I have recently talked about developing survival instincts in computing systems. This opens up an interesting paradigm for designing autonomous systems for applications that require them to be on earth, underwater and in space. The conditions for operation of such systems are often harsh, unpredictable and it seems most natural to look for analogies to envisage the ways of their design in the nature, in animals and humans, particularly looking at the nervous systems. Another important pathway to such systems would be to look how energy affects their behaviour and how power levels activate various layers of instinct mechanisms …

These were the ideas that I discussed in my keynote talk at NoCArc’12 in Vancouver  (http://www.unikore.it/nocarc/index.html).

Here are the slides http://www.unikore.it/nocarc/slides/yakovlev.pdfand and video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgcugX44EIg&feature=youtu.befrom