Emerging Models of Computation: Directions in Molecular Computing

  • Authors:
  • Darko Stefanovic

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico,

  • Venue:
  • Software-Intensive Systems and New Computing Paradigms
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Computing as we have known it for 60 years is based on the von Neumann stored-program concept and its ubiquitous implementation in the form of electronic instruction processors. For the past four decades, processors have been fabricated using semiconductor integrated circuits, the dominant material being silicon, and the dominant technology CMOS. Relentless miniaturization has been decreasing feature size and increasing both the operating frequency and the number of elements per chip, giving rise to so-called Moore's law (which we interpret broadly to mean the expectation of an exponential improvement in salient performance parameters).