Journeys in Non-Classical Computation - A UK Grand Challenge in Computing Research
University of York
Today's computing, classical computing, is an extraordinary success
story. However, there is a growing appreciation that it encompasses an
extremely small subset of all computational possibilities. The Grand
Challenge of Non-Classical Computation seeks to bring about a
reconceptulisation of computation itself. The various forms of
non-classical computation -- bio-inspired algorithms, open complex
adaptive systems, embodied computation, quantum computation, and more --
will not supersede classical computation, however: they will augment and
enrich it. The Grand Challenge seeks to explore, generalise, and unify
all the many diverse non-classical computational paradigms, to produce a
fully mature and rich science of all forms of computation, that unifies
the classical and non-classical computational paradigms.
