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On Tue, 4 Mar 1997   Glenn Cole wrote :

>There's a short but fascinating article, again on News.Com,
>which gives some brief highlights of the first day of the ACM97
>conference. In part, it says:
>
>  Joel Birnbaum, director of HP Labs, said that DNA-based computers may
>   be one way to accomplish quantum computing. By using DNA sequences,
>   researchers can execute millions of simultaneous equations. DNA
>   computers would also make very reliable and small storage devices,
>   added Birnbaum. One pound of DNA could replace all the memory in all
>   the computers in the world today, he said.

While on the topic (and off the list topics), anyone interested in that kind of
information should read "NANO!" by Ed Rgis (ISBN 0-553-50476-2) for a
fascinating history of  nanotechnology and a vision of the future.

Cheers,
John Dunlop

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