Avogadro-Scale Engineering: Form and Function http://cba.mit.edu NSF CCR-0122419
Physics Chemistry Biology Electrical Mechanical Civil Architecture Design Algorithm Encoding Mechanism Bits level of description CBA Atoms Physics Chemistry Biology Electrical Mechanical Civil Architecture length scale
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Demonstrations of emergent engineering Deep thinking about emergent engineering (don’t scale!) (don’t work!) rigor + relevance?
distributed convex optimization global physical graphical message-passing self-modification/reproduction error-corrected assembly local
Thresholds 1948: Communications (Shannon) errors 1963: Computation noise errors 1948: Communications (Shannon) 1963: Computation (Winograd, von Neumann) ~2003: Fabrication
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