Re: [Pl-seminar] 10/20: Ehud Shapiro, Biomolecular Computers

This is a recent announcement, despite the date given for the talk being in
the past.  I'm thinking it's a typo.

-d

dvanhorn wrote:
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> Subject: [Pl-seminar] 10/20: Ehud Shapiro, Biomolecular Computers
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:19:12 -0500
> From: Ken Shan <ken-2JBBefkb2wedFdvTe/[email protected]>
> Organization: very far away from anywhere else
> To: [email protected]
> 
> [Please forward this announcement!  Apologies for multiple copies.]
> 
> The Harvard Artificial Intelligence Research Group announces
> 
> 			   BIOMOLECULAR COMPUTERS
> 
> A talk by
> 
> 		Ehud Shapiro, Weizmann Institute of Science
> 
> 		 11:45am-12:45pm, Thursday October 20, 2003
>                   Maxwell Dworkin 221, Harvard University
>                          (see below for logistics)
> 
> Computers made of biological molecules, being very different from electronic
> computers, shed a new light on basic concepts such as the standard division
> between hardware and software and the relationship between information,
> computation, and energy.  In addition, biomolecular computers hold the
> promise of easy interface to the patient's biochemical environment, which
> may allow them to sense and diagnose disease-related biochemical anomalies
> at the cell or tissue level and, using pre-programmed medical knowledge,
> synthesize and deliver the requisite drug molecules in situ.
> 
> In the talk we review the vision driving our research on biomolecular
> computers as well as our first steps towards realizing it.  We describe a
> molecular automaton developed in our lab, in which the input, output and
> software are made of DNA and the hardware consists of DNA manipulating
> enzymes, and another automaton, in which the DNA input molecule provides
> both the data and all the necessary fuel for the computation.
> 
> LOGISTICS: Lunch will be served; if you plan to attend this talk
> but do not usually attend AIRG meetings, please inform Kobi Gal
> <gal-dss9POfKrsLWs/[email protected]> by Wednesday, so we have enough food.  Maxwell
> Dworkin Laboratory is located at 33 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138.
> Subway and driving directions and a campus map are available online at
> http://www.deas.harvard.edu/aboutdeas/ourcampus/deasbuildsandmaps/ . Parking
> is available for bicycles and motor vehicles; please email Chung-chieh Shan
> <ccshan-dss9POfKrsLWs/[email protected]> for details.
> 
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