Virginia Tech researchers used novel methodology and the university’s System X supercomputer to carry out what is probably the first simulation that explores full range of motions of a DNA strand of 147 base pairs, the length that is required to form the fundamental unit of DNA packing in the living cells — the nucleosome. …
Freeman Dyson talks about world war 2 and includes some information about traffic accidents. His point about traffic accidents (which kill 1.2 million people per year worldwide and about 44,000 per year in the USA) :Smeed (Dysons boss in WW2) also had a fatalistic view of traffic accidents. He collected statistics on traffic deaths from …
Dwave systems plans to demo a 16 qubit (4×4 grid) superconducting AQC (adiabatic quantum computing) in the first quarter of 2007. Each qubit is connected to nearest- and next-nearest neighbors using tunable couplers. The chip is programmed by setting the values of the biases on each qubit (16 total), and the values of each of …