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Is the only book of which the authors are aware which deals with the correlatory comparison between hierarchical living systems and inorganic physical ones
Shows that each chapter is prefaced by an ‘interlude’ which details in a simple manner the direction it will takes, though the individual chapters may sometimes appear difficult
Makes the book accessible to a more generally interested reader
Demonstrates that in parallel with verbal formulation, critical ideas are supported by self-consistent figures and illustrations
Supports a widely applicable radical view of the nature of computation
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About the authors
Willy Ranson received the Telecommunication Engineer degree in 1975 from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Microwaves and Lasers at the University of Leuven until 1983, when he joined the Department of Electronics and Information Processing (ETRO) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Since 1989 he has been a member of the Inter-university Micro-Electronics Center (IMEC) in the VUB. Willy has participated in projects and contracted research on such diverse topics as planar antenna structures, high frequency wave-guides, chemical sensors, biological applications for breast cancer detection, optical information processing for parallel computation, CO2 laser applications, microelectronic process technology and revolutionary information and revolutionary computation theories. He is currently Senior Researcher in charge of the processing technology lab of LAMI and is a founder member of LIFE (Living Systems). His current research contributions are in the areas of CO2 laser modulation, millimeter imaging systems, micro machines for ultra-rapid DNA screening, fast enforcing technologies for protein engineering and Evolutionary Living Systems, sensing, imaging and modulation functionalities and operating in the electromagnetic spectrum ranging from the microwave range up to the far-infrared, covering the 30 GHz to 30 THz range. Willy is (co)author of more than 140 publications in international refereed journals and conferences (attachment).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics
Authors: Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74533-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74532-9Published: 04 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09013-5Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74533-6Published: 19 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 338
Number of Illustrations: 131 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecosystems, Science, multidisciplinary, Epistemology, Theory of Computation, Solid State Physics