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SUMMARY:RSC Prizewinner's seminar - From the Digitisation of Matter to Che
 mical Cybernetics - Prof. Lee Cronin\, University of Glasgow
DTSTART:20161201T140000Z
DTEND:20161201T150000Z
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CONTACT:Sharon Connor
DESCRIPTION:Unlike digital electronics and the internet\, which relies on 
 open standards and formats allowing universal implementation\, the chemica
 l and material sciences are in the dark ages. This is because chemistry re
 lies on expert users to design\, carry out and analyse chemical processes 
 making universal reproducibility impossible. Biology also suffers from the
  same problem but biology itself has codified chemical space in producing 
 entities that use a common coding system (nucleic acids) and functional po
 lymers that are decoded by the ribosome (amino acids). Our grand aim is to
  develop chemical and biological cybernetics. In Glasgow\, to achieve this
  goal\, we are aiming to combine robotics\, artificial intelligence and de
 sign of new algorithms and sensor interfaces to control chemistry\, materi
 al\, and biological systems. In this talk I will describe approaches to:\n
 i) The digitisation of chemistry and chemical robots.\nii) Construction of
  a real materials genome that boot straps to biological systems.\niii) App
 roachestoartificialbiologyandunderstandingtheoriginoflife\niv) Development
 ofnewcomputingarchitecturesusingchemical/biologicalcomputing.\n
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\,  Department of Chemistry
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