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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : Telling Molecules What To Do
DTSTART:20161017T161500
DTEND:20161017T173000
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DESCRIPTION:By : Luca Cardelli - Microsoft Research & University of Oxford
 \n\nVideo of his talk\n\nAbstract :\nDigital computers allow us to manipul
 ate information systematically\, leading to recent advances in our ability
  to structure our society and to communicate in richer ways. They also all
 ow us to orchestrate physical forces\, transforming and optimizing our man
 ufacturing processes. What they cannot do very well\, is to interact direc
 tly with biological organisms or in general orchestrate molecular arrangem
 ents. Thanks to biotechnology\, nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) are particularly e
 ffective 'user-programmable' entities at the molecular scale. They can be 
 directed to assemble nano-scale structures\, to produce physical forces\, 
 to act as sensors and actuators\, and to do general computation in between
 . We will be able to interface them with biological machinery to detect an
 d cure diseases at the cellular level under program control. The theory of
  computability directed the design of digital computers\, and it can now i
 nform the development of new computational fabrics\, at the molecular leve
 l\, that will eventually give us control of an entirely new domain of real
 ity.\n\nBio :\nLuca Cardelli has a Ph.D. in computer science from the Univ
 ersity of Edinburgh. He worked at Bell Labs\, Murray Hill\, from 1982 to 1
 985\, and at Digital Equipment Corporation\, Systems Research Center in Pa
 lo Alto\, from 1985 to 1997\, before assuming a position at Microsoft Rese
 arch\, in Cambridge UK\, where he was head of the Programming Principles a
 nd Tools and Security groups until 2012. Since 2014 he is also a Royal Soc
 iety Research Professor at the University of Oxford. His main interests ar
 e in programming languages and concurrency\, and more recently in programm
 able biology and nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society\, a F
 ellow of the Association for Computing Machinery\, an Elected Member of th
 e Academia Europaea\, and an Elected Member of the Association Internation
 ale pour les Technologies Objets.\n\nMore information
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