"The Hewlett-U.C.L.A. team is just one of six groups around the country working under an ambitious program by the Federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that is trying to create a new kind of molecular-scale electronics—known as moletronics—that they hope will one day surpass the power and capacity of the silicon-based technology in today's computers."
—John Markoff, "A Renaissance In Computer Science," The New York Times, July 19, 1999