Last year, Professor Alex Schiller of Friedrich Schiller University and two of his students, Martin Elstner and Jörg Axthelm, announced that they had created a sugar-based molecular computer.

The Tic-Tac-Toe Google Chrome extension describes itself as "Play in Tic-Tac-Toe" and when you click on the icon it will open a tic tac toe game in your browser. What it does not tell you, though, is ...

MENACE, the Matchbox Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine, is a fancy name for a machine that plays Tic-Tac-Toe. The concept is a product of Professor [Donald Mitchie]’s work in the 1960’s and was ...

Students at the Bartlett Community Partnership School in Lowell proved to be no match for “Chris,” a virtual player programmed to be unstoppable in a computer version of tic-tac-toe. “We can’t beat ...

While strands of DNA may be able to pick fights with other strands, one thing that they can't do yet is play computer games -- that is, until now. In what appears to be an early proof-of-concept for ...

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A DNA computer has been developed that can play tic-tac-toe against a human and never lose. The device uses a complex mixture of DNA strands and DNA-based enzymes to determine where it should place ...

A simple computer made of DNA strands in test tubes can now play a complete game of tic-tac-toe--and will beat or draw you every time. The result demonstrates a new level of complexity in DNA ...