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Hod LipsonAssociate Professor |
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UniversityIthaca, NY 14853-7501, USA (607) 592 4383 (Cell) (607) 254- 8940 (Lab) hod.lipson@cornell.edu Administrative Assistant: Craig Ryan, cdr58@cornell.edu Office hours: TR 1pm-3pm or by appointment (see my calendar) Announcements
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My relatively broad spectrum of
research projects focus on what I consider to be two
“grand challenges” of engineering: (a) Can we design
machines that can design other machines, and (b) Can we
make machines that can make other machines. Both of
these questions lie at the crux of understanding the
engineering process itself, and progress on these fronts
can offer huge leverage in our ability to design, make
and maintain increasingly complex systems in the future.
Biological life has answered these challenges in ways
that dwarf the best teams of human engineers; I
therefore use primarily biologically-inspired
approaches, as they bring new ideas to engineering and
new engineering insight into biology.
Can a computer ultimately augment or replace human invention? IMAGINE A LEGO SET AT YOUR DISPOSAL: Bricks, rods, wheels, motors, sensors and logic are your atomic building blocks, and you must find a way to put them together to achieve a given high-level functionality: A machine that can move itself, say. You know the physics of the individual components' behaviors; you know the repertoire of pieces available, and you know how they are allowed to connect. But how do you determine the combination that gives you the desired functionality? This is the problem of Synthesis. Although we do it and teach it all the time, we do not have a formal model of how this can be done automatically. More... Visit the
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Machines Lab In 2001 Hod Lipson joined the departments of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and the faculty of Computing & Information Science of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He is also a member of the Computer Science and Computational Biology graduate fields at Cornell. Prior to this appointment, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Brandeis University's Computer Science Department and a Lecturer at MIT's Mechanical Engineering Department. He received his PhD in 1998 from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Before joining academia, he spent several years as a research engineer in the mechanical, electronic and software industries. See full CV... Selected Publications
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