The last PERPLEXUS Consortium Meeting will be hold during 28-29 March 2010 in Lausanne, Switzerland, after the end of the project at the end of February 2010. The meeting will be hosted by the Swiss partners: HEIG-VD, UNIL, EPFL and SCIPROM. The last review meeting by the EC that will be hold on 29 March will be prepared, the final reports as well as exploitation and collaborations beyond PERPLEXUS will be discussed.

The 7th PERPLEXUS Consortium Meeting was held on October 5, 2009 in Montpellier, France. The meeting was hosted by partner CNRS. Project achievements and objectives for the last 6 months of the project were discussed.

PERPLEXUS member Francesco Mondada from EPFL organised a robotics festival ("Festival de robotique"; http://festivalrobotique.epfl.ch/) on 16 May, 2009. The festival was a great opportunity especially for children interested in technology in general and robotics in particular to get hands-on experience with the world of robotics in a multitude of expositions and stands, and the event accordingly attracted a great number of visitors. Congratulations to Francesco Mondada for the organisation of such a successful event!

Andres Upegui and Andres Perez-Uribe from HEIG-VD organised a special session on the research topics adressed in PERPLEXUS in the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation that was hold in Trondheim (Norway) on 18-21 May 2009.

The European Future Technologies Conference was held in Prague, 20-23 April 2009. The Conference is dedicated to frontier research in future and emerging information technologies. A stand was dedicated to the PERPLEXUS project (Stand G1-Ubiquitous computing modules for complex systems modelling).

PERPLEXUS at the 2nd AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy, in conjunction with the 2009 AISB Convention, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 9 April 2009.

During the session, PERPLEXUS was presented and discussed under the title "Noise and bias for free : PERPLEXUS as a material platform for embodied thought-experiments".

The 6th PERPLEXUS Consortium Meeting was held on March 22-23, 2009 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The meeting was hosted by EPFL. Project achievements and future objectives were discussed.

The 5th Consortium meeting of PERPLEXUS took place in Poland. The meeting was hosted by the University of Lodz. During the sessions the latest project achievements and future objectives were discussed.

The 8th International Conference on Evolvable Systems:
From Biology to Hardware
Prague, Czech Republic
September 21-24, 2008

The student Lukasz Kotynia from the University of Lodz (Poland) won the first prize at the Cadence European Electronic Design Contest for the work entitled: "Implementation of encoder/decoder modules for communication in spiking neural networks" (read article)

The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods
Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (July 14-17, 2008)
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/gem08

NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems
June 22-25, 2008
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~ahs2008/

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
July 12-16, 2008
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2008/

First International Conference on
Embedded Systems & Critical Applications
15-16 May 2008, Tunisia
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2008/

The project coordinator Eduardo Sanchez spread the taste of PERPLEXUS once more. Listen here (in French)

The conclusions of the interlocutor were the following... the ubidules troop will be followed with a loupe. Their reaction could go from "doing nothing" to get hairy while singing Janis Joplin and getting chamallows on the hidden face of the moon... and that was not foreseen!

Perplexus has been cited on the Swiss newspapers "La Liberté" and L'Agefi. The latter is a high impact economic newspaper of the Swiss French speaking region.

The Perplexus paper “PERPLEXUS: Pervasive Computing Framework for Modeling Complex Virtually-Unbounded Systems” by E. Sanchez, A. Perez-Uribe, A. Upegui, Y. Thoma, J. M. Moreno, A. Villa, H.Volken, A. Napierlaski, G. Sassatelli, and E. Lavarec, has been awarded the relevant NASA/ASE AHS 2007 Conference prize in the category of Future and Emerging Technologies. The Conference took place at the University of Edinburgh from 5th - 8th August 2007.

The Swiss national contact agency for EU projects, Euresearch, chose PERPLEXUS as an outstanding project to be cited on their website focus section of May 2007.

Prof. Olivier Jorand exchanged ideas with Georges Savoy, expert in didactic and Professor of Philosophy of the Normal School of Fribourg. The relation between matter and spirit was debated from different points of views.

Read and listen... (in French)

"PERPLEXUS: Pervasive computing framework for modeling complex virtually-unbounded systems"
by E. Sanchez, A. Perez-Uribe, A. Upegui, Y. Thoma, J. M. Moreno, A. Villa, H.Volken, A. Napierlaski, G. Sassatelli, and E. Lavarec.

"The PERPLEXUS bio-inspired chip"
by A. Upegui, Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez, A. Perez-Uribe, J. M. Moreno and J. Madrenas.

http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/ahs2007/AHS.htm

Yann Thoma and Andre Upegui from the HEIG-VD participated in the Workshop on Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems (DRS) in the framework of the 20th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems.
The conference was held in Zurich (March 12-15). They presented the work "Self-Replication Mechanism by Means of Self-Reconfiguration" by Y. Thoma, A. Upegui, A. Perez-Uribe, and E. Sanchez. The work was published in the workshop proceedings (see Publications).

The RSR (Radio Suisse Romande) dedicates a topic to PERPLEXUS. (in French)
read and listen to the coordordinator of the project, Eduardo Sanchez. Read More...

Interview (in French) of Professor Olivier Jorand in "La Liberté", 22.01.07 Read More...

Rapid System Prototyping Workshop (RSP07)

Porto Alegre (Brazil)
May 28 - 30, 2007
http://www.rsp-workshop.org

7th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology To Hardware (ICES 2007)
2nd International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2007)

September 21-23, 2007
Wuhan, China
http://www.eccug.cn/ices-isica07
Paper Submission: March 31, 2007

14th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2007)

March 27 – 28, 2007
Long Beach, California, USA
http://www.ece.lsu.edu/vaidy/raw/
Extended Submission Deadline: October 6, 2006

NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2007)

August 5-8 2007
Edinburgh, UK
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/ahs2007
Paper Submission: February 15, 2007

IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)

September 25-28, 2007
Swissôtel The Stamford, Singapore
http://www.cec2007.org
Paper Submission: March 15, 2007

In a recent article Peter Bentley cites the Perplexus project. Read More...

The kick-off meeting took place on 7 and 8 September at the Parc Scientifique (PSE) in Lausanne. Read More...