While it is likely that getting such a computer to function inside a living cell remains some way off, the remarkably rapid progress of biological computers in controlled lab conditions means that that distant day looks to be getting closer.
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Until a few years ago, the main function of computer systems in society, and business in particular, was as a digital support system.
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This allows a quantum computer to perform a single mathematical function on many numbers at once, answering many different versions of one question at the same time.
By feeding video input into a computer, Philips makes the LED tubes function as a low-resolution video screen.
The disparity is partly a function of Citigroup's overlapping and inefficient computer systems, some of which date to the 1970s.
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Michael Merzenich, a UC, San Francisco professor, has developed computer games that might help Alzheimer's patients improve brain function (" Sharp As A Tack" ).
Here's how it works: When a stick carrying the malware is inserted into a USB drive, the malware lodges itself in the computer by riding piggyback on the PC's "autorun" function.
But the groups who played the computer game showed a clear improvement compared with the normal loss of cognitive function as people age.
After that, you either have to empty the camera into a computer -- awkward on holiday -- or buy memory cards that function like extra rolls of film.
Navy and Marine Corps computer users "should leave Y2K evaluation to the network administration personnel tasked to perform that function and users are reminded that programs distributed by e-mail must be considered suspect, " the message stated.
If the DNA of a human being or any other organism resembled a carefully constructed computer program, with neatly arranged and logically structured modules each written to fulfill a specific function, the evidence of intelligent design would be overwhelming.
Among the facility's chief design features on the ground floor is the digital learning suite: a large, flexible space that can be divided into two discrete media labs or function as an open auditorium for up to 100 students, with specially designed mobile computer workstations.
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While most equipment in computer rooms have received major upgrades in the past decade, devices called routers and switches that move data around function largely the same way.
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