Miscellaneous Topics  

The references in this section have only an indirect relationship to computational molecular biology or molecular computing.

  

Hillis '82

W. Daniel Hillis. "New Computer Architectures and Their Relationship to Physics or Why Computer Science Is No Good." In POC workshop, International Journal for Theoretical Physics 21(3/4):255-262, 1982.

Just a physics of computation paper that looked interesting.

  

Stix '95

Gary Stix. "Trends in Semiconductor Manufacturing: Toward `Point One'." Scientific American, Feb. 1995, pp. 90-95.

This article tells how reductions in feature sizes on mass-produced silicon chips may soon reach a limit of economic infeasibility. No references to the literature, unfortunately.

Blurb 1: Tinier circuitry opens bigger possibilities--and also poses bigger headaches. The quest is on to develop generations of gigabit chips that have features approaching a mere 0.1 micron across. The needed manufacturing technologies may be running out of steam, however. While optical lithography struggles with making ever shrinking transistors, x-ray and other systems fight to get off the drawing board.

Blurb 2: Gigabit chips are now in the laboratory. But the critical technology needed for manufacturing smaller circuits confronts diminishing returns.