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H'   PREFACE ă The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate consists of the following six divisions and office: Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) Division; Computer and Computation Research (CCR) Division; CrossDisciplinary Activities (CDA) Office; Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Division; Microelectronic Information Processing Systems (MIPS) Division; and the Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure (NCRI) Division. The Office of CrossDisciplinary Activities (CDA) supports the building and strengthening of infrastructure in all CISE areas through the CISE Institutional Infrastructure and the CISE Instrumentation Programs. It also administers various special projects and coordinates activities aimed at directorate and Foundationwide goals including increasing the participation of women, minorities, and the disabled in science and engineering, encouraging new investigators to initiate research, developing undergraduate curricula in CISE areas and encouraging the participation of undergraduates in research. The CISE Institutional Infrastructure Program has four components: Institutional InfrastructureLarge Scale, Institutional InfrastructureSmall Scale, Institutional InfrastructureMinority Institutions, and Educational Infrastructure. The purpose of this Summary of Awards is to provide the scientific and engineering communities with a summary of those grants awarded in Fiscal Year 1992 through the Office of CrossDisciplinary Activities (CDA). This report lists projects including continuing grants funded using Fiscal Year 1992 dollars but does not list multiyear standard awards made prior to Fiscal Year 1992. Awards are grouped together by Programs for reader convenience. However, projects may bridge several programs or deal with topics not explicitly mentioned herein. Thus, these categories have been assigned administratively and for the purpose of this report only. In this document, award identification numbers, award amounts, and award durations are identified first. Grantee institutions are enumerated after the principal investigator's name. Within each category, the awards are listed alphabetically by principal investigator. Further information on a particular project described in this report can be obtained directly from the principal investigators directly. * x!John C. Cherniavsky (Head Office of CrossDisciplinary Activities'0*0*0*  ?X  Page Preface ................................................... iii Table of Contents ......................................... v NSF Organization & Staff .................................. vi Summary ................................................... vii Introduction .............................................. viii CISE Institutional InfrastructureLarge Scale ............. 1 CISE Institutional InfrastructureSmall Scale ............. 7 CISE Academic Research Infrastructure ..................... 12 CISE Postdoctoral Associates .............................. 13 CISE Institutional InfrastructureMinority Institutions ............................................ 16 CISE Educational Infrastructure ........................... 20 CISE Instrumentation ...................................... 23 CISE Special Projects ..................................... 31 Index of Principal Investigators .......................... 410*0*0* NSF ORGANIZATION AND STAFF The overall organizational structure of the Office of CrossDisciplinary Activities (OCDA) is as follows: 'Office t)of CrossDisciplinary Activities H'FY 1992 National Science Foundation ` `   4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 1160 Arlington, VA 22230 ` `  John C. Cherniavsky, Head (703) 3061980  ?  PROGRAM OR AREA hh# P ROGRAM DIRECTOR (S) 7  < TELEPHONE CISE Institutionalhh# (-pp27  < Infrastructurehh#John Cherniavsky7  <(703) 3061980 CISE Academic Researchhh# Infrastructurehh#John Cherniavsky7  <(703) 3061980 CISE Postdoctoral Associates hh#John Cherniavsky7  <(703) 3061980 CISE Institutional InfrastructureMinority Institutions hh#Gerald Engelpp27  <(703) 3061981 CISE Educationalhh#Caroline Wardle7  <(703) 3061981 Infrastructure CISE Instrumentationhh#Caroline Wardle7  <(703) 3061981 CrossDirectoratehh#Gerald L. Engel7  <(703) 3061981 Special Projects Administrative Officerhh#Barbara H. Palmer7  <(703) 3061980 (email Send email to X@nsf.gov (Internet) or X@nsf(bitnet) where X= example: jchernia@nsf.gov(0*0*0*  ? " SUMMARY FY 1992 ă  ?X ` `  hh#(-pp2 Number of Value of  ?   ` `  hh#(-pp2 Projects   < Awards CISE Institutional Infrastructure Large Scale .........................pp2 18  <$8,000,621(#(#K  CISE Institutional Infrastructure Small Scale .........................pp2 13  <$3,816,777(#(#K CISE Academic Research Infrastructure.pp2 4  <$1,500,000* CISE Postdoctoral Associates ......... 12  <$ 520,726 CISE Institutional Infrastructure Minority Institutions ............... 11   <$2,564,971 CISE Educational Infrastructure........ 10  <$2,345,527 CISE Instrumentation ..................pp2 32  <$2,165,560 CISE Special Projects.................. 47 $1,450,391 These data includes the totals of the awards listed in this document including special Foundation initiatives and may not agree with official NSF budget records for CDA. *[Funds from the Office of Science Technology Infrastructure] X0*0*0*  ? ` `  hh# INTRODUCTION This report provides summaries of awards made in Fiscal Year 1992 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Office of Cross-Disciplinary Activities (CDA) of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. The programs conducted by the Office are:  ?@  CISE Institutional Infrastructure-Large Scale This program provides support to aid in the establishment, enhancement and operation of major experimental facilities supporting research activities in the areas of computer and information science, computer engineering, or computational science supported in the CISE Directorate. In general, support is provided for equipment, maintenance, technical support staff, and other appropriate costs.  ?  CISE Institutional Infrastructure-Small Scale This expansion of the Institutional Infrastructure Program was established in Fiscal Year 1988 with the acceptance of proposals for five-year awards to support the establishment, enhancement and operation of experimental research facilities of a smaller scale than those encompassed by the Large-Scale Program. As in the Large-Scale program, awards are made for equipment, maintenance, technical support staff, and other appropriate costs for facilities supporting research activities in the CISE research areas.  ?  CISE Academic Research Infrastructure The Academic Research Infrastructure Program (ARI) is designed to improve the condition of research and research training facilities in our Nation's academic institutions in all disciplines, including those with a strategic research emphasis. This program responds to needs identified by the academic science and engineering community. Funding is provided by the Office of Science and Technology Infrastructure.  ?x  CISE Postdoctoral Associates These awards provide opportunities for recent Ph.D.s to broaden their knowledge and experience and to prepare them for significant research careers on the frontiers of contemporary computational science and engineering and experimental science. It is assumed that CS&E Associates will conduct their research at academic research institutions or other centers or institutions which provide access, either on site or by network, to high performance, scalable parallel computing systems and will conduct their research in academic research institutions or other institutions devoted to experimental science in one or more of the research areas supported by the CISE Directorate. h)0*0*0*Ԍ ? ԙ CISE Institutional Infrastructure-Minority Institutions Both one-year planning grants and five-year continuing awards are included in the Minority Institutions program. The program includes both research and educational components and provides funds to aid in the establishment, enhancement, and operation of experimental computing facilities at predominantly minority institutions to support activities in the areas of computer and information science, computer engineering, or computational science supported in the CISE Directorate.  ?  CISE Educational Infrastructure Program The objective of the Educational Infrastructure program is to stimulate innovative educational activities which address the problems of undergraduate instruction in the fields of computer and information science, computer engineering and computational science supported in the CISE Directorate. Support is provided for curriculum development, faculty enhancement, development of software, equipment acquisition and maintenance, necessary support staff, and other appropriate costs.  ?0  CISE Instrumentation Awards in the CISE Instrumentation program are made for the purchase of special-purpose equipment or software to be used for research programs in the areas of computer and information science, computer engineering, or computational science supported in the CISE Directorate. The instrumentation is to be used by more than one project and is not intended to provide general computing capacity.  ?  CISE Special Projects The Office of Cross-Disciplinary Activities makes several awards in the Special Projects category and, in addition, coordinates and is responsible for funding cross directorate projects. Projects include special activities related to women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.  ?@  Additional Information For additional information on any of the projects, please contact the principal investigators directly. The Foundation provides awards for research in the sciences and engineering. The awardee is wholly responsible for the conduct of such research and preparation of the results for publication. The Foundation, therefore, does not assume responsibility for such findings or their interpretation. h)0*0*0*ԌThe Foundation welcomes proposals from all qualified scientists and engineers, and strongly encourages women, minorities, and persons with disabilities to compete fully in any of the research and related programs described here. In accordance with Federal statutes, regulations, and NSF policies, no person on grounds of race, color, age, sex, national origin, or disability shall be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any program or activity receiving financial assistance from the National Science Foundation. The National Science Foundation has TDD (Telephonic Device for the Deaf) capability, which enables individuals with hearing impairment to communicate with the Foundation about NSF programs, employment, or general information. This number is (703) 306-0090. Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineer with Disabilities (FASED), provide funding for special assistance or equipment to enable persons with disabilities (investigators and other staff, including student research assistants) to work on an NSF project. See the program announcement, or contact the program coordinator for more information at (703) 306-1636. Privacy Act and Public Burden. Information requested on NSF application materials is solicited under the authority of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended. It will be used in connection with the selection of qualified proposals and may be used and disclosed to qualified reviewers and staff assistants as part of the review process and to other government agencies. See Systems of Records, NSF50, "Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Associated Records," and NSF51, "Reviewer/Proposals File and Associated Records," 56 Federal Register 54907 (Oct. 23, 1991). Submission of the information is voluntary. Failure to provide full and complete information, however, may reduce the possibility of your receiving an award. The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 120 hours per response, including the time for reviewing instructions. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to: Herman G. Fleming Reports Clearance Officer Division of Contracts, Policy, and Oversight National Science Foundation Arlington, VA 22230 and to: Office of Management and Budget Paperwork Reduction Project (31450058) Washington, DC 20503h)0*0*0*ԌPrograms described in this publication are Category 47.070 (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.   0*0*0*  ?  CISE INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE (Large Scale) ă CDA-9241614 $348,635 - 12 mos Adrion, W. Richards University of Massachusetts Real Time Computing: Issues and Applications The department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will continue to develop the infrastructure created with their prior CER award, with the emphasis on supporting their research real-time computing. This research will be concentrated in the following areas: real-time communication, real-time distributed operating systems, real-time artificial intelligence, cooperative/distributed problem solving, robotic manipulation and geometric reasoning computer vision and robot navigation, and special-purpose architectures. The groups involved in the various research areas will have a rich interaction, so that the software developed by the systems group will be used in the AI, robotics and vision application areas, and these areas will in turn give valuable feedback to the systems group. Equipment to be purchased in support of the research includes upgrades to current workstations, an upgrade for the Sequent Symmetry multiprocessor, as well as specialized equipment for robotics and vision. CDA-9240442 $251,395 - 12 mos Andrews, Gregory University of Arizona A Laboratory for Programming Languages and Software Systems This award provides infrastructure support for ten research projects, with the primary research areas being parallel and distributed processing, and programming languages. Other significant research areas are fault-tolerant programming, algorithms and software for molecular genetics, graphical user interfaces for scientific visualization, and object-oriented and deductive database systems. Specific research projects in the general area of parallel and distributed processing include: 1. development of tools to aid in designing and developing  algorithms for parallel and distributed systems, with  emphasis on high-level tools for relatively naive users, 2. research on language mechanisms and implementation (#(#K  techniques to facilitate programming computations that execute efficiently on shared-memory multiprocessors, h) 0*0*0*Ԍ3. development of techniques for compiling concurrent programs written using shared variables into programs that  execute on multicomputers or on multiprocessors with non-uniform memory access time, 4. research on a configurable operating system kernel, called  the x-kernel, in which communication protocols define the  fundamental building block, and 5. development of analytic methods for evaluating performance of parallel asynchronous algorithms and applying the (#(#K methods to the analysis of particular parallel algorithms  running on various multiprocessor architectures. The research on programming languages includes: 1. development of the Icon programming language, a highlevel  language with facilities for processing nonnumeric data; and  2. development of effective compilation techniques for logic  programming languages. Equipment to be obtained for the research includes a Hypercube upgrade, a shared memory multiprocessor, high-end graphic workstations, and optical disks. CDA-9240441 $369,084 - 12 mos Bajcsy, Ruzena K. University of Pennsylvania Keeping Up with the 90's in Computer Science Equipment This award will provide infrastructure for research that is organized around five laboratories: 1. LINC- for research on artificial intelligence and natural language processing; 2. GRASP- for research on machine perception and robotics; 3. GRAPHICS- for research on graphic interfaces, movement description, and animation; 4. DSL- for research in computer architecture and computer communication; 5. LOGIC & COMPUTATION- for research in logic and  F computation, including theory of computation, database  systems, and programming languages. Two new facets of the research, integration and upward scaling, require an enhanced experimental environment involving machines with massively parallel architectures. The award will help to develop this environment by providing funds for a SIMD machine for work in natural language processing, and active perception and real time manipulation; a MIMD machine for simulation and research involving extensive scientific h) 0*0*0* calculations; as well as high speed workstations with rich environments for work in theoretical computer science. CDA-9240162 $300,000 - 12 mos Brooks, Frederick P. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill CISE Institutional Infrastructure Program for Prototyping Complete Digital Systems The University of North Carolina Computer Science Department is undertaking the development of a prototyping capability for complete systems: chips, application software, and user interfaces. The development of this capability will be done in such a way that it can be transplanted to other locations, thereby creating the possibility of a decentralized national capability for experimental computer systems research. The development of the systems prototyping capability will be structured around seven shared laboratories: the Microelectronics Design Laboratory, Microelectronic Systems Laboratory, the Software Systems Laboratory, the Graphics and Image Laboratory, the Natural Language and Text Laboratory, the Communications Facility/Research Laboratory, and to modernize the Graphics and Image Laboratory. The current award will be for development of the Software Systems Laboratory, enlargement of the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory, modernization of the Microelectronics Design Laboratory and expansion of the Computer Facilities and of a prototype of a new type of low-cost inter-university network. CDA-9240445 $243,680 - 12 mos Brown, Christopher M. University of Rochester Parallel Laboratory for Real Time Vision and Robotics The support provided by this award will assist the Rochester researchers in pursuing the goal of real-time active vision. Based on their experience with parallel vision algorithms on both general and special purpose hardware, they will move to the next stage: integration of parallel solutions to individual problems into a unified solution to a single complex problem. To facilitate this research the award will help them develop a parallel laboratory for real-time vision consisting of four key components: a "head," containing cameras for visual input, a robot arm or "neck" that supports and moves the "head," a special purpose parallel processor for high-bandwidth, low-level vision processing, and a general purpose parallel processor for high-level vision and planning. New research directions that will be investigated using the laboratory include heterogeneous parallelism, hierarchical adaptive control for sensory-motor systems, cooperation of symbolic planning with h) 0*0*0* real-world action, operating systems for sealable MIMD architectures, and parallel programming environments. The laboratory will also serve to unify research in massively parallel architectures, vision, planning, robotics, and parallel software systems. CDA-9243631 $997,933 - 12 mos Galil, Zvi Columbia University Infrastructure for Computer Science This is an infrastructure award to support the acquisition of a high speed network of data servers, computation servers, parallel processors, and workstations for the support of research in software, artificial intelligence, and parallel algorithms. The software research is in operating systems, wireless distributed systems, parallel processing , and software engineering. The artificial intelligence research is in intelligent multimedia interfaces and vision and robotics. The parallel algorithms research is in parallel string matching with applications to genome matching. New networking technologies make it possible to support computation intensive activities distributed across networks. This support requires new software tools that will support distributed and parallel computing. This award is for the infrastructure necessary to test this new software and also for the infrastructure necessary for research in robotics and parallel algorithms for large information system searches. The operating system research concentrates on a high performance operating system for distributed and parallel computers. The distributed systems research is for research in wireless distributed computing in which the transmission medium consists of radio waves. This research promises the true portable workstation in which no wires whatsoever are needed in order to access the network. Both the parallel processing and the software engineering research involve rule based systems. The parallel processing research uses rule based systems to distribute computational tasks while the software engineering research uses rule based systems to coordinate cooperative work amongst multiple software developers. The multimedia research involves the construction of virtual realities for the manipulation of multi-dimensional data. The example application area is financial data. The vision and robotics research is aimed at processing multiple sources of spatial data in order