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Contour crafting is a building printing technology being researched by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (in the Viterbi School of Engineering) that uses a computer-controlled crane or gantry to build edifices rapidly and efficiently with substantially less manual labor.
In 1998, Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California developed Contour Crafting, which was the first layered extrusion device for concrete. The system used a computer-controlled crane to automate the pouring process and was capable of creating smooth contour surfaces. [8]
Behrokh Khoshnevis is the President and CEO of Contour Crafting Corporation and the Louise L. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), where he has affiliations with the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Astronautics Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Industrial & Systems Engineering departments.
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Although the first steps have been made nearly three decades ago, 3D construction printing has struggled to reach out for years. The first technologies to achieve some media attention were Contour Crafting and D-Shape, with a few sporadic articles in 2008–2012 [108] [109] [110] and a 2012 TV report. [111]
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Contour Crafting – under development by Behrokh Khoshnevis of ISI; DNA computing – invented by Prof. Leonard Adleman; Domain name system (DNS) – developed by Paul Mockapetris and the late Jon Postel at ISI; Dynamic programming – developed by Prof. Richard Bellman