IBM Research Initiatives to Bridge the Digital Divide : Ashish Verma. IBM is committed towards incorporating
accessibility into its products to help our clients enhance their customer base
and to improve the functional capabilities of people with disabilities. IBM
Human Ability and Accessibility Center (HA&AC...
This talk addresses how users find information on a web site and the related subject of how information is structured on a site. Included in this talk are interface aspects of navigation, technical concerns for naviga...
Universal Usability: What does it mean and why should I care?: Jonathan Lazar. This talk introduces the concept of universal usability, describing why people should care, how to design for universal usability, and why this is important for business. Universal usability includes user diversity, te...
User-Centered Design Processes for Web Sites: Jonathan Lazar. This talk, loosely based on the book I wrote titled "Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach", offers information on the design process for web sites. This talk addresses methods and techniques for user involvement, when involve...
Spatial Databases and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Hanan Samet. An introduction is given to the spatial database issues involved in
the design of geographic information systems (GIS) from the perspective
of a computer scientist. Some of the topics to be discussed include
the nature of a...
Body shape can have interesting consequences and characterizing these shapes can have a significant impact on a number of industries not to mention your underwear! This talk will present the result of mischaracterized body shape and how they aff...
Human shape is one of the most personal and misunderstood forms with a host of uses! Anthropometry, the measurement of humans has been around for centuries. Recently 3D laser scanning has begun to be used as a method to characterize the entire s...
The CASA project is an NSF Engineering Research Center investigating the design and implementation of a dense network of low-power meteorological radars whose goal is to collaboratively and adaptively sense the lowest few kilometers of the earth...
Computer Ethics and Technology: Donald Gotterbarn . This talk focuses on computer ethics as it relates to the day to day activities of practicing computer professionals. The emphasis is on real world moral and legal issues for the practicing computer professionals and with a focus on how one resolves ...
New Protocols for Wireless Networks: Mohammad S. Obaidat. This talk presents some of our recent research results including new protocols for wireless networks. Among these, an adaptive MAC protocol for distributed wireless LANs that is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. Accord...
Medical imaging technologies are exploding. It seems that each week new imaging modalities are announced along with medical breakthroughs utilizing this imagery. Most medical imagery involves volumetric imaging a fundamentally different method o...
Software Development: More Than Just Programming : Donald Gotterbarn . We are often surprised by the number of non-programming related issues that affect the professional’s efforts to develop quality software and web interfaces. Development efforts are constrained in a number of positive and negative ways. This ta...
Unmanaged Risk: Why Systems Don¿t Work: Donald Gotterbarn . The focus on software testing and risk analysis during software development has only had a limited effect in reducing software failures. This talk will present a new approach to the identification of software risk and reduce the rate of system failur...
New Protocols for Wireless Networks: Mohammad S. Obaidat. This talk presents some of our recent research results including new protocols for wireless networks. Among these, an adaptive MAC protocol for distributed wireless LANs that is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. Accord...
The talk will survey the chain of advances that lead to Deep Blue's victory over Garry Kasparov in 1997. The early chess programs will be examined first leading to Richard Greenblatt's Mac Hack in the late 1960s.
The history of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer will be reviewed from it inception at CMU in 1986 to its defeat of Garry Kasparov in 1997. The talk will generally follow the material presented in "Deep Blue: An Artificial Intelligence Mil...
The general problem of visual search can be
shown to be computationally intractable in a formal complexity-theoretic sense,
yet visual search is widely involved in everyday perception and biological
systems manage to perform it remarkably wel...
Looking Back at Deep Blue: The IBM Chess Machine : Murray Campbell. It has been more than ten years since IBM's Deep
Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the then-reigning world chess champion, in an epic
six-game match that was closely watched by millions. This talk will present the
historical background th...
Making Meaning on the Web: Lynn Andrea Stein. The World Wide Web is increasingly a venue in which we conduct commerce, build relationships, and live out our lives. Underneath the
everyday activity of the web lurks another layer: computers
manipulating symbols and bits to create the i...
Recognition
of human actions from video sequences is a very popular in Computer Vision.
Since an action takes place in 3-D, and is projected on a sequence of 2-D
images, the projected 2-D motion may vary depending on the viewpoint of the
cam...
Robotics and Autonomous System: Michael Jenkin. Mobile robotic systems have
found a wide range of applications, from sensing/survey tasks in dangerous
environments, to environmental exploration, to carpet cleaning. This talk
considers the three fundamental tasks underlying mobile robots: sen...
Video Surveillance and Monitoring is
very active area of research in Computer Vision. However, most of the current
approaches assume that the observed scene is not crowded, and that reliable
tracks of objects are available over longer duratio...
The
concept of a cooperative multi-camera system, informally a ‘forest’ of sensors,
has recently received increasing attention from the research community. This
idea is of great practical relevance, since cameras typically have li...
Using Motion Planning to Study Molecular Motions: Nancy Amato. Protein motions, ranging from molecular flexibility to large-scale conformational change, play an essential role in many biochemical processes. For example, some devastating diseases such as Alzheimer's and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...
Recently, computer vision has
gradually been making the transition away from understanding single images to
analyzing image sequences, or video understanding. Video understanding deals
with understanding video sequences, e.g., recognition of ...
Using Motion Planning to Study Molecular Motions: Nancy Amato. Protein motions, ranging from molecular flexibility to large-scale conformational change, play an essential role in many biochemical processes. For example, some devastating diseases such as Alzheimer's and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...
Careers in Computing - How to Prepare and What to Expect: Dennis Frailey. Too many people concentrate on getting a job instead of preparing for a career. In a rapidly changing field like computing, this can lead to burnout and dissatisfaction. This talk addresses how one can prepare for a life-long career in co...
Incontrovertible is the enormous change in software engineering practice that has occurred over the past decades. The worldwide software industry now generates hundreds of billions of US dollars in revenue annually and continues to expand in sco...
With these early words, the heroine of the Harry Potter series
revealed her networking skills - skills that complemented her knack
for logical problem solvi...
Improving Software Development Cycle Time: Dennis Frailey. Being first to market is a critical factor for business success. Yet we often hear complaints about the poor quality of software that was rushed in order to meet a deadline. "Agile" methods of rapid software development have been touted in ...
Innovation That Matters: Anthony Martinez. An visual tour illustrating the various principles and approaches that you can readily put to use to be more innovative and creative in your career.
Software Engineering - Best Practices: Dennis Frailey. How do you build software so good that lives can depend on it? What’s the difference between developing a program that works and developing a program that’s reliable and dependable? How would you manage a software project that requi...
Spatial Databases and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Hanan Samet. An introduction is given to the spatial database issues involved in
the design of geographic information systems (GIS) from the perspective
of a computer scientist. Some of the topics to be discussed include
the nature of a...
Body shape can have interesting consequences and characterizing these shapes can have a significant impact on a number of industries not to mention your underwear! This talk will present the result of mischaracterized body shape and how they aff...
For nearly 10 years a number of 3D standards and de-facto specifications have been created to bring the experience of 3D computer graphics to the casual web surfer. These graphic standards have been wildly hyped, some of them ha...
Craig "Xray"
Halperin hopes to entertain as much as educate with an opinionated presentation
on his personal professional journey. Beginning with an
explanation of his background and how he ended up with a career in visual ...
Human shape is one of the most personal and misunderstood forms with a host of uses! Anthropometry, the measurement of humans has been around for centuries. Recently 3D laser scanning has begun to be used as a method to characterize the entire s...
Few people are better
qualified to talk about the use of computer graphics in advertising, feature
film, and television than lecturer Judson Rosebush. Profusely illustrated with
slides and videotapes, this insider's view...
Computer art is
entering its fifth decade, yet it remains ostracized from widespread,
mainstream critical review and acceptance. Why is this? Is the computer a new
medium or just another tool for the artist? Can a person who...
Global Eyes: Vibeke Sorensen. Digital media are increasingly global and interactive, building bridges between nature, people, and cultures. Given the rapid integration of physical and digital media, it is possible to see and engage our world in alternative ways. This talk will di...
New Minds: Vibeke Sorensen. There is a major increase in transdisciplinary activity in universities and research centres around the world. What is the role that art can play in dialog with science and computing, a...
Since antiquity,
humans have attempted to construct graphical models of their environs; some,
like calendars and maps, are static, others, like the zodiac, depict temporal
events. In the industrial era, as science undertook ...
Rosebush consolidates
over 10 years of experience on the Internet in this lecture designed to
entertain and inform audiences about the role of this new technology into our
society and our lives. Rosebush opens the lecture with a quick overvie...
Medical imaging technologies are exploding. It seems that each week new imaging modalities are announced along with medical breakthroughs utilizing this imagery. Most medical imagery involves volumetric imaging a fundamentally different method o...
Sorting in Space: Hanan Samet. The representation of spatial data is an important issue in computer
graphics, computer vision, geographic information systems, and robotics.
A wide number of representations is currently in use. Recently, there has
been much in...