to navigate a robot in a natural environment and to control robot manipulators. Finally, the parallel algorithms research is concentrated on string matching algorithms applicable to data arising from genome databases. This research is important for actually using large databases that will arise from the human genome project. h) 0*0*0*Ԍ CDA9240161 $531,508 12 mos Graham, Susan University of California Berkeley Massive Information Storage, Management, and Use This award will aid in the establishment of a massive hierarchical storage facility, (1) to investigate approaches to the design of systems software for such an environment, and (2) to use the environment in a number of application areas, including: i) The construction of large knowledge bases and their application in machine learning and natural language processing; ii) The manipulation of complex objects such as designs, large programs, and multimedia documents; iii) The processing of geometric and pictorial information such as images, surfaces and mathematical functions of several variables; iv) The integrated storage of scientific program libraries, mathematical tables and procedures for the transformation and manipulation of symbolic information. The development of the system will require innovations in distributed operating systems, computer architecture, performance analysis, database system design and algorithm design. The availability of the system will enhance the research at Berkeley in artificial intelligence, text processing, programming systems, graphics, computer vision, and scientific computation. CDA9243491 $414,388 12 mos Henderson, Thomas University of Utah Computer Aided Prototyping This Institutional Infrastructure award is to support research in the general area of Computer Aided Manufacturing Engineering. The approach taken by the Utah group is computer aided prototyping of objects to be manufactured. The process is broken down into three separate areas of research: design, prototyping, and validation. The design aspect of the research involves enhancing the Alpha 1 computer aided geometric design system. This system is able to describe mathematically objects to be manufactured. It is enhanced by incorporating some commonly occurring manufacturing steps into the model as special elements (e.g., this hole is to be counterbored). The prototyping aspect is to take the mathematical description of the object (say a gear) and generate the NC codes and the tooling sequences necessary to actually produce the item on a machine center. The University of Utah already possesses a five axis machine center, a CNC turning center, 3-D polymer equipment, and robotics equipment and so can experimentally validate theirh)0*0*0* research. A long term goal is to optimize the tooling sequences and other necessary manufacturing activities in order to have the factory operate without human supervision. This prototyping facility would also be used in collaborative work with Dr. Jacobsen's Center for Engineering Design which designs and manufacturers many prototype bioengineered items. The use of computers to aid and guide manufacturing is more common in Japan and the European countries than in the United States. This Institutional Infrastructure award is for the support of an automated manufacturing laboratory that will allow the quick design and prototyping of manufactured items. Once the prototype is deemed acceptable, methods of improving the manufacturing of the item, particularly in small batch numbers, can be explored. The University of Utah has a long history of successful industrial collaborations and it is expected that the results of this research will be widely disseminated to the United States manufacturing industry. CDA9024600 $253,100 12 mos Hopcroft, John Cornell University A Distributed Computing Facility This infrastructure award is for the construction of a distributed computing facility. The network consists of desktop workstations connected over a medium speed network to backend computation and datastorage servers on a highspeed network. The backend resources consist of midspeed compute servers, shared memory parallel multiprocessors, and massively parallel machines. The research supported by this infrastructure includes work in applied logic using the constructive type theory supported by Nuprl; in scientific computing in developing algorithms that effectively utilize distributed and massively parallel computing resources; in modeling and simulation for robotics applications; and in software for distributed computing. Many problems in experimental computer science require peak resources not available on a single workstation. These resources could be computation cycles or memory. An emerging solution to this problem is to utilize idle processors in a network of workstations and compute servers. The realization of this solution still requires much research into mechanisms for breaking problems into pieces so as to minimize communication overhead while distributing the computation to make best use of the available processors. The distributed computing researchers at Cornell University will use their distributed computing facility as a testbed for distributed algorithms. Three active areas of research at Cornell will especially benefit from this facility. The applied logic group uses a system called Nuprl developed at Cornell to support constructive reasoning. With the use of this tool, openh)0*0*0* questions in combinatorics and programming language have already been answered. The scientific computing group is already involved in the construction of a software package called LAPACK for linear algebra routines that involves constructing new algorithms for parallel and distributed machine architectures. Finally, the modeling and simulation group requires substantial computational resources to enable them to use the computing resources as an experimental testbed allowing designs to be tested without the expense of constructing a robot. CDA9241474 $740,000 12 mos Jones, Anita University of Virginia EndToEnd Experimental Systems Research This project involves experimental research in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia. Endtoend experimental systems research incorporates a sequence of implementation choices where a researcher may closely control whatever aspects are critical. At one end is the capability to create custom circuits. Further along the spectrum is the capability to integrate offtheshelf, and perhaps custom, components to create a board system. Still further along is the capability to program small standalone software modules. They may execute on a custom board system or on a general computing engine. At the farthest end is the capability to experiment with both general systems and applications. This type of experimental systems research and the development of an environment within which it can thrive are important to progress in computer science. The range of subjects to be investigated via this thematic approach runs from VLSI design automation and validation through computer architecture, realtime software, parallel systems, and applications. CDA9123308 $495,747 12 mos Levy, Henry University of Washington High Performance Parallel/Distributed Computing This award supports infrastructure for research in high performance parallel/distributed computing. The award supports the purchase of a high performance distributed memory computer. The award also supports a programmer to develop, maintain, and distribute software developed on this computer. The research supported by this infrastructure is of two forms: compute intensive research and systems applications research. The compute intensive research includes computer vision, computer graphics, simulations, 3-D animation, and computationalh)0*0*0*Ԍchemistry. The systems applications research includes developing fast operating system kernal service routines, programming models of parallel computation activities, software engineering environments, and fundamental research on parallel algorithms for distributed memory computers. CDA9123483 $700,000 12 mos Loveland, Donald W. Duke University SIMD/MIMD Parallel Computing: Computational Theory, Scientific Applications, & Systems Research This proposal supports the acquisition of a parallel computer capable of operating in both Single Instruction, Multiple Data mode and Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data mode. The computer will be used to support research in operating systems, scientific computing, parallel algorithms, VLSI design, and logic programming. Collaborations with other departments, particularly with computational physics and chemistry, will also be enabled by the acquisition of this computer. CDA9240440 $306,000 12 mos O'Donnell, Michael J. University of Chicago The University of Chicago Computer Science Laboratory The award will provide funds to develop computing infrastructure for a wide variety of research, with the primary areas being equational logic, casebased reasoning, computer vision and graphics, numerical solution of partial differential equations, and computer science theory. The infrastructure to be set up will include a VLSI design facility to be used by students and faculty in developing and testing circuit designs. This facility will be used by a number of other research projects.  The research in equational logic is concerned with the development of useful implementations of an equational logic programming. The following issues will be addressed: compiler optimizations, radical new implementation techniques based on congruence closure, extensions of the language to provide modularity, implementation of indeterminate systems without the ChurchRosser property, more powerful techniques for guaranteeing determinacy, more flexible inputoutput interfaces integrating equational programming with structure editors and debuggers, and parallel evaluation of equational programs. The research on casebased reasoning is concerned with the analysis and implementation of reasoning by remembering previous results and adapting them to new situations. This approach will be applied to four projects: evaluating student applications,h)0*0*0* diagnosing mechanical failures, routing delivery vehicles, and tutoring high school students in geometry. The research on computer vision and graphics involves the study of a new efficient general purpose algorithm for recognizing polyhedral objects in arbitrary orientations. Practical applicability of the algorithm will be tested and generalizations of the algorithm will be investigated. The research on numerical solutions of partial differential equations involves several projects dealing with particle methods, multigrid methods, variational inequalities, and superconvergent recovery of information in finite element methods. The research also involves studying operationsplitting and timesplitting methods for the simulation of fluid flow in porous media, and dealing with singularities in solutions of the NavierStokes equations. The theoretical areas of research include complexity theory and algorithms, programming language semantics, recursion theory, and the application of recursion theoretic concepts and techniques to the theoretical foundations of learning. CDA9240160 $283,883 12 mos Reed, Daniel University of Illinois TapestryUnifying Shared and Distributed Memory Parallel Systems This award will aid in the establishment of a parallel processing research laboratory based on a pool of heterogeneous parallel processors. The laboratory will connect shared memory and messagebased parallel systems via a pool of shared memory. Users will access this heterogeneous parallel system, called Tapestry, via a highspeed network from workstations and existing facilities in the department. The Tapestry research encompasses architecture, system software, and parallel applications. A reconfigurable, heterogeneous system composed of shared memory and message passing parallel processors will provide the testbed for the Tapestry operating system, for work in performance evaluation, and for studies of selected parallel applications including numerical solution of partial differential equations. Equipment to be acquired early in the project includes an Encore Multimax system and an Intel iPSC hypercube development system. These systems will be expanded in the subsequent years to include additional memory, nodes, and large disks. H&0*0*0* CDA9123502 $270,000 12 mos Rice, John Purdue University SoftlabA Laboratory for Computational Science This award is to support the building of Softlab, a laboratory that supports research in computational science and engineering. The facilities provided include: 1.` ` High performance graphics processors for scientific (#(#K  visualization, geometric modeling, and multimedia (#(#K graphical user interfaces for parallel programming and ` ` programming in large. 2.` ` Highperformance computing power, upgrading Purdue's (#(#K parallel machines. 3.` ` Software and development support staff assisting ` ` application researchers in making full use of his ` ` facility comprising a rich spectrum of highperformance ` ` workstations, powerful parallel machines and dedicated  graphics processors. 4. A teaching laboratory providing exploratory course that  migrate cuttingedge research into the curriculum with (#(#K access to stateoftheart facilities. This laboratory will be the principal facility of a proposed new interdisciplinary graduate degree program in Computational Engineering and Science. CDA9240159 $580,000 12 mos Savage, John Brown University Multiparadigm Design Environments. Design environments that could offer flexible interactive support for different design paradigms hold great potential for increasing the effectiveness of designers of large, complex systems. The Brown CISE Institutional Infrastructure project aims to develop such environments, by achieving the following research goals: 1.` ` supporting in a consistent way a variety of design (#(#K ` ` paradigms in a single environment 2.` ` providing system tools that facilitate the interaction ` ` of teams of designers working on complex tasks, 3.` ` developing and implementing new paradigms suitable for ` ` design problems, and 4.` ` testing the concepts and tools in the problem domains ` ` of software development and VLSI design. GARDEN, the prototype multiparadigm programming environmenth)0*0*0* developed at Brown, will be the central testbed for the research. Research in objectoriented databases, concurrency tools, parallel algorithms for graphics, and logic and objectoriented programming paradigms will also be instrumental in achieving the research goals. CDA9248904 $375,000 12 mos Schnabel, Robert University of Colorado Effective Use of Parallel and Distributed Computing The Computer Science Department of the University of Colorado will continue to develop the infrastructure created with their prior CER award by upgrading workstations, adding X terminals, and acquiring new sharedmemory and distributed memory multiprocessors. This will enable researchers in the department to continue their significant investigations in the areas of scientific computation, connectionist systems, and software systems. The research in scientific computation has three components: language and tools, numerical algorithms, and applications, which all have a heavy emphasis on parallel computation. Parallel computation is also emphasized by the connectionist researchers, who are making interesting applications of connectionism and are collaborating with the scientific computation researchers in developing sophisticated optimization algorithms. The software systems research has a broad scope, including projects in user interfaces, databases, programming environments, distributed systems, and languages and semantics. The systems researchers provide a basic source of systems expertise and tools for the other research areas, as well as engaging in fundamental systems investigations. CDA9243640 $540,268 12 mos Vernon, Mary University of Wisconsin Madison PRISM: A Laboratory for Research in Future HighPerformance Parallel Computing This infrastructure award is for the acquisition of a SIMD and a MIMD parallel computer for the support of research in the areas of parallel programming tools, programming languages, databases, parallel optimization algorithms, scientific computing, computer architecture, artificial intelligence, and models of parallel computation. The research will involve both the development of algorithms specific to SIMD and MIMD architectures and the use of these computers as compute servers over the departmental network.  The next development in high performance computing will be high speed parallel processors. There are currently two main classifications of these processors Single Instruction Multipleh)0*0*0* Data (SIMD) and Multiple Instruction Multiple Data (MIMD) processors. SIMD computers execute a single sequence of instructions on all of its processing elements. Each processing element may have different data that it is processing. A MIMD computer may have a different program running on each of its processing elements that may have their own data. In order to develop the software necessary to utilize these computers it is necessary to have in place software tools that support instrumentation, program development, and resource allocation. The development of such tools is supported by this infrastructure. It is also important to determine which problems run best on which type of processor. Thus these computers will be used in research in artificial intelligence, databases, and computer architecture in determining efficient algorithms for these problem domains. Finally, these computers are efficient numeric processors and will be used for both scientific computing and numeric optimization problems. H 0*0*0*  ?  CISE INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE (Small Scale) ă CDA9145355 $346,914 12 mos Barnden, John New Mexico State University Parallel Processing Projects in Artificial Intelligence This award provides support to develop computing infrastructure for a wide variety of research with the primary areas being: plausible ascription of beliefs by an AI system; complex symbolic information processing in connectionist systems; associative network databases for computer vision; the Model Generative Reasoning system; and parallel algorithms for scene model generation. The new infrastructure includes the upgrading of a parallel processor from a 4 processor system to a 22 processor system, the acquisition of a number of workstations, and the provision of hardware and software technicians. In the Beliefs/Metaphor project on natural language discourse understanding, two complementary approaches to integrating the processing of metaphors and the processing of information about participants' belief are being explored. In one approach, metaphors are processed by a simple extension of the beliefreasoning machinery in an existing program, whereas the other approach bases the representation of belief states on commonsense metaphorical models of mind that are often exploited in discourse. In the Connectionism project, connectionist informationprocessing techniques are being developed that are useful in highlevel cognitive tasks, such as natural language understanding and commonsense reasoning, as opposed to the perceptual and adaptation tasks to which most connectionist work has been directed. Part of the work is exploiting signal timing effects that occur in networks inspired by real biological neural networks. The purpose of the vision database project is to design, implement, and test a database (appropriate for robotics applications) which supports associative organization and retrieval, clustering by physical properties, higher levels of abstraction, and efficient search for matching entities. The paradigm used is an extension of Pathfinder networks (originally intended to model human semantic memory) called monotonic search networks, which is a type of proximity graph. Model Generative Reasoning is a general automated problem solving system developed by Coombs and Hartley. It makes expert problem solvers robust in the light of conflicting abduction/deduction cycle. In the Parallel Algorithms for Scene Model Generation project, timevarying imagery based on natural scenes is being analyzed with the goal of developing dynamic threedimensional models of theh)0*0*0* scenes. Important features of the work include a hypothesisandtest paradigm for construction of the models, merging of multiple cues through the use of local consistency constraints, and maintenance of model consistency in a parallel environment through data locking protocols developed automatically from graph grammar productions. CDA9115428 $300,000 12 mos Dongarra, Jack J. University of Tennessee Knoxville An Experimental Research Facility for Parallel Computing The advanced Computing Laboratory in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee has access to a number of new architecture high performance computers. This award is to upgrade the facility by the addition of a mixed mode Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)/Multiple Instruction Multiple Data (MIMD) computer, increasing the number of processors in a shared memory MIMD computer, and providing partial support for a technician. The research supported by these computers include the design and development of portable, efficient numerical linear algebra algorithms; the development of nonnumeric algorithms for parallel architectures; the development of parallel