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9.11 Further reading

Encyclopedia Britannica (www.britannica.com) contains a wealth of
information, both specialist and general, on many of the topics discussed
here.
The Scientific American website (www.sciam.com) has an interesting ‘ask
the experts’ section, including further information on DNA computing.
The potential power of distributed computing is well demonstrated at the
website www.distributed.net
For more information about hearing, see Springer handbook of auditory
research: the cochlea 1996 (eds. P. Dallos, A. N. Pooper & R. R. Fay).
New York: Springer.
The Intel website (www.intel.com) contains an article
(/pressroom/archive/backgrnd/cn71898a.htm) that describes the full
history of the commodity microprocessor since its launch in 1968.
For a more technical presentation of all the topics discussed here, please refer
to: Kolston, P. J. 2000 Finite-element modelling: a new tool for the
biologist. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 358, 611–631.