Synthetic Characters in an Imperfect World : Vibeke Sorensen. People have been making representations of human beings for thousands of years in a wide range of media and artforms. With computers today, it is possible to create image representations that are more optically "perfect" than ever before. B...
With Internet 2 upon
us and video games combining the best of computer animation with real-time
interactive environments the future of media and technology appears endless.
But what, in practical business, technological, and...
Virtual Reality and Space: Michael Jenkin. Our perceptual system is not perfect and this makes it possible to create
compelling illusions of alternate realities. How can we use virtual reality
technologies to present compelling illusions of perception in outer space to
humans with...
An Attack Surface Metric: Jeannette Wing. We propose a metric to determine whether one version of a software
system is more secure than another with respect to the system's
attack surface. Intuitively, the larger the attack surface, the more
likely it is to be attack...
Technological and economic developments have made the Internet a viable platform for a new, "collaborative" modality of Internet-based computing (IC, for short). Within this modality, the owner of a large, typically compute-intensive, ...
Many distributed system applications (or portions of applications) are
most naturally structured as a multiplicity of causally-dependent, flows of
execution within and among objects, asynchronously and concurrently. The causal
flow of executi...
Discrete-event simulation is commonly used to study the behavior of communication networks. However, devising meaningful simulation models for large-scale systems is difficult, and is a topic of considerable concern and debate. Problems include ...
The CASA project is an NSF Engineering Research Center investigating the design and implementation of a dense network of low-power meteorological radars whose goal is to collaboratively and adaptively sense the lowest few kilometers of the earth...
Optimizing compilers often need feedback from training runs of programs to determine the frequency of execution of different paths and the affinity between data elements. Currently static compilers rely on static feedback data, ie. data that is ...
Good programming and software engineering practices encourage the semantically-meaningful encapsulation of data into objects or data structures. These practices also encourage the design and implementation of relatively small, self contained, mo...
Although sustained petaflop performance for real applications is still some years away, many architecture trends are emerging that will shape how we will achieve that goal. We expect these systems to have millions of processor cores spread acros...
As multi-core processors
evolve, coherence traffic between cores is becoming problematic, both in terms
of performance and power. The negative effects of coherence (snoop) traffic can
be significantly mitigated through snoop filtering. Shield...
Compared to conventional
SRAM, embedded DRAM (eDRAM) offers power, bandwidth and density advantages for
large on-chip cache memories. However, eDRAM suffers from comparatively slower
access times than conventional SRAM arrays. To hide eDRAM a...
GridNexus: A Grid Services Scientific Workflow System: Ronald Vetter. This talk will introduce GridNexus, a graphical system for creating and executing scientific workflows in a grid environment that was created by faculty and students at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. GridNexus allows the user to asse...
Impact of Technology Trends in Computer Architecture : Jaime Moreno. Recent technology trends
are driving significant changes to the architecture and structure of computer
systems. For many years, the main driver of advances in computers has been the
constant progress in microelectronics miniaturization, leading...
The past 25 years have been a very exciting time for computer technology.
A lot of this excitement was due to new opportunities made available by
semiconductor technology: once basic uniprocessor functionality could be
Simulation has been used by software engineers for many years to study the functionality and performance of complex distributed system designs. For example, they are used to understand network protocols, tune distributed systems, and improve dis...
On 'Exploiting' Node-Heterogeneous Clusters Optimally: Arnold Rosenberg. We prove that FIFO worksharing protocols provide asymptotically optimal solutions to the Cluster-Exploitation Problem (CEP), wherein one seeks to accomplish as much work as possible on a node-heterogeneous cluster C during a prespecified fixed period...
This talk draws on practical experiences in programming a wide variety of commercial parallel systems. It reviews different classifications of parallelism, discusses available hardware, and contrasts vector computing with parallel computing. In ...
A major issue that prevents the widespread adoption of parallel programming is the low productivity of parallel programmers. Typically writing a correct and efficient parallel program requires a more skilled programmer than writing the corr...
Digital media are becoming increasingly more common as a repository and representation of intellectual property, especially audio, images, and video. With this ubiquity come requirements for security (who may gain access the content?) and integr...
Rambling after all these years: Yale Patt. After more than 30 years of teaching, while at the same time having some success at research and consulting in the high-tech microprocessor area, I have acquired some opinions on education. If you let me, I would be happy to share some of them. This ...
Historically, technology has been the main driver
of computer performance. For many system generations, CMOS scaling has been
leveraged to increase clock speed and build increasingly complex
microarchitectures. As technology-driven
performa...
Science, Computational Science, and Computer Science: Peter Freeman. This talk will explore some aspects of and relationships between science,
computational science, and computer science. Broadly speaking, scientific
research is the systematic development of information about a subject and the
formation of...
Call centers spend substantial resources in
training agents to achieve better clarity of speech and improvement in the
quality of language. The current evaluation process, which uses human assessors
for voice assessment, is subjective, tim...
Supercomputing is a zero billion dollar market but a huge driving boost for technology and systems for the future.
Today, applications in the engineering and scientific world are the major users of the huge computational power offer...
System Software for Cloud Computing : Dilma Da Silva. Cloud computing has been receiving a lot of attention from the computing community. It is perceived as some as the "IT fad of the moment" and by others as a revolutionary approach to deliver computing services. In this talk we analyze cloud...
BlueGene/L (BG/L), developed through a partnership between IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), remains the world's largest system both in terms of scale with 212,992 processors and absolute performance with a peak rate of ...
The activity of modeling necessarily means developing abstractions; in doing so some information about the system of interest is lost. There is an art to abstraction---finding one that captures the essential system behavior while remaining compu...
This presentation focuses on the transition from an algorithm to a program. Algorithm analysis is a well-studied discipline, as is software development. However, at the interface between these two disciplines much can and does go wrong. In fact,...
Technological and economic developments have made the Internet a viable platform for a new, "collaborative" modality of Internet-based computing (IC, for short). Within this modality, the owner of a large, typically compute-intensive, ...
GridNexus: A Grid Services Scientific Workflow System: Ronald Vetter. This talk will introduce GridNexus, a graphical system for creating and executing scientific workflows in a grid environment that was created by faculty and students at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. GridNexus allows the user to asse...
As the electronic component of a car increases its strategic role in determining value added and market acceptance, the electronic design chain must be optimized in terms of efficiency and quality. Daimler-Chrysler executives expressed the domin...
In 2003, two land mark cases challenged the University of Michigan admissions policies, one focused on Law School admission and the other on undergraduate admissions. In Grutter v. Bollinger, the case focused on the Law School, the U. S. S...
Computer Ethics and Technology: Donald Gotterbarn . This talk focuses on computer ethics as it relates to the day to day activities of practicing computer professionals. The emphasis is on real world moral and legal issues for the practicing computer professionals and with a focus on how one resolves ...
This talk discusses research on gender differences in preferences and styles of play of computer games, and why these differences are important when using computer games as a motivational approach to interesting students in learning computer sci...
Gender, Lies and Videogames: The Truth About Females and Computing: Maria Klawe. This talk explores how girls and women differ from boys and men in their uses of and attitudes towards computers and computing. From playing computer games to pursuing computing careers, the participation of females tends to be very low compared to t...
Intellectual Property Management: Donald Costello. Anyone working in the field of Computer Science must develop attitudes and work habits that take into consideration the "value" of the software and systems they create. Computer Science students are taught the importance of testing and soft...
Making Meaning on the Web: Lynn Andrea Stein. The World Wide Web is increasingly a venue in which we conduct commerce, build relationships, and live out our lives. Underneath the
everyday activity of the web lurks another layer: computers
manipulating symbols and bits to create the i...
New Minds: Vibeke Sorensen. There is a major increase in transdisciplinary activity in universities and research centres around the world. What is the role that art can play in dialog with science and computing, a...
Online health communities provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances. Changes in the health care system coupled with increased use of the In...
Software engineering has
come to recognize the value of effective development processes as vehicles for
addressing such goals as improved efficiency in software development, the
achievement of improved product quality, and better...
Prime III: Electronic Voting in the 21st Century : Juan Gilbert. Subsequent to the debacle of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, it became abundantly clear that America’s archaic voting system was in dire need of a major overhaul. Consequently, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines were p...
Reinventing Engineering Education: Building Olin College: Lynn Andrea Stein. Educational institutions evolve slowly. In 2000, the FW Olin Foundation launched a new college with the explicit intent of designing a new kind of engineering education from a clean slate. This talk will explore the key insights gained in...
Science, Computational Science, and Computer Science: Peter Freeman. This talk will explore some aspects of and relationships between science,
computational science, and computer science. Broadly speaking, scientific
research is the systematic development of information about a subject and the
formation of...
Software Development: More Than Just Programming : Donald Gotterbarn . We are often surprised by the number of non-programming related issues that affect the professional’s efforts to develop quality software and web interfaces. Development efforts are constrained in a number of positive and negative ways. This ta...
An election is a complex process that integrates the
activities of various types of agents, both human and automated. The process
must be flexible and extensible to capture the variations
that exist in practice among different jurisdictions, ...
