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Prof. Neil Gershenfeld Director cba.mit/~neilg NSF CCR-0122419

Prof. Neil Gershenfeld Director http://cba.mit.edu/~neilg NSF CCR-0122419. Bits and Atoms: Grand Challenges. it from bit: how can functional description be embodied in physical form?. computational assembly. RF biology. programmable design. personal fabrication.

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Prof. Neil Gershenfeld Director cba.mit/~neilg NSF CCR-0122419

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  1. Prof. Neil Gershenfeld Director http://cba.mit.edu/~neilg NSF CCR-0122419

  2. Bits and Atoms:Grand Challenges it from bit: how can functional description be embodied in physical form? computational assembly RF biology programmable design personal fabrication bit from it: how can functional description be abstracted from physical form? quantum-mechanical engineering analog logic silicon biology statistical-mechanical engineering

  3. 1948: Communications (Shannon) errors noise Thresholds 1963: Computation (Winograd, von Neumann) ~2003: Fabrication (Jacobson, Knight, …)

  4. 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

  5. MicroencapsulatedElectropheresis B. Comiskey, J.D. Albert, H. Yoshizawa and J. Jacobson An Electrophoretic Ink for All-Printed Reflective Electronic Displays Nature (394), 253-5 (1998)

  6. Nanotectics Brent Ridley, Babak Nivi, and Joseph Jacobson, All-Inorganic Field Effect Transistors Fabricated by Printing, Science (286) 746, 1999

  7. Printed Memory (Brian Hubert)

  8. 3D Inkjet Printing (Joe Jacobson)

  9. Printed Electro-Mechanical Systems MEMS ($1B, 1m) vs PEMS ($1k, 1mm)

  10. in out Fabrication m mm μm nm

  11. Making Anything

  12. How To Make(almost) Anything How To Make Something That Makes (almost) Anything

  13. ScreamBody (Kelly Dobson)

  14. Interpet Explorer (Irene Pepperberg, Ben Resner)

  15. Personal Toy Fabrication

  16. The Liberal Arts Literacy • The Trivium • Grammar • Rhetoric • Logic • The Quadrivium • Arithmetic • Geometry • Music • Astronomy Liberation, Mastery

  17. Boston CBA Fab Labs (Computer Clubhouses, Congress, National Academies, World Bank, …) space (m), time (s) fabrication, instrumentation divides Costa Rica India modular electronics 3D scan/mill Norway PCB fab analytical instrumentation

  18. Fab Lab Processes • Instrumentation • optical spectroscopy • microscopy • metrology • 3D scanning • Instrumentation Development • Towers • Internet 0 • microcontroller programming • Precision machining • PCBs • 3D output • NC cutting • flex circuits • antennas • interconnect • masks

  19. (Kalbag, Ike Chuang, Amy Sun, Anil Bahuman) Diesel Timing

  20. Appropriate Optical Spectroscopy (Caroline McEnnis, Jason Taylor, Debu Goswami)

  21. (Bakhtiar Mikhak, Chris Lyon) The Tower • NC mill • oscilloscope • Net computer • … • microcontroller • A/D • high-speed A/D • keyboard • camera • SRAM • FLASH • DC motor • servo motor • solenoid • LEDs • LCD • MIDI • audio • RS-232 • RS-485 • Tower bus • I2C • USART • USB • ethernet • 802.11b • protoboard • clock

  22. IP to leaf nodes • bit size > net size • shared analog modulation • peers don’t need servers • physical programming • implement function, not spec • open standards Internet 0 (Raffi Krikorian, Sun, …) $1-10 1-10kB RS-485, IR, ultrasound, powerline, … power programming analog I/O ethernet serial control

  23. CommodityIncrementalInfrastructure BAWUG, OpenAP, mesh routing $1-200/hop

  24. Electronic Shepherd (Haakon Karlson, Solvik Gård, Telenor)

  25. Lyn

  26. Debugging (Delhi Clubhouse, Mitch Resnick)

  27. Sadbhavana (Lt. Gen. Arjun Ray, ret.)

  28. To Follow Up Henry Holt and Company Cambridge Series on Information and the Natural Sciences http://cba.mit.edu/~neilg gersh@cba.mit.edu

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