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NSG Lecture Announcement

Tuesday Sept. 20  7:30pm  NE-43 Eighth Floor Playroom
		545 Tech. Sq.  MIT

            Biomorphic Architectures
                  Mark W. Tilden
                   Los Alamos

The following paragraphs are from the introduction to "Living
Machines", a paper by Brosl Hasslacher and Mark W. Tilden.

   Biomorphic architecture is autonomous machine architecture
   modelled on compliant skeletal wandering mechanisms found
   in biology.  All effective computation is done in analog
   and from the periphery inward.  It is modular and tiered.
   No digital computation is done within the motion platform,
   although digital pulse trains are used for motor drive and
   control.  

   From a systems viewpoint the entire mechanism is a single
   analog computer with a local modular architecture, where
   analog computation occurs in two realizations: mechanical
   at the machine periphery and electronic at the core...

Mark Tilden has built several dozen machines on these principles.
Some will be presented at the meeting.