Natural computing : DNA, quantum bits, and the future of smart machines / Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere.

Adaptive computing. Rodney Brooks : animals rule ; Glenn Reeves and Adrian Stoica : design for a faraway planet ; Louis Qualls : putting evolution on the design team ; Jake Loveless and Amrut Bharambe : riding the Big One ; Nancy Leveson : "It's the system, stupid"
Harnessing lifestuff. Ned Seeman : at the edge of life ; Paul Rothemund : lifestuff imitates art ; Steve Skiena : programming bugs ; Gerald Sussman : building a billion biocomputers ; Radhika Nagpal : from local to global
Physics and speed. Monty Denneau : the architect of speed ; David Shaw : Anton and the giant Femtoscope ; Jonathan Mills : doing what comes naturally ; Scott Aaronson : finding a new law of physics
Natural computing time line.