The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology (2003) [pdf]

https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/reading-group/past-readings/2009-05-19-future-of-computing.pdf

by calebreach • 12 years ago

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CoffeeDregs• 12 years ago

FYI: 2003 and not 2013

sctb• 12 years ago

Thanks, we fixed the title.

mrqwerty• 12 years ago

I tried to find some truth in this, but failed completely. It just doesn't fit into my understanding. A program can be seen as a mathematical expression, sure. But so can the automobile, so can anything, it is the nature of the world. Just as the world can be inconsistent, so can the realities we create inside the computer. We have no more right to expect perfect entities inside the computer as we have to expect perfect entities outside of it. Orbits are not circular, all cats do not look alike and not all seemingly equivalent aspects of a software system will operate in the same manner. Get used to it.

pazimzadeh• 12 years ago

I agree. I don't understand why Lamport thinks that "Biology is different from logic." The operon is a gene circuit, for example (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operon).

It seems to me that the fields of biology and computer science are converging, if anything: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6132/599

The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology (2003) [pdf]

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