Semester A, 2002-2003

Lecturer: Prof. Moshe Sipper

Course Description

• This elective course will be given as a seminar, wherein students give talks on research topics described below.

General Reference

• Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing

Administrative Details

• Web: www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~sipper/courses/advsem02a/.
• Prerequisite: This course is intended for graduate (MSc) students only.
• Credits: 1.
• Time: Sunday 15:10-16:40 (no break!).
• Place: Building 32, Room 114.
• Grade:
  • 100%: Lecture.
• Notes:
  • Attendance in all talks is obligatory!
    One absence: okay
    Two absences: still okay
    Three absences: did not participate (לא השתתף) 
  • If (#students < #lectures) { Some/All students will lecture twice. }
  • If (#students > #lectures) { Some/All lectures will be delivered in pairs. }

List of Talks

• Sunday, October 20: Introduction to Bio-Inspired Computing + Composition of Speaker List. Speaker: Moshe Sipper.
• Sunday, October 27: Genetic Algorithms. Speaker(s): Assaf Zaritsky. (5-point bonus)
• Sunday, November 3: Artificial Neural Networks. Speaker(s): Yuri Chernyavsky. (3-point bonus)
• Sunday, November 10: Evolutionary Design of Artificial Neural Networks. Speaker(s): Marina Litvak, Alex Binun.
• Sunday, November 17: Genetic Programming. Speaker(s): Michael Orlov, Yann Glazer.
• Sunday, November 24: Fuzzy Logic. Speaker(s): Nadav Azaria.
  Sunday, November 24: Evolutionary Design of Fuzzy Systems. Speaker(s): Cancelled.
• Sunday, December 1: No class.
• Sunday, December 8: Cellular Automata & Artificial Self-Replication. Speaker(s): Yifat Shaubi, Judit Hasson.
• Sunday, December 15: Cellular Programming. Speaker(s): Shira Zucker, Lior Davidovitch.
• Sunday, December 22: Ant Algorithms. Speaker(s): Tanya Kogan, Nir Levin.
• Sunday, December 29: Computer Immune Systems. Speaker(s): Itay Bar-Yosef.
• Sunday, January 5: DNA Computing. Speaker(s): Lev-Arieh Ratinov.
• Sunday, January 12: Artificial Worlds (Tierra & Avida). Speaker(s): Oriel Bergig, Avi Bab.