The number of Bachelor degrees awarded in Computer Science in the United States reached an all-time high in 2002-03 (57,439), and the trend of women earning a decreasing percentage of the Bachelor degrees awarded ...
The Law of Cyberspace, Computers, and Technology: David Ellis. The presentation focuses on the emerging fields of
cyberspace and computer and technology law. Included are topics such as the law
of the Internet; protection of computer software and technology through
copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trad...
Unmanaged Risk: Why Systems Don¿t Work: Donald Gotterbarn . The focus on software testing and risk analysis during software development has only had a limited effect in reducing software failures. This talk will present a new approach to the identification of software risk and reduce the rate of system failur...
Using Software Engineering Technology to Reduce Medical Errors: Leon Osterweil . It has been estimated that there
are approximately 98,000 deaths per year in the United States resulting from
medical errors, and many of these are attributed to error-prone processes. In
the University of
Massachusetts Medical Safety Project,
w...
Rambling after all these years: Yale Patt. After more than 30 years of teaching, while at the same time having some success at research and consulting in the high-tech microprocessor area, I have acquired some opinions on education. If you let me, I would be happy to share some of them. This ...
The number of Bachelor degrees awarded in Computer Science in the United States reached an all-time high in 2002-03 (57,439), and the trend of women earning a decreasing percentage of the Bachelor degrees awarded ...
Intellectual Property Management: Donald Costello. Anyone working in the field of Computer Science must develop attitudes and work habits that take into consideration the "value" of the software and systems they create. Computer Science students are taught the importance of testing and soft...
Discrete-event simulation is commonly used to study the behavior of communication networks. However, devising meaningful simulation models for large-scale systems is difficult, and is a topic of considerable concern and debate. Problems include ...
The CASA project is an NSF Engineering Research Center investigating the design and implementation of a dense network of low-power meteorological radars whose goal is to collaboratively and adaptively sense the lowest few kilometers of the earth...
This talk provides a tutorial introduction to mobile wireless data networks. We begin with an overview of the evolution of wireless technologies and networks. We then begin a “bottom-up” study of wireless networks, starti...
The field of computer networking is 40 years old, arguably approaching middle age (at least in human years). In this time, networks have grown from research curiosities to become a key part of the global communications infrastructure. The overal...
New Protocols for Wireless Networks: Mohammad S. Obaidat. This talk presents some of our recent research results including new protocols for wireless networks. Among these, an adaptive MAC protocol for distributed wireless LANs that is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. Accord...
The activity of modeling necessarily means developing abstractions; in doing so some information about the system of interest is lost. There is an art to abstraction---finding one that captures the essential system behavior while remaining compu...
We are in the early years of a revolution in wireless communications and the future holds many possibilities. Central to this revolution is the ability to dynamically program (and reprogram) radios, so that innovation in radios will come at the ...
Spatial Databases and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Hanan Samet. An introduction is given to the spatial database issues involved in
the design of geographic information systems (GIS) from the perspective
of a computer scientist. Some of the topics to be discussed include
the nature of a...
Achievements and Remaining Challenges in Multimedia Data Modeling: M. Tamer Özsu . Multimedia research over the past decade has resulted in the development of multimedia data managers that have achieved a reasonable level of sophistication. It is possible now to organize images and video data efficiently, model them reasonably well...
Automatic Obligation Enforcement for Privacy Policy Compliance: Mukesh Mohania . It is becoming increasingly important for enterprises to have a well-defined privacy policy, to establish customer trust and to prevent misuse of privacy data and avoid litigation. Many standards exist for the publication of the privacy policy of an ...
Consistent Query Answering in Databases: Leopoldo Bertossi. We address the problems of characterizing and obtaining consistent information from inconsistent databases, i.e. databases that violate given integrity constraints. Our basic assumption departs from the everyday practice of database management ...
Dynamic Data Replication Using Aperidoc Updates in MANET: Sanjay Kumar Madria. Traditional
replication schemes are passive in nature, and rarely
consider the
characteristics of mobile ad hoc network environment. In
this talk, I will
present three dynamic data replication schemes for
mobile ad-hoc netw...
Data Management in Mobile Peer to Peer (M-P2P) systems needs
dynamic data management due to mobility and fragile wireless connection
connecting resource constraint devices. Traditional methods of data
management and services in mobile P2P...
require access to information “anytime, anywhere.” The extensive diversity in the range of information that is accessible to a user at any given time is also growing at a rapid rate. Furthermore, rapidly expanding technol...
Information for People: Laura Haas. Ordinary people have access to unprecedented volumes of information today. Researchers in the fields of information management (IM) and human-computer interaction (HCI) are reacting to this challenge from their own unique perspectives. Having access ...
Internet-Scale Data Distribution: Some Research Problems : M. Tamer Özsu . The increasing growths of the Internet, the Web and mobile environments have had a push-pull effect. On the one hand, these developments have increased the variety and scale of distributed applications. The data management requirements of these appli...
New Trends in Data Integration, Analytics, and BI: Mukesh Mohania . The growth of organizations invariably leads to creation of multiple isolated data sources which are totally disconnected from each other.
This leads to reduced efficiency and lack of complete knowledge of the enterprise and its customers whil...
With critical business information distributed across both structured and unstructured data sources, enterprises are increasingly realizing the importance of seamlessly integrating relevant structured and unstructured data. Existing information ...
An algorithm is presented for finding the k nearest neighbors in a
spatial network in a best-first manner using network distance. The
algorithm is based on precomputing the shortest paths between all
possible vertices in the...
Sorting in Space: Hanan Samet. The representation of spatial data is an important issue in computer
graphics, computer vision, geographic information systems, and robotics.
A wide number of representations is currently in use. Recently, there has
been much in...
In the following, we describe some of the problems discussed in this talk and some of the approaches to tackle them.
In an increasing number of computer applications a diversity of data sources that have to be int...
XML Change Managment Using Relational Model : Sanjay Kumar Madria. The eXtensible Markup Language
(XML) has become the industry standard for data exchanges due to its
simplicity, platform independence, and ease of processing. However, the
dramatic increase in the evolution of XML data available on the Internet...
Microfluidics-based biochips (or lab-on-chip) are
revolutionizing laboratory procedures in molecular biology, and leading to a
convergence of information technology with biochemistry and microelect...
Designing Networked Embedded Systems at Nanoscale: Radu Marculescu . As implementation architectures for complex systems evolve towards heterogeneous multiprocessing, let this be on a single chip or on a geographically distributed area, the importance of communication has reached unprecedented peaks. So far, successfu...
Metamodeling Driven IP Reuse for System-on-chip Integration: Sandeep Shukla. This talk addresses an important problem in reusing intellectual properties (IPs) in the form of reusable design components. The problem is associated with fast and effective integration of reusable design components into a System-on-chip...
Networks-on-Chip: Why, What, and How?: Radu Marculescu . This talk addresses the theoretical foundations and design implications of using the Network-On-Chip (NoC) approach to design the communication infrastructure of future Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). Indeed, by routing packets instead of wires, the very bas...
EDA has played a pivotal role in the past 25 years in making it possible to develop a new generation of electronic systems and circuits. However, innovation in design methodologies has slowed down significantly as we approach a limit in the comp...
EDA has played a pivotal role in the past 25 years in making it possible to develop a new generation of electronic systems and circuits. However, innovation in design methodologies has slowed down significantly as we approach a limit in the comp...
Purpose and Content of Software Architecture Documentation: Shantanu Bhattacharya . Software Architect documentation is
a highly debated topic in the software world. Everyone agrees that this is an
essential document, but the content of the document, amount of the details, the
way of documentation to make it most effecti...
The Law of Cyberspace, Computers, and Technology: David Ellis. The presentation focuses on the emerging fields of
cyberspace and computer and technology law. Included are topics such as the law
of the Internet; protection of computer software and technology through
copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trad...
An industry view of computer science education and accreditation.: Dennis Frailey. Today's competitive companies rely on computing science and computer engineering programs to provide highly qualified staff for computer and software development assignments. Accreditation is one way to identify the programs that meet minimum cri...
Can Software Engineering Thrive in a Computer Science Department?: Dennis Frailey. It has been said that industry wants software engineers but computer science departments are producing future computer science faculty members. This talk focuses on what must happen to make software engineering the discipline that industry needs it t...
Computational Thinking: Jeannette Wing. My vision for the 21st Century: Computational thinking will be a fundamental skill used by everyone in the world. To reading, writing, and arithmetic, we should add computational thinking to every child's analytical ability. Computational t...
Wouldn't it be nice if every educated citizen (or at least every high school graduate) had as good an understanding of "computer science" as they do "chemistry," "biology," or "mathematics?" If c...
Designing A Small Footprint Curriculum for Computing: Lynn Andrea Stein. We describe an innovative computing curriculum that combines elements
of computer science, engineering and design. Although it is tailored
to the constraints we face at Olin college, it contains elements that
are applicable to the design of a ...
Most industrial computing positions require multidisciplinary skills which very few undergrads or grad students directly acquire during their academic career. There are about 40 computational science programs in the U.S. at present. This talk de...
