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"DATA is a collection of facts, such as values or measurements. It can be numbers, words, measurements, observations or even just descriptions of things." It can be quantitative or qualitative, and discrete or continuous if quantitative." " http://lnkd.in/d-RG-eF View in LinkedIn

"INFORMATION, in its most restricted technical sense, is a sequence of symbols that can be interpreted as a message. Information can be recorded as signs, or transmitted as signals. Information is any kind of event that affects the state of a dynamic system that can interpret the information."" " http://lnkd.in/dYVFy5b View in LinkedIn

PROGRAMMABLE MATTER: The physical manifestation of information? At least some of the physical inanimate universe contains enough information (whatever that is) to be compelled by an organizing code to do future orderly work. Programmable materials (or smart materials), at least today, are a subset of all materials in the universe. They are electronically configured in such a way that they have physical plasticity. View in LinkedIn

DARPA GOAL FOR PROGRAMMABLE MATERIAL. "A material that can perform several operations in sequence: upon activation by an external signal, decode and propagate instructions; translate information into action, transport particles and" "assemble shapes; interlock particles to form an object; perform error-checking and encode final state information, again activated by external signal; and disassemble into the starting material." (Tall order but some early Milestones already met). " " http://lnkd.in/dDqaiS9 View in LinkedIn

PROGRAMABLE MATTER. "Imagine an architecture with the ability to continually alter its physical properties in response to the ever changing needs of its inhabitants; that could actively morph and flow like a liquid but also act as a solid that provides structure and support. This was the premise for the 'Adaptnetic Structures' project that began early in 2013, and has since featured in Wired magazine (UK)." (The chair becomes a bed becomes a table routine). " " http://lnkd.in/dFCYr55 View in LinkedIn

SELF-ASSEMBLY. "Imagine being able to throw a hand-full of smart matter in a tank full of liquid and then pulling out a ready-to-use wrench once the matter has assembled. This is the vision of this episode's guests Michael Tolley and Jonas Neubert from the Computational Synthesis Laboratory run by Hod Lipson at Cornell University, NY." This is truly the stuff of SciFi but programmable materials have now opened that door. " " http://robots.net/article/3052.html View in LinkedIn

DNA IS SOFTWARE. Richard Dawkins, in The Blind Watchmaker (1986): "There is very little difference, in principle, between a two-state binary information technology, like ours, and a four-state information technology like that of the living cell."" " http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/52 View in LinkedIn

FUNGIBILITY."Bread is fungible, a human is not. Cut one in half and you still have food, cut the other in half and you go to jail. Right now, computers are not fungible. With programmable matter, they would be. That same cubic meter of a billion catoms is essentially a network of a billion computers. That’s a lot of computational power – more than enough to organize it into different shapes."" " http://lnkd.in/dHbJvdK View in LinkedIn

IS THE FUTURE OF LIFE SCIENCES IT? Is information technology the future for life sciences? As technological innovation in life sciences drives the bioeconomy, as recently highlighted by the White House report, our capacity to innovate will depend in part on our ability to process data. " " http://lnkd.in/dUH4Ta5 View in LinkedIn

CATOMS. "Programmers have to create a system where catoms can communicate wirelessly over relatively long ranges and with little power. In a single cubic meter, there could be a billion catoms. That means a billion computers trying to talk to each other and move themselves to form a shape. It’s a daunting task but it’s helped by a great concept known as fungibility." (Fungibility to follow). " " http://lnkd.in/dHbJvdK View in LinkedIn