POST-APOCALYPTIC COMPUTING
6-7 July 2022 Arnolfini UWE Bristol UK
6th July
10:30 Coffee/Tea
11:00 Andy Adamatzky and Alessandro Chiolerio: Fungal Architectures and Colloid Cybernetic Systems
11:10 Paolo Ceretto and Alessandro Bernard: Unconventional Gardener; A movie about the next close encounters of the third kind
11:20 Stefan Höltgen: Doomsday Machines. Computers and Computing in Cold War Fiction
11:40 Roshan Weerasekera: Computing with oscillators
12:00: Break
12:20 Dan Nicolau: Computational Strategies Employed by Satan (and God) in Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
12:40 Hector Zenil:The ultimate computation before doomsday or what computer program to run before extinction
13:00 Gari Owens: Challenges of conventional computing
13:20 Lunch & free time
15:00 Alessandro Chiolerio: Computing with ecosystems: sustainable cybernetics
15:20 Jordi Valverdu: Self-Decomputing: the lack of meaning among information
15:40 Konrad Szacilowski: Structural disorder as a tool for computation. Perovskites and others
16:00 Break
16:20 Hege Tapio: Speculative Biocomputer
16:40 Catarina Pombo Nabais: Computers on our skin
17:00 Giuseppe Tarabella: Organic materials for electrochemical logic circuits
17:20 Free time & Drinking in Bristol Harbourside
20:00 Dinner at Slug & Lettuce
7th July
10:30 Coffee/Tea
11:00 Martin Trefzer: Reservoir computing
11:20 Abhishek Sharma: A probabilistic chemical programmable computer
11:40 Sally Adee: Squid, fungus, frogs and other electronics
12:00 Break
12:20 Phil Ayres: Post-apocalyptic architectures
12:40 Chelsey Flood: Mycelium and time travel
13:00 Mohammad Dehshibi: Fungi feel human stress
13:20 Lunch & Free time
15:00 Neil Phillips: Marimo robots and computers at the post-apocalypse event
15:20 Anna Nikolaidou: Living wearables and architecture
15:40 Irina Petrova Adamatzky: Photo art exhibition Post-Apocalyptic Computing and Technology
15:50 Andy Adamatzky: Computing with slime moulds, fungi, plants and other creatures left alive
16:10 Closure & Drinking in Bristol Harbourside
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