MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory / National Telecommunications / Hewlett-Packard Laboratories / Artificial Intelligence Laboratory / /
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USD / / /
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Product Issues / /
Facility
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory / Massachusetts Institute / University of West Indies / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / /
IndustryTerm
communications network / information processing / parallel computing / ricate such systems / communications devices / intercellular message-passing chemicals / protein products / actual implementation technology / Amorphous computing / packet radio networks / smart-paint coating / it possible to assemble systems / biological systems / conservative systems / 2D coordinate systems / chemical diffusion / cellular computing / machine tools / intracellular chemicals / modest computing power / conventional chips / amplification devices / paint / amorphous computing systems / broken communications / amorphous media / metal / chemical components / smart paint / chemical reactions / pharmaceuticals / little manufacturing effort / chemical mechanisms / materials manufacturing / gene expression systems / metal-oxide semiconductor / cellular and amorphous computing / chemical processes / chemical factories / defective chips / amorphous computing medium / information technology / electronics / packetradio networks / amorphous systems / gate technology / communication devices / computing / individual computing elements / chemical means / biochemical machinery / informationrich electronic systems / parallel computing system / physical systems / amorphous computing technology / /
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Indies / /
Organization
office of Naval Research / MIT / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / University of West Indies / Advanced Research Projects Agency / Department of Mathematics and Computer Science / Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department / MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Department of Defense / /
Person
Thomas F. Knight / Jr. / Don Allen / Chris Hanson / Ron Weiss / Gerald Jay Sussman / Harold Abelson / Radhika Nagpal / Erik Rauch / Donald Greenspan / George Homsy / Daniel Coore / /
Position
research scientist / professor of electrical engineering / messenger / programming model / engineer / author / principal research scientist / senior research scientist / system architect / model / designer / lecturer / professor of computer science / programmer / /
Product
Teramac / a massively parallel computer constructed from defective chips / Teramac / parts / chips / /
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New Jersey / Alabama / Massachusetts / /
PublishedMedium
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM / /
Technology
semiconductor / actual implementation technology / genetic engineering / information technology / same chip / pheromones / amorphous computing technology / CMOS technology / gene expression / programming technology / simulation / G. Cellular gate technology / /
AMORPHOUS For coherent behavior from vast numbers of unreliable microsensors, actuators, and communication devices interconnected in unknown ways, apply the lessons of cellular cooperation in biological organisms.