Computers powered by Living Material – Here it comes!

May 30, 2008 0 Comments

Discovery News: Bacteria-Run Computer Solves Math Puzzle
May 28, 2008 — A new living computer, bred from E. coli bacteria instead of stamped from silica, has for the first time successfully solved a classic mathematical puzzle known as the Burnt Pancake Problem.
While this bacteria-based computer is more proof of concept than practical, a living computer might [...]

The Captcha – here comes the robots!

May 13, 2008 0 Comments

Do you know what a Captcha is? I am sure you have dealt with them, but I bet most of you don’t know what their purpose is. Unfortunately, there are a lot of programmers out there that write “bots” that are small little programs that run on a computer and scourer websites trying to [...]