In the News Research Demos HLSIM Publications People DARPA/MIT Amorphous Computing Workshop This is the Amorphous Computing HomePage. A colony of cells cooperates to form a multicellular organism under the direction of a genetic program shared by the members of the colony. A swarm of bees cooperates to construct a hive. Humans group together to build towns, cities, and nations. These examples ...

It's a hundred times faster than the best serial supercomputer. It's a billion times more energy efficient. It's a trillion times denser than the best storage media. It's a teaspoonful of DNA that's a computer! And Leonard Adleman invented it.

An article from the November 28, 1997 issue of "The Chronicle of Higher Education" about DNA-based computers.