algorithms for genome sequencing; and the development of parallel discrete optimization algorithms using the genetic algorithm method. CDA9242894 $284,061 12 mos Flaherty, Joseph Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computing Environments for Mathematical Applications This award is aiding in the establishment, enhancement and operation of a modern laboratory facility to support experimental work in two major areas, viz. image processing and development of computing environments for mathematical applications. The project in image processing includes work in image coding, image restoration and enhancement, digital filtering, texture modeling and discrimination, image interpretation, computer vision and applications of neural networks to image understanding. The goal of the second project is the development of a software environment in which natural scientists and engineers can solve problems in an efficient and convenient manner. It involves bringing together stateoftheart computational tools including highlevel graphical programming environments, languages and compilers that automatically detect vector and parallel structures, software for the automatic solution of differential equations, parallel linear algebra packages, integrated computer algebra systems, an environment for performing graph theoretic operations, and programming laboratories and libraries of frequentlyused procedures and notions. The project is based on ongoing work ath)0*0*0* Rensselaer in each of the above areas and will utilize a largescale scientific computer, several highperformance graphics workstations, some Lisp environment/symbolic computation machines, AI workstations, and necessary peripheral equipment. CDA9115434 $300,000 12 mos Huang, Thomas S. University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign Laboratory for HighResolution Dynamic Image Processing & Visualization This infrastructure award is for the development of an Imaging Laboratory that supports research in both dynamic imaging and in the processing of imaging data. Specific research projects supported by this laboratory include studies of human visual perception, video compression, three dimensional motion analysis, image reconstruction, adaptive filtering, and stereo vision. The award provides four years support for both equipment and maintenance. CDA9240924 $340,000 12 mos Irwin, Mary J. Pennsylvania State University Research in Parallel Program Design and Architecture Synthesis This award provides support to develop computing infrastructure for research in four primary areas: parallel program design tools, development of a CAD design system, distributed database design, and visual texture perception. The new infrastructure includes the development of a more powerful UNIX environment, the upgrading of parallel processing capability, the acquisition of a number of workstations, and the provision of hardware and software technicians. The parallel program design tools research focuses on the design of various tools to assist in the development of parallel programs. One aspect is the design of kernellevel mechanisms for distributed realtime programs. Another is the design of operating system mechanisms to support different kinds of parallel programming paradigms. A third aspect is the development of techniques for the static analysis of parallel programs, including deadlock detection. The CAD design system research focuses on the development of a constraint driven, multilevel CAD design system. This system includes CAD tools to support highlevel architectural design, behavioral synthesis, logic synthesis, and layout generation. Synthesis for performance is an emphasis. h)0*0*0*ԌDistributed database design research is concerned with two issues in the design of distributed databases. The first is the design and analysis of highly available databases. Replication methods to tolerate site and communication failures are being explored. Database design using robust data structures to tolerate intermediate level of faults, including software faults and partial media failures is also being investigated. The second issue is the development of a distributed database system using an object mode. Visual texture perception research is concerned with visual texture perception in humans and machines. The tradeoffs of using different types of filters as the frontend for the texture discrimination module in a machine vision system are being explored. VLSIappropriate architectures for various problems in machine vision are also being studied. Some of these architectures will be prototyped using the CAD tools developed above. CDA9240188 $135,398 12 mos Jain, Anil K. Michigan State University A Laboratory for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision This award will support the enhancement of the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP) Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University. A modern, distributed, pattern recognition facility will be established, consisting of four image processing/graphics workstations, a dedicated file server and a computation server, image acquisition and image output devices, a laser range finder for capturing 3D range data, an optical disk for archiving images, a LISP machine with a signal processing board, and several workstations for software development. The PRIP Laboratory will provide the environment for the following research projects: 1. Extraction and evaluation of features for recognition of 3D objects and construction of object models; 2. Examination of the role of Markov Random Field models in pattern recognition and computer vision; 3. Investigation of the perceptual grouping problem in computer vision; 4. Development of parallel programming environments for computer vision applications; and 5. Application of pattern recognition and image processing algorithms in remote sensing for land use planning, measurement of root systems by soil scientists, detection of structures in magnetic resonance brain scans, and the analysis of sequences of fluid images. h)0*0*0*ԌThe grant will also support development of the Artificial Intelligence/Knowledge Based Systems research group, which will interact with the PRIP Laboratory in studying the object recognition. CDA9247320 $82,93212 mos Jain, Anil K. Michigan State University A Laboratory for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision This supplement to Michigan State University's Institutional Infrastructure Small Scale award is to run the Tenth Annual NSF CER/II Conference. This conference is for the exchange of information between II grantees and NSF. The conference has proven particularly valuable in enabling the II Universities to exchange information on research results and on how to best leverage NSF infrastructure funds. The conference has also proven valuable in communicating research results to NSF. CDA9115268 $399,716 12 mos Mantey, Patrick E. University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz A Laboratory for Scientific Visualization & Experimental Machine Learning This infrastructure award is for the development of a visualization and machine learning laboratory. The laboratory consists of powerful graphics workstations, a parallel processor, a large file server, a fiber optics high speed data network, and support personnel to maintain the laboratory. The research supported by this equipment includes: statistical data analysis, pattern recognition, and machine learning; visualization of sample volume data; interactive steering of simulations; high speed switching; concurrent systems; and applications of electronic libraries. A major bottleneck to the utilization of scientific information is the massive amount of data now collected. Scientific visualization is the term that covers an emerging collection of new techniques for transforming multidimensional numeric data into understandable graphic images. These images can then be manipulated and explored by scientists and engineers who, sitting at their workstations, create models and draw inferences from them. Machine learning includes a wide variety of techniques from the fields of pattern recognition, signal processing, statistical decision and control theory, and artificial intelligence that allow the machine itself to participate in the process of creating models and drawing inferences from data. It is anticipated that a new synergy between machine learning and scientific visualization will ariseh)0*0*0*Ԍfrom this award and that substantial collaborations with scientists outside of the computer science department will occur. CDA9242886 $336,974 12 mos Masson, Gerald Johns Hopkins University Facility for Experimental Exploration and Validation This infrastructure award is for the purchase of a network of high speed workstations. This network of workstations is to support research in artificial intelligence, programming languages, geometric computing, and fault tolerant computing. The artificial intelligence research is concentrated in four areas: machine learning, constraint satisfaction networks, parallel logic programming, and knowledge representation. The research in programming languages involves the translation of CCS specifications to an implementation language which provably implements concurrency and provably satisfies real time constraints. The research in geometric computing is focused on computing higherdegree curves and surfaces, alternate representations for curves and surfaces, efficient methods for representing geometric modes, and motion planning. The research in fault tolerant computing is concentrated on selfmonitoring systems. John Hopkins University will use its infrastructure grant to improve the environment for experimental research in computer science, information science, and computer engineering. Artificial intelligence is the generic name given to computer based research on performing actions normally described as "intelligent actions." Johns Hopkins researchers will explore learning and reasoning actions. Languages to instruct computers in their operations have been studied for many years. The goal of these languages is to succinctly describe the desired operation with as little error as possible. The programming language research at Johns Hopkins pursues this goal for systems that must respond in "real time". Computers are used extensively in robots. In order for reasoning to be performed about the environment in which the robot resides, a mathematical model of that environment must be constructed. Johns Hopkins researchers will be studying how to construct and use better mathematical models. Finally, the network as a whole will be used as a testbed for algorithms to detect faulty computers or links on the network. h)0*0*0*Ԍ CDA9241202 $201,824 12 mos Proakis, John G. Northeastern University Research Instrumentation This Institutional Infrastructure award to Northeastern University is for the development of a networked environment of powerful workstations and servers linking the College of Engineering. The infrastructure supports research in a number of areas, many of them collaborative. CDMA for mobile communications involves several activities including the design of pseudorandom sequences for minimizing communication interference, the design of efficient CPM signals with trellis coding, and determining the fundamental limits on the capacity of multiple user mobile channels. Research on neural nets involves both architectures for neural nets and learning algorithms. Communication network research involves studying protocols for communications in high speed LANs and MANs, bridging LANs, and packet radio networks. Research on more mathematical topics includes computational algebra and algebraic models for compiler correctness. Digital signal processing research involves studies of hearing, high order spectra, image processing adaptive signal processing is a natural collaborative area for computer scientists and electrical engineers. The replacement of analog techniques by digital techniques requires a much more intensive use of computation in order to interpret communications. The research supported by this infrastructure grant includes work on how to make local networks communicate well amongst themselves and other networks, the development of new algorithms to eliminate noise and to optimize the information carrying capacity of communications links, the development of algorithms that will allow networks of computers to work the same way as cellular phone networks, and more theoretical work in studying the mathematical underpinnings of learning, algebra, and compilers. CDA9115021 $310,011 12 mos Sahni, Sartaj K. University of Florida Laboratory for Parallel Processing The infrastructure award is for the acquisition of equipment to develop a laboratory for parallel processing. The major acquisition is a 64 processor MIMD (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data) parallel computer and workstations. Research will be performed in software engineering, parallel algorithms and data structures, networks and simulation, computer vision, and database management systems. h)0*0*0*Ԍ The advent of new architecture parallel computers has opened new areas of research related to the effective use of these computers. The MIMD computers work by allowing individual processors to operate on independent data streams. The discovery of algorithms to effectively use this type of architecture is a major research question crossing several disciplines. The parallel processing laboratory at the University of Florida is investigating several research topics ranging from experimental algorithm studies to computer vision applications. In particular: 1. The software engineering group is developing a parallel programming language environment to be used in the development of parallel programs in conjunction with a knowledge based development and maintenance environment. 2. The parallel algorithms group is concentrating on experimentally determining bottlenecks with both processor communication and input/output devices. The experimental results will be compared with theoretical models of performance. 3. The network and simulation group is using the parallel computer as both an experimental testbed for load balancing and other performance enhancing algorithms and as a computational resource to perform complex simulations. 4. The computer vision group is developing algorithms to utilize parallelism. There is a natural match between many vision applications and the MIMD architecture. 5. The database management group is designing algorithms to implement an object oriented semantic database model on a MIMD architecture computer. CDA9242439 $528,947 12 mos Siegel, Howard Purdue University Infrastructure for Parallel Processing Research This award provides support to develop computing infrastructure in the areas of parallel languages and compilers, automatic parallelization of algorithms, computer vision, and simulation and synthesis of digital devices. The infrastructure consists of a state of the art Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) computer along with support staff to ensure that the computer hardware and software are properly maintained. The parallel languages and compilers for parallel computers research focuses on the problem of the dependence of efficienth)0*0*0* software on the underlying parallel architecture. This dependence makes the development of portable software which is also efficient difficult and to date impossible. The research focuses on languages in which parallelism can be expressed free of architecture assumptions and compilers that will compile programs using these architecture free constructs into efficient code for specific parallel architectures. The automatic parallelization of algorithms research focuses on the problem of efficiently mapping algorithms to SIMD computers. The SIMD computer executes by having many processors execute the same instruction on different data. Thus the movement of data and the choice of which processors should execute an instruction is critical in order to obtain high performance. This research focuses on a software tool that can be adapted to a variety of SIMD architectures and which will perform the parallelization of algorithms to be used with these architectures. Computer vision and image processing have been ideal applications for SIMD computers because the processing of images can be broken down into the processing of subimages, each subimage algorithm being the same, followed by uniform data movement between processors. The computer vision research aims to develop a collection of algorithms for vision and image processing that will efficiently use the SIMD architecture. The research projects on the simulation and synthesis of digital devices use the processing power of the SIMD computer to perform tasks that would require supercomputer computational capabilities. These projects include the synthesis of digital diffractive elements and the simulation of the operation of semiconductor devices. The synthesis of digital diffractive elements, used in optics, requires substantial computational capabilities and input/output capacity (on the order of 10,000 hours on a VAX 780). Similarly the modeling of semiconductor devices requires substantial computational resources (the solution of order 30,000 sparse matrices). Both of these research projects propose to develop algorithms for use on the SIMD computer in order to obtain the computational capability necessary to solve problems of this magnitude. CDA9115123 $250,000 12 mos Volz, Richard A. Texas A&M University Research in Parallel & Distributed Computing This infrastructure award is for the acquisition of equipment to support research in distributed and parallel computing. The equipment consists of a network of workstations to support distributed processing research and an upgrade to an existing SIMD computer. The research supported includes the evaluation of parallel random access algorithms, numericalh)0*0*0*Ԍalgorithms for modeling the flow of particles through a host medium, sequence planning for manufacturing, fault tolerance and load balancing in distributed networks, dynamic hard real time applications in a distributed environment, designing distributed real time intelligent systems, and the development of a wide area distributed robotics network. The future increases in raw computational power will come from the utilization of many processors to work on computational problems. There are many research problems associated with the effective utilization of many processors. These range from how the processors should communicate to the development of new algorithms to take advantage of multiple processors. Texas A&M University is building up a parallel computer laboratory and a distributed computer laboratory to perform experimental research on these issues. * 0*0*0*  ?  l ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE CDA9214528 $ 0 12 mos Burns, Patrick J. Colorado State University  ?@  (Funded by Office of Science and Technology Infrastructure $400,000) Total award $400,000 Backbone Gateway Upgrade for Westnet This award is for funding to upgrade the infrastructure of Westnet, a regional computer network in the West connecting together Universities, High Schools, and research institutions. The network serves many communities including isolated Hispanic and Native American communities. The upgrade is to improve the routers at major sites of the network to improve speed and throughput. The upgrade to the network will improve access for both researchers and educators. The research projects that are accessible through Westnet range from weather modeling to high performance computing to remote telescope operation. CDA9214573 $ 0 12 mos Gosink, Joan P. Colorado School of Mines  ?p  (Funded by Office of Science and Technology Infrastructure $225,000) Total award $225,000 Acquisition of Networked Imaging Technology for Characterization & Visualization of Engineering Materials & Structures, Geostructures, & Transport Phenomena This award is to acquire a networked infrastructure of imaging equipment. The equipment will be used in interdisciplinary projects involving the Department of Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. The primary use of the equipment is for visualization of 2 and 3 dimensional fields related to materials, structures, and flow phenomena. Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering will all benefit from this award. The proposed equipment will consist of high speed graphic processors with associated image capturing and processing equipment all networked together with high speed links. % 0*0*0* CDA9214526 $ 0 12 mos Jennings, William C. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  ?  (Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $625,000) Total award $625,000 Acquisition of Scientific Computation Infrastructure for Strategic Initiatives in Manufacturing, Materials & Design and Environment & Energy This award is for the acquisition of infrastructure to support computational science and engineering with the enhancement of the Scientific Computation Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The infrastructure consists of a parallel computer along with visualization stations, network file systems, application servers, and high performance desktop servers to encourage the use of high performance computing and visualization in modern research. The areas that will especially benefit include Design and Manufacturing, Composite Materials, Integrated Electronics, Robotics and Automation, Electromagnetics and Energy Systems, Fluid Dynamics, and Groundwater Transport. The infrastructure will also be used for graduate training in high performance computing. CDA9214622 $ 0 12 mos Turner, Jonathan S. Washington University  ?  (Funded by Office of Science and Technology Infrastructure $250,000) Total $250,000 Multimedia ATM Network for Computer and Communications This award is to support research infrastructure necessary for multimedia collaborative research. The project involves the development of a network of multi-media workstations to be used in collaborative research in education and computer science. The research topics explored include protocol design, network interface design, congestion control, advanced user interface design, applications to education, distributed computing research, and computer visualization.  ?(# * Ã(#!0*0*0* @ CISE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   CDA9211097 $43,814 24 mos Aylor, James H. University of Virginia Development of a Parallel Automatic Test Generation System for Distributed Memory Multicomputer This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, Robert H. Klenke, will work with Dr. James Aylor on problems involving automatic test generation using parallel computers. The research will be to generate automatic test patterns for VLSI devices using parallel computers. Current state-of-the-art test pattern generation algorithms are primarily implemented on single processor computers. Because VLSI devices are increasingly being incorporated into products and because the size of recent devices requires long running times on even high speed serial computers, it is important to make use of the new generation of parallel computers. This postdoctoral associate will be developing a complete parallel automatic test pattern generation and fault simulation system. CDA9211152 $44,000 24 mos Baker, Harlyn SRI International Vision Algorithms for Robot Control This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, John I. Woodfill, will work with Dr. Harlyn Baker on problems in real time vision. The research will consist of explorations of vision algorithms suitable for manipulating unmodeled, flexible objects in dynamic, unstructured environments. The test device for this research will be a robotic grasping system. The vision component of the system will be a collection of modular vision subsystems that compute summarizations of camera data to be used in controlling robot actions. An initial challenge will be to control a flexible manipulator in grasping a flexible object. $"0*0*0* CDA9211136 $36,915 24 mos Bajcsy, Ruzena K. University of Pennsylvania Data Structures for Robotic Learning Algorithms This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, Marcos Salganicoff, will work with Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy on problems involving robot control and planning. The research will blend learning, data structures, and parallelism. Planning information will be stored in binary trees (such as k-D-trees or quadtrees). This information, usually massive amounts of it, is then used in learning algorithms. A hybrid approach using distributed workstations for some of the computation and a MIMD computer for some of the rest will be employed to implement these learning algorithms in a cost effective manner. CDA9211139 $44,000 24 mos Burton, Orville V. University of IllinoisUrbana Historical U.S. Census Database with High Performance Computing This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, Terrence Finnegan, will be working with Professor Orville Vernon Burton in developing user interfaces to very large databases requiring both database access and statistical analyses. The user of the system is assumed to be a scholar unfamiliar with the use of high performance computers. The specific application will be the census database. In addition to developing the user interface, the research will also incorporate the information into a Geographic Information System. Visualization tools will also be developed that are appropriate for the use by history scholars. The development platforms will be computers owned by the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois. ##0*0*0* CDA9211008 $43,997 24 mos Cartwright, Robert S. William Marsh Rice University Typechecking for PCN This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, Michael Fagen, will work with Dr. Robert Cartwright on problems involving compilers for parallel languages. The research involves using type information to aid the programmer and to allow efficient compilation. The original research was done with functional sequential languages. The proposed research will be to extend these results to imperative parallel programming languages. In particular, the Program Composition Notation (PCN) language will be used as a testbed for the postdoctoral associate's ideas of migrating soft typing from the sequential functional domain to the parallel domain. CDA9211129 $44,000 24 mos Clements, Mark A. Georgia Tech Research Corporation 3D Modeling of Speech Production This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, Kathleen Cummings, will be working with Professor Mark Clements on digital signal processing related to human speech. The goal of the research is to develop a three dimensional model of speech production using finite difference modeling to simulate acoustic wave propagation in the vocal tract. The model is complex enough to require the use of high performance computing resources. Initially a two dimensional model will be developed and elaborated. In the second year a three dimensional will be developed and tested. Techniques from finite difference methods from electromagnetics and computational fluid dynamics will be utilized. $0*0*0* CDA9211155 $44,000 24 mos Johnson, Donald B. Dartmouth College Design of Parallel Algorithms This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, Grammati Pantziou, will be working with Professor Donald Johnson on the implementation of algorithms developed for idealized parallel computers on real parallel computers. The main thrust of the research is to investigate load balancing techniques. The hypothesis is that many of the techniques will be transportable, especially those techniques that avoid concurrent references to memory. CDA9211082 $44,000 24 mos Kanade, Takeo Carnegie Mellon University Proposal for Research in Parallel Languages and Environments for Computer Vision This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, J. Ross Beveridge, will be working with Dr. Takeo Kanade at Carnegie Mellon University in the Robotics Institute. He will be working in the area of parallel languages and software development environments for computer vision. The research will focus on the needs of computer vision. In particular low-level and intermediate-level computer vision. The goal is the development of a coherent parallel environment that is independent of any particular parallel architecture. The intellectual contribution of this research will be better understanding of how to support computer vision in parallel environments. A concrete product of this research will be a pilot system implemented on a new Sony parallel computer. !%0*0*0* CDA9211106 $44,000 24 mos Karp, Richard M. International Computer Science Institute Parallel Computing in Combinatorial Optimization This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, Farid Alizadeh, will be working with Dr. Richard Karp at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. The associate will be investigating parallel implementations of combinatorial optimization problems. Areas to be investigated include areas of interest to molecular biologists involving a generalized parallel implementation of the traveling salesman problem, areas with applications to circuit layout including parallel implementations of graph partioning and bisection algorithms, and areas of interest to operations research analysis including parallel implementations of new maximum flow algorithms. CDA9211147 $44,000 24 mos Kearney, Joseph K. University of Iowa Rigid Body Dynamics Simulator This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, James Cremer, will be working with Professor Joseph Kearney on simulations of complex mechanical systems. The research will consist of three parts. The first will have the associate continuing development of the SimLab system that will simulate reality using computational mathematics and physics. The second project involves collaboration with the Center for Computer Aided Design in order to incorporate engineering concerns in the development of capabilities in SimLab. The final project involves the development of high level programs to control the complex mechanisms that arise in rigid body dynamics specifications. `"&0*0*0* CDA9211095 $44,000 24 mos Snyder, Lawrence University of Washington Orca Project Postdoctoral This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, Calvin P. Lin, will work with Dr. Lawrence Snyder on portable parallel programs. The research will concentrate on three areas: parallel languages, parallel algorithms, and portable scientific applications. Two parallel languages will be developed based on the Phase Abstractions programming model. This model has already been shown to produce portable parallel programs for both shared and distributed memory architectures. Additionally, important scientific algorithms, such as the Fast Fourier Transform, will be studied to identify the "algorithm of choice", an algorithm that is optimal on most architectures and competitive on all. Finally, work will continue on the development of portable scientific codes concentrating on a large molecular dynamics program. CDA9211137 $44,000 24 mos Wang, Paul S. Kent State University Automatic Code Generation Technique for HighPerformance Finite Element Computations This award is to support a postdoctoral associate to work in experimental computer science. The associate, Naveen Sharma, will work with Dr. Paul S. Wang on finite element analysis in the context of high performance computing. The research will consist of a multi-faceted approach to finite element analysis combining symbolic, numeric, and parallel computing techniques. The research will bring computer science expertise to engineering applications. The research will bring both ease of use and high performance to a larger group of scientists and engineers. (#'0*0*0*  ?    CISE INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE (Minority Institutions) CDA9149694 $67,402 12 mos Ahamad, Mustaque Georgia Tech Research Corporation Exploiting Checkpointing and Rollback Recovery Techniques in Maintaining Coherence of Distributed Shared Memories This proposal is to support a faculty member at Spelman College (Medhi Sayfi) to work in collaboration with a faculty member at Georgia Tech (Mustaque Ahamad). Support is provided for partial salary, some travel, and limited supporting services. The work will investigate checkpointing and rollback recovery algorithms for distributed systems and their relationship with memory coherence protocols in distributed shared memory (DSM) systems. This work will be in conjunction with the Clouds project, already funded by NSF under a CER grant. CDA9215977 $49,773 12 mos Alo, Richard University of Houston A Proposal to Begin the Improvement of Undergraduate Education and Research in Computer Science This award supports planning activity to develop a continuing grant proposal for the Institutional InfrastructureMinority Institutions (IIMI) program. During the period supported, an advisory panel of professionals from academia and industry will be formed to advise on the development of computer science and engineering education and research, trips will be made to some of the institutions holding IIMI grants, and relationships will be established with three of the high performance computing centers. The main research focus will be in the area of advanced scientific computing. The outcome will be the preparation and submission of a comprehensive fiveyear proposal. CDA-9241971 $297,449 12 mos Barba, Joseph CUNY Research Foundation Center for Minorities in Information Processing Systems This grant provides infrastructure support for the development of the research and educational activities of the Center for Minorities in Information Processing Systems at the City College of CUNY. The support includes computing and VLSI laboratory equipment and software, undergraduate and graduate student assistantships,h)(0*0*0* faculty release time, and student tutoring. The principal investigators will conduct research in (1) image analysis, (2) simultaneous projection algorithms for settheoretic signal recovery, (3) automata, group representations, and Fourier transforms, (4) parallel algorithms for computer vision and Monte Carlo methods, (5) VLSI implementations, (6) a transformation kernel for parallel programming, and (7) image warping. Educational activities include the restructuring of special sections of the first course in computer science as "collaborative learning communities" as part of an innovative approach to problem solving and software design. CDA-9242190 $307,502 12 mos Bernat, Andrew University of Texas at El Paso A Center for Excellence for Computer Science Education and Research The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) located on the U.S.Mexico border has in the Fall of 1989, a student body comprised of 55.4% Hispanic, 33.3% Anglo, 3% Black, and 1.7% other minorities. Its Computer Science Department is CSAB accredited. There were 239 undergraduates (53% Hispanic) and 48 graduate students (25% Hispanic) enrolled in 1989. Computer science enrollments, unlike the national trend, have been increasing over the last several years. The primary goal of the project is to upgrade the quality of education offered to UTEP's predominantly minority student body. To accomplish this they must: o Attract and retain students, particularly minority  students, through improved instructional support and outreach activities. o Encourage and prepare their most talented students to (#(#K pursue graduate education either at UTEP or elsewhere. o Enhance and support the research productivity of the (#(#K faculty. An outstanding feature of their plan is the involvement of upper division and graduate student assistants. Each student assistant will be directly involved in both teaching and research. The use of student assistants provides many benefits, particularly in the educational program. One of their major thrusts in computer science is to increase the number of minority students intending to major in computer science. UTEP will accomplish this by career development support in area middle and high schools, summer workshops designed to teach teachers how to teach computer science and precollege summer programs to introduce students to science, engineering and computer science.h))0*0*0*Ԍ The core of their plan is the use of student assistants which will enable the break up of large introductory classes into two components. The beginning courses will consist of large, professor led lecture sections twice weekly and much smaller (10-15 students) student assistant led recitation sections thrice weekly. The student assistants will be trained in handling the recitation sections. Such training will include team building and leadership skills and knowing how to recognize problems as they develop. They will also receive support and counselling on how to solve these problems. The student assistant leaders will also serve as role models for the low division students. They will encourage the assistants to discuss their research work in these recitation sections. UTEP plans to deal with the deficiencies in their curriculum coverage by encouraging faculty to develop expertise in new areas of teaching and research. A second major curriculum development strategy is to reorient courses in order to fit the new ACMDenning actionoriented model of computer science education and the newly emerging Curriculum 1991 guidelines which argue that laboratory work should include exercises in which students modify and explore existing codes. UTEP will upgrade the research productivity of the faculty through the avenues of technical expertise, student assistants, and the acquisition of sufficient equipment, including a network of workstations, and necessary software. These activities maximize the number of Hispanic students who will choose to pursue advanced degrees and enter the educational or research systems as their career choice. CDA9215983 $449,383 12 mos Ellis, Mary Hampton University Hampton University Experimental Laboratory for Promoting Education and Research (HELPER) This award provides infrastructure support for the development of the research and educational activities of the Hampton University Experimental Laboratory for promoting Education and Research. The support includes computing resources, as well as awards to undergraduate and graduate students. The investigators will be conducting research in the areas of (1) highspeed/parallel computing, (2) software engineering, (3) computer graphics, and (4) artificial intelligence/expert system development. h)*0*0*0*ԌCDA9244468 $108,664 12 mos Khatri, Daryao University of the District of Columbia Scientific Parallel Processing Applied Research Center (SPPARC) This grant provides infrastructure support for the development of the research and educational activities of the Scientific Parallel Processing Applied Research Center at the University of the District of Columbia. The support includes computing equipment, undergraduate student assistantships, and faculty release time. The principal investigators will conduct research in (1) intelligent Databases and Expert Systems for Supercomputers, and (2) Cognitive Sciences for Storage and Processing of Images. The educational component of this project provides undergraduate research experiences, summer internships, student participation in symposia and conferences, and peer mentoring. CDA-9240573 $400,000 12 mos Martin, Harold L. North Carolina A&T State University Laboratory for Communications, Signal Processing Expert Systems, and Application Specific Integrated Circuit Design This project includes both research and educational components focussed toward addressing the national shortage of minorities in computer science and engineering. The research and educational infrastructure will include linkages between North Carolina A&T and four majority institutionsStanford University, Duke University, University of Michigan and Michigan State University. A specific plan has been developed to significantly increase the number of Black Americans pursuing careers in computer science and engineering. This project will provide support for the Communications, Signal Processing Expert Systems, and the Applications Specific Integrated Circuit Design (ASIC) Laboratory in the Departments of Electronics and Computer Technology, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science at North Carolina A&T State University. This Laboratory is an integration of three ongoing research programs at North Carolina A&T: 1) the Communication Methods Research Laboratory; 2) the VLSI Design Laboratory and 3) the Signal Processing Laboratory which support a total of 7 faculty members, 20 graduate (MS) students and 25 undergraduate students in the departments. The laboratory will provide an integrated facility in which algorithm development, computer modeling and simulation, and application specific VLSI design can take place in the aforementioned research areas. The facility will consist of 2h)+0*0*0* image processing/graphics workstations, 5 VLSI CAD workstations, 4 AI expert system workstations, dedicated file and computational servers, data acquisition equipment, image I/O devices, a high speed 10 packaged chip tester, several application software packages, and networking capabilities to SURANet. The new facility will not only expand and enhance current research projects but will also create an environment which can initiate new projects in communication, expert systems, and ASIC design. Another byproduct of the proposed facility is the support of computing activities for the entire university, showing by example the impact that a dedicated research laboratory can have at a Historically Black College or University. CDA9215980 $228,700 12 mos Moreno, Oscar University of Puerto RicoRio Piedras Infrastructure for Computer Science Research in Puerto Rico This award provides infrastructure support for the development of the research and educational activities in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. The program will have a graduate component, including a new PhD program, as well as undergraduate and precollege activities. The support includes computing resources, as well as personnel to support the program. In its initial phases, there will be an emphasis in research in the areas of (1) computer algebra, (2) discrete mathematics for computer science, and (3) numerical methods. CDA-9240484 $350,000 12 mos Vasquez, Ramon University of Puerto Rico at Mayaquez Enhancement of the Computer Engineering Academic and Research Program The Department of Electrical and >s9 QI  9i Infrastructure for Computer Science Research in Puerto Rico This award provides infrastructure support for the development ofh).0*0*0* the research and educational activities in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. The program will have a graduate component, including a new Ph.D. program, as well as undergraduate and precollege activities. The support includes computing resources, as well as personnel to support the program. In its initial phases, there will be an emphasis in research in the areas of (1) computer algebra, (2) discrete mathematics for computer science, and (3) numerical methods. /0*0*0* CDA-9245581 $204,673 12 mos Warsi, Nazir Clark Atlanta University CAU Computing Science Research Laboratory (CSRL) This grant provides infrastructure support for the development of research and educational activities of the Computing Science Research Laboratory (CSRL) at Clark Atlanta University. The support includes computing equipment and software, graduate student assistantships, faculty release time, and the NSFnet connection. The principal investigators will conduct research in (1) software reuse, (2) interactive multimedia systems, (3) objectoriented databases, (4) parallel algorithms for network dynamic programming, (5) neural network implementations, and (6) parallel algorithms for roots of polynomials. The educational component of this project blends undergraduate and graduate research experiences at CSRL with an existing educational program funded through ONR which exploits linkages with local universities, industry, and national laboratories.   *h00*0*0*  ?   CISE EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE ă CDA9214957 $200,000 36 mos Gries, David J. Cornell University CISE Educational Infrastructure: Revitalizing the Computer Science Curriculum This award is for the development of four freshman/sophomore courses for computer science majors and non-majors. The courses will teach multiple programming paradigms, introduce formal reasoning early in the curriculum, and exploit computational problems that arise in other disciplines. Course material will be made available to other academic institutions and results of the educational effort will be presented at professional meetings and conferences. Cornell University plans to develop four introductory/sophomore level courses for computer science majors and non-majors. One course, targeted at students with no previous programming experience, will focus on developing the students' general problem-solving skills as well as their ability to use notation and abstract thinking. The other three courses are alternative courses for audiences with some background in computer science. These courses will provide a formal introduction to functional programming and formal reasoning, as well as continued instruction in imperative programming. Course materials will be disseminated to other academic institutions and presentations will be made at professional meetings and conferences. CDA9214942 $200,000 36 mos Kaufman, Arie E. SUNY Stonybrook CISE Educational Infrastructure: MULTI: Multimedia Userinterface Laboratory for Teaching and Instructional Material Development This award is for the development of an interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum in multimedia, user interfaces, and computer-human interaction. Six new undergraduate courses will be developed covering user interface development, human information processing, computer graphics, computer-supported cooperative work, scientific visualization and human factors in Interface design. This curriculum development is a collaborative effort between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Psychology. An R&D laboratory will be established to develop software and course materialsh)10*0*0*Ԍneeded to support the new curriculum. Each course development will include a CD-ROM with a printed monograph. All educational materials will be made available to other academic institutions and results of the project will be presented at professional workshops and conferences. SUNY, Stonybrook proposes to develop an interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum in multimedia, user interfaces, and computer-human interaction. This will be a collaborative effort between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Psychology. Course materials, software, a set of monographs and CD-ROM's , which will be produced as part of the project, will be widely disseminated in the academic community. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be disseminated through publications, and presentations at professional meetings. CDA9214930 $215,522 24 mos Maly, Kurt Old Dominion University CISE Educational Infrastructure: Computer Productivity Iniative This award is for the development of a Computer Productivity Initiative (CPI) that is designed to improve computer science education by developing a formal laboratory experience spanning the ffour year undergraduate program. CPI will allow the students to address a specific industrial problem from the specifications phase through to the implementation phase. Old Dominion University will be producing curriculum support modules, and other educational institutions. Old Dominion University will be using a Computer Productivity Initiative to modify its Computer Science curriculum to provide its students with the knowledge to increase their productivity in software development. Over the fou }ObB2dhP1 &&2?N">>&x~2&|#Ks a sH EbL@"󃛃+K3Ks+!{c+iK R$8@ @Gxx  8 @ H@Dlaboratories at Old Dominion University will be modified and new ones developed. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be made available to other educational institutions, and results of the educational experiences will be disseminated in technical and educational journals, and at presentations at professional meetings. %20*0*0* CDA9214947 $199,653 36 mos McCracken, W. Georgia Tech Research Center CISE Educational Infrastructure: An Environment for Educational Delivery and Development for Computing This award is for the development of an educational delivery platform to support multimedia instruction. Multiple presentation methods will be supported including textual description with annotation capabilities, dynamic visualizations and animations, lecturestyle slides and overlays, video windows for aids such as instructor's explanations, and audio capabilities. The software system and other materials developed will be disseminated through anonymous ftp, and presentations at professional meetings. Georgia Tech is proposing to develop a system infrastructure for a delivery platform for multimedia materials about computer science data structures, algorithms, and methodologies. The platform will support cooperative work, allowing students and instructors to interact with the presentations and save annotations for others to view and hear. The software system will be portable and will be available to any other interested institutions. 30*0*0* CDA9214874 $404,074 36 mos Nevison, Christopher H. Colgate University CISE Educational Infrastructure: Integrating ObjectOriented Programming and Formal Methods into the C.S. Curriculum This award is for the development of educational materials for early introduction into the computer science curriculum of formal methods and objectoriented programming. Material on operational, denotational, and logical semantics, will be developed, as well as laboratory exercises and related materials for teaching objectoriented programming and design. Colgate University plans to develop a network of computer science educators from a wide variety of institutions who will contribute to this project. Curriculum materials will be disseminated through Internet, and presented at workshops, and at other educational and professional meetings. Colgate University plans to develop materials in objectoriented programming and in formal methods for introduction into intermediatelevel computer science courses. Work on objectoriented programming and design will focus on the development of laboratory materials for several hardware platforms; work on formal methods will focus on two major areas: program verification and operations, denotational and logical semantic. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be disseminated through Internet, and will be presented at workshops, and educational and professional meetings. CDA9214902 $347,697 36 mos Rebbi, Claudio Boston University CISE Educational Infrastructure: Undergraduate in Massively Parallel Computing This award is for the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum for undergraduate students in computer science, the natural sciences and engineering. The curriculum will focus on massively parallel computing and will use Boston University's 64-node CM-5. The courses will be project- oriented emphasizing direct experience with computational problem-solving in the sciences and with programming in a massively parallel environment. This award is for the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum for undergraduate students in computer science, the natural sciences and engineering. The six project oriented courses that are proposed: one in fundamental methods and five in advanced computational topics, will emphasize directh)40*0*0*Ԍexperience with computational problem-solving in the sciences and with programming in a massively parallel environment. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be disseminated through summer workshops, publications, and presentations at professional meetings. CDA9214892 $393,964 36 mos Rogers, Edwin H. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Split funded with CISE Educational Infrastructure: Improving Software Design and Development Education through Technological Innovation This award is designed to improve software engineering education by providing technological support for the integration of language and design, object modeling methodology and software libraries of generic components. Rensselaer will be establishing a Design Conference Room containing networked workstations, a high-end projection system, a laser printer, and scanner. Four courses in the undergraduate curriculum will be the focus of this project: the second computer science course, a programming languages course, a software design course, and a software development course. Rensselaer proposes to develop and integrate into its curriculum, novel tools and techniques in software design and implementation. There are three major themes to this effort: better design through better use of language during conceptual stages of design, better design through object modeling and dynamics, and better software products through the use of libraries of reliable, reusable software. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be disseminated through publications, and presentations at professional meetings. CDA9214908 $104,417 36 mos Shen, John P. Carnegie Mellon University (Split funded with CISE Educational Infrastructure: "Modern Processor Design: A New Engineering Course" This award is for the development of a course on modern processor design that will focus on instruction level parallel (ILP) processing in single chip processors and will include techniques for superpipelined and superscalar processor design, instruction scheduling techniques for ILP typeh)50*0*0*Ԍprocessor, and instruction-level performance evaluation and characterization. A new processor design methodology involving experimentation and quantitative analysis of the performance impact of specific design features will be presented in the course. Dr. Shen will be writing a textbook as well as a set of lecture notes for distribution to other institutions. This award is for the development of a senior-level computer engineering course on modern processor design. The course will address contemporary processor design techniques relevant to the design of current and future generation processors that exploit instruction level parallelisms. Examples include superpipelined, superscalar, supersymmetry and Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors. A textbook and a set of lecture notes will be disseminated as part of this project. CDA9214924 $275,000 36 mos Smith, Jonathan University of Pennsylvania CISE Educational Infrastructure: Telementoring: A Novel Approach to Teaching Undergraduate Computer Scientists This award is for the acquisition of teleconferencing and multimedia technology, and for curriculum changes to expand a curriculum in Telecommunications. The University of Pennsylvania will use a new instructional delivery system, the "video wall", to develOp "Te&%-entoriNg" as a long dB0$DX$.M,"b 3` b`sa"`""s3 research projects by members of the AURORA Gigabit Testbed which is being supported by both NSF, DARPA and a consortium of industrial research partners. Educational materials developed will be made available to other academic institutions through Internet, and results of the educational experiments will be disseminated through publications and presentations at educational and professional meetings. The University of Pennsylvania plans to use a state of the art instructional delivery system, the "video wall", to provide multimedia and teleconferencing support for undergraduate courses in telecommunications. The video wall is an experimental video conferencing terminal with two large screen projection televisions mounted side-by-side creating the illusion of one large screen. Two cameras, co-located with the screens, are arranged to produce a single blended life- size image which is combined with high-quality directional sound. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be disseminated through Internet, and publications and presentations at educational and professional meetings. h)60*0*0* CDA9212674 $2,600 2 mos Turner, A.J. Clemson University (Jointly funded with EHR/USEME for $2,600) Total award $5,200 NSF Educational Programs Panel Two years ago the National Science Foundation announced a number of new programs that support undergraduate computer science education, including CISE's Educational Infrastructure Program and EHR's Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Development Program. These programs join the current EHR's undergraduate programs of Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement, and Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement. This request is to provide travel funds and a subsistence allowance to allow Drs. David Dobkin, Chris Nevison, Juris Reinfelds and Joe Turner to attend the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education in March, 1992 in order to be members of a panel discussing NSFfunded curriculum projects. Dr. David Dobkin will relate his progress with integrating computer science and the arts at the undergraduate level. Chris Nevison will present his experience over the past years with three NSF educational programs and the development of parallel processing in the undergraduate curriculum. Juris Reinfelds will describe a combined development effort in computer science and mathematics for the first two pairs of courses. The efforts of Clemson University, Bowdoin College, and the University of Connecticut to implement the Computing Curriculum '91 in their three schools will be presented by A. Joe Turner.870*0*0*  ?   CISE RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION ă CDA9121768 $36,000 12 mos Abbott, A. L. Virginia Polytechnic Institute CISE Research Instrumentation: RealTime Planning and Control for Cooperative Manipulators in the Virginia Tech AI/Robotics Laboratory This award is to purchase high-speed workstations, high- resolution cameras, digitizers, and actuator-control equipment to enhance an existing pair of industrial-quality robot arms. The equipment will support research projects in real-time collision avoidance, integration of stereo range estimation and cooperative manipulation, planning for real- time control in real environments, and planning and simulation. Virginia Polytechnic Institute will purchase equipment to support several research projects in the area of real-time control of robotic manipulation tasks. The research will center on the cooperative use of artificial intelligence techniques, machine vision, efficient world models, and hierarchical design for robust planning and control. CDA9121999 $46,000 12 mos Abrams, Marc Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University CISE Research Instrumentation: High Data Rate Network Research This award provides funds to build an FDDI LAN using existing fiber cable, with network analyzer and logic analyzer interface. This local area network will support research projects in queuing and control theoretic algorithms for rate based flow control, high- performance network interoperability modelling, impact of application-network interaction on high data rate network performance, multimedia information on a distributed system, and high performance FDDI networks for VSAT internetworking. Equipment will be purchased to assemble a campus-wide Fiber Distributed-Data Interface (FDDI) network to support experimental communications research as well as to provide a testbed for distributed multimedia. Research projects supported include the development and implementation of a new rate control algorithm for local area networks (LAN), interoperability modeling, optimal organization and performance of distributed systems based on high data rate LAN's, and network-aided construction and access toh)80*0*0*Ԍdigital multimedia information. CDA9121854 $72,000 12 mos Allebach, Jan P. Purdue University CISE Research Instrumentation: A MultiSpectral/MultiSensor Systems Laboratory This award is to purchase a spot reading spectrometer, a 1D scanning rangefinder, and high quality color video camera to develop multispectral/multisensor systems laboratory for problems in vision & electronic imaging. Research projects using this system will include reflectance estimation & determination of material properties from reflectance; modeling & identification of objects in a natural scene; development of morphological approaches to processing multiband images for noise reduction & feature extraction; development of physicsbased approaches to color image enhancement; and development of methods for selfcalibration of electronic imaging systems. Purdue University will purchase equipment to develop a new multispectral/multisensor systems laboratory for research in machine vision and electronic imaging. The system will be used for acquisition of high spatial resolution multispectral, color, and range information from a model scene under controlled lighting conditions. The researchers will be able to investigate a number of important problems associated with image formation, image processing, and scene understanding. CDA9121972 $37,000 12 mos Aloimonos, J. Yiannis University of Maryland College Park NSF CISE Research Instrumentation Proposal for MultiInstitutional Research in Active Vision This award is for the purchase of a multiple degree of freedom, high precision, light weight stereo camera head. The same equipment is being purchased at three other institutions in a shared research effort. Research topics include gaze control and target tracking, stereo and motion analysis, landmarkbased navigation, automatic acquisition of object and environmental models, handeye coordination, dextrous manipulation with multifingered hands, realtime perception and manipulation. System software, algorithms and subsystems will be shared across the institutions. The University of Maryland will be purchasing equipment to support a multiinstitutional shared research effort in active vision forh)90*0*0* robot navigation and manipulation. Other members of the consortium are the University of Rochester, University of Pennsylvania and the University of MassacHy! HsAʉ''2$hc0i HA1I@]BIIdBX\[؝[\[Y\HXYوYX\[ۈ[ZYYY [I\H[H][Y[و\[\ٝ\CXnd application software. CDA9121973 $37,000 12 mos Bajcsy, Ruzena K. University of Pennsylvania CISE Research Instrumentation for MultiInstitutional Research in Active Vision This award is to purchase a multiple degree of freedom, high precision, light weight stereo camera head. The same equipment is being purchased at three other institution in a shared research effort. Research topics include gaze control and target tracking, stereo and motion analysis, landmarkbased navigation, automatic acquisition of object and environmental models, handseye coordination, dextrous manipulation with multifingered hands, realtime perception and manipulation. System software, algorithms and subsystems will be shared across the institutions. The University of Pennsylvania will be purchasing equipment to support a multiinstitutional shared research effort in active vision for robot navigation and manipulation. Other members of the consortium are the University of Rochester, University of Maryland and the University of Massachusetts. Each institution will acquire the same statoftheart binocular camera head of high precision and high speed, and will share in the development of systems software and applications software. CDA9121709 $100,820 12 mos Bhatt, Ravindra N. Princeton University CISE Research Instrumentation This award is for an upgrade of a MasPar MP-1 massively parallel computer to enable computational applications in information sciences and systems, and in condensed matter and material physics. Research projects include compression of high-definition images, distributed decision-making with very large numbers of sensors, Monte Carlo simulations of glassy systems, and numerical studies of quantum disordered systems. The acquisition of MasPar machines has allowed a number of academic, government and industrial organizations to achieve exceptionally fast computing performance for scientific andh):0*0*0*Ԍengineering applications amenable to massive parallelism. Princeton University plans to use the machine for several research projects in the Electronic Materials and devices group, and in the Information Sciences and Systems group. CDA9121975 $37,000 12 mos Brown, Christopher M. University of Rochester CISE Research Instrumentation: "MultiInstitutional Research in Active Vision" This award is for the purchase of a multiple degree of freedom, high precision, light weight stereo camera head. The same equipment is being purchased at three other institutions in a shared research effort. Research topics include gaze control and target tracking, stereo and motion analysis, landmarkbased navigation, automatic acquisition of object and environmental models, handeye coordination, dextrous manipulation with multifingered hands, realtime perception and manipulation. System software, algorithms and subsystems will be shared across the institutions. The University of Rochester will be purchasing equipment to support a multiinstitutional shared research effort in active vision for robot navigation and manipulation. Other members of the consortium are the University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland and the University of Massachusetts. Each institution will acquire the same stateoftheart binocular camera head of high precision and high speed, and will share in the development of systems software and application software. CDA9121929 $48,000 12 mos Canny, John, F. University of California Berkeley CISE Research Instrumentation: Flexible Actuators and Sensors for Robotics Research This award is to purchase manipulation and sensor and control processing equipment for projects in intelligent distributed control of materials handling, object manipulation using tactile sensing, coordinated motion and grasp planning, and finding surface boundaries in images. The award will allow the University of California, Berkeley to expand its RobotWorld system, update its LYMPH multiprocessor, and acquire a frame grabber and color camera to support fast image acquisition and processing. University of California, Berkeley will be purchasingh);0*0*0*Ԍmanipulation and sensor and control processing equipment to support research in robotics and computer vision. The equipment will include an expansion of its RobotWorld system, an update to its LYMPH multiprocessor, and a frame grabber and color camera. CDA9121927 $43,000 12 mos Cole, Ronald A. Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology CISE Research Instrumentation: Instrumentation for the Center for Spoken Language Understanding This award is for the purchase of a file server and disk storage for research in automatic language identification, continuous letter recognition, telephone speech recognition and stochastic dynamics of neural learning. These research projects require frequent and repeated use of large amounts of data. The file server will be able to handle a large number of disks and heavy network traffic, and the disk storage will satisfy current storage needs. Network transfers of very large files used to train neural network classifiers can seriously strain an institution's disk cpu server. The requested file server and disk storage will allow the Oregon Graduate Institute to handle a large number of disks and very heavy network traffic. The additional disk storage will satisfy current storage needs. 8<0*0*0* CDA9121961 $84,606 12 mos Despain, Alvin M. University of Southern California CISE Research Instrumentation: Equipment for Research in Designing and Using Multiprocessor Systems This award is to purchase an IBM 540 server and assorted peripheral devices to support research in design automation for single chip VLSI microprocessors, principles of design for high performance VLSI microprocessors, USC Macro Data-Flow project, data-driven approach to programming multiprocessor systems, neurobiology and simulation of neural nets for invariant object recognition. The University os>Computer Engineering of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) will acquire new computing resources to enhance the established academic programs and strengthen research efforts. These computing resources are required to attain the following goals:  Develop a Master's Program in Computer Engineering within three years. Attract minority students, from the island and the mainland states, to careers and graduate education in computer engineering. Increase significantly the research output and the number of technical publications in learned journals.h),0*0*0*ԌStrengthen the computing and connective infrastructure so that researchers can join the knowledge and information intensive environments made possible through networking within the academic and industrial communities. Build an infrastructure to promote faculty development and to create an environment for research. Develop a program of manufacturingrelated research and development that will forge close ties with industry and foster future entrepreneurial product development for a world market. As the final outcome of this project, the number of trained minority computer engineers entering the workforce from the institution at both undergraduate and graduate levels will significantly increase in quantity and quality. The students and faculty will be able to use computing equipment comparable to that used in industry in their studies and their research. Faculty will be able to conduct stateoftheart research for both government and industry sponsors. CDA9243886 $101,425 12 mos Wakim, Nagi Bowie State University Laboratory for Electronic Networking and Distributed Systems (LENDS) This grant provides infrastructure support for the development of the research and educational activities of the Laboratory for Electronic Networking and Distributed Systems at Bowie State University. The support includes computing equipment and software, faculty development costs, and student assistantships. The principal investigators will conduct research in (1) distributed heterogeneous data and information management, (2) data compression techniques, and (3) distributed artificial intelligence systems. In addition, the educational activities will include further development of a pipeline program to attract and retain more minority students in computer science careers. Components of this program include a mentoring project for minority undergraduates, summer training in computer programming for high school students, tutoring and laboratory research experiences for undergraduates. `"-0*0*0* CDA924558 $204,673 12 mos Warsi, Nazir Clark Atlanta University CAU Computing Science Research Laboratory (CSRL) This grant provides infrastructure support for the development of research and educational activities of the Computing Science Research Laboratory (CSRL) at Clark Atlanta University. The support includes computing equipment and software, graduate student assistantships, faculty release time, and the NSFnet connection. The principal investigators will conduct research in (1) software reuse, (2) interactive multimedia systems, (3) objectoriented databases, (4) parallel algorithms for network dynamic programming, (5) neural network implementations, and (6) parallel algorithms for roots of polynomials. The educational component of this project blends undergraduate and graduate research experiences at CSRL with an existing educational program funded through ONR which exploits linkages with local universities, industry, and national laboratories. 0.0*0*0*  ?   CISE EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE ă CDA9214957 $200,000 36 mos Gries, David J. Cornell University CISE Educational Infrastructure: Revitalizing the Computer Science Curriculum This award is for the development of four freshman/sophomore courses for computer science majors and non-majors. The courses will teach multiple programming paradigms, introduce formal reasoning early in the curriculum, and exploit computational problems that arise in other disciplines. Course material will be made available to other academic institutions and results of the educational effort will be presented at professional meetings and conferences. Cornell University plans to develop four introductory sophomore level courses for computer science majors and non-majors. One course, targeted at students with no previous programming experience, will focus on developing the students' general problem-solving skills as well as their ability to use notation and abstract thinking. The other three courses are alternative courses for audiences with some background in computer science. These courses will provide a formal introduction to functional programming and formal reasoning, as well as continued instruction in imperative programming. Course materials will be disseminated to other academic institutions and presentations will be made at professional meetings and conferences. CDA9214942 $200,000 36 mos Kaufman, Arie E. SUNY Stonybrook CISE Educational Infrastructure: MULTI: Multimedia Userinterface Laboratory for Teaching and Instructional Material Development This award is for the development of an interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum in multimedia, user interfaces, and computer-human interaction. Six new undergraduate courses will be developed covering user interface development, human information processing, computer graphics, computer-supported cooperative work, scientific visualization and human factors in Interface design. This curriculum development is a collaborative effort between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Psychology. An R&D laboratory will be established to develop software and course materials needed to support the new curriculum. Each course development will include a CD-ROM with a printed monograph. Allh)/0*0*0*Ԍeducational materials will be made available to other academic institutions and results of the project will be presented at professional workshops and conferences. SUNY, Stonybrook proposes to develop an interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum in multimedia, user interfaces, and computer-human interaction. This will be a collaborative effort between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Psychology. Course materials, software, a set of monographs and CD-ROM's , which will be produced as part of the project, will be widely disseminated in the academic community. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be disseminated through publications, and presentations at professional meetings. CDA9214930 $215,522 24 mos Maly, Kurt Old Dominion University CISE Educational Infrastructure: Computer Productivity Initiative This award is for the development of a Computer Productivity Initiative (CPI) that is designed to improve computer science education by developing a formal laboratory experience spanning the four year undergraduate program. CPI will allow the students to address a specific industrial problem from the specifications phase through to the implementation phase. Old Dominion University will be producing curriculum support modules, and other educational institutions. Old Dominion University will be using a Computer Productivity Initiative to modify its Computer Science curriculum to provide its students with the knowledge to increase their productivity in software development. Over the four year time period of undergraduate study, computer science students will address a specific unstructured problem in the context of a business application. Existing courses and laboratories at Old Dominion University will be modified and new ones developed. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be made available to other educational institutions, and results of the educational experiences will be disseminated in technical and educational journals, and at presentations at professional meetings. (#00*0*0* CDA9214947 $199,653 36 mos McCracken, W. Michael Georgia Tech Research Center CISE Educational Infrastructure: An Environment for Educational Delivery and Development for Computing This award is for the development of an educational delivery platform to support multimedia instruction. Multiple presentation methods will be supported including textual description with annotation capabilities, dynamic visualizations and animations, lecturestyle slides and overlays, video windows for aids such as instructor's explanations, and audio capabilities. The software system and other materials developed will be disseminated through anonymous ftp, and presentations at professional meetings. Georgia Tech is proposing to develop a system infrastructure for a delivery platform for multimedia materials about computer science data structures, algorithms, and methodologies. The platform will support cooperative work, allowing students and instructors to interact with the presentations and save annotations for others to view and hear. The software system will be portable and will be available to any other interested institutions. CDA9214874 $404,074 36 mos Nevison, Christopher H. Colgate University CISE Educational Infrastructure: Integrating ObjectOriented Programming and Formal Methods into the C.S. Curriculum This award is for the development of educational materials for early introduction into the computer science curriculum of formal methods and objectoriented programming. Material on operational, denotational, and logical semantics, will be developed, as well as laboratory exercises and related materials for teaching objectoriented programming and design. Colgate University plans to develop a network of computer science educators from a wide variety of institutions who will contribute to this project. Curriculum materials will be disseminated through Internet, and presented at workshops, and at other educational and professional meetings. Colgate University plans to develop materials in objectoriented programming and in formal methods for introduction into intermediatelevel computer science courses. Work on objectoriented programming and design will focus on the development of laboratory materials for several hardware platforms; work on formal methods will focus on two major areas: program verification and operations, denotational and logical semantic. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be disseminated through Internet, and will be presented at workshops, and educational and professional meetings.h)10*0*0*ԌCDA9214902 $347,697 36 mos Rebbi, Claudio Boston University  ?  (Split funded with Division of Advanced Scientific Computing for $50,000) Total award $397,697 CISE Educational Infrastructure: Undergraduate in Massively Parallel Computing This award is for the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum for undergraduate students in computer science, the natural sciences and engineering. The curriculum will focus on massively parallel computing and will use Boston University's 64-node CM-5. The courses will be project- oriented emphasizing direct experience with computational problem-solving in the sciences and with programming in a massively parallel environment. This award is for the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum for undergraduate students in computer science, the natural sciences and engineering. The six project oriented courses that are proposed: one in fundamental methods and five in advanced computational topics, will emphasize direct experience with computational problem-solving in the sciences and with programming in a massively parallel environment. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be disseminated through summer workshops, publications, and presentations at professional meetings. CDA9214892 $393,964 36 mos Rogers, Edwin H. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute CISE Educational Infrastructure: Improving Software Design and Development Education through Technological Innovation This award is designed to improve software engineering education by providing technological support for the integration of language and design, object modeling methodology and software libraries of generic components. Rensselaer will be establishing a Design Conference Room containing networked workstations, a high-end projection system, a laser printer, and scanner. Four courses in the undergraduate curriculum will be the focus of this project: the second computer science course, a programming languages course, a software design course, and a software development course. Rensselaer proposes to develop and integrate into its curriculum, novel tools and techniques in software design and implementation. There are three major themes to this effort:h)20*0*0*Ԍbetter design through better use of language during conceptual stages of design, better design through object modeling and dynamics, and better software products through the use of libraries of reliable, reusable software. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be disseminated through publications, and presentations at professional meetings. CDA9214908 $104,417 36 mos Shen, John P. Carnegie Mellon University  ?(  (Split funded with Division of Microelectronic Information  ? Processing Systems for $100,000) Total award $204,447 CISE Educational Infrastructure: Modern Processor Design: A New Engineering Course This award is for the development of a course on modern processor design that will focus on instruction level parallel (ILP) processing in single chip processors and will include techniques for superpipelined and superscalar processor design, instruction scheduling techniques for ILP type processor, and instruction-level performance evaluation and characterization. A new processor design methodology involving experimentation and quantitative analysis of the performance impact of specific design features will be presented in the course. Dr. Shen will be writing a textbook as well as a set of lecture notes for distribution to other institutions. This award is for the development of a senior-level computer engineering course on modern processor design. The course will address contemporary processor design techniques relevant to the design of current and future generation processors that exploit instruction level parallelisms. Examples include superpipelined, superscalar, supersymmetry and Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors. A textbook and a set of lecture notes will be disseminated as part of this project. CDA9214924 $275,000 36 mos Smith, Jonathan University of Pennsylvania CISE Educational Infrastructure: Telementoring: A Novel Approach to Teaching Undergraduate Computer Scientists This award is for the acquisition of teleconferencing and multimedia technology, and for curriculum changes to expand a curriculum in Telecommunications. The University of Pennsylvania will use a new instructional delivery system, the "video wall", to develop "Telementoring" as a long distance learning technique. The video wall is already being used in h)30*0*0*Ԍresearch projects by members of the AURORA Gigabit Testbed which is being supported by both NSF, DARPA and a consortium of industrial research partners. Educational materials developed will be made available to other academic institutions through Internet, and results of the educational experiments will be disseminated through publications and presentations at educational and professional meetings. The University of Pennsylvania plans to use a state of the art instructional delivery system, the "video wall", to provide multimedia and teleconferencing support for undergraduate courses in telecommunications. The video wall is an experimental video conferencing terminal with two large screen projection televisions mounted side-by-side creating the illusion of one large screen. Two cameras, co-located with the screens, are arranged to produce a single blended life- size image which is combined with high-quality directional sound. The results of the curriculum and materials development will be disseminated through Internet, and publications and presentations at educational and professional meetings. CDA9212674 $5,200 2 mos Turner, A. J. Clemson University NSF Educational Programs Panel Two years ago, the National Science Foundation announced a number of new programs that support undergraduate computer science education, including CISE's Educational Infrastructure Program and EHR's Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Development Program. These programs join the current EHR's undergraduate programs of Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement, and Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement. This request is to provide travel funds and a subsistence allowance to allow Drs. David Dobkin, Chris Nevison, Juris Reinfelds and Joe Turner to attend the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education in March, 1992 in order to be members of a panel discussing NSFfunded curriculum projects. Dr. David Dobkin will relate his progress with integrating computer science and the arts at the undergraduate level. Chris Nevison will present his experience over the past years with three NSF educational programs and the development of parallel processing in the undergraduate curriculum. Juris Reinfelds will describe a combined development effort in computer science and mathematics for the first two pairs of courses. The efforts of Clemson University, Bowdoin College, and the University of Connecticut to implement the Computing Curriculum '91 in their three schools will be presented by A. Joe Turner. h)40*0*0*  ?   