Avogadro-Scale Engineering: Form and Function http://cba.mit.edu NSF CCR-0122419
Statistical Mechanics macroscopic state internal configuration microscopic degrees of freedom
Statistical-Mechanical Engineering? macroscopic goal internal configuration microscopic degrees of freedom
Programming Distributed Systems problem algorithm program executable protocol messages
Graphical Message-Passing problem algorithm program executable protocol messages
Graphical Networks
trees: exact loops: approximations Sum Product Belief propagation, …, (Loeliger, …) fm xi fn xj trees: exact loops: approximations
Bethe Approximation (Jonathan Yedidia) fn xi
CDMA LFSR code acquisition Noise-Locked Loops (Ben Vigoda) CDMA LFSR code acquisition
Local Search
Global Convex Optimization (Pablo Parrilo et al.) Interior point solution to a semidefinite program on a relaxed problem
programming computer programming linear programming semidefinite programming integer programming dynamic progamming toolpath programming fault-tolerant programming developmental programming programming