This talk discusses research on gender differences in preferences and styles of play of computer games, and why these differences are important when using computer games as a motivational approach to interesting students in learning computer sci...
Gender, Lies and Videogames: The Truth About Females and Computing: Maria Klawe. This talk explores how girls and women differ from boys and men in their uses of and attitudes towards computers and computing. From playing computer games to pursuing computing careers, the participation of females tends to be very low compared to t...
Online health communities provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances. Changes in the health care system coupled with increased use of the In...
Radically Rethinking CS1: Lynn Andrea Stein. Perhaps the most fundamental idea in modern computer science is that
of interactive processes. Computation is embedded in a (physical or virtual) world; its role is to interact with that world to produce desired behavior. While von Neum...
Rambling after all these years: Yale Patt. After more than 30 years of teaching, while at the same time having some success at research and consulting in the high-tech microprocessor area, I have acquired some opinions on education. If you let me, I would be happy to share some of them. This ...
Reinventing Engineering Education: Building Olin College: Lynn Andrea Stein. Educational institutions evolve slowly. In 2000, the FW Olin Foundation launched a new college with the explicit intent of designing a new kind of engineering education from a clean slate. This talk will explore the key insights gained in...
Service-Learning: How HCI classes can help the community: Jonathan Lazar. Service learning is where course work relates to a community-based project in a way that students get hands-on experience and a community group benefits. In addition, students reflect on how their theory and practice relate, and how their w...
The Importance of the Freshman Course for Majors : Yale Patt. Now that I have published a textbook on the subject (Introduction to Computing Systems: from bits and gates to C and beyond, with Sanjay J. Patel, McGraw-Hill, second edition, 2004) all my credibility is at risk. Nonetheless, I push onward. I believe...
Wireless Networks and Pocket Computers for Everyday Classroom Use: Ronald Vetter. This talk will focus on an innovative project underway at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Several faculty members at UNCW have initiated "Project Numina: Innovative Integration of Media into Science and Mathematics Curricula.&quo...
Many distributed system applications (or portions of applications) are
most naturally structured as a multiplicity of causally-dependent, flows of
execution within and among objects, asynchronously and concurrently. The causal
flow of executi...
The CASA project is an NSF Engineering Research Center investigating the design and implementation of a dense network of low-power meteorological radars whose goal is to collaboratively and adaptively sense the lowest few kilometers of the earth...
Designing Networked Embedded Systems at Nanoscale: Radu Marculescu . As implementation architectures for complex systems evolve towards heterogeneous multiprocessing, let this be on a single chip or on a geographically distributed area, the importance of communication has reached unprecedented peaks. So far, successfu...
Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) is a common mechanism that is used to save CPU energy. DVS addresses the trade-off between performance and battery life by taking into account two important characteristics of most current computer systems: (1) For ...
Event-driven programming has found pervasive acceptance, from high-performance servers to embedded systems, as an efficient method for interacting with a complex world. The fastest research Web servers are event-driven, as is th...
Metamodeling Driven IP Reuse for System-on-chip Integration: Sandeep Shukla. This talk addresses an important problem in reusing intellectual properties (IPs) in the form of reusable design components. The problem is associated with fast and effective integration of reusable design components into a System-on-chip...
Networks-on-Chip: Why, What, and How?: Radu Marculescu . This talk addresses the theoretical foundations and design implications of using the Network-On-Chip (NoC) approach to design the communication infrastructure of future Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). Indeed, by routing packets instead of wires, the very bas...
Most embedded real-time software involve mutually
exclusive, concurrent access to shared objects, resulting in contention for
those objects, which can potentially
compromise timeliness behavior. T...
Technological and economic developments have made the Internet a viable platform for a new, "collaborative" modality of Internet-based computing (IC, for short). Within this modality, the owner of a large, typically compute-intensive, ...
Microfluidics-based biochips (or lab-on-chip) are
revolutionizing laboratory procedures in molecular biology, and leading to a
convergence of information technology with biochemistry and microelect...
Beauty and the Beast: The Theory and Practice of Information Integration : Laura Haas. Information integration is becoming a critical problem for businesses and individuals alike. Data volumes are sky-rocketing, and new sources and types of information are proliferating. This talk briefly reviews some of the key research accompli...
Cellular telephones have become an integral part of the modern world in much the same way as the Internet has, providing human connectivity in a way never before possible. While most cell phones are used for their original intent, making telepho...
Designing Networked Embedded Systems at Nanoscale: Radu Marculescu . As implementation architectures for complex systems evolve towards heterogeneous multiprocessing, let this be on a single chip or on a geographically distributed area, the importance of communication has reached unprecedented peaks. So far, successfu...
Emerging Web Technologies: Ronald Vetter. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has developed several open recommendations, extending existing Internet standards, to enable wireless devices full access to the web and its information base. With the rapid introduction of new kinds of web browser...
How is technology changing the Retailing Customer Experience: Albert Wong. In this presentation, find out how technology is changing the customer experience in Retail. We'll talk about how retailers like Best Buy, Walgreens, 7-Eleven, McDonalds, Marks and Spencers, Virgin and others are using emerging technology like ec...
Impact of Technology Trends in Computer Architecture : Jaime Moreno. Recent technology trends
are driving significant changes to the architecture and structure of computer
systems. For many years, the main driver of advances in computers has been the
constant progress in microelectronics miniaturization, leading...
On 'Exploiting' Node-Heterogeneous Clusters Optimally: Arnold Rosenberg. We prove that FIFO worksharing protocols provide asymptotically optimal solutions to the Cluster-Exploitation Problem (CEP), wherein one seeks to accomplish as much work as possible on a node-heterogeneous cluster C during a prespecified fixed period...
SOA is one software architecture
methodology which highlights the need for IT and business alignment. This goes
on to such an extent that senior management is supposed to be the key
stakeholders in this exercise for...
Service Oriented Architecture - Technology Perspective: Shantanu Bhattacharya . This talk on SOA specifically
focuses on the technology aspects that are essential for SOA in an organization
to be successful. Though many times SOA is thought of as a technology agnostic
topic, but this talk identifies the essentials wh...
Though the internet is a host of abundant
information about almost everything, many still remain unfamiliar to active
computer usage and web browsing. However, a vast majority of such population has
access to telephones. In this talk I pre...
We are in the early years of a revolution in wireless communications and the future holds many possibilities. Central to this revolution is the ability to dynamically program (and reprogram) radios, so that innovation in radios will come at the ...
This talk discusses research on gender differences in preferences and styles of play of computer games, and why these differences are important when using computer games as a motivational approach to interesting students in learning computer sci...
Pumping Up the Future of Interactive Games : Michael Zyda. The USC Department of Computer Science is in its
third year of operating its BS in Computer Science (Games) and MS in Computer
Science (Game Development) degree programs. We have developed an interesting
educational architecture inside of that deg...
Sorting in Space: Hanan Samet. The representation of spatial data is an important issue in computer
graphics, computer vision, geographic information systems, and robotics.
A wide number of representations is currently in use. Recently, there has
been much in...
Discrete-event simulation is commonly used to study the behavior of communication networks. However, devising meaningful simulation models for large-scale systems is difficult, and is a topic of considerable concern and debate. Problems include ...
Although sustained petaflop performance for real applications is still some years away, many architecture trends are emerging that will shape how we will achieve that goal. We expect these systems to have millions of processor cores spread acros...
As multi-core processors
evolve, coherence traffic between cores is becoming problematic, both in terms
of performance and power. The negative effects of coherence (snoop) traffic can
be significantly mitigated through snoop filtering. Shield...
Compared to conventional
SRAM, embedded DRAM (eDRAM) offers power, bandwidth and density advantages for
large on-chip cache memories. However, eDRAM suffers from comparatively slower
access times than conventional SRAM arrays. To hide eDRAM a...
GridNexus: A Grid Services Scientific Workflow System: Ronald Vetter. This talk will introduce GridNexus, a graphical system for creating and executing scientific workflows in a grid environment that was created by faculty and students at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. GridNexus allows the user to asse...
Impact of Technology Trends in Computer Architecture : Jaime Moreno. Recent technology trends
are driving significant changes to the architecture and structure of computer
systems. For many years, the main driver of advances in computers has been the
constant progress in microelectronics miniaturization, leading...
On 'Exploiting' Node-Heterogeneous Clusters Optimally: Arnold Rosenberg. We prove that FIFO worksharing protocols provide asymptotically optimal solutions to the Cluster-Exploitation Problem (CEP), wherein one seeks to accomplish as much work as possible on a node-heterogeneous cluster C during a prespecified fixed period...
This talk draws on practical experiences in programming a wide variety of commercial parallel systems. It reviews different classifications of parallelism, discusses available hardware, and contrasts vector computing with parallel computing. In ...
A major issue that prevents the widespread adoption of parallel programming is the low productivity of parallel programmers. Typically writing a correct and efficient parallel program requires a more skilled programmer than writing the corr...
