Biological realms in computer science

  • Authors:
  • Didier Verna

  • Affiliations:
  • EPITA, Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In biology, evolution is usually seen as a tinkering process, different from what an engineer does when he plans the development of his systems. Recently, studies have shown that even in biology, there is a part of good engineering. As computer scientists, we have much more difficulty to admit that there is also a great deal of tinkering in what we do, and that our software systems behave more and more like biological realms every day. This essay relates my personal experience about this discovery.