{"id":31555,"date":"2016-10-31T13:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-tiny-machine-ucsb-electrical-and-computer-engineers-design-an-infinitesimal-computing-device"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:25:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:25:29","slug":"a-tiny-machine-ucsb-electrical-and-computer-engineers-design-an-infinitesimal-computing-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-tiny-machine-ucsb-electrical-and-computer-engineers-design-an-infinitesimal-computing-device","title":{"rendered":"A Tiny Machine: UCSB electrical and computer engineers design an infinitesimal computing device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-tiny-machine-ucsb-electrical-and-computer-engineers-design-an-infinitesimal-computing-device.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abstract: In 1959 renowned physicist Richard Feynman, in his talk \u201cPlenty of Room at the Bottom,\u201d spoke of a future in which tiny machines could perform huge feats. Like many forward-looking concepts, his molecule and atom-sized world remained for years in the realm of science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>And then, scientists and other creative thinkers began to realize Feynman\u2019s nanotechnological visions.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of Feynman\u2019s insight, and in response to the challenges he issued as a way to inspire scientific and engineering creativity, electrical and computer engineers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a design for a functional nanoscale computing device. The concept involves a dense, three-dimensional circuit operating on an unconventional type of logic that could, theoretically, be packed into a block no bigger than 50 nanometers on any side.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanotech-now.com\/news.cgi?story_id=54068\">http:\/\/www.nanotech-now.com\/news.cgi?story_id=54068<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: In 1959 renowned physicist Richard Feynman, in his talk \u201cPlenty of Room at the Bottom,\u201d spoke of a future in which tiny machines could perform huge feats. Like many forward-looking concepts, his molecule and atom-sized world remained for years in the realm of science fiction. And then, scientists and other creative thinkers began to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31555","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49668,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31555\/revisions\/49668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}