Select Recent Papers and Reports

by Bruce J. MacLennan

See my Research Page for additional information on my research programme and for papers more than five years old.
  1. “Aspects of Embodied Computation: Toward a Reunification of the Physical and the Formal,” UT EECS Dept. TR UT-CS-08-610, March 6, 2008. [pdf]

  2. “Embodied Computing,” invitation-only NSF Workshop on Molecular Communication and Biological Communications Technology, Arlington, VA, Feb. 20–1, 2008. Slides for presentation [pdf (2.1MB)]

  3. “Aesthetics in Software Engineering,” Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 2nd  Ed., ed. by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, IGI Global, in press, 2008.

  4. “Field Computation in Natural and Artificial Intelligence,” invited by Section Editor for Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al., Springer, submitted, publication scheduled for 2008. <refworks.springer.com/complexity/>  An unedited draft is available as “A Review of Field Computation,” UT EECS Dept. TR UT-CS-07-606, Oct. 31, 2007.  [pdf]

  5. “Analog Computation,” invited by Section Editor for Unconventional Computing, Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al., Springer, in press, publication scheduled for 2008.  <refworks.springer.com/complexity/>  An unedited draft is available as “A Review of Analog Computing,” UT EECS Dept. TR-CS-07-601, Sept. 13, 2007. [pdf]

  6. “Super-Turing or Non-Turing? Extending the Concept of Computation,” The International Journal of Unconventional Computing, in press. [pdf]

  7. “Evolutionary Psychology, Complex Systems, and Social Theory,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, in press.  [pdf]

  8. “Protophenomena: The Elements of Consciousness and their Relation to the Brain,” invited for Irreducibly Conscious: Selected Papers on Consciousness, ed. by Alexander Batthyány, Avshalom Elitzur & Dimitri Constant, Heidelberg & New York: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008, ch. X (pp. 189–214), in press. [pdf]

  9. “Self-Organization for Nano-Computation and Nano-Assembly,” Workshop on Emergent Behavior (WEB 07), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, March 6–7, 2007.  Slides for presentation [pdf (10.8 MB)]

  10. “Highly Programmable Matter & Generalized Computation: Research in Reconfigurable Analog & Digital Computation in Bulk Materials,” 1st AFRL Reconfigurable Systems Workshop, Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 14–15, 2007.  Slides for presentation [pdf (7.3 MB)]

  11. “A Summary of the History of AI Before Computers,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-07-589, January 24, 2007 [pdf (225KB)].  This report is an extended, unedited draft of an article to appear in the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 2nd  Ed., ed. by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, IGI Global, in press, 2008.

  12. “The U-Machine: A Model of Generalized Computation,” accepted for Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B, special volume on “Advances in Neural Networks—Theory and Applications.”  See also UT EECS Dept. Technical Report UT-CS-06-587, Dec. 14, 2006.  [pdf (3.4 MB)]

  13. “Aesthetics in Software Engineering,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-06-579, Nov. 2006.  Extended draft of section 5 of “Aesthetic Values in Technology and Engineering Design,” Philosophy of Technology & Engineering Sciences, vol. 9 part V.5 of Handbook of the Philosophy of Science (16 vols.), ed. by Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard, & John Woods, Elsevier Science, invited by editor, in press. www.johnwoods.ca/HPS/.  [pdf (240 KB)]

  14. “Super-Turing or Non-Turing?”  Slides for invited presentation at International Interdisciplinary Workshop on Future Trends in Hypercomputation, Sheffield UK, 11–13 September 2006.  [pdf (72 KB)]

  15. “Making Meaning in Computers: Synthetic Ethology Revisited,” Artificial Cognition Systems, ed. by Angelo Loula, Ricardo Gudwin and Joâo Queiroz, Idea Group, 2006, ch. 9 (pp. 252–83).  Unedited preprint available as UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-05-549, May 5, 2005; revised Nov. 1, 2006.  [pdf (600 KB)]

  16. “Extending the Concept of Computation,” unpublished, 2005.  [pdf (600 KB)]

  17. “Can Artificial Life Engender Real Understanding?”  Slides for Centripetals presentation, Oct. 20, 2005. [pdf (1.6 MB)]

  18. “Consciousness in Robots: The Hard Problem and Some Less Hard Problems (Extended Version),” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-05-553, May 15, 2005.  [pdf (820 KB)]  Extended version of paper [pdf (400K)] presented at 14th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.

