Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-030-09013-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 605 g

Is the only book of which the authors are aware which deals with the correlatory comparison between hierarchical living systems and inorganic physical ones
Shows that each chapter is prefaced by an ‘interlude’ which details in a simple manner the direction it will takes, though the individual chapters may sometimes appear difficult
Makes the book accessible to a more generally interested reader
Demonstrates that in parallel with verbal formulation, critical ideas are supported by self-consistent figures and illustrations
Supports a widely applicable radical view of the nature of computation

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ranson, Willy

Cottam, Ron

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Theoretische Informatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

000 Preface.- 00 Foreword.- 0 Contents.- 1 Setting the Stage.- 2 Opening the Curtains.- 3 Partial Everything.- 4 Just In Time.- 5 A Fishy Business.- 6 And Yet It Moves.- 7 Seeing the Wood.- 8 Two’s Company.- 9 Really Reality.- 10 Under the Hood.- 11 Thinking Things.- 12 Making a Difference.- 13 Two into One.- 14 Mind Matters.- 15 Bridging the Gap.- 16 Closing the Curtains.- References.- Acknowledgements.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ron Cottam grew up in Cheshire, in the north-west of England. At school he studied mathematics, physics and chemistry, and went on to gain a bachelor’s degree in applied physics and electronics and a PhD in the acoustic physics of II-VI and III-V compounds at the University of Durham, UK. He was invited to the University of Leuven in 1972 to start a new research activity in shape-memory alloy ultrasonics, and in 1976 became responsible for the music-recording facility in HiFi Home, Brugge. He established Sound Stuff – a study bureau in acoustics and music recording facility – in 1979, and worked as an independent in recording-studio design and recorded-music production until he joined the Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 1983. From 1984 until the 2011 he has been ‘campus medewerker’ for the microelectronics R&D company IMEC vzw in ETRO, working on chemical sensors, integrated optical components, and most recently as leader of the Living Systems Project in the LAMI laboratory of ETRO. He currently continues research work in the Living Systems Project at the VUB as ‘vrijwillige medewerker’. Ron has an impressive publication record (see attached).

Willy Ranson received the Telecommunication Engineer degree in 1975 from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Microwaves and Lasers at the University of Leuven until 1983, when he joined the Department of Electronics and Information Processing (ETRO) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Since 1989 he has been a member of the Inter-university Micro-Electronics Center (IMEC) in the VUB. Willy has participated in projects and contracted research on such diverse topics as planar antenna structures, high frequency wave-guides, chemical sensors, biological applications for breast cancer detection, optical information processing for parallel computation, CO2 laser applications, microelectronic process technology andrevolutionary information and revolutionary computation theories. He is currently Senior Researcher in charge of the processing technology lab of LAMI and is a founder member of LIFE (Living Systems). His current research contributions are in the areas of CO2 laser modulation, millimeter imaging systems, micro machines for ultra-rapid DNA screening, fast enforcing technologies for protein engineering and Evolutionary Living Systems, sensing, imaging and modulation functionalities and operating in the electromagnetic spectrum ranging from the microwave range up to the far-infrared, covering the 30 GHz to 30 THz range. Willy is (co)author of more than 140 publications in international refereed journals and conferences (attachment).