Bio, Nano and Quantum Computing

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Bio, Nano and Quantum Computing
Mitra Basu Directorate for Computer and
Information Science and Engineering
mbasu_at_nsf.gov 703-292-8910
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Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF)

• Emerging models for technology and computation
• - bio-motivated computing and computational
  biology
• - quantum computing and communication
• - design and architecture of systems based on
  molecular-scale device, modeling and simulation
  techniques for nanoscale systems

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Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF)

• Emerging models for technology and computation
• Deadline March 15, 2004/ November, 2004
• Funding Amount - 12M
• Collaboration

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• Need for new computational models
• Limitations of current computing models

Desirable characteristics

• Fast

Quantum Computing

• Reliable

Biologically Inspired Models

• Special abilities

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Quantum Information Science Objective
unification of information sciences, quantum
foundations and molecular biology

• Quantum simulation
• Fault tolerance
• Error rate reduction

• Decoherence effects
• Entangled states
• Quantum algorithms

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• Biologically inspired computing and
  computational biology
• Robustness
• Ability to adapt
• Self-repair/self-manage
• Modular design
• Structural stability

Differential use of a set of core components
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Design, Modeling and Simulation Techniques for
Nano-scale Systems

• Bottom-up approach
• build-up from atomic/molecular (nanoparticle)
• building blocks and organize into functional
• structures by self-assembly via DNA scaffolding.
• The objective is to
• organize these building blocks into
  interconnected arrays of functional nanoscale
  structures
• have self error-correcting capabilities