**************** SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT ********************

Friday, October 8
5:30 pm
Room NE43-7playroom

                      Alcohol-Based Carbon Computing

                           Professor Half Pint
			  Girl Scouts University

Abstract:

As classical "silicon-based" computers slowly reach their limits
of speed and size, new forms of computational elements will have
to be developed to satisfy the industry's ever-increasing computational
needs.  Most of the work in the area of "alternative computation" has,
to this point, focused on DNA and quantum computing.  In this talk I
will present another, more promising, paradigm for computation.

Based on work on Beverage Tracking (see talk announcement for 4/16/99),
my colleagues and I on many late-night research sessions recorded instances
of computational and intellectual behaviors in beer.  Based on tests of
numerous liquids, we have traced these smart properties to the alcohol
molecules present in all computationally intelligent fluids.  

We recently have completed the construction of experimental apparatus which
allows the distilling of pure alcohol molecules and have recorded their
spontaneous intelligent and computational behavior.  We will present such
findings, detail plans for constructing a machine capable of harnessing the
computational power in beverages, and introduce some initial work we have
done on a theoretical computational model for such carbon-based computing.

The talk will conclude with a demo of multiplying refreshments.


Note:  Professor Pint is interested in learning about the work here at
the AI lab.  If you have time to meet with him, please e-mail drinks@ai
to be placed on his schedule.  General research questions can be put to
him after his talk at this week's

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