{"id":136573,"date":"2022-03-09T02:25:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/stanford-engineers-develop-computer-that-operates-on-water-droplets"},"modified":"2022-03-09T02:25:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:25:51","slug":"stanford-engineers-develop-computer-that-operates-on-water-droplets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/stanford-engineers-develop-computer-that-operates-on-water-droplets","title":{"rendered":"Stanford engineers develop computer that operates on water droplets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5WodTppevo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash and his students have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets.<\/p>\n<p>Computers and water typically don\u2019t mix, but in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/~manup\">Manu Prakash<\/a>\u2019s lab, the two are one and the same. Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford, and his students have built a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets.<\/p>\n<p>The computer is nearly a decade in the making, incubated from an idea that struck Prakash when he was a graduate student. The work combines his <a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2015\/march\/dancing-droplets-prakash-031115.html\">expertise in manipulating droplet fluid dynamics<\/a> with a fundamental element of computer science \u2013 an operating clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash and his students have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets. Computers and water typically don\u2019t mix, but in Manu Prakash\u2019s lab, the two are one and the same. Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford, and his students have built [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}