From T-cells to Robotic Sniffer Dogs
- When?
- Wednesday 26 May 2010, 14:00 to 15:00
- Where?
- 39BB02
- Open to:
- Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Professor Jon Timmis
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, Jon Timmis 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, he will explore a case study from their 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
Professor Jon Timmis is a Professor of Natural Computation at the University of York in a joint appointment with the Department of Computer Science and Department of Electronics. He studied for his PhD at Aberystwyth University and was an academic member of staff at the School of Computing at the University of Kent until 2005, when he moved to York.
His primary research interest is in the computational abilities of the immune, neural and endocrine systems and how they relate to computer science and engineering and the modelling of immune system function. He has undertaken extensive work in the development of immune-inspired systems for fault tolerance, with a focus on embedded systems applications, and agent based modelling and simulation of the immune system