Author: Pete Galati
Date: 08:43:54 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 10:57:57, Bruce Cleaver wrote: > >Hi All. > >Not the usual fare for chess "computing" but interesting. > >From the URL > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000126080913.htm > >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, an emerging field in which >scientists are harnessing molecules such as DNA and RNA to solve certain >problems more efficiently than could be done by conventional computing. > >In work to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, >the Princeton scientists used a test tube containing 1,024 different strands of >RNA to solve a simple version of the "knight problem," a chess puzzle that is >representative of a class of problems that requires brute-force computing. The >knight problem asks how many and where can one place knights on a chessboard so >they can not attack each other. For the purposes of their experiment, the >researchers restricted the board to just nine squares, so there were 512 >possible combinations. Of these, the RNA computer correctly identified 43 >solutions. Now there's a computer that a virus could do some extra damage to!! That's very interesting, I don't really understand it very well at all. Also follow the link at the bottom of that page. This may or may not be a significant advancement in computers here. Computers seem to rely on Chess for all sorts of things I guess, in this case ass a test bed for their biological computer. Pete
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