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