Digital media are becoming increasingly more common as a repository and representation of intellectual property, especially audio, images, and video. With this ubiquity come requirements for security (who may gain access the content?) and integr...
Recent Advances in Branch Prediction: Daniel Ángel Jiménez. Control hazards are a significant impediment to performance modern
microprocessors. Microprocessors mitigate control hazards by using
branch predictors to speculatively fetch and execute instructions beyond
conditional branches. ...
Historically, technology has been the main driver
of computer performance. For many system generations, CMOS scaling has been
leveraged to increase clock speed and build increasingly complex
microarchitectures. As technology-driven
performa...
The Microprocessor: Its Characteristics Ten Years from now: Yale Patt. The number of transistors on a single chip has grown from 2300 on the original Intel 4004 to over one billion today. In just a few years, the solid-state circuits people are projecting more than ten billion transistors, and a clock frequency in exces...
BlueGene/L (BG/L), developed through a partnership between IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), remains the world's largest system both in terms of scale with 212,992 processors and absolute performance with a peak rate of ...
The activity of modeling necessarily means developing abstractions; in doing so some information about the system of interest is lost. There is an art to abstraction---finding one that captures the essential system behavior while remaining compu...
Using Motion Planning to Study Molecular Motions: Nancy Amato. Protein motions, ranging from molecular flexibility to large-scale conformational change, play an essential role in many biochemical processes. For example, some devastating diseases such as Alzheimer's and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...
This presentation focuses on the transition from an algorithm to a program. Algorithm analysis is a well-studied discipline, as is software development. However, at the interface between these two disciplines much can and does go wrong. In fact,...
Technological and economic developments have made the Internet a viable platform for a new, "collaborative" modality of Internet-based computing (IC, for short). Within this modality, the owner of a large, typically compute-intensive, ...
GridNexus: A Grid Services Scientific Workflow System: Ronald Vetter. This talk will introduce GridNexus, a graphical system for creating and executing scientific workflows in a grid environment that was created by faculty and students at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. GridNexus allows the user to asse...
The Microprocessor: Its Characteristics Ten Years from now: Yale Patt. The number of transistors on a single chip has grown from 2300 on the original Intel 4004 to over one billion today. In just a few years, the solid-state circuits people are projecting more than ten billion transistors, and a clock frequency in exces...
In 2003, two land mark cases challenged the University of Michigan admissions policies, one focused on Law School admission and the other on undergraduate admissions. In Grutter v. Bollinger, the case focused on the Law School, the U. S. S...
As a result of Florida 2000, some people concluded that paper ballots simply couldn't be counted, even though businesses, banks, racetracks, lottery systems, and other entities in our society count and deal with paper all the time. Ins...
Current issues in Human-Computer Interaction and Public Policy : Jonathan Lazar. This talk describes how government policy impacts on the work done in human-computer interaction, and discusses the current status of policy initiatives in a number of areas. Topics addressed include voting machine usability, web accessibility, ...
Having systems that can be used by dextrous, sighted users is not enough.
Almost all systems are deployed where some of the users have some form of disability. In this talk I define 'accessibility' ? the success in accessing...
Information Retrieval in Context: Susan Dumais. Most information retrieval technologies are designed to facilitate information discovery. However, much knowledge work involves finding and re-using previously seen information in the context of ongoing work activities. An overview of tec...
Information for People: Laura Haas. Ordinary people have access to unprecedented volumes of information today. Researchers in the fields of information management (IM) and human-computer interaction (HCI) are reacting to this challenge from their own unique perspectives. Having access ...
This talk addresses how users find information on a web site and the related subject of how information is structured on a site. Included in this talk are interface aspects of navigation, technical concerns for naviga...
Lessons from Wearable Computing and Beyond: Daniel Siewiorek. The confluence of decades of computer science and computer engineering research in multi-modal interaction such as speech and gesture recognition; machine learning such as classification and feature extraction; software such as web browsers and distr...
Online health communities provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances. Changes in the health care system coupled with increased use of the In...
Prime III: Electronic Voting in the 21st Century : Juan Gilbert. Subsequent to the debacle of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, it became abundantly clear that America’s archaic voting system was in dire need of a major overhaul. Consequently, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines were p...
Ever since the advent of video and
computer games almost thirty years ago, efforts have made to create
electronic games would achieve a variety of “serious” objectives
ranging from education, to health care...
Starting with an overview of several viruses, including their properties, origins, and flaws, this talk presents precursors of viruses and worms and changes in the computing milieu that have materially contributed to the phenomenon. It then give...
Universal Usability: What does it mean and why should I care?: Jonathan Lazar. This talk introduces the concept of universal usability, describing why people should care, how to design for universal usability, and why this is important for business. Universal usability includes user diversity, te...
User-Centered Design Processes for Web Sites: Jonathan Lazar. This talk, loosely based on the book I wrote titled "Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach", offers information on the design process for web sites. This talk addresses methods and techniques for user involvement, when involve...
As a result of Florida 2000, some people concluded that paper ballots simply couldn't be counted, even though businesses, banks, racetracks, lottery systems, and other entities in our society count and deal with paper all the time. Ins...
Prime III: Electronic Voting in the 21st Century : Juan Gilbert. Subsequent to the debacle of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, it became abundantly clear that America’s archaic voting system was in dire need of a major overhaul. Consequently, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines were p...
Lessons from Wearable Computing and Beyond: Daniel Siewiorek. The confluence of decades of computer science and computer engineering research in multi-modal interaction such as speech and gesture recognition; machine learning such as classification and feature extraction; software such as web browsers and distr...
Spatial Databases and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Hanan Samet. An introduction is given to the spatial database issues involved in
the design of geographic information systems (GIS) from the perspective
of a computer scientist. Some of the topics to be discussed include
the nature of a...
require access to information “anytime, anywhere.” The extensive diversity in the range of information that is accessible to a user at any given time is also growing at a rapid rate. Furthermore, rapidly expanding technol...
Information Retrieval in Context: Susan Dumais. Most information retrieval technologies are designed to facilitate information discovery. However, much knowledge work involves finding and re-using previously seen information in the context of ongoing work activities. An overview of tec...
An algorithm is presented for finding the k nearest neighbors in a
spatial network in a best-first manner using network distance. The
algorithm is based on precomputing the shortest paths between all
possible vertices in the...
Sorting in Space: Hanan Samet. The representation of spatial data is an important issue in computer
graphics, computer vision, geographic information systems, and robotics.
A wide number of representations is currently in use. Recently, there has
been much in...
One of the most important
applications of data mining is in the area of anomaly (rare event)
detection. Applications include
intrusion detection, fraud detection, and prediction of terrorist...
Spatial Databases and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Hanan Samet. An introduction is given to the spatial database issues involved in
the design of geographic information systems (GIS) from the perspective
of a computer scientist. Some of the topics to be discussed include
the nature of a...
Consistent Query Answering in Databases: Leopoldo Bertossi. We address the problems of characterizing and obtaining consistent information from inconsistent databases, i.e. databases that violate given integrity constraints. Our basic assumption departs from the everyday practice of database management ...
require access to information “anytime, anywhere.” The extensive diversity in the range of information that is accessible to a user at any given time is also growing at a rapid rate. Furthermore, rapidly expanding technol...
Body shape can have interesting consequences and characterizing these shapes can have a significant impact on a number of industries not to mention your underwear! This talk will present the result of mischaracterized body shape and how they aff...
Human shape is one of the most personal and misunderstood forms with a host of uses! Anthropometry, the measurement of humans has been around for centuries. Recently 3D laser scanning has begun to be used as a method to characterize the entire s...
Discrete-event simulation is commonly used to study the behavior of communication networks. However, devising meaningful simulation models for large-scale systems is difficult, and is a topic of considerable concern and debate. Problems include ...
The activity of modeling necessarily means developing abstractions; in doing so some information about the system of interest is lost. There is an art to abstraction---finding one that captures the essential system behavior while remaining compu...
As multi-core processors
evolve, coherence traffic between cores is becoming problematic, both in terms
of performance and power. The negative effects of coherence (snoop) traffic can
be significantly mitigated through snoop filtering. Shield...
Compared to conventional
SRAM, embedded DRAM (eDRAM) offers power, bandwidth and density advantages for
large on-chip cache memories. However, eDRAM suffers from comparatively slower
access times than conventional SRAM arrays. To hide eDRAM a...
The past 25 years have been a very exciting time for computer technology.
A lot of this excitement was due to new opportunities made available by
semiconductor technology: once basic uniprocessor functionality could be
Networks-on-Chip: Why, What, and How?: Radu Marculescu . This talk addresses the theoretical foundations and design implications of using the Network-On-Chip (NoC) approach to design the communication infrastructure of future Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). Indeed, by routing packets instead of wires, the very bas...
Recent Advances in Branch Prediction: Daniel Ángel Jiménez. Control hazards are a significant impediment to performance modern
microprocessors. Microprocessors mitigate control hazards by using
branch predictors to speculatively fetch and execute instructions beyond
conditional branches. ...
