Amorphous Computing
Potential Impact:
- Combining bulk MEMS sensors and actuators with bulk computing agents.
- Overcome fragility of perfect algorithms and precision interconnects.
Recent success in generating a class of desired pattern of global behavior from short programs in each computational element
Goal: Explore how to architect, program, and exploit large numbers of small computational entities with
- Only local, unreliable, communication,
- No rigid interconnection or geometry.