From T-cells to Robotic Sniffer Dogs

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• Prof Jon Timmis, Department of Computer Science and Department of Electronics, University of York
• Monday 28 February 2011, 16:00-17:00
• UG40, School of Computer Science.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Leandro Minku.

There are many areas of bio-inspired computing, where inspiration is taken from a biological system and ‘magically’ transplanted into some engineered system. In this talk, I will explore thoughts on a slightly more principled approach to bio-inspired system development, that hopefully does not include any magic, and discuss in the context of immune-inspired systems, some of the potential and pitfalls of using biological systems as inspiration. To help ground the talk, we will explore a case study from our recent work with DSTL in the development of an immune-inspired robotic sniffer dog detection system, inspired by a signalling mechanism in T-cells that are present in the immune system.

This talk is part of the Artificial Intelligence and Natural Computation seminars series.

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• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Computation seminars
• Computer Science Departmental Series
• Computer Science Distinguished Seminars
• UG40, School of Computer Science

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