Computing With Cells: Membrane Systems

Oscar Ibarra, University of California, Santa Barbara

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Membrane computing is a part of the general research effort of describing and investigating computing models, ideas, architectures, and paradigms from the processes taking place in nature. It is a recent branch of molecular computing that aims to develop models and paradigms that are motivated by cell biology. Membrane computing models have great potential for implementing massively concurrent systems in an efficient way that would allow us to solve currently intractable problems once future biotechnology gives way to a practical bio-realization. This talk is a brief overview of the area and a report on recent results that answer some interesting and fundamental open questions in this new field.