By Forrest L. Carter, Hank Wohltjen (auth.), Felix T. Hong (eds.)

The dream of constructing a biocomputer shouldn't be brushed off as a sheer delusion. even supposing there's clearly a few doubt to whether it truly is attainable to layout a working laptop or computer utilizing carbon-based elements as in residing organisms, rather than silicon-based elements as in current pcs, the truth that a typical mind usually outperforms the main subtle computing device by way of the complexity of projects, if no longer when it comes to velocity, is a residing testimony to this threat. the remainder query is to what quantity a biocomputer can mimic a residing organism and if it is attainable to layout and fabri­ cate the sort of biocomputer in the foreseeable destiny. This quantity doesn't try and offer instant and specific solutions to those questions yet as an alternative makes an attempt to supply a imaginative and prescient and a development file of the preliminary efforts. This quantity is principally a suite of papers provided on the Symposium on Molecular Electronics - Biosensors and Biocomputers, subsidized by means of the Divi­ sion of Biotechnology, wellbeing and fitness and setting of the tremendous Particle Society, held from July 19-22, 1989 on the Society's nineteenth Annual assembly in Santa Clara, California. additionally integrated are articles contributed by means of those that deliberate to wait the convention yet have been not able to take action. The emergence of the sector of molecular electronics is basically the final result of 1 person's campaign, that of Forrest L. Carter.

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