SNS Subscriber Edition Volume 18, Issue 24 Week of June 22, 2015 In This Issue
Feature: The Perfect Union: Biology And Computing
The Perfect Venn Intersection
What Is Biology?
What Is Evolution?
Computers Applied to Biology
Making Biology with Computers
Using Biology to Make Computers
Quotes Of The Week
Takeout Window
3D Printing Human Skin
You Have It Backwards, Ginny: Chinese Firms Need You
MSFT Brings 1st Chinese University into the US; Target: University of Washington
Neural Lace: No Longer Just Science Fiction
Upgrades And Numbers
Grexit
The Pope Effect
The OPM Hack
China Whistles, US Tech Firms Fetch
Ethermail
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I was talking with my friend and colleague Larry Smarr the other day, and we found ourselves discussing the ways in which biology is today informing computer design. We started listing all the ways in which biology does things better than the old von Neumann computer structures of today, and the more we talked, the more absurdly huge these differences loomed. After a while, we just couldn’t stop laughing —
There is no comparison; biology is infinitely better at what computers do than today’s computers.
In this week’s discussion, we’re going to look at how biology will inform computer design – and how compute systems will change biology.
