Ive always been fond of comparing computer science and biology fields. I have often visioned that the future of computing will eventually be combined with living organisms . One can see that as we are optimizing the technologies , we are so called "evolutionizing" .Comparing it to mother nature or our brain for instance, we have evolutionized for millions of years. Its practically impossible the near perfection that nature has achieved.
I call nature to be "near perfect" because one can observe several flaws in nature itself. Though one can suggest several explanations for the flaws that I can provide , I feel it is irrelevant here.
I would like to break some news to the readers that a team of 11 students won the prestigious IGem Contest. Their bioencryption project (Yes!! they even coined a new term for it) proposes a new way to encrypt information - A Bacterial Cryptographic system.
A quick fact on their website shows -
In our system, 1g of E. coli can store max 931,322 GB data.
In comparison, typical hard disk can store 1-4GB/gram.
So, overall they have not only used bacteria for data storage, but also for encryption. A truly innovative approach.
The results shows the whole system of the project to be successful and that proves the viability of the project design.
I hope such projects turn into real, actually implemented systems in near future. I have many ideas revolving around the concept, may be one day ill be designing a similar jaw-dropping application. :D
I call nature to be "near perfect" because one can observe several flaws in nature itself. Though one can suggest several explanations for the flaws that I can provide , I feel it is irrelevant here.
I would like to break some news to the readers that a team of 11 students won the prestigious IGem Contest. Their bioencryption project (Yes!! they even coined a new term for it) proposes a new way to encrypt information - A Bacterial Cryptographic system.
A quick fact on their website shows -
In our system, 1g of E. coli can store max 931,322 GB data.
In comparison, typical hard disk can store 1-4GB/gram.
So, overall they have not only used bacteria for data storage, but also for encryption. A truly innovative approach.
The results shows the whole system of the project to be successful and that proves the viability of the project design.
I hope such projects turn into real, actually implemented systems in near future. I have many ideas revolving around the concept, may be one day ill be designing a similar jaw-dropping application. :D
