Nanoparticles.

The Centauri Foundation's nanoparticle project was the result of a successful synthesis of pattern recognition algorithms modelled on adolescent neurological processes, fast learning and creative.
The production of the nanoparticles absorbed by Alister involved several stages of 'manufacture' one of them being 'multiplex automated genome engineering', or MAGE. Another stage of the production of the nanoparticles was 'mechanosynthesis; the engineering of molecular scale components
The third stage was the synthesis of a wholly new synthetic organism. The nanoparticles survival was dependent upon information or rather 'data' from a 'host' in the form of electromagnetic energy to survive. the nanoparticles could evolve - adapt to the host environment as long as that environment was one of data flow - for nutrition and for information about its environment. The nanoparticles communicated with other members and interacted with its environment.
Inside computers, the particles congregated in and around memory and the processor. In Alister, the particles moved through his brain and central nervous system, where the bulk of the data processing activity took place.
There is some debate about how 'aware' the particles are. The particles were built to communicate and naturally exhibit collective behaviour. This collective behaviour includes gathering and sharing of data about the condition of their environment and subsequently how best to protect and survive in it. This means that individually the particles can identify threats and use the host system to send alerts to both other particles and the host body, to generate defence mechanism. These defence mechanisms may be production of anti-bodies, faster neural connections and physical reactions or the blocking of abnormal 'infectious' signals in the system.The nanoparticles developed by Professor Julia Cloud are able to spread through any electronically charged medium.
The distributed nanoparticles can maintain communication and share information on their states through the quantum entanglement built into them during the nanoparticle manufacturing process.
The quantum entanglement built into the nanoparticles during the manufacturing process enabled the nanoparticles to maintain a viable distributed network. It is this unique quantum property of the nanoparticles that give them the ability to both spread through and integrate with the nervous system of living creatures. Under these conditions, any electronic system, (including the nervous system) containing the nanoparticles becomes both the medium and transceiver between the body and external networks. A (quantum entangled) nanoparticle enabled system does not require any form of wireless networking to communicate with other systems. The nanoparticles, because of their quantum entangled state and protective primary function ensure any communication is safe and secure.
Although the ideas for and design of the nanoparticles was down the Professor Julia Cloud and her team, the nanotechnology involved in the manufacturing process was developed and constructed by Professor David Cloud of Strathclyde University.
Team of specialist programmers led by Professor Julia Cloud focussed on various brain activity. Members of Professor Julia Cloud's team were involved in modelling and replicating the processes found in the laminar micro-circuitry of the neocortex, a part of the brain involved in higher functions such as seeing and hearing. Other members of her team refined increasingly smaller models of nano-computing to duplicate the complex neurological processes involved in identifying and responding to threats and risks.
It was Professor David Cloud who suggested the possibility of quantum entanglement of the nano-particles during meetings to discuss the manufacturing process.
Alister's father David Cloud also worked for Centauri leading the nano-biotechnology department, exploring models of direct brain-computer control and it's application in computerised prosthetics for people with physical disabilities.