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Scientists Create RNA Computer (January 26, 2000) -- Princeton University researchers have developed a kind of computer that uses the biological molecule RNA to solve complex problems. The achievement marks a significant advance in molecular computing, ... > full story

New Technique Shows Scalability Of DNA Computing (January 14, 2000) -- Scientists have taken DNA computing from the free-floating world of the test tube and anchored it securely to a surface of glass and gold. In so doing, they have taken a small but important step ... > full story

Reliable Quantum Computing Demonstrated (September 9, 1998) -- Scientists have manipulated the atomic spin of molecules to demonstrate that reliable calculations can be made by a quantum computer. ... > full story

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IBM-Led Team Unveils Most-Advanced Quantum Computer (August 17, 2000) -- At a recent technical conference at Stanford University, IBM-Almaden researcher Isaac Chuang described his team's experiments that demonstrated the world's most advanced quantum computer and the ... > full story

Research Centers Achieve Record In Grid Computing For Science (May 4, 2005) -- In a significant milestone for scientific grid computing, eight major computing centres successfully completed a challenge to sustain a continuous data flow of 600 megabytes per second (MB/s) on ... > full story

A New Computing Paradigm: Chaos-Based System That "Evolves" Answers May Be Alternative To Current Computers (September 4, 1998) -- A revolutionary new computing technique that uses a network of chaotic elements to "evolve" its answers could provide an alternative to the digital computing systems widely used today. Described for ... > full story

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Computing -- Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical ... > full article

Computer software -- Computer software (or simply software) is that part of a computer system that consists of encoded information (or computer instructions), as opposed to the physical computer equipment (hardware) ... > full article

Computer -- A computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list of instructions - a program. Computers can be extremely versatile. In fact, they are universal information processing machines. ... > full article

History of computing hardware -- Computing hardware has been an essential component of the process of calculation and data storage since it became useful for numerical values to be processed and ... > full article

Charles Babbage -- Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 - 18 October 1871) was an English mathematician, analytical philosopher, mechanical engineer and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a ... > full article

Grid computing -- Grid computing is an emerging computing model that provides the ability to perform higher throughput computing by taking advantage of many networked computers to model a virtual computer architecture ... > full article

Computer simulation -- A computer simulation or a computer model is a computer program that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system. The reliability and the trust people put in computer simulations ... > full article

Malware -- Malware ("malicious software") is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system, without the owner's consent. The term describes the intent of the creator, rather than any particular ... > full article

Cryptography -- Cryptography is the field concerned with linguistic and mathematical techniques for securing information, particularly in communications. The study of how to circumvent the use of cryptography is ... > full article

Quantum computer -- A quantum computer is any device for computation that makes direct use of distinctively quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on ... > full article

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