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Amorphous Computing
(2007)
The goal of amorphous computing is to identify organizationalprinciples and create programming technologies for obtainingintentional, pre-specified behavior from the cooperation of myriadunreliable parts that are arranged ...
What the Assassin's Guild Taught Me About Distributed Computing
(2006-05-27)
Distributed computing and live-action roleplaying share many of thesame fundamental problems, as live-action roleplaying games commonly include simulations carried out by their players.Games run by the MIT Assassin's Guild ...
Infrastructure for Engineered Emergence on Sensor/Actuator Networks
(2006-03)
The ability to control emergent phenomena depends on decomposingthem into aspects susceptible to independent engineering. Forspatial self-managing systems, the amorphous-medium abstraction lets youseparate the systemÂs ...
CogSci to AI: It's the Brainware, Stupid!
(2006-03)
Current modularization techniques fail when applied to hard AI problems.But cognitive science shows that the mind has modules specialized for particular functions.Unlike current engineered modules, the modules of themind ...
Learning by Learning To Communicate
(2007-08-23)
Human intelligence is a product of cooperation among many different specialists. Much of this cooperation must be learned, but we do not yet have a mechanism that explains how this might happen for the "high-level" agile ...
Cognitive Security for Personal Devices
(2008-03-17)
Humans should be able to think of computers as extensions of their body, as craftsmen do with their tools. Current security models, however, are too unlike those used in human minds---for example, computers authenticate ...
Programming a Sensor Network as an Amorphous Medium
(2006-06)
In many sensor network applications, the network is deployedto approximate a physical space. The network itself is not ofinterest: rather, we are interested in measuring the propertiesof the space it fills, and of establishing ...
Fast Self-Healing Gradients
(2008-03)
We present CRF-Gradient, a self-healing gradient algorithm that provably reconfigures in O(diameter) time. Self-healing gradients are a frequently used building block for distributed self-healing systems, but previous ...
Building Spatial Computers
(2007-03-14)
Programmability is a major challenge in spatial computing, anaggregate control problem found in domains such as sensor networks,swarm robotics, and modular robotics. We address this challenge witha model of a spatial ...
Constraint and Restoring Force
(2007-08-24)
Long-lived sensor network applications must be able to self-repair and adapt to changing demands. We introduce a new approach for doing so: Constraint and Restoring Force. CRF is a physics-inspired framework for computing ...