The company, Popular Power, is one of several Internet companies that are trying to build worldwide networks of computers to work on complex computations.
That should be enough practical applications to justify mathematicians happily keeping working on complexity and computation theories undisturbed for as long as they want – but the problem continues to be relevant.
(ON.1) is an inevitable assumption, when working on the physics of computation, since computer science must necessarily take into account the physical properties and limits of the data carriers.
Other laboratories working on related problems in cell computation and the design of genetic networks include that of Dr. Stanislas Leibler at Princeton University, where Dr. Michael B. Elowitz devised a type of biological clock that will work within a cell.
The award recognized their individual work on computations in quantum chemistry.
Now that reliability and versatility are high, the next step is speed; Goldberg said that the team is "working on an exciting new approach" to reduce computation time for the network, to be documented, no doubt, in a future paper.
GASSST and PASS currently cannot store the index on disk, yet index computation time is amortized when working on very large sets of reads.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on a similar project called Oxygen, which aims to make computation as pervasive as the air.
Although many aspects of biocurators' work depend on computation and automation, the development of new tools absolutely requires biologists and bioinformaticians to validate the methods, provide validation tests and ensure their overall usefulness for the community.
At the dawn of the computing age, from the 1950s to 70s, IBM and seven other manufacturers (e.g. Honeywell, RCA, UNIVAC) worked on major mainframe computation projects for government agencies.
