CO303-331

My 2006 Dissertation on....
 

NANO-COMPUTING - MULTIPLICATION OR DIVISION?
 
 
 

Abstract:

Nano-Computing is the possible relationship between human and computer management. A Nano is 1/1000000 of a meter in scale and therefore potentially machine driven on an atomic or subatomic scale. Machinery of that size must be ‘talked about’, in the way that biology and nuclear physics are in retrospect. If computer science can manipulate a Nano, it can augment and derogate human cognition and speed. Uncertainty is the requirement for any possibility to be observed. My advisor in this work questioned the cross between computer science and philosophy. But philosophy is, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the reason and argument in both physical and chemical scientific terms and human terms. So philosophy is pertinent in the observation of Nano-Computing and computing in general. And philology, the science of language, is not understood by either non-linear or linear programming.

Understanding is what made us human, and lack of understanding must not drive us away. An examination of governmental and industrial benefits attributed to Nano-Technology must not divide us from ethics and culture; or the benefits of Nano-Computers to society.

My advice to not use foreign words in this text shows how the supposed Global Economy and increase in education is merely a political game. And how a Nano-Computer driven environment would limit the latter. The Glossary contains all the unusual computing and the very few foreign words. A variety of academic, political and commercial representations of Nano-Technology’s impact are referenced.
 
 
 
Glossary:
 
  Title Division Translation
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  Subdivision titles Abstract  
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    A Human Right (Welfare)  
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    Réne Descartes  
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    Woodrow Wilson  
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    Ecclesiastes  
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    Mahatma Gandhi  
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    Virgil  
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    A Human Right (Liberty)  
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  Computing terms (rare) Eigenfunction In mathematics is a non-null function except for multiplication.
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    MEMS Molecular technology which merges at the Nanoscale into Nanoelectromagnetical Systems (NEMS).
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    Wavefunction Connected to Quantum mechanics describing the condition of a physical system by expanding it in terms of other states of the same system. A complex vector.
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    Qubit A unit of Quantum information.
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  Scientific terms (rare) Biomimetic The application of methods and systems found in nature to study and design engineering systems and modern technology.
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    Neuromorphic Describes the Very Large Scale Integration systems containing electronic analog circuits that mimic neurobiological architectures present in the nervous system.
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    Guanine One of the 5 main nucleobases found in DNA and RNA.
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    Adenosine Plays an important role in biochemical processes such as energy transfer.
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    Thymine 5 – methylurical and is a pyrimydine nucleobase.
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    Cytosine One of the 5 main nucleobases used in storing and transporting genetic information within a cell in DNA and RNA.
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    Bio-informatic Techniques from applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science to solve biological problems.
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    Mechanosynthesis Reactive molecules attached to molecular mechanic systems.
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    Biocomposites Characteristics of the human body biologically recognised in mathematic code and assimilated using biological properties and processes.
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  Latin text Agumentum ad computerus An argument against computers/calculation.
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    Cogito ergo sum I think therefore I am.
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    Veritas Lux Mea The truth enlightens me.
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  German text Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer. One people, one realm, one leader.
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    Lebensraum Living space
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  Greek text Pseudonymity A ficticious name.
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