Storing Clocked Programs Inside DNA: A Simplifying Framework for Nanocomputing

by Jessica P. Chang and Dennis E. Shasha

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031006690
• ISBN13: 9783031006692
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.5" x 9.3"