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Storing Clocked Programs Inside DNA: A Simplifying Framework for Nanocomputing

In the history of modern computation, large mechanical calculators preceded computers. A person would sit there punching keys according to a procedure and a number would eventually appear. Once calculators became fast enough, it became obvious that the critical path was the punching rather than the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Chang, Jessica, Shasha, Dennis
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2011
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1486604
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Sumario:In the history of modern computation, large mechanical calculators preceded computers. A person would sit there punching keys according to a procedure and a number would eventually appear. Once calculators became fast enough, it became obvious that the critical path was the punching rather than the calculation itself. That is what made the stored program concept vital to further progress. Once the instructions were stored in the machine, the entire computation could run at the speed of the machine. This book shows how to do the same thing for DNA computing. Rather than asking a robot or a pers