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US boffins create bacterial computer
US BOFFINS have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a bacterial computer which they say can solve complicated maths problems.
According to BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biological Engineering (which we subscribe to for the spot-the-amoeba competition), the boffins have proved that it is possible to get some serious number crunching done within living cells. Well not on a Friday afternoon obviously.
A research team made up of four faculty members and 15 undergraduate students from the biology and mathematics departments at Missouri Western State University and Davidson College in North Carolina, engineered the DNA of escherichia coli bacteria.
The bacteria were able to solve a classic mathematical problem known as the Hamiltonian Path Problem by finding a Hamiltonian path in a three-node graph without stopping for a breather.
For those who came in late, the Hamiltonian Path Problem asks whether there is a route in a network from a beginning node to an ending node, visiting each node exactly once.
Jordan Baumgardner, recent graduate of Missouri Western Uni and first author of the research paper, said that the research provides an example of how powerful and dynamic synthetic biology can be.
Once the bacteria successfully solved the problem they fluoresced red and green and created yellow colonies.
This must be the first computer that breeds if it gets an equation right. µ
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The problem occurs when the cleaners come in and spray disinfectant every ware.
Wooosh!!! and the computers gone...
In that episode, the virus multiplied itself and infected Evangelion although with human created brain computer those virus have eradicated.
Hamiltonian path on a 3 node graph. That's a killer that is.
...although obviously it cant run Crysis, will it be able to in the future? :P
"Once the bacteria successfully solved the problem they fluoresced red and green and created yellow colonies."
Did they output the solution? If not how do they know if they solved it correctly?
Nick,
Do you think the US bacterial clone is a poorly phished and phormed copycat of a Virtual Computer already Running Underground Stealth Trials in NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive IT ...... for Live Operational Virtual Environments aka Great Game Plays/New World Order Scenarios?
Certainly the Hamiltonian Path Problem is mirrored in the AI Parallel ..... "And Not so much a Dual Use Technology but rather more a Ubiquitous Use Methodology, although it can also be both together separately and something completely different too, and all dependent upon Quantum Driver Input …. Radical Base Instruction Operand Sets.
And if that sounds Alien and like a Virtual Computer, then IT is, with Copyright Protection for Patent Applications." ..... which Wired chose not to wwwidely share recently ..... Full red herring/hide in full sight with MI5 cover story, here ... http://amanfrommars.baywords.com/2009/07/23/090724-the-latest-thames-house-temptation-for-its-ai-creation/
Man has Consistently Proven himself to be far too Stupid to Lead with Peace, so now there is Something Else, much more IntelAIgent and Beautifully Plausibly Deniable to All without the necessary Need to Know Executive Clearance....... Right Stuff. :-)
Who would have thought it, eh? Blighty Boldly Going IT Alone ......and Racing Ahead with Alien Beings and Enlightened Terrestrials .... EsoterIQ Partners.
DRM infection is just around the corner
From the above post it would seem that vondrashek is evolving, and now this? Coincidence?
"From the above post it would seem that vondrashek is evolving, and now this? Coincidence?" .... posted by : bugs, 25 July 2009
In a connected world of certain deliberate actions [HyperRadioProActive IT]is Coincidence something of a Cloudy Incidental Concept, bugs.
And Evolving Systems which might be also considered Revolutionary, and which might even be tagged and red flagged as Fundamentally Subversive and Reactionary by a Paralysed and Petrified Paranoid Delusional Establishment and Currency Machine, is merely an Advanced IntelAIgent Objective ReEvaluation Opportunity for Subjective Credited Valuation of IT and IP Power Driver Potential.
And that is Specifically Peculiarly and Particularly dDesigned to Engage with Intelligence Services rather than leave them behind in their Follies on the Dark Side of Lunacy and in Sanity.
*http://amanfrommars.baywords.com/2009/07/25/090725/
Works great. Until the bacteria evolve, and instead of simulating geophysics you find yourself playing Pac-Man.
A three-node Hamiltonian Path? Whoopdeedoo. Wake me up when the movie starts.
I'm sure this is going to go nowhere just like that "DNA" computer crap that was faddish a decade ago.
This kind of crap science is best left to the BBC to cover, since they like reporting on meaningless studies.