Neil Jones is professor emeritus with the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Research directions follow two directions: programming languages (compiling, program analysis, partial evaluation, semantics); and the theory of computation and computational complexity. He has published books and a number of articles in both areas.
The 'blob' model of computation is a recent stored-program computational model, biologically motivated and without pointers or memory addresses. Novelties of the blob model: programs are truly first-class citizens, capable of being automatically executed, compiled or interpreted. The model is Turing complete in a strong sense: a universal interpretation algorithm exists, able to run any program in a natural way and without arcane data encodings. The model appears closer to being physically realisable than earlier computation models. In part this owes to strong finiteness due to early binding; and a strong adjacency property: the active instruction is always adjacent to the piece of data on which it operates.