The Microprocessor: Its Characteristics Ten Years from now: Yale Patt. The number of transistors on a single chip has grown from 2300 on the original Intel 4004 to over one billion today. In just a few years, the solid-state circuits people are projecting more than ten billion transistors, and a clock frequency in exces...
The Toilers are a unique group of staff, graduate students, and undergraduates who research ad hoc networks, specifically wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). These types of networks are defined by ...
Cellular telephones have become an integral part of the modern world in much the same way as the Internet has, providing human connectivity in a way never before possible. While most cell phones are used for their original intent, making telepho...
Dynamic Data Replication Using Aperidoc Updates in MANET: Sanjay Kumar Madria. Traditional
replication schemes are passive in nature, and rarely
consider the
characteristics of mobile ad hoc network environment. In
this talk, I will
present three dynamic data replication schemes for
mobile ad-hoc netw...
Data Management in Mobile Peer to Peer (M-P2P) systems needs
dynamic data management due to mobility and fragile wireless connection
connecting resource constraint devices. Traditional methods of data
management and services in mobile P2P...
Fundamentals of Wireless Networks Systems: Mohammad S. Obaidat. The field of wireless networks systems has witnessed tremendous growth in recent years causing it to become one of the fastest growing segments of the telecommunications technology. As wireless networks evolve with increasing size and profitability, ...
require access to information “anytime, anywhere.” The extensive diversity in the range of information that is accessible to a user at any given time is also growing at a rapid rate. Furthermore, rapidly expanding technol...
Lessons from Wearable Computing and Beyond: Daniel Siewiorek. The confluence of decades of computer science and computer engineering research in multi-modal interaction such as speech and gesture recognition; machine learning such as classification and feature extraction; software such as web browsers and distr...
Simulation is the research tool of choice for a majority of the mobile ad hoc network (MANET) community. However, while the use of simulation has increased, the credibility of the simulation results has decreased. To determine the...
New Protocols for Wireless Networks: Mohammad S. Obaidat. This talk presents some of our recent research results including new protocols for wireless networks. Among these, an adaptive MAC protocol for distributed wireless LANs that is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. Accord...
Wireless Networks and Pocket Computers for Everyday Classroom Use: Ronald Vetter. This talk will focus on an innovative project underway at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Several faculty members at UNCW have initiated "Project Numina: Innovative Integration of Media into Science and Mathematics Curricula.&quo...
XML Change Managment Using Relational Model : Sanjay Kumar Madria. The eXtensible Markup Language
(XML) has become the industry standard for data exchanges due to its
simplicity, platform independence, and ease of processing. However, the
dramatic increase in the evolution of XML data available on the Internet...
require access to information “anytime, anywhere.” The extensive diversity in the range of information that is accessible to a user at any given time is also growing at a rapid rate. Furthermore, rapidly expanding technol...
Lessons from Wearable Computing and Beyond: Daniel Siewiorek. The confluence of decades of computer science and computer engineering research in multi-modal interaction such as speech and gesture recognition; machine learning such as classification and feature extraction; software such as web browsers and distr...
The Toilers are a unique group of staff, graduate students, and undergraduates who research ad hoc networks, specifically wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). These types of networks are defined by ...
Simulation is the research tool of choice for a majority of the mobile ad hoc network (MANET) community. However, while the use of simulation has increased, the credibility of the simulation results has decreased. To determine the...
New Protocols for Wireless Networks: Mohammad S. Obaidat. This talk presents some of our recent research results including new protocols for wireless networks. Among these, an adaptive MAC protocol for distributed wireless LANs that is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. Accord...
require access to information “anytime, anywhere.” The extensive diversity in the range of information that is accessible to a user at any given time is also growing at a rapid rate. Furthermore, rapidly expanding technol...
Wireless Networks and Pocket Computers for Everyday Classroom Use: Ronald Vetter. This talk will focus on an innovative project underway at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Several faculty members at UNCW have initiated "Project Numina: Innovative Integration of Media into Science and Mathematics Curricula.&quo...
The Toilers are a unique group of staff, graduate students, and undergraduates who research ad hoc networks, specifically wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). These types of networks are defined by ...
New Protocols for Wireless Networks: Mohammad S. Obaidat. This talk presents some of our recent research results including new protocols for wireless networks. Among these, an adaptive MAC protocol for distributed wireless LANs that is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. Accord...
For nearly 10 years a number of 3D standards and de-facto specifications have been created to bring the experience of 3D computer graphics to the casual web surfer. These graphic standards have been wildly hyped, some of them ha...
Achievements and Remaining Challenges in Multimedia Data Modeling: M. Tamer Özsu . Multimedia research over the past decade has resulted in the development of multimedia data managers that have achieved a reasonable level of sophistication. It is possible now to organize images and video data efficiently, model them reasonably well...
Computing Science graduates working in the IT world often find themselves in an organization implementing an Enterprise Wide system. These systems are often built around and are configured using Higher Order Languages that require skills in &quo...
The Law of Cyberspace, Computers, and Technology: David Ellis. The presentation focuses on the emerging fields of
cyberspace and computer and technology law. Included are topics such as the law
of the Internet; protection of computer software and technology through
copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trad...
Discrete-event simulation is commonly used to study the behavior of communication networks. However, devising meaningful simulation models for large-scale systems is difficult, and is a topic of considerable concern and debate. Problems include ...
The CASA project is an NSF Engineering Research Center investigating the design and implementation of a dense network of low-power meteorological radars whose goal is to collaboratively and adaptively sense the lowest few kilometers of the earth...
What do sensor grids, personalized news distribution, decentralized auctioning, service discovery, multi-player games, and information fusion and dissemination have in common? They are large-scale, loosely coupled, multi-party, distributed appli...
This talk provides a tutorial introduction to mobile wireless data networks. We begin with an overview of the evolution of wireless technologies and networks. We then begin a “bottom-up” study of wireless networks, starti...
The field of computer networking is 40 years old, arguably approaching middle age (at least in human years). In this time, networks have grown from research curiosities to become a key part of the global communications infrastructure. The overal...
The activity of modeling necessarily means developing abstractions; in doing so some information about the system of interest is lost. There is an art to abstraction---finding one that captures the essential system behavior while remaining compu...
Lessons Learned from Building the K42 Operating System : Dilma Da Silva. K42 is one of the few recent research projects that
examined operating system design structure
issues in the context of new whole-system design. K42 is open source and was designed from the ground up to perform well
and to be scalable, customiz...
System Software for Cloud Computing : Dilma Da Silva. Cloud computing has been receiving a lot of attention from the computing community. It is perceived as some as the "IT fad of the moment" and by others as a revolutionary approach to deliver computing services. In this talk we analyze cloud...
A Model of Compensable Transactions: C.Antony Hoare. The concept of a transaction is well known from data bases. It is a fragment of program which either completes its intended function, or fails having restored the state of the computer to what it was on the start. It works well for activities t...
Optimizing compilers often need feedback from training runs of programs to determine the frequency of execution of different paths and the affinity between data elements. Currently static compilers rely on static feedback data, ie. data that is ...
Good programming and software engineering practices encourage the semantically-meaningful encapsulation of data into objects or data structures. These practices also encourage the design and implementation of relatively small, self contained, mo...
Escape Analysis and its Application: Vugranam Sreedhar . Escape analysis is a technique for detecting
when a memory object will escape a method or a thread. In this talk I
will discuss few algorithms for escape
analysis and illustrate several applications of escape analysis, including stack
allocat...
The history of programming languages provides a fascinating backdrop for discussing the idea of quality in language design. Over the years, many languages have introduced some excellent features, but no single language has captured the ima...
This talk draws on practical experiences in programming a wide variety of commercial parallel systems. It reviews different classifications of parallelism, discusses available hardware, and contrasts vector computing with parallel computing. In ...
A major issue that prevents the widespread adoption of parallel programming is the low productivity of parallel programmers. Typically writing a correct and efficient parallel program requires a more skilled programmer than writing the corr...
Digital media are becoming increasingly more common as a repository and representation of intellectual property, especially audio, images, and video. With this ubiquity come requirements for security (who may gain access the content?) and integr...
A revolution in register allocation is going on right now: compared to the state of the art, the new register allocators are much simpler and generate code of equivalent quality. In 2005, Bouchez, Brisk et al., and Hack independently discovered ...
Static Single Assignment (SSA) Form is now a well
accepted intermediate representation for compiler optimization. In this talk I will discuss the core ideas behind SSA form,
related representations, and how they is used in impro...
It is well known that the expressive power afforded by concurrency comes at the expense of increased complexity. Without proper synchronization, concurrent access to shared objects can lead to race conditions, and incorrect synchronization logic...
Translation Validation: Automatically Proving the Correctness of: Hanan Samet. An early system for proving that programs written in a high level
language are correctly translated to a low level language is
described. A primary use of the system is as a postoptimization step
in code generation. It can ...
This presentation focuses on the transition from an algorithm to a program. Algorithm analysis is a well-studied discipline, as is software development. However, at the interface between these two disciplines much can and does go wrong. In fact,...
