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Those ideas had their genesis in the early 1980s, when Wolfram began to explore a type of computer program called a cellular automaton. It typically consists of a row of black and white pixels on a computer screen--the "cells"--and a simple rule for transforming that row into a new one. A rule might go like this: If a pixel in a given position is flanked by pixels of its opposite color, reverse its color when drawing the corresponding pixel in the next row; if not, keep it the same. By automatically applying the rule on each...
...began exploring hundreds of different kinds of cellular automata and was astonished to find that the patterns emerging from his computer resembled all sorts of scientific phenomena--the subatomic trails emerging from a particle accelerator, the diagrams of curved space-time that arise from Einstein's equations, the spread of evolutionary changes in organisms through time, the graphic equivalent of different kinds of mathematical logic. "Under every conceptual rock I turned over," says Wolfram, "there's been this amazing wildlife I never expected to find...
...with Wi-Fi offering high speeds at low or no cost over very small areas and the Gs covering wide areas at lower speeds and relatively high cost. Hardware is catching up to this hybrid model; Nokia recently announced a PC card offering both Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity...
...Playing spoiler is a wireless Internet access system called Wi-Fi that is increasingly available in airports, restaurants, hotels, subway stations and other public places. Originally intended for use in private home and office networks, Wi-Fi (which stands for wireless fidelity) isn't as sophisticated as 3G cellular. The small, stand-alone Wi-Fi transmitters that pass information between computers and the Internet have a range of about 90 m; you can't roam far from a base station without losing the connection. But blazing speed?data zips along at 11 megabits per second, more than five times faster...
McKay Professor of Applied Physics Lene V. Hau and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Howard C. Berg use laboratory space in the building...