CISE RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION ă CDA9121768 $36,000 12 mos Abbott, A. L. Virginia Polytechnic Institute CISE Research Instrumentation: RealTime Planning and Control for Cooperative Manipulators in the Virginia Tech AI/Robotics Laboratory This award is to purchase high-speed workstations, high- resolution cameras, digitizers, and actuator-control equipment to enhance an existing pair of industrial-quality robot arms. The equipment will support research projects in real-time collision avoidance, integration of stereo range estimation and cooperative manipulation, planning for real- time control in real environments, and planning and simulation. Virginia Polytechnic Institute will purchase equipment to support several research projects in the area of real-time control of robotic manipulation tasks. The research will center on the cooperative use of artificial intelligence techniques, machine vision, efficient world models, and hierarchical design for robust planning and control. CDA9121999 $96,643 12 mos Abrams, Marc Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University CISE Research Instrumentation: High Data Rate Network Research This award provides funds to build an FDDI LAN using existing fiber cable, with network analyzer and logic analyzer interface. This local area network will support research projects in queuing and control theoretic algorithms for rate based flow control, high- performance network interoperability modelling, impact of application-network interaction on high data rate network performance, multimedia information on a distributed system, and high performance FDDI networks for VSAT internetworking. Equipment will be purchased to assemble a campus-wide Fiber Distributed-Data Interface (FDDI) network to support experimental communications research as well as to provide a testbed for distributed multimedia. Research projects supported include the development and implementation of a new rate control algorithm for local area networks (LAN), interoperability modeling, optimal organization and performance of distributed systems based on high data rate LAN's, and network-aided construction and access to digital multimedia information. h)50*0*0*ԌCDA9121854 $72,000 12 mos Allebach, Jan P. Purdue University CISE Research Instrumentation: A MultiSpectral/MultiSensor System Laboratory This award is to purchase a spot reading spectrometer, a 1D scanning rangefinder, and high quality color video camera to develop multispectral/multisensor systems laboratory for problems in vision & electronic imaging. Research projects using this system will include reflectance estimation & determination of material properties from reflectance; modeling & identification of objects in a natural scene; development of morphological approaches to processing multiband images for noise reduction & feature extraction; development of physicsbased approaches to color image enhancement; and development of methods for selfcalibration of electronic imaging systems. Purdue University will purchase equipment to develop a new multispectral/multisensor systems laboratory for research in machine vision and electronic imaging. The system will be used for acquisition of high spatial resolution multispectral, color, and range information from a model scene under controlled lighting conditions. The researchers will be able to investigate a number of important problems associated with image formation, image processing, and scene understanding. CDA9121972 $37,000 12 mos Aloimonos, J. Yiannis University of MarylandCollege Park CISE Instrumentation Proposal for MultiInstitutional Research in Active Vision This award is for the purchase of a multiple degree of freedom, high precision, light weight stereo camera head. The same equipment is being purchased at three other institutions in a shared research effort. Research topics include gaze control and target tracking, stereo and motion analysis, landmarkbased navigation, automatic acquisition of object and environmental models, handeye coordination, dextrous manipulation with multifingered hands, realtime perception and manipulation. System software, algorithms and subsystems will be shared across the institutions. The University of Maryland will be purchasing equipment to support a multiinstitutional shared research effort in active vision for robot navigation and manipulation. Other members of the consortium are the University of Rochester, University of Pennsylvania and the University of Massachusetts. Each institution will acquire the same stateoftheart binocular camera head ofh)60*0*0* high precision and high speed, and will share in the development of systems software and application software. CDA9121973 $37,000 12 mos Bajcsy, Ruzena K. University of Pennsylvania CISE Research Instrumentation for MultiInstitutional Research in Active Vision This award is to purchase a multiple degree of freedom, high precision, light weight stereo camera head. The same equipment is being purchased at three other institutions in a shared research effort. Research topics include gaze control and target tracking, stereo and motion analysis, landmarkbased navigation, automatic acquisition of object and environmental models, handseye coordination, dextrous manipulation with multifingered hands, realtime perception and manipulation. System software, algorithms and subsystems will be shared across the institutions. The University of Pennsylvania will be purchasing equipment to support a multiinstitutional shared research effort in active vision for robot navigation and manipulation. Other members of the consortium are the University of Rochester, University of Maryland and the University of Massachusetts. Each institution will acquire the same stateoftheart binocular camera head of high precision and high speed, and will share in the development of systems software and applications software. CDA9121709 $100,820 12 mos Bhatt, Ravindra N. Princeton University CISE Research Instrumentation This award is for an upgrade of a MasPar MP-1 massively parallel computer to enable computational applications in information sciences and systems, and in condensed matter and material physics. Research projects include compression of high-definition images, distributed decision-making with very large numbers of sensors, Monte Carlo simulations of glassy systems, and numerical studies of quantum disordered systems. The acquisition of MasPar machines has allowed a number of academic, government and industrial organizations to achieve exceptionally fast computing performance for scientific and engineering applications amenable to massive parallelism. Princeton University plans to use the machine for several research projects in the Electronic Materials and devices group, and in the Information Sciences and Systems group. h)70*0*0*ԌCDA9121975 $37,000 12 mos Brown, Christopher M. University of Rochester CISE Research Instrumentation: MultiInstitutional Research in Active Vision This award is for the purchase of a multiple degree of freedom, high precision, light weight stereo camera head. The same equipment is being purchased at three other institutions in a shared research effort. Research topics include gaze control and target tracking, stereo and motion analysis, landmarkbased navigation, automatic acquisition of object and environmental models, handeye coordination, dextrous manipulation with multifingered hands, realtime perception and manipulation. System software, algorithms and subsystems will be shared across the institutions. The University of Rochester will be purchasing equipment to support a multiinstitutional shared research effort in active vision for robot navigation and manipulation. Other members of the consortium are the University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland and the University of Massachusetts. Each institution will acquire the same stateoftheart binocular camera head of high precision and high speed, and will share in the development of systems software and application software. CDA9121929 $48,000 12 mos Canny, John F. University of CaliforniaBerkeley CISE Research Instrumentation: Flexible Actuators and Sensors for Robotics Research This award is to purchase manipulation and sensor and control processing equipment for projects in intelligent distributed control of materials handling, object manipulation using tactile sensing, coordinated motion and grasp planning, and finding surface boundaries in images. The award will allow the University of California, Berkeley to expand its RobotWorld system, update its LYMPH multiprocessor, and acquire a frame grabber and color camera to support fast image acquisition and processing. University of California, Berkeley will be purchasing manipulation and sensor and control processing equipment to support research in robotics and computer vision. The equipment will include an expansion of its RobotWorld system, an update to its LYMPH multiprocessor, and a frame grabber and color camera. h)80*0*0*ԌCDA9121927 $43,000 12 mos Cole, Ronald A. Oregon Graduate Institute CISE Research Instrumentation: Instrumentation for the Center for Spoken Language Understanding This award is for the purchase of a file server and disk storage for research in automatic language identification, continuous letter recognition, telephone speech recognition and stochastic dynamics of neural learning. These research projects require frequent and repeated use of large amounts of data. The file server will be able to handle a large number of disks and heavy network traffic, and the disk storage will satisfy current storage needs. Network transfers of very large files used to train neural network classifiers can seriously strain an institution's disk/cpu server. The requested file server and disk storage will allow the Oregon Graduate Institute to handle a large number of disks and very heavy network traffic. The additional disk storage will satisfy current storage needs. CDA9222905 $58,126 18 mos Costello, Daniel J. University of Notre Dame CISE Instrumentation Research: High Resolution Video Processing System Video display and recording equipment shall be purchased to augment existing research equipment in order to allow simulation of the effects of various algorithms and errors on the quality of digital video sequences under realistic viewing conditions. Particular projects include: * Compression of video data. * Restoration and enhancement of video data through nonlinear and nonstationary filtering. * Visual communication system channel error effect compensation. h)90*0*0*Ԍ CDA9222911 $144,925 12 mos Dennis, John E. William Marsh Rice University CISE Research Instrumentation An ATM-based network multicomputer will be procured for several projects involving distributing computing. These include distributed single-address space systems, distributed implementation of a functional language with futures, distributed FORTRAN D, distributed genome linkage analysis, and distributed shared memory. CDA9121961 $84, 606 12 mos Despain, Alvin M. University of Southern California CISE Research Instrumentation: Equipment for Research in Designing and Using Multiprocessor Systems This award is to purchase an IBM 540 server and assorted peripheral devices to support research in design automation for single chip VLSI microprocessors, principles of design for high performance VLSI microprocessors, USC Macro Data-Flow project, data-driven approach to programming multiprocessor systems, neurobiology and simulation of neural nets for invariant object recognition. The University of Southern California will be investigating and evaluating multiprocessor systems for use in the next generation of computer systems. The departments of Electrical Engineering-Systems and Computer Science will be purchasing a server and assorted peripheral devices to support research projects which rely upon extensive simulation of complex hardware and software systems. CDA9121783 $27,745 12 mos Donald, Bruce, R. Cornell University CISE Research Instrumentation: Research in Mobile Autonomous Robotic Motion, Sensing, and Planning in Unstructured Environment This award is to purchase an autonomous robot with on- board drive system, processors for navigation and control, sensors and embedded controllers, ultrasonic sonar sensing, pyroelectric motion sensors, touch sensors, low-cost vision and optical sensors, and stereo cameras. The equipment will provide the supporting technology for several researchh):0*0*0*Ԍprojects in the areas of robotics sensing, planning, and control in unstructured environments. Much of the research in robotics and machine vision has been confined to problems of a static nature. Acquisition of an autonomous mobile robot with a vision system will provide Cornell University with the supporting technology for research projects in recognition and recognizability, motion and  ning. (=0*0*0* CDA9121675 $40,000 12 mos Fischer, Thomas R. Washington State University CISE Research Instrumentation: Video Acquisition, Display and Processing Laboratory This award is to develop a stateoftheart video acquisition, display, and processing laboratory to support a wide variety of research projects in video and image coding, image and multidimensional signal processing, and computer vision and image understanding. The equipment will include a component digital video recorder and a high speed computer workstation. The next decade will almost certainly witness a rapid expansion of video and image related products and services that require compressed image and video data for transmission over band limited channels, or storage on band limited storage devices. The bandwidth of broadcast video is very large therefore research on video compression and computer vision requires high speed digital acquisition and storage devices and fast computers to process, display, and analyze the digitized video signal. Hence, Washington State CDA9121771 $150,667 12 mos Ghafoor, Arif Purdue University Research Foundation CISE Research Instrumentation: High Speed Optical Network Testbed for Research in Telecommunication and Massive Parallel Computation This award is to purchase a high speed network testbed to support several projects at Purdue University including research in admission control of multimedia traffic for Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN) technology, transient behavior in buffers in multimedia networks, synchronization protocols and prototyping of a broadband Distributed Multimedia Information System, heterogeneous distributed computing, and massively parallel numeric computation. The network testbed will be implemented in collaboration with the TeraNet project at Columbia University's Center for Telecommunications Research The proposed equipment will be used to implement a three-node TeraNet testbedorder to support various research projects related to Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network, distributed multimedia systems, parallel processing and distributed computing. The equipment will be used in collaboration with the TeraNet project at Columbia University's Center for Telecommunications Research. software systems. CDA9121675 $40,000 12 mos Fischer, Thomas R. Washington State University CISE Research Instrumentation: Video Acquisition, Display and Processing Laboratory This award is to develop a stateoftheart video acquisition, display, and processing laboratory to support a wide variety of research projects in video and image coding, image and multidimensional signal processing, and computer vision and image understanding. The equipment will include a component digital video recorder and a high speed computer workstation. The next decade will almost certainly witness a rapid expansion of video and image related products and services that require compressed image and video data for transmission overband limited channels, or storage on band limited storage devices. The bandwidth of broadcast video is very large, therefore research on video compression and computer vision requires high speed digital acquisition and storage devices and fast computers to process, display, and analyze the digitized video signal. Hence, Washington State University will establish a research laboratory with video acquisition, display, and processing equipment that will support ongoing research efforts in video and image coding, computer vision, and image processing. CDA9121771 $150,667 12 mos Ghafoor, Arif Purdue University CISE Research Instrumentation: High Speed Optical Network Testbed for Research in Telecommunication and Massive Parallel Computation This award is to purchase a high speed network testbedh);0*0*0*Ԍto support several projects at Purdue University including research in admission control of multimedia traffic for Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN) technology, transient behavior in buffers in multimedia networks, synchronization protocols and prototyping of a broadband Distributed Multimedia Information System, heterogeneous distributed computing, and massively parallel numeric computation. The network testbed will be implemented in collaboration with the TeraNet project at Columbia University's Center for Telecommunications Research The proposed equipment will be used to implement a three-node TeraNet testbed in order to support various research projects related to Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network, distributed multimedia systems, parallel processing and distributed computing. The equipment will be used in collaboration with the TeraNet project at Columbia University's Center for Telecommunications Research. CDA9121797 $41,200 12 mos Ikeuchi, Katsushi Carnegie Mellon University CISE Research Instrumentation: Research on Assembly Systems Using a Dextrous hand This award is to purchase a Salisbury dextrous robot hand and a VPL Dataglove to support research on assembly systems. The addition of the robot hand to Carnegie Mellon's existing PUMA arm will form a powerful testbed for research requiring flexible assembly operations. The research projects will be examining issues surrounding the kind of information that should be collected from vision, the kind of suitable description methods, and the kind of assembly operations that can be achieved by an assembly system. In robotic assembly systems, a dextrous hand is essential to extend the research to a wider range or realistic assemblies. An example of such a research project is how to represent a human hand, how to recognize a hand configuration from observation, and how to map such a configuration to a robot hand configuration. Other projects in robotics assembly systems involve evaluating at the design stage, how easily products can be assembled, assembly planning and execution, and establishing a design methodology for computer vision systems with respect to hand-eye systems. $<0*0*0* CDA9121848 $75,000 12 mos Kanade, Takeo Carnegie Mellon University CISE Research Instrumentation: Massively Parallel Real Time Computer Vision This award is to purchase a multi-processor host machine for the Maspar computer and real-time high-speed, image capture and display hardware in order to support research in parallel real-time, high-speed computer vision and visualization. The upgraded Maspar system will enable research to be conducted in the areas of artificial neural networks for robotics, factorization methods for shape and motion from image streams, road and terrain navigation, visualization techniques for relativistic imaging, and the development of a stereo vision machine. Research in parallel real-time computer vision and visualization is computationally expensive and requires both massively parallel computational power and real-time image I/O support. Carnegie Mellon University will be upgrading their Maspar computer and adding real-time image acquisition hardware to support research projects in these areas. CDA9121985 $75,000 12 mos Kearney, Joseph K. University of Iowa CISE Research Instrumentation: Vision and Simulation Projects at the University of Iowa The University of Iowa has received an instrumentation award to purchase a color stereo head mounted on a robot arm, high performance graphics workstations, and cameras in order to support investigations in the use of color algorithms in model based vision; algorithms for machine stereopsis; applications of invariant theory in recognizing curved surfaces from a single perspective outline, from multiple outlines, and from stereo pairs; particle motion analysis; and simulation techniques for complex physical objects. The University has been awarded an REU supplement to support two undergraduate students to work on projects involving the design and construction of a two-camera head with full vergence and focus of controls, to build software for integrating a robot arm and video recording equipment into the workstation network, to implement a range of early vision operations such as edge-detection algorithms, and to conduct simulation experiments investigating the control robot locomotion for multi-legged robots. h)=0*0*0*ԌThe University of Iowa will be purchasing a color stereo head with supporting image processing electronics, a Zebra Zero robot arm, two high performance workstations, and camera equipment to support research projects in the use of sophisticated color algorithms for machine stereopsis, advanced algorithms for machine stereopsis, shape recognition, and simulation techniques for complex physical objects. The University has been awarded an REU supplement to support two undergraduate students to work on related research projects in vision and simulation. CDA9121978 $79,870 12 mos Luo, Ren, C. North Carolina State University CISE Research Instrumentation: Concurrent Computational Geometric Modeling & Information Transfer for CADBased Rapid Prototyping System This award is for the purchase of a Stereolithography rapid prototyping machine and necessary accessories. Rapid prototyping technology provides a means of quickly producing prototypes directly from a Computer Aided Design (CAD) representation. The proposed equipment will be used to support research projects with emphasis on rapid prototyping using concurrent computational geometric modeling and information transfer, and CADbased interactive graphic modification and automatic verification of 3D objects using complete 3D laser scanning data. Rapid prototyping can shorten product lifecycle and improve the design process by providing rapid and effective ХɔN$tD^@N\@@@G$r| p B|@$  | |dB|<$`p B|s @$@  @$p<|$p<N|<$ <B|p`B|pN|@`@ p$p``@ $@"| | <<rt research in the areas of concurrent computational geometric modeling and information transfer. CDA9121475 $37,367 12 mos Manikopoulos, Constantine N. New Jersey Institute of Technology CISE Research Instrumentation This award is for the purchase of 64 TMS320C40 chips in order to build an asynchronous sixdimensional hypercubebased system to serve as a highspeed lowcost simulator of large neural networks. The system will be used to investigate neural network architectures and learning laws in applications where a great number of interconnection weights is necessary. Such applications include computer network congestion management, flow control and adaptive routing, and pattern recognition. New Jersey Institute of Technology is proposing a highspeed, lowcost solution to the tasks of designing and evaluating neural network architectures and learning protocols. They will be building an asynchronous sixdimensional hypercubebased system that supports efficiently both local and global communications, has a modest number of highpower processors, but is of low overall system cost. 