European Project: FACETS)
The goal of the FACETS project is to create a theoretical and experimental foundation for the realisation of novel computing paradigms beyond the classical Turing approach, exploiting the concepts experimentally observed in biological nervous systems. A large scale hardware neural network is developed in Heidelberg using wafer scale integration techniques as a platform for greatly accelerated biological experiments.
FACETS homepage
Kirchhoff Institute for Physics
Evolution of Transistor Circuits (Dissertation)
The thesis focused on the analog design automation for field programmable transistor array (FPTA) architectures by means of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) with the aim of synthesizing human competitive analog circuits as well as discovering new design principles and new FPTA archtiectures.
FPTA homepage
Kirchhoff Institute for Physics
Optical Multilayer Systems (BMBF Project)
The goal of the project was to fabricate and characterize dielectric multilayers that are used as application specific mirrors and filters within optical setups.
Optical Institute of the Technical University of Berlin
Characterization of Three Dimensional
Localized Reflective Gratings
in Photopolymers (Physics Grade)
The aim of the project was to investigate the suitability of laser induced microgratings in photopolymers for holographic data storage. The third dimension of holographic methods thereby allows for multiplexing multiple angles and wave lengths in order to increase storage density.
Project homepage
Optical Institute of the Technical University of Berlin