Workshop on Amorphous Computing
DARPA ITO
MIT AI Lab

Cambridge, MA, September 13-14, 1999

Position papers

Abelson-Knight-Sussman, Amorphous computing (PDF format)
Yuen, Reliability and capability of computational structures with imprecise and defective components
Gardner-Collins, Design and construction of genetic applets (PDF format)
Berlin-Gilbert, Collaboration and coordination in massively distributed smart matter (PDF format)
Laddaga-Shrobe, Control of Amorphous Computation via Self Adaptation
Kuekes, Amorphous need not be autonomous
Sussman, Robust Design Through Diversity (PDF format)
Abelson-Sussman-Knight, Draft slides for Monday programming working group (PPT format)

Workshop schedule

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA

Directions to the House of the Academy

Draft slides and other material

These are completely undedited dumps of the material produced at the workshop:

Milestones (PPT format), from Bob Balzer
Overall draft for program (PPT format), from Hal Abelson
Theory slides (PPT format), from Shankar Sastry
Biology examples (Word 97 format), from Roger Brent
Self-configuring mechanical systems (PPT format), from John Gilbert

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Hal Abelson (hal@mit.edu)

Last modified: October 11 1999, 12:11 AM