This talk draws on practical experiences in programming a wide variety of commercial parallel systems. It reviews different classifications of parallelism, discusses available hardware, and contrasts vector computing with parallel computing. In ...
A narrow, but common, view of computer science is that it is simply about
building tools for computation - languages, computers, and so on. In fact, the
essence of computer science is much deeper and broader than that. When one
loo...
Although sustained petaflop performance for real applications is still some years away, many architecture trends are emerging that will shape how we will achieve that goal. We expect these systems to have millions of processor cores spread acros...
Accurate means for prediction of the structure of nucleic
acids (RNA and DNA molecules) are increasingly in demand, because of
their regulatory and catalytic roles in the cell, their promise in
therapeutics, and their use in...
Some people today believe that computer science has little more to offer
beyond the practical developments that are pouring out of Google, Intel,
Microsoft, and a thousand small companies. A narrow view of computer science
might ag...
Science, Computational Science, and Computer Science: Peter Freeman. This talk will explore some aspects of and relationships between science,
computational science, and computer science. Broadly speaking, scientific
research is the systematic development of information about a subject and the
formation of...
BlueGene/L (BG/L), developed through a partnership between IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), remains the world's largest system both in terms of scale with 212,992 processors and absolute performance with a peak rate of ...
Using Motion Planning to Study Molecular Motions: Nancy Amato. Protein motions, ranging from molecular flexibility to large-scale conformational change, play an essential role in many biochemical processes. For example, some devastating diseases such as Alzheimer's and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...
A narrow, but common, view of computer science is that it is simply about
building tools for computation - languages, computers, and so on. In fact, the
essence of computer science is much deeper and broader than that. When one
loo...
Some people today believe that computer science has little more to offer
beyond the practical developments that are pouring out of Google, Intel,
Microsoft, and a thousand small companies. A narrow view of computer science
might ag...
Security, Audit & Control
Automatic Generation and Analysis of Attack Graphs: Jeannette Wing. Attack graphs represent the ways in which an adversary can exploit vulnerabilities to break into a system. Systems administrators analyze these attack graphs to understand where their system's weaknesses lie and to help decide which security meas...
Discrete-event simulation is commonly used to study the behavior of communication networks. However, devising meaningful simulation models for large-scale systems is difficult, and is a topic of considerable concern and debate. Problems include ...
The history of cryptography can be likened to a reawaking history of mathematics and computer science. The story of cryptography goes back 4000 years and some of the mathematics employed goes back as long.
The same Internet that provides us with access to enormous repositories of information, sustains e-commerce, and provides global interactivity, also exposes us to a wide range of vulnerabilities. This talk will discuss such vulnerabilities...
Information Security, Risk, and Compliance : Vugranam Sreedhar . Information security, risk, and compliance are key to the
existence of any medium to large scale companies. When security is comprised the company is at risk to loosing its
intellectual property, money, and reputation, and the company may be viol...
Cybersecurity and information privacy have become critical issues in our
society in the past ten years, but the first concerns are much older than that.
Governments, organizations, and individuals spend a large amount of time and
e...
For the past decade, Internet Forensics has been subsumed under the rubric of Computer Forensics. Typically, Internet forensics is buried in the latter chapters of Computer Forensics books - usually between "the Criminal Justice System"...
Prime III: Electronic Voting in the 21st Century : Juan Gilbert. Subsequent to the debacle of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, it became abundantly clear that America’s archaic voting system was in dire need of a major overhaul. Consequently, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines were p...
The rapid explosion in Internet use has added new dimensions to the business of risk aversion, both in terms of illegal and unethical activities. The new millennia carries with it previously unimagined categories of Internet activity that is of ...
An election is a complex process that integrates the
activities of various types of agents, both human and automated. The process
must be flexible and extensible to capture the variations
that exist in practice among different jurisdictions, ...
Starting with an overview of several viruses, including their properties, origins, and flaws, this talk presents precursors of viruses and worms and changes in the computing milieu that have materially contributed to the phenomenon. It then give...
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has been in the industry
for quiet some time now. However, the expanse of its usage is not commensurate
with the potential which is generally attributed to it.
The activity of modeling necessarily means developing abstractions; in doing so some information about the system of interest is lost. There is an art to abstraction---finding one that captures the essential system behavior while remaining compu...
For the past decade, Internet Forensics has been subsumed under the rubric of Computer Forensics. Typically, Internet forensics is buried in the latter chapters of Computer Forensics books - usually between "the Criminal Justice System"...
The rapid explosion in Internet use has added new dimensions to the business of risk aversion, both in terms of illegal and unethical activities. The new millennia carries with it previously unimagined categories of Internet activity that is of ...
The history of cryptography can be likened to a reawaking history of mathematics and computer science. The story of cryptography goes back 4000 years and some of the mathematics employed goes back as long.
The same Internet that provides us with access to enormous repositories of information, sustains e-commerce, and provides global interactivity, also exposes us to a wide range of vulnerabilities. This talk will discuss such vulnerabilities...
For the past decade, Internet Forensics has been subsumed under the rubric of Computer Forensics. Typically, Internet forensics is buried in the latter chapters of Computer Forensics books - usually between "the Criminal Justice System"...
The rapid explosion in Internet use has added new dimensions to the business of risk aversion, both in terms of illegal and unethical activities. The new millennia carries with it previously unimagined categories of Internet activity that is of ...
The same Internet that provides us with access to enormous repositories of information, sustains e-commerce, and provides global interactivity, also exposes us to a wide range of vulnerabilities. This talk will discuss such vulnerabilities...
For the past decade, Internet Forensics has been subsumed under the rubric of Computer Forensics. Typically, Internet forensics is buried in the latter chapters of Computer Forensics books - usually between "the Criminal Justice System"...
The rapid explosion in Internet use has added new dimensions to the business of risk aversion, both in terms of illegal and unethical activities. The new millennia carries with it previously unimagined categories of Internet activity that is of ...
The rapid explosion in Internet use has added new dimensions to the business of risk aversion, both in terms of illegal and unethical activities. The new millennia carries with it previously unimagined categories of Internet activity that is of ...
The same Internet that provides us with access to enormous repositories of information, sustains e-commerce, and provides global interactivity, also exposes us to a wide range of vulnerabilities. This talk will discuss such vulnerabilities...
For the past decade, Internet Forensics has been subsumed under the rubric of Computer Forensics. Typically, Internet forensics is buried in the latter chapters of Computer Forensics books - usually between "the Criminal Justice System"...
The rapid explosion in Internet use has added new dimensions to the business of risk aversion, both in terms of illegal and unethical activities. The new millennia carries with it previously unimagined categories of Internet activity that is of ...
Discrete-event simulation is commonly used to study the behavior of communication networks. However, devising meaningful simulation models for large-scale systems is difficult, and is a topic of considerable concern and debate. Problems include ...
Although sustained petaflop performance for real applications is still some years away, many architecture trends are emerging that will shape how we will achieve that goal. We expect these systems to have millions of processor cores spread acros...
BlueGene/L (BG/L), developed through a partnership between IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), remains the world's largest system both in terms of scale with 212,992 processors and absolute performance with a peak rate of ...
The activity of modeling necessarily means developing abstractions; in doing so some information about the system of interest is lost. There is an art to abstraction---finding one that captures the essential system behavior while remaining compu...
A Career in IT Consulting: Albert Wong. As a person who is interested in working in the IT Consulting field, you may be suprised that there are many careers for you to choose from. In this session, we'll talk about the 2 most common careers (IT Architect and IT Specialist) that compute...
Agility Situated: Philippe Kruchten . There are little doubts about the intrinsic value of agile
practices: well applied by the right people, they do wonder, on the right
problem. But are they always suited to the task? Software projects and software
development organizations cover a ...
Agility and Architecture: an Oxymoron?: Philippe Kruchten . Software
architecture is taking a bad rap with many agile proponents; big up-front
design, massive documentation, smell of waterfall, it is pictured as a
non-agile practice, something we do not want to even consider; though everybody
want to be c...
Agilité en situation: Philippe Kruchten . Il ne
subsiste guère de doutes sur la valeur intrinsèque des pratiques agiles : bien
appliquées, par les bonnes personnes, sur le bon problème, elles font
merveille. Mais sont-elles toujours adaptées au tra...
Designing means making a succession of choices. The
decisions that we make are a key component to understand the design, especially
with regard to the architectural choices that we’ve made. A “decision view”
provides a usefu...
Architecture du logiciel et agilité-- incompatibles?: Philippe Kruchten . L’architecture du logiciel semble prendre
une raclée chez les défendeurs des méthodes agile : big up-front design,
grosse artillerie tôt dans le projet, un vague relent de cycle de vie en
cascade, l’arch...
Computer Ethics and Technology: Donald Gotterbarn . This talk focuses on computer ethics as it relates to the day to day activities of practicing computer professionals. The emphasis is on real world moral and legal issues for the practicing computer professionals and with a focus on how one resolves ...
