http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/ Engadget Comments for Meet MAYA-II, the new DNA computer that can play Tic-Tac-Toe http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Aug 10th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Oct 16th 2006 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Oct 16th 2006 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Oct 16th 2006 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Oct 16th 2006 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Oct 17th 2006 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Oct 17th 2006 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/First, it's "automaton has", not "automaton have". Second, Tic-tac-toe should always ends in a *tie* (if both players play correctly.) Your comment to Ryan that "obviously most of the games lead to a victory for the automaton, with a few resulting in a tie" is just plain false. Sorry dude.]]>Oct 17th 2006 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Oct 17th 2006 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Oct 17th 2006 3:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Remember "Bill and Ted"?
Grim Reaper: A hit. You have sunk my battleship!
Dead Bill, Dead Ted: Excellent! Yes!
Dead Ted: I totally knew he would put it in the J's, dude!
Dead Bill: Good thinking, Ted.
Grim Reaper: You must play me again.
Dead Bill: WHAT?
Grim Reaper: Um, best two out of three.
Dead Bill, Dead Ted: No way!
Grim Reaper: Yes way.]]>Oct 17th 2006 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/
my friend that is what comedy is all about right there... take a completely forgotten quote, lost to the ocean of time and bad movie producing, and bring it back into the light 15 years later. Kudos.... Kudos....

And yes, Tic Tac Toe should *always* end in a freaking tie... and yes it definately looks like the grid is enourmous, in which case against any human it'll kick its butt because we don't exactly practice tic-tac-toe outside the 3x3 range. If after the age of 8 you somehow found a strategy for beating your buddy at this game, then your buddy is probably in special ed.]]>Oct 17th 2006 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Oct 17th 2006 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/
Nate and Josh: the automaton does play a regular game of tic-tac-toe. What you are seeing is a 384 well plate that is used to read the outcome of the experiments. In any game, only 9 of those wells are used, representing the 9 squares of a tic-tac-toe game.

Adam, those readings are actually not OD readings, they are fluorescent readings as the procedure makes use of fluorescent resonance energy transfer. The detection part of the experiment, the "everyday biotech procedure" part as you say, is not important. Printing a smiley face either using OD readings or FRET readings is a manual procedure that anyone can do. The value of this research lies in actually producing an automaton that can produce these outputs through the logical analysis of human inputs by following a set of programmed rules, in this case that of the game of tic-tac-toe.]]>Oct 17th 2006 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Oct 17th 2006 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/ I see your point about all possible games, but that's not how the article is worded. We shouldn't have to be an automoton expert to decode the article. A normal reading of the article is misleading at the very least, and false to most interpretations. You have to look at all the possible interpretations of the article, to see why it's stupid.]]>Oct 18th 2006 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/16/meet-maya-ii-the-new-dna-computer-that-can-play-tic-tac-toe/Dec 9th 2006 1:35PM