[lit-ideas] Evolving hardware!

Masq666 writes

"A Norwegian team has made the first piece of hardware that uses
evolution to change its design at runtime to solve the problem at hand
in the most effective way. By turning on and off its 'genes' it can
change the way it works, and it can go through 20,000 - 30,000
generations in just a few seconds. That same number of generations
took humans 800,000 - 900,000 years."

The University of Oslo press release linked from the article came out
a few days ago; the researchers published a paper (PDF) that seems to
be on this same technology at a conference last summer.
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Courtesy of Slashdot.

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John McCreery
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Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/
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