SIGBIO Newsletter page 4 be as different from today's as today's is different from that of my father's childhood. The world will then undoubtedly view the science of biological information processing as patently funOamental. But for the scientist the true golden age is now, just as golden days of biochemistry were its days of inception. The author acknow/edges support from the Intelligent Systems section of the National Science Foundation (Grant MCS-82-05423). References Conrad, M (1983) Adaptabi/ity Plenum Press: New York. Conrad, M (1983) "Design Principles for a Molecular Computer", Technical Report CSC-83-011, Dept Computer Sc, Wayne State Univ. (Keynote address included in the report of the Conf on Chemically-based Computer Design. to be made available by NSF). Biochip Technology Kiumi Akingbehin Department of Computer Science Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 Present-day digital computers (third generation) depend on the switching behaviour characteristic of PN silicon junctions ubjected to an electrical potential is fabricated by adding crystalline structure to electrons while N-type excess of electrons. To complex problems with ~ach has been to make smaller. This trend is asing popularity of such as microprocessors. in silicon technology has more complex software =ore computing resources. ers are expected to be
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