
Tech Research & Development
Research & Development (R&D) in information technology, particularly software development. Apr 4
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A Programming Language for DNA Computing
Recently, a range of information-processing circuits have been implemented in DNA by using strand displacement as their main computational mechanism.[image courtesy of Ariel Stallings ] Say machine learning to most people and they’ll look at you suspiciously – even people in the tech industry have a degree of caution is it conjures up notions of machines taking over the world in some sort of Terminator / singularity way. I think it’s because people translate it in to “machines that learn” which as it turns out, is a perfectly good way to think about this topic. I decided to dig a little deep and get past the jargon as I think it’s an increasingly important field and will help unlock the potential for natural user interfaces and technology that anticipates our needs and feels more human. To get some answers, I headed to Building 99 on Microsoft Campus to track down John Platt. Before we get in to machine learning though, a little background John…I was curious why he had a statue of Oscar from Sesame Street in his office?

