UI professor seeks to harness strength of amoeba into computer cores

Sure, you can look down your nose at the lowly amoeba, with its single cell, but the little protozoan has a trick up its sleeve, if it had a sleeve, that people certainly don't.

It can split in two to make a copy of itself, which can make a copy of itself, which can make a copy of itself, which can ...

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