Monday, December 24, 2001		Bits & Bytes

Nanocomputer: A computer with circuitry so small that it can only be seen through a microscope. Nanocomputers can be electronic (where nanolithography is used to create microscopic circuits), biochemical or organic (such as DNA computers), or quantum (such as quantum computers). Nanocomputers deal with materials at a molecular level and hold the promise of creating increasingly smaller and faster computers, an important concept in the realm of pervasive computing.

Lithography: The process of imprinting patterns on semiconductor materials to be used as integrated circuits.