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International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications (ICCTA'07)
Current Status and Future Trends of Nanoscale Technology and Its Impact on Modern Computing, Biology, Medicine and Agricultural Biotechnology
Kolkata, India
March 05-March 07
ISBN: 0-7695-2770-1
D. Dutta Majumder, Indian Statistical Institute, India; ICSIT, India
Christian Ulrichs, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany
Debosmita Majumder, ICSIT, India
Inga Mewis, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany
Ashoke Ranjan Thakur, West Bengal University of Technology, India
R.L. Brahmachary, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Rajat Banerjee, Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, India
Nitai Debnath, ICSIT, India
Indrani Roy, West Bengal University of Technology, India
Amrita Ghosh, ICSIT, India
Prity Sagar, ICSIT, India
Carsten Schulz, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Nguyen Quang Linh, Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry, Vietnam
Arunava Goswami, ISI, India
Nanoscale technologies have gone from being just an ambitious concept to being a rapidly advancing area of interdisciplinary science with immense practical importance. Feynman?s vision on nanoscience provided great impetus to the development of nanophysics, nanochemistry, nanoelectronics and nanotechnology in general [1]. High resolution microscopic devices such as scanning tunneling microscope, transmission electron microscope and atomic force microscope etc. in mid- 1980s allowed researchers to see individual atoms on surfaces and arrange them at will [2, 3]. The authors (nanobiologists, computer scientists, biotechnologists and material scientists) will attempt to provide a review of the state of the art in the field of nanoscale technologies and its impact on various fields of research like computation, basic biology, medicine and agricultural biotechnology. Imprints of memory mechanisms [3] in living systems operating at different levels (e.g. biochemical, immunological and neuronal) has provided inputs to design and fabricate `bioinspired? nanoelectronic devices suitable for various applications. Several examples of such nanoscale technology based frameworks and devices will be presented in the scenario of their potential role in the development of future nanoscale technologies. Nanoscale technologies might finally revolutionize computational intelligence and thinking. The power and limits of computing processes govern the intelligence, knowledge acquisition and thinking process of human and machine. Present computational methods and models provide us courage to study the problem, but these tools are not yet sufficient to answer the following riddles of machine intelligence- What can computers do better than humans? What can humans do better than computers? And the most important one- what is computable? The authors will try to present evidences that will show bio-inspired nanoscale technologies might gain the power in helping us to go deeper into these challenges of research in future.
Index Terms:
Agriculture, Alzheimer's disease, biotechnology, cancer, computational biology, consciousness, cybernetics, genomics, HIV, hydrophobic nanosilica, lipophilic nanosilica, machine learning, malaria, metabolomics, Nanoscience, nanosilica, neuronal network, pervasive computing, quantum mechanics, reversible computing.
Citation:
D. Dutta Majumder, Christian Ulrichs, Debosmita Majumder, Inga Mewis, Ashoke Ranjan Thakur, R.L. Brahmachary, Rajat Banerjee, Ayesha Rahman, Nitai Debnath, Dipankar Seth, Sumistha Das, Indrani Roy, Amrita Ghosh, Prity Sagar, Carsten Schulz, Nguyen Quang Linh, Arunava Goswami, "Current Status and Future Trends of Nanoscale Technology and Its Impact on Modern Computing, Biology, Medicine and Agricultural Biotechnology," iccta, pp.563-573, International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications (ICCTA'07), 2007
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