Experimentation/Demonstration Milestones

1
Experimentation/Demonstration Milestones

• Goal Programmatic Outcomes, Demonstrate
  utility of technology
• Apply amorphous computing techniques to an
  existing application involving many sensors and
  actuators
• Application Demonstration Milestones TBD
• New Capabilities TBD

2
Programming Paradigm Milestones

• Goal Organizing computation over a massive
  substrate
• Investigation of Programming Metaphors
• e.g. Growing Points, Tropism, Wave Propagation
• Demo global behavior via local interactions
• Demo intentional agent interactions (no naming)
• Demo geometric behavior from local topology
• above with initial, middle, complete

3
Programming Infrastructure Milestones

• Goal Separate support functions from
  Applications
• Milestones
• Errorful components and communications
• Changing topology
• Tasking
• Initialization
• Monitoring
• Multi-Tasking
• Additional TBD Infrastructure Capabilities

Electrical Biological Generic Chemical
2 years 3 years 1 year
4 years 5 years 3 years
4
Substrate Milestones

• Goal Provide improved platforms for experiments
• Construct initial substrates from existing
  technology and make available for early
  experimentation
• Experiment with additional substrates to extract
  salient computational parameters
• Biological TBD
• Chemical TBD
• Electrical TBD