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Natural Computing: DNA, Quantum Bits, and the Future of Smart Machines

By: Dennis E. Shasha,Cathy Lazere

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Natural Computing: DNA, Quantum Bits, and the Future of Smart Machines

By: Dennis E. Shasha,Cathy Lazere

Reports from the cutting edge, where physics and biology are changing the fundamental assumptions of computing. Computers built from DNA, bacteria, or foam. Robots that fix themselves on Mars. Bridges that report when they are aging. This is the bizarre and fascinating world of Natural Computing. Computer scientist and Scientific American’s “Puzzling Adventures” columnist Dennis Shasha here teams up with journalist Cathy Lazere to explore the outer reaches of computing. Drawing on interviews with fifteen leading scientists, the authors present an unexpected vision: the future of computing is a synthesis with nature. That vision will change not only computer science but also fields as disparate as finance, engineering, and medicine. Space engineers are at work designing machines that adapt to extreme weather and radiation. “Wetware” processing built on DNA or bacterial cells races closer to reality. One scientist’s “extended analog computer” measures answers instead of calculating them using ones and zeros. In lively, readable prose, Shasha and Lazere take readers on a tour of the future of smart machines.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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ISBN 10

0393077195

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9780393077193

Out of their Minds

The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists

By: Dennis Shasha,Cathy Lazere

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Out of their Minds

The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists

By: Dennis Shasha,Cathy Lazere

This best-selling book is now available in an inexpensive softcover format. Imagine living during the Renaissance and being able to interview that eras greatest scientists about their inspirations, discoveries, and personal interests. The latter half of our century has seen its own Renaissance - informations technology has changed irrevocable the way we live, work, and think about the world. We are fortunate, therefore, that the authors of Out of Their Minds have been able to talk so candidly with the founders of computer science.

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