  19. “Applications of Self-Organization to Command, Control, and Coordination: A Position Paper,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-04-534, November 2004.  [pdf]

  20. “Accomplishments and New Directions for 2004: Progress on Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter — UPIM Report 10,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-04-531, October 2004. [pdf]

  21. “An Example Model of Self-Organized Aggregation and Protective Differentiation of Simple Autonomous Agents,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-04-523, April 2004. [pdf (3 MB)]

  22. “Simulator Input Language: Progress on Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter — UPIM Report 7,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-04-518, 2003 [pdf]

  23. “Molecular Implementation of Combinatory Computing for Nanostructure Synthesis and Control: Progress on Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter — UPIM Report 6,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-03-506, 2003 [postscript, pdf]

  24. “Sensors, Patches, Pores, and Channels: Progress on Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter — UPIM Report 5,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-03-513, 2003 [ps (6 MB), pdf (1 MB)]

  25. “Combinatory Logic for Autonomous Molecular Computation.” Preprint of paper invited for Information Sciences, 2003. [pdf (800KB)]

  26. “Natural Computation and Non-Turing Models of Computation,” Theoretical Computer Science 317, issues 1-3 (4 June 2004): 115-145 [doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2003.12.008]; see also TR UT-CS-03-509 [pdf].

  27. “Combinatory Logic for Authonomous Molecular Computation” [postscript, pdf]: to be presented in Sixth International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Natural Computing and appears in Proceedings, Seventh Joint Conference in Information Sciences, Cary NC, September 26-30, 2003.

  28. “Molecular Combinatory Computing for Nanostructure Synthesis and Control” [postscript (300 KB), pdf (800 KB)]: presented at and appears in proceedings of IEEE Nano 2003, San Francisco, August 12-14, 2003.

  29. Color as a Material, not an Optical, Property (Commentary on Byrne & Hilbert: "Color Realism and Color Science"), to appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26, 1 (February 2003), 37-38. TR UT-CS-03-501 (extended version)

  30. “Protophenomena: The Elements of Consciousness and their Relation to the Brain” [html, doc]. TR UT-CS-03-500 (extended version)

  31. “Membranes and Nanotubes: Progress on Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter — UPIM Report 4,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-02-495, December 9, 2002 [postscript (6.5 MB), pdf]

  32. “Replication, Sharing, Deletion, Lists, and Numerals: Progress on Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter — UPIM Report 3,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-02-493, November 22, 2002 [postscript, pdf]

  33. “Molecular Combinator Reference Manual — UPIM Report 2,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-02-489, November 5, 2002 [postscript, pdf]
    The latest version is always available as: “Molecular Combinator Reference Manual” by B. J. MacLennan [postscript, pdf], June 12, 2003.

  34.  “Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter (Exploratory Research Proposal) — UPIM Report 1,” UT CS Dept. TR UT-CS-02-486, October 18, 2002 [postscript, pdf]

  35. “Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter: A Systematic Approach to Nanotechnology” (presentation at IEEE-Nano, August 28, 2002):
  36. “A Systematic Approach to Nanotechnology Based on a Small Set of Molecular Building Blocks” [postscript, pdf]

  37. “Transcending Turing Computability” [postscript, pdf], Minds and Machines 13 (1): 3-22, February 2003 [doi:10.1023/A:1021397712328]. Technical Report UT-CS-01-473, November 12, 2001. Handouts [ps, pdf] and slides [ps, pdf] for a talk are also available.

  38. “Synthetic Ethology: A New Tool for Investigating Animal Cognition,” in Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, and Gordon M. Burghardt (Eds.), The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition (MIT Press, 2002), ch. 20 (pp. 151-156). Expanded version: Technical Report UT-CS-01-462 [postscript, pdf]

  39. “Connectionist Approaches” [postscript, pdf], article invited for International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (26 vols.), ed. by Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes, Pergamon, 2001.

  40. “Can Differential Equations Compute?” Technical Report UT-CS-01-459, May 8, 2001 [postscript, pdf].

  41. Contextual Back-Propagation [postscript] Technical Report UT-CS-00-443, September 12, 2000.

  42. “The Emergence of Communication through Synthetic Evolution” [postscript, pdf], Technical Report UT-CS-99-431, October 20, 1999. Advances in Evolutionary Synthesis of Neural Systems, edited by Vasant Honavar, Mukesh Patel, and Karthik Balakrishnan (MIT Press, 2001), pp. 65-90.

  43. Neurophenomenological Constraints and Pushing Back the Subjectivity Barrier [postscript], Technical Report UT-CS-99-419, April 20, 1999. Extended version of commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22, pp. 961-963.

  44. Field Computation in Natural and Artificial Intelligence: Extended Version [postscript], Technical Report CS-99-422, April 14, 1999. Abridged in Information Sciences, Vol. 119 (1999), pp. 73-89 [doi:10.1016/S0020-0255(99)00053-5]. Also available in CogPrint archives.

Bruce MacLennan / MacLennan@cs.utk.edu
Last updated: 2008-03-11.

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