Things

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Prof. Neil Gershenfeld http//cba.mit.edu/neil
g NSF CCR-0122419 MIT Media Labs
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The Center for Bits and Atoms
NSF CCR-0122419 http//cba.mit.edu
Joseph Jacobson, Scott Manalis, Isaac Chuang,
Neil Gershenfeld, Marvin Minsky, Cynthia Braezeal
(Media Lab), Joe Paradiso (Media Lab), Sandy
Pentland (Media Lab), Mitch Resnick (Media Lab),
Kim Hamad-Schifferli (Mechanical
Engineering), Seth Lloyd (Mechanical
Engineering), Martin Schmidt (Microsystems
Technology Laboratory), Larry Sass
(Architecture), Tim Swager (Chemistry), Alex
Slocum (Mechanics Engineering), Rahul Sarpeshkar
(Electrical Engineering and Computer Science),
Shuguang Zhang (Bioengineering), Sebastian Seung
(Brain and Cognitive Science, Physics), Bill
Butera (IC design/fab), Karen Sollins (Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science), Bakhtiar
Mikhak (Education/Outreach), Sherry Lassiter
(Program Manager), John DiFrancesco
(Macrofabrication), Ashley Salomon
(Microfabrication) Peter Shor, Ruzena Bajcsy,
John Doyle, Barrie Gilbert, Alan Huang, Greg
Papadopoulus, Nathan Myhrvold,
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Internet 0

• IP to leaf nodes
• bit size gt net size
• peers dont need servers
• implement function, not spec

(Raffi Krikorian, Matt Hancher, Sun, )
1-10
1-10kB
RS-485, IR, ultrasound, powerline,
power
programming
analog I/O
ethernet
serial
control
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Paintable Computing
(Bill Butera)
Install
De-install
Update
Transfer accepted
Transfer refused
private functions
local scratch
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Nanotectics
Brent Ridley, Babak Nivi, and Joseph
Jacobson, All-Inorganic Field Effect Transistors
Fabricated by Printing, Science (286) 746, 1999
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RF Biology
Remote Electronic Control of DNA Hybridization
Through Inductive Coupling to an Attached Metal
Nanocrystal Antenna, K. Hamad-Schifferli, J.J.
Schwartz, A.T. Santos, S.G. Zhang, and J.M.
Jacobson, Nature (415) pp. 152-155, 2002
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Factoring 15
Experimental realization of Shor's quantum
factoring algorithm using nuclear magnetic
resonance, LIEVEN M. K. VANDERSYPEN, MATTHIAS
STEFFEN, GREGORY BREYTA, COSTANTINO S. YANNONI,
MARK H. SHERWOOD ISAAC L. CHUANG, Nature (414),
883887 (20/27 December 2001)
perfluorobutadienyl iron complex
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Oops!
Emergent failures

• January 15, 1990 ATTs long-distance network
• 65 million calls, 9 hours
• an upgrade to improve switch reliability
• August 10, 1996 electrical grid
• 25 GW, 190 plants, 7.5 million customers, 9
  states
• tree, automatic load-shedding
• April 23, 1997 Internet
• 40 Net black-hole
• erroneous routing table pointing to 1 ISP

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Demonstrations of emergent engineering
Deep thinking about emergent engineering
(dont scale!)
(dont work!)
rigor relevance?