Bio­-inspired computing represents an innovative research area which covers a range of design principles for computer hardware structures and architectures, as well as software algorithms.

These design principles are often derived and abstracted from biological phenomena or biological systems, which exhibit cha­racteristics such as energy efficiency, fault tolerance, adaptivity, the ability to learn and self-­organization. Many of these properties are highly desirable for modern computing systems and ap­ plications such as machine learning, autonomous cars with connected dri­ving, self­-organizing sensor net­works or applications in the context of automatization and Industrie 4.0.

This seminar approaches bio-inspired computing at different levels and covers some of the most important challenges in the context of:

• Architecture and hardware design
  
  
• Technology and hardware implementation
  
  
• New algorithms in hardware and software
  
  
• Fault tolerance and dependability

The first session will take place on April 10th, 2017 at 9:45, Building Universitätsstraße 38, Room 0.108

Preliminary schedule (updated 19.06.2017):

Our first student talks will take place on 12.06.2017