EPSRC Workshop on Unconventional Computing

非常规计算是高级计算机科学的一个领域，其总体目标可以概括为寻求新的突破性算法和新颖的物理实现，最终比经典方法/计算范式和机器更强大。本次研讨会将集中讨论非传统理论结构、实验原型和非经典计算设备的真正实现。进一步的目标是重新审视非传统计算中的现有方法，为科学家和工程师提供可实现的计算设备的蓝图，并对新颖和新兴计算系统的设计进行批判性的审视，指出理论和实验方法的失败和缺点。该研讨会将对世界范围内新兴和新颖的计算范式和架构的发展产生难以置信的强大影响，并使英国处于非经典计算系统研究的领先水平。

Unconventional computing is a field of advanced computer science, whose general goal might be summarised as the quest for both new groundbreaking algorithms and physical implementations of novel and ultimately more powerful / compared to classical approaches / computing paradigms and machines. This workshop will bring together work that focuses on non-traditional theoretical constructions, experimental prototypes and genuine implementations of non-classical computing devices. A further goal is to revisit existing approaches in unconventional computing, to provide scientists and engineers with blue-prints of realisable computing devices, and to take a critical glance at the design of novel and emergent computing systems to point out failures and shortcomings of both theoretical and experimental approaches. The workshop will make an incredibly strong impact on the development of emerging and novel computing paradigms and architectures world-wide, and put the UK at the leading level of research in non-classical computing systems.