2019/04/11
CRISPR Computer in Human Cells
A CRISPR/Cas9-based core processor that enables different sets of user-defined guide RNA inputs to program a single transcriptional regulator (dCas9-KRAB) to perform a wide range of bitwise computations, from simple Boolean logic gates to arithmetic operations such as the half adder. [...] In principle, human cells integrating multiple orthogonal CRISPR/Cas9-based core processors could offer enormous computational capacity. Full article @ PNAS
Labels: #Computation, #TuringTape
2016/10/27
Turing Tape Neural architecture
"Although there are clear parallels between human reasoning and the running of computer programs, we lack an understanding of how either of them could be implemented in biological or artificial neural networks. Graves and colleagues take a substantial step forward in this quest by presenting a neuro-computational system that shows striking similarities to a digital computer." Full news article @ Nature; target article "Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory" also at Nature.
Labels: #Computers, #Turing, #TuringTape
