Isaac Chuang (EECS, Physics) Drew Endy (Bio.) Neil Gershenfeld (MAS) Kim Hamad-Schifferli (Mech. E.) Joseph Jacobson (MAS) Tom Knight (CSAIL) Seth Lloyd (Mech. E.) Scott Manalis (Bio. E.) Joe Paradiso (MAS) Pablo Parrilo (EECS) Mitchel Resnick (MAS) Rahul Sarpeshkar (EECS, RLE) Larry Sass (Arch.) Sebastian Seung (BCS, Physics) Peter Shor (Math) Tim Swager (Chemistry) Alex Slocum (Mech. E.) Karen Sollins (EECS, LCS) Shuguang Zhang (Bio. E.)
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bits atoms “building with logic” (error-corrected additive assembly) “programming with math” (constrained optimization in distributed dynamics)
“Building With Logic”
“Programming With Math” xixi fnfn
analog → digital communication ~1945 ↓ analog → digital computation ~1955 ↓ analog → digital fabrication ~2005 Digital Revolutions
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