1. Avogadro-Scale Engineering:
Form and Function
NSF CCR

2. 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

3. input
output m mm μm nm

8. Demonstrations of
emergent engineering
Deep thinking about
emergent engineering
(don’t scale!)
(don’t work!)
rigor + relevance?

9. distributed convex optimization global
physical graphical message-passing
self-modification/reproduction
error-corrected assembly
local

10. Thresholds 1948: Communications (Shannon) errors 1963: Computation
noise
errors
1948: Communications
(Shannon)
1963: Computation
(Winograd, von Neumann)
~2003: Fabrication

12. VLSI
VHSIC
VHC