Bodily Processing: What Progress Has Been Made in Understanding the Embodiment of Computing Systems?

" In this article I will address the issue of the embodiment of computing sys-tems from the point of view distinctive of the so-called Unconventional Computation, focusing on the paradigm known as Mor-phological Computation. As a first step, I will contextualize Morphological Computa-tion within the disciplinary field of Embod-ied Artificial Intelligence: broadly con-ceived, Embodied Artificial Intelligence may be characterized as embracing both conventional and unconventional ap-proaches to the artificial emulation of natu-ral intelligence. Morphological Computa-tion stands out from other paradigms of unconventional Embodied Artificial Intelli-gence in that it discloses a new, closer kind of connection between embodiment and computation. I will further my investigation by briefly reviewing the state-of-the-art in Morphological Computation: attention will be given to a very recent trend, whose core concept is that of “organic reconfigu-rability”. In this direction, as a final step, two advanced cases of study of organic or living morphological computers will be pre-sented and discussed. The prospect is to shed some light on our title question: what progress has been made in understanding the embodiment of computing systems? Keywords: Embodied Artificial Intelligence; Morphological Computation; Reservoir Compu-ting Systems; Organic Reconfigurability; 3D Bio-Printed Synthetic Corneas; Xenobots "

Evaluating card-based protocols in terms of execution time

Card-based cryptography is an attractive and unconventional computation model; it provides secure computing methods using a deck of physical cards. It is noteworthy that a card-based protocol can be easily executed by non-experts such as high school students without the use of any electric device. One of the main goals in this discipline is to develop efficient protocols. The efficiency has been evaluated by the number of required cards, the number of colors, and the average number of protocol trials. Although these evaluation metrics are simple and reasonable, it is difficult to estimate the total number of operations or execution time of protocols based only on these three metrics. Therefore, in this paper, we consider adding other metrics to estimate the execution time of protocols more precisely. Furthermore, we actually evaluate some of the important existing protocols using our new criteria.

Application of Musical Computing to Creating a Dynamic Reconfigurable Multilayered Chamber Orchestra Composition

With increasing virtualization and the recognition that today’s virtual computers are faster than hardware computers of 10 years ago, modes of computation are now limited only by the imagination. Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing (PMAP) is an unconventional computation protocol that makes affective computation more human-friendly by making it audible. Data sounds like the emotion it carries. PMAP has been demonstrated in nonmusical applications, e.g. quantum computer entanglement and stock market trading. This article presents a musical application and demonstration of PMAP: a dynamic reconfigurable score for acoustic orchestral performance, in which the orchestra acts as a PMAP half-adder to add two numbers.