Computing: the interplay of biology and information technology is transforming how and why computing is done

Technology Review (Cambridge, Mass.), October, 2003 by John Verity

ADVANCES IN INFORMATION technology usually boil down to a few classic story lines. There's the story of Moore's Law, in which computers steadily gain performance, use less power, and fall in price. Then there is the story of how the exchange of data between far-flung computers gets easier every day. Look at this year's TR100 innovators in computing, which spans both hardware and software, and you'll see evidence of these trends at every scale, from tiny, single-electron transistors to computer grids that gird the globe. But look again and you'll also see a bold new story emerging: the increasingly productive interplay between computing and biology. * More and more biological processes are being understood by viewing them in terms of information processing. And computer models...