We plan to create the system-architectural, algorithmic, and technological foundations for exploiting programmable materials. These are materials that incorporate vast numbers of programmable elements that react to each other and to their environment. Such materials can be fabricated economically, provided that the computing elements are amassed in bulk without arranging for precision interconnect and testing. We call this effort the study of amorphous computing. Look here for an extensive bibliography of our publications.
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Imagistic reasoning Ken Yip's KAM program explores a dynamical system by visually examining the phase-space trajectories that it discovers by its own numerical experiments. In collaboration with the KAM program, a team of ocean engineers determined some of the conditions that lead to wave instabilities in towing tanks, a new result in hydrodynamics . The joint effort accomplished more in seven weeks than had been accomplished in the previous year with conventional tools. This system automatically synthesized a high-performance controller for a magnetic levitation system. The new controller can stabilize maglev vehicles with displacements of up to 20 times those allowed in a previous manually-developed controller for the same system.