Incontrovertible is the enormous change in software engineering practice that has occurred over the past decades. The worldwide software industry now generates hundreds of billions of US dollars in revenue annually and continues to expand in sco...
Décisions de conception architecturale: Philippe Kruchten . Concevoir
implique faire une succession de choix. Les décisions que l’on prend
consitituent un élément clef pour comprendre la conception, en particulier la
conception architecturale. Une « vue des d&eac...
Can you afford to release software that could bring down the store, leave phone calls hanging, or route two airplanes into the same airspace? Can you prevent software bugs that "should be" caught in testing from eluding your testing te...
These days, if you say that you are doing research in the area of computer security you instantly receive attention. Sadly, the same cannot be said of software engineering. But are the two areas really so different? Both seem to be concerned wit...
Simulation has been used by software engineers for many years to study the functionality and performance of complex distributed system designs. For example, they are used to understand network protocols, tune distributed systems, and improve dis...
Software engineering has
come to recognize the value of effective development processes as vehicles for
addressing such goals as improved efficiency in software development, the
achievement of improved product quality, and better...
Purpose and Content of Software Architecture Documentation: Shantanu Bhattacharya . Software Architect documentation is
a highly debated topic in the software world. Everyone agrees that this is an
essential document, but the content of the document, amount of the details, the
way of documentation to make it most effecti...
SOA is one software architecture
methodology which highlights the need for IT and business alignment. This goes
on to such an extent that senior management is supposed to be the key
stakeholders in this exercise for...
Service Oriented Architecture - Technology Perspective: Shantanu Bhattacharya . This talk on SOA specifically
focuses on the technology aspects that are essential for SOA in an organization
to be successful. Though many times SOA is thought of as a technology agnostic
topic, but this talk identifies the essentials wh...
Services Oriented Architecture for People: Albert Wong. Want to understand what is Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)? Want to understand why it's important to businesses? Want to understand why Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) is different from other architectures that have been proposed in the...
Software Development: More Than Just Programming : Donald Gotterbarn . We are often surprised by the number of non-programming related issues that affect the professional’s efforts to develop quality software and web interfaces. Development efforts are constrained in a number of positive and negative ways. This ta...
Software Engineering - Best Practices: Dennis Frailey. How do you build software so good that lives can depend on it? What’s the difference between developing a program that works and developing a program that’s reliable and dependable? How would you manage a software project that requi...
An election is a complex process that integrates the
activities of various types of agents, both human and automated. The process
must be flexible and extensible to capture the variations
that exist in practice among different jurisdictions, ...
To teach the principles of
software design, there's no better motivator than a project that can be
completed in a semester, real-world clients will value, and others may freely
adapt later to different applications. This talk i...
Expectation from Software Architects
is manifold. At times, jotting down all the responsibilities of an ideal
software architect could lead to creation of awe in the mind of the
readers.
It is well known that the expressive power afforded by concurrency comes at the expense of increased complexity. Without proper synchronization, concurrent access to shared objects can lead to race conditions, and incorrect synchronization logic...
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has been in the industry
for quiet some time now. However, the expanse of its usage is not commensurate
with the potential which is generally attributed to it.
This talk is direc...
The Ideal of Program Correctness: C.Antony Hoare. Program correctness is a scientific ideal for Computer Science, like accuracy of measurement is for physics, or purity of materials for Chemistry. Its should be pursued independent of practical applications, exploiting scientific method to ensu...
BlueGene/L (BG/L), developed through a partnership between IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), remains the world's largest system both in terms of scale with 212,992 processors and absolute performance with a peak rate of ...
Translation Validation: Automatically Proving the Correctness of: Hanan Samet. An early system for proving that programs written in a high level
language are correctly translated to a low level language is
described. A primary use of the system is as a postoptimization step
in code generation. It can ...
Unmanaged Risk: Why Systems Don¿t Work: Donald Gotterbarn . The focus on software testing and risk analysis during software development has only had a limited effect in reducing software failures. This talk will present a new approach to the identification of software risk and reduce the rate of system failur...
Can you afford to release software that could bring down the store, leave phone calls hanging, or route two airplanes into the same airspace? Can you prevent software bugs that "should be" caught in testing from eluding your testing te...
Improving Software Development Cycle Time: Dennis Frailey. Being first to market is a critical factor for business success. Yet we often hear complaints about the poor quality of software that was rushed in order to meet a deadline. "Agile" methods of rapid software development have been touted in ...
Service Oriented Architecture - Technology Perspective: Shantanu Bhattacharya . This talk on SOA specifically
focuses on the technology aspects that are essential for SOA in an organization
to be successful. Though many times SOA is thought of as a technology agnostic
topic, but this talk identifies the essentials wh...
It is well known that the expressive power afforded by concurrency comes at the expense of increased complexity. Without proper synchronization, concurrent access to shared objects can lead to race conditions, and incorrect synchronization logic...
Accurate means for prediction of the structure of nucleic
acids (RNA and DNA molecules) are increasingly in demand, because of
their regulatory and catalytic roles in the cell, their promise in
therapeutics, and their use in...
Lumines Forever: Maria Klawe. The talk explores the mathematics involved in winning forever at Lumines, a Tetris-like game.
On 'Exploiting' Node-Heterogeneous Clusters Optimally: Arnold Rosenberg. We prove that FIFO worksharing protocols provide asymptotically optimal solutions to the Cluster-Exploitation Problem (CEP), wherein one seeks to accomplish as much work as possible on a node-heterogeneous cluster C during a prespecified fixed period...
A revolution in register allocation is going on right now: compared to the state of the art, the new register allocators are much simpler and generate code of equivalent quality. In 2005, Bouchez, Brisk et al., and Hack independently discovered ...
An algorithm is presented for finding the k nearest neighbors in a
spatial network in a best-first manner using network distance. The
algorithm is based on precomputing the shortest paths between all
possible vertices in the...
Using Motion Planning to Study Molecular Motions: Nancy Amato. Protein motions, ranging from molecular flexibility to large-scale conformational change, play an essential role in many biochemical processes. For example, some devastating diseases such as Alzheimer's and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...
Technological and economic developments have made the Internet a viable platform for a new, "collaborative" modality of Internet-based computing (IC, for short). Within this modality, the owner of a large, typically compute-intensive, ...
For nearly 10 years a number of 3D standards and de-facto specifications have been created to bring the experience of 3D computer graphics to the casual web surfer. These graphic standards have been wildly hyped, some of them ha...
Cellular telephones have become an integral part of the modern world in much the same way as the Internet has, providing human connectivity in a way never before possible. While most cell phones are used for their original intent, making telepho...
Dynamic Data Replication Using Aperidoc Updates in MANET: Sanjay Kumar Madria. Traditional
replication schemes are passive in nature, and rarely
consider the
characteristics of mobile ad hoc network environment. In
this talk, I will
present three dynamic data replication schemes for
mobile ad-hoc netw...
Data Management in Mobile Peer to Peer (M-P2P) systems needs
dynamic data management due to mobility and fragile wireless connection
connecting resource constraint devices. Traditional methods of data
management and services in mobile P2P...
Emerging Web Technologies: Ronald Vetter. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has developed several open recommendations, extending existing Internet standards, to enable wireless devices full access to the web and its information base. With the rapid introduction of new kinds of web browser...
Information Retrieval in Context: Susan Dumais. Most information retrieval technologies are designed to facilitate information discovery. However, much knowledge work involves finding and re-using previously seen information in the context of ongoing work activities. An overview of tec...
Making Meaning on the Web: Lynn Andrea Stein. The World Wide Web is increasingly a venue in which we conduct commerce, build relationships, and live out our lives. Underneath the
everyday activity of the web lurks another layer: computers
manipulating symbols and bits to create the i...
Online health communities provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances. Changes in the health care system coupled with increased use of the In...
SOA is one software architecture
methodology which highlights the need for IT and business alignment. This goes
on to such an extent that senior management is supposed to be the key
stakeholders in this exercise for...
Service Oriented Architecture - Technology Perspective: Shantanu Bhattacharya . This talk on SOA specifically
focuses on the technology aspects that are essential for SOA in an organization
to be successful. Though many times SOA is thought of as a technology agnostic
topic, but this talk identifies the essentials wh...
Expectation from Software Architects
is manifold. At times, jotting down all the responsibilities of an ideal
software architect could lead to creation of awe in the mind of the
readers.
The Law of Cyberspace, Computers, and Technology: David Ellis. The presentation focuses on the emerging fields of
cyberspace and computer and technology law. Included are topics such as the law
of the Internet; protection of computer software and technology through
copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trad...
Internet email, as we know it today, is the product of over thirty years of evolution. This talk traces roughly the first twenty years (the early 1970s to the early 1990s), from Ray Tomlinson's first networked email between TENEX machines to...
XML Change Managment Using Relational Model : Sanjay Kumar Madria. The eXtensible Markup Language
(XML) has become the industry standard for data exchanges due to its
simplicity, platform independence, and ease of processing. However, the
dramatic increase in the evolution of XML data available on the Internet...
