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Damien Woods

Researcher at Maynooth University

Publications -  93
Citations -  2729

Damien Woods is an academic researcher from Maynooth University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Turing machine & Model of computation. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 92 publications receiving 2371 citations. Previous affiliations of Damien Woods include University of Seville & California Institute of Technology.

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A cargo-sorting DNA robot.

TL;DR: A DNA robot is demonstrated that performs a nanomechanical task substantially more sophisticated than previous work and modularity could allow diverse new functions performed by robots using the same set of building blocks.
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Diverse and robust molecular algorithms using reprogrammable DNA self-assembly

TL;DR: A set of 355 self-assembling DNA ‘tiles’ can be reprogrammed to implement many different computer algorithms—including sorting, palindrome testing and divisibility by three—suggesting that molecular self-assembly could be a reliable algorithmic component in programmable chemical systems.
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The Tile Assembly Model is Intrinsically Universal

TL;DR: It is proved that the abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM) of nanoscale self-assembly is intrinsically universal, which means that there is a single tile assembly system U that, with proper initialization, simulates anytile assembly system T.
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Optical computing: Photonic neural networks

TL;DR: Optical computers will be more interesting if they take advantage of phenomena that are unique to optics as discussed by the authors, and in this respect, telecommunications hardware might have something to offer, but it is difficult to find the optimal combination of hardware and software.
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Active self-assembly of algorithmic shapes and patterns in polylogarithmic time

TL;DR: The main results show how to grow arbitrary connected two-dimensional geometric shapes and patterns in expected time polylogarithmic in the size of the shape plus roughly the time required to run a Turing machine deciding whether or not a given pixel is in the shape.