Speaker
Prof.
Neil Gershenfeld
(MIT CBA)
Description
Computer Science has served to isolate programs (and
programmers) from knowledge of the underlying physical
mechanisms used for computation. However, in the limit in
which the number of computational and physical degrees of
freedom become equivalent it's no longer possible to
maintain this fiction. I will explore the benefits of
exposing rather than hiding the boundary between bits and
atoms, including conformal computing architectures,
mathematical programming models, and digital fabrication
processes.
