INSPIRE Track 1: The Informatics of Making

INSPIRE奖的部分资金来自NSF工程局土木、机械和制造创新部门的工程和系统设计与制造项目，以及NSF计算机和信息科学与工程主管部门信息与智能系统部门的信息集成和信息学项目。该研究项目的目标是为从设计流动到添加剂制造的信息建立一个通用的正式计算模型。该模型的作用类似于作为一般计算基础的丘奇-图灵模型。它描述零件的几何形状和材料，同时连接到作为零件基础的物理。计算模型是体现复杂信息并以现有工具和技术无法适应的方式实现新行为所必需的。在加法制造的新世界中，人工制品的核心体现，即我们购买、销售和改进的东西，将是用于加法制造对象的信息，而不是对象本身。该项目正在开发一种用来表达信息的语言，一种足够丰富和严格的语言，以释放设计能力和控制制造过程。这种语言/模式的发展是将制造者文化纳入经济主流的关键一步。

This INSPIRE award is partially funded by the Engineering and Systems Design and the Manufacturing programs in the Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Division of the NSF Engineering Directorate and by the Information Integration and Informatics Program in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems in the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate.The objective of this research project is to establish a universal formal computational model for the information that flows from design into additive manufacturing. This model plays a role similar to that of the Church-Turing model that underlies general computation. It describes part geometry and materials while connecting to the physics that underlies a part. The computational model is necessary to embody complex information and enable new behaviors in ways that existing tools and technologies cannot accommodate.In the new world of additive manufacturing, the central embodiment of an artifact, the thing that we buy and sell and improve, will be the information used to additively manufacture an object, not the object itself. This project is developing a language in which to express that information, a language sufficiently rich and rigorous to unleash design capabilities and control manufacturing processes. Development of such a language / model is a critical step to bringing the Maker culture into the economic mainstream.