Toby Howard :: columns from Personal Computer World
2001

3D or not 3D
A database in one electron
Biometrics comes of age
3D printers

2000

Chips on the catwalk
Modelling minds
Computer mind-reading
Jobs for lazy PCs
Quantum teleportation
Mating robots
Computing with ants
Blue Gene genie
The spinach machine
The Cyborg cometh
The molecular abacus
Olfactory work and e-noses
Nanotubes
DNA computing
Touchy-feely data
Smart dust

 

1999

Molecules which compute
Quantum dots
In the Twinkle of an eye
From mouse to fish
Simulating a quantum computer
The chaotic computer
Meet Robo-lobster
Thought controlled computers
Personal Roving Presences

1998

Interplanetary Internet
Virtual people
Nanotech dreams
Computing without computing
AI for 2001?
Metacomputing
The XML revolution
Evolvable hardware
Wearable computers
Gestural interfaces
Next Generation Internet 

 

1997

Neural interfaces
Talking to computers
Typing wars
Are no nudes good news?
Alan Turing's legacy
Cyberspace and VRML 3
True 3D audio
Things that go PNG on the Web
Wavelets
Quantum cryptography
Biometrics
Seymour Cray: An appreciation
Petaflop computing
True 3D images

1996

The DNA computer
The "Soul Catcher"
Holographic memory
Quantum computing
Artificial life
Nanotechnology
Intelligent agents
Visualizing the brain
Brain-computer interfaces


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