NSC Course Page 2010/11

Welcome to the NSC course page for the academic year 2010/11. This page is primarily used to provide electronic copies of course material, and links to extra information related to the course. See the NSC module description page for information regarding the course's format.

News and Bulletins

• 1 Feb 2011: Feedback on 2010/11 assessment available (see link near foot of page)

Lecture Notes (in pdf format)

Week 2

• Lecture 1 : Introduction
• Lecture 2 : Local Search
• Lecture 3 : Evolutionary Algorithms

• Lecture 4 : Genetic Algorithms
• Discussion 1 : Assumptions of Standard Computing
  • preparation: read "Journeys in Non-Classical Computation"

• Lecture 5 : Ants and Swarms
• Lecture 6 : Artificial Immune Systems
• Lecture 7 : Population models

• Lecture 8 : Growth and Development
• Discussion 2 : Representations and cost functions
  • example slides

• Lecture 10 : DNA Computing (Simon O'Keefe)
• Lecture 9 : Analogue Computing
• Lecture 11 : Hypercomputation

• Lecture 12 : Fractals
• Discussion 3 : Analogue computing in reality

• Lecture 13 : Cellular Automata
• Lecture 14 : Chaos
• Lecture 15 : Complexity

• Lecture 16 : Nanotechnology
• Discussion 4 : Designing embodied computational systems
  • preparation: read "Embodiment", sections 12.1-12.4

Other Resources

• Mandelbroids and Juliods applet
• Iterated Function Systems applets
• L-music
• Artificial Immune System demo applets
• 1D Cellular Automaton demo applet

• Links to external resources

Past exam papers

• 2010/11 : 2010/11 FEEDBACK
• 2010/11 : paper -- sketch answers
• 2009/10 : paper -- sketch answers
• 2008/09 : paper -- sketch answers
• 2007/08 : paper -- sketch answers

Contact Information