'A0*0*0* CDA9121887 $63,585 12 mos Mudge, Trevor N. University of Michigan Ann Arbor CISE Research Instrumentation This award is for the purchase of a Tektronix DAS 9200 logic analyzer and DECstation 5000 workstation to support research and development of a high performance GaAs microcomputer system, implementation and evaluation of a distributed real-time fault-tolerant system, and studies on the interaction between operating systems and computer architecture. Microcomputer systems have enjoyed a performance increase of 100% to 200% every three years. Much of this increase of performance is due to the growth in chip integration. The University of Michigan plans to develop a prototype "micro- supercomputer" that will achieve the best of both the supercomputer and microprocessor traditions by using a high- speed technology that has good integration density, and a state-of-the-art packaging technology to prevent chip- crossings from dominating the overall speed of the system. CDA9121641 $77,000 12 mos Ni, Lionel M. Michigan State University CISE Research Instrumentation This award is for the purchase of a 32node nCUBE2 multicomputer to support research in parallel computing. Projects include the investigation of multicast communication in multicomputers, parallel numerical algorithms and software support, a simulation environment based on shared workstation capacity, and contention in wormholerouted multicomputers. Michigan State University plans to purchase an nCUBE2 multicomputer in order to support research in parallel computing. Multicast communication is finding increasing demand in parallel applications including simulations, search algorithms, and numerical algorithms. Research projects using the nCUBE will include studies of hardware support for multicast communication, parallel numerical algorithms with a focus on steady state solutions of power flow equations, the development and evaluation of a simulation environment based on the sharing of capacity from privately owned workstations, and the investigation of contention and mapping problems on wormhole routing multicomputers. h)B0*0*0* CDA9121969 $76,000 12 mos Parhi, Keshab, K. University of Minnesota Institute of Technology CISE Research Instrumentation This award is for the purchase of equipment and accessories for testing VLSI analog and digital integrated circuits. The research projects include design of novel, regenerative comparators, on-chip voltage generators, low- voltage, low-power OP amp for switch capacitor filters, and low power mixed-signal integrated circuits for biomedical applications. The equipment and accessories requested in this proposal will be used by the principal investigators and their students to test VLSI analog and digital integrated circuits for a variety of applications ranging from signal and image processing, to biomedical, space and mobile radio. Their specific research topics are divided into the areas of digital signal processing integrated circuits, analog and mixed signal integrated circuits, and analog integrated circuit synthesis. CDA9121899 $90,000 12 mos Ponce, Jean University of Illinois Urbana CISE Research Instrumentation This award is to purchase two Transputer networks, a forcecontrolled Zebra Zero robot and two Silicon Graphics Personal Iris workstations. This is a collaborative research effort between the University of Illinois and Yale University in the areas of parallel numerical curve tracing and cell decomposition, planning forceclosure grasps, trajectory planning for visual servo control, and modelbased vision. A Transputer network will be installed at the University of Illinois and at Yale University. A Zero Zebra robot and a Silicon Graphics Person Iris workstation will also be acquired to support collaborative experimental work in parallel numerical curve tracing and cell decomposition, planning forceclosure grasps, trajectory planning for visual servo control, and modelbased vision. H&C0*0*0* CDA9121983 $200,000 12 mos Porter, John H. Boston University CISE Research Instrumentation: Architectural Enhancement for Connection Machine Environment This award is for the purchase of a Thinking Machines Corporation Connection Machine, Model CM5 to enhance Boston University's massively parallel scientific computing environment. This proposal requests funds to purchase a 20 Gigabyte CM5 disk array unit. The equipment will be used to support research in molecular dynamics simulation of freezing, simulation of neural networks, quantum chemistry calculations, high energy physics particle tracking simulations, plasma simulations and chaos in Nbody systems. Computationallybased research which requires high precision solutions of large systems of ordinary differential equations and /or large matrix systems, will be pursued onsite at Boston University in its enhanced massively parallel scientific computing environment. Its acquisition of a Thinking Machines' CM5 Machine, and from this award, a 20 Gigabyte CM5 disk array unit, will enable Boston University to support projects in molecular dynamics, neural networks, quantum chemistry, particle tracking and plasma simulation. CDA9121872 $85,000 12 mos Prisant, Michael Duke University CISE Research Instrumentation: An Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Visualization This award is to purchase a workstation, video production hardware and software to support research in areas of analysis and presentation of experimental fluid and granular flow, visualization and mathematical analysis of pattern formations and spatiotemporal chaos in large domains, visualization of solid modeling, and photorealistic animation of chemical reactions on surfaces. The effectiveness of large-scale numerical simulation problems in computer science and the natural sciences are dependent on high-speed computation and increasingly sophisticated visualization techniques. Duke University will be establishing a high-quality facility for the support of scientific visualization with emphasis on computer animation, for use by faculty in computer science and the natural sciences. h)D0*0*0*ԌCDA9121860 $37,000 12 mos Riseman, Edward M. University of Massachusetts Amherst CISE Research Instrumentation: MultiInstitutional Research in Active Vision This award is for the purchase of a multiple degree of freedom, high precision, light weight stereo camera head. The same equipment is being purchased at three other institutions in a shared research effort. Research topics include gaze control and target tracking, stereo and motion analysis, landmark-based navigation, automatic acquisition of object and environmental models, hand-eye coordination, dextrous manipulation with multi-fingered hands, real-time perception and manipulation. System software, algorithms and subsystems will be shared across the institutions. The University of Massachusetts will be purchasing equipment to support a multi-institutional shared research effort in active vision for robot navigation and manipulation. Other members of the consortium are the University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland and the University of Rochester. Each institution will acquire the same state-of-the-art binocular camera head of high precision and high speed, and will share in the development of systems software and application software. CDA9120722 $16,349 12 mos Segal, Andrew C. University of Illinois Chicago CISE Research Instrumentation: A Proposal for Equipment to Support Joint Research Needs of Faculty at UIC This award provides funds for the purchase of a high performance workstation, frame grabber and high resolution camera to support research in image processing and computer vision. The equipment will be used for several research projects including Fourier domain motion estimation, representation and matching of deformable objects, and multirate model-based image compression. High performance computer equipment is required to handle the complex, data intensive problems found in image processing and computer vision problems. The University of Illinois at Chicago will be purchasing an image processing system to support research in motion estimation, representation and matching of deformable objects, and image compression. h)E0*0*0*ԌCDA9122006 $33,469 12 mos Shah, Mubarak A. University of Central Florida CISE Research Instrumentation: Equipment for Research in Image Understanding & Image Compression for Dynamic Scenes This award is for the purchase of a Datacube Maxvideo 20 Image Processing System and two Sun SPARCstations each with an image database server. This equipment will support research in image understanding and image compression for dynamic scences. Research in image understanding and image compression requires high computational power and large memory space. Virginia Polytechnic Institute will purchase equipment to build a realtime vision system to support several research projects in image understanding and image compression for dynamic scenes. CDA9121976 $57,100 12 mos Sood, A. K. George Mason University CISE Research Instrumentation: Exploiting Mixed Performance Characteristics: A Heterogeneous Hypercube System This award is to purchase two 80386 and two i860 nodes, two disk drives, I/O controller and 16MB memory to upgrade an Intel iPSC/2 hypercube. The equipment will support the development of a test-bed environment to support research projects including the verification of highly-complex protocols, the exploitation of parallelism with an integrated relational textual and image database, the development of a hardware design functional simulator, and the characterization of background clutter in natural scenes. George Mason University plans to upgrade an existing Intel iPSC/2 hypercube facility to enable research in heterogeneous, tightly-coupled multicomputing. The proposed equipment will be used to develop algorithms for applications requiring large data transfer. (#F0*0*0* 0 CISE CROSSDIRECTORATE ACTIVITIES Research Experiences for Undergraduates (Sites) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (Supplements)  CDA9245024 $20,000 06 mos Adrion, W. Richards University of Massachusetts REU SUPPLEMENT: Real Time Computing: "Issues and Applications" This REU Supplement supports four undergraduate Students to work on projects under the CISE Institutional Infrastructure grant. Two of the students will work on the vision project and two on the robotics project. CDA9200371 $66,852 18 mos Allan, Vicki H. Utah State University REU Site Parallel Processing This project will bring fourteen students to Utah State University for eight weeks in the summer of 1992. Recruiting will be primarily in Utah, with a focus on minorities and women, and in particular Native Americans. The students will develop tools useful for the research projects through a series of lectures, and then will work on particular research projects with Utah State faculty members. The following research topics will be emphasized: parallel algorithms, debugging tools for a parallel environment, optimization which combine fine grain parallelism with course parallelism, and neural networks. 3'3'Standard3'3'Standard/rJet 4G CDA9246972 $25,000 06 mos Barnden, John New Mexico State University REU SUPPLEMENT: Parallel Processing Projects in Artificial Intelligence This New Mexico State University REU award is for the support of four undergraduates working on Artificial Intelligence problems on a parallel computer. The students will be doing research in two areas: parallel processing and intelligent systems. The research projects include language comprehension, large scale data collection, software interface development, andh)G0*0*0*Ԍneural net models of learning. Strong efforts to recruit both hispanic and women students are being made. CDA9247014 $20,000 12 mos Brooks, Frederick P. University of North CarolinaChapel Hill (Split funded with Interactive System Program, New Technologies Program and Database Software Development for $12,540 each) Total award $50,162 Integration and Capitalization of Image Sciences Research Software This is a supplement award to support a software capitalization effort to maintain and distribute software produced in Softlab, a laboratory in the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina. The laboratory has provided software support for research projects at the University and has been supported by an Institutional Infrastructure grant. The products supported include libraries of C++ programs (COOL), XRay Crystallography data collection and modeling software (RSpace), a suite of image processing programs (/Usr/image), and a collection of Volume Rendering Data Sets for testing volume visualization algorithms an important resource that should be used when comparing such algorithms). Software Capitalization is a program designed to encourage the transfer of software products of NSF research to the general research community. It provides support for maintenance and enhancement of the software products. The software products of Softlab are already widely distributed and used in several research communities. This award will allow them to correct deficiencies and to enhance these products. CDA9149865 $10,000 06 mos Brown, Christopher M. University of Rochester REU SUPPLEMENT: Parallel Laboratory for Real Time Vision and Robotics The Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplemental award is for the support of two undergraduate students to work in real time vision and robotics. Rochester has been very successful in involving students in their research activities in the past including involving students in robot control algorithms, real time vision algorithms, robot planning algorithms, real time programming, operating systems, and full scale demo development. (H0*0*0* CDA9200288 $40,300 12 mos Cukor, Peter GTE Laboratories Inc. REU: Industrial Research for Undergraduates This project will bring ten undergraduate students to work at the GTE Laboratories for a ten week period in the summer of 1992. Recruiting for the program is national in scope, and will build on the past success of similar projects at the Laboratories. Each participant will be assigned to a member of the GTE Laboratories Technical Staff. A sequence of oral and written reports will be included in the experience. Projects will be involved from the following organizations within the Laboratories: Computer and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Service Applications and Technology Laboratory, Systems Technology Laboratory, Telecommunications Research Laboratory, and Wireless and Secure Systems Laboratory. 3'3'Standard/rJet 43'3'Standard/rJet 4GI CDA9200118 $28,850 12 mos Dershem, Herbert L. Hope College REU: An Undergraduate Research Participation Program in Computer Science This project will bring six undergraduates students to the Hope College Campus for a ten week period in the summer of 1992. In this time, the students will be provided with a research experience, and given the encouragement to pursue a career in computer science research. Half the participants will be from Hope College, and half from other institutions. A strong emphasis will be placed on the recruitment of women and minorities. Areas for research include parallel algorithms, neural networks, data communication, concurrent processing, voice recognition, fractal growth and graphics algorithms. 3'3'Standard/rJet 43'3'Standard/rJet 4II CDA9200577 $46,000 12 mos Fox, Geoffrey C. Syracuse University Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Computational Physics This proposal will bring twelve undergraduate students for a ten week session at Syracuse University in the summer of 1992. At least seven will be from locations external to h)I0*0*0*ԌSyracuse University. The program will combine the resources of the Syracuse Center for Computational Sciences, the Northeast Parallel Architecture Center, the Department of Physics, and the School of Computer and Information Science. A particular effort will be made to attract women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. The areas from which the projects will be selected include the following: parallel computing software and algorithms, pattern recognition and computer vision, neural networks, optimization problems, virtual reality, computational condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, and use of computers in education. CDA9200513 $52,838 12 mos Gillett, Billy E. University of Missouri Rolla Parallel Processing: Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Parallel Algorithms This project will bring ten undergraduates to work in the Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri, Rolla in the summer of 1992. Recruiting will be primarily from the midwest, and will be directed at students who have limited or no opportunities for research projects, the students will be introduced to the job of a researcher, and to basic research techniques. Students will be involved in the design, analysis, and implementation of parallel combinatorial optimization algorithms, to include parallel composite graph coloring algorithms. 3'3'Standard/rJet 43'3'Standard/rJet 4IJ J0*0*0* CDA9200191 $40,000 12 mos Gray, Paul R. University of California Berkeley Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley This project will bring eight undergraduate students to the University of California, Berkeley for an eight week period in the summer of 1992. Recruiting for the program is to be national in scope. The participants will work with faculty and graduate students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The students will be in, or will have completed their junior year, and will all be women, or members of an underrepresented ethnic minority. In addition to working one on one with a faculty member, each participant will be assigned to a graduate student of the same gender and ethnicity. Faculty involved come from analog integrated circuit design, optical communications, computational biology, control theory and applications, graphical user interfaces and CIM, and the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center. 3'3'Standard/rJet 43'3'Standard/rJet 4JK CDA9200635 $36,080 12 mos Hodges, Larry F. Georgia Tech Research Corporation Graphical Representation & Display of Complex Data Sets This project will bring eight undergraduates from Georgia Tech, and Clark-Atlanta University to work at Georgia Tech in the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center of the College of Computing. The project will extend over four, ten week, quarters in each year of operation. The participating students will be divided into two subgroups of four each to address problems and develop techniques in the area of the graphical representation and display of complex data sets. One of the student groups will work in the image representation and display area, and the other in the data representation and visualization area. `"K0*0*0* CDA9244922 $7,407 0 mos Jain, Anil K. Michigan State University REU Supplement: A Laboratory for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Research This Research Experience for Undergraduate supplement is for the support of two undergraduates to work on face recognition and animation, and perceptual grouping in computer vision. The students will work beside fifteen graduate research assistants in the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory at Michigan State University. CDA9200152 $83,755 12 mos Kalos, Malvin H. Cornell University Endowed REU: Research Experience for Undergraduates SITE This project will bring twelve undergraduate students to work at the Cornell Theory Center for a ten week period in the summer of 1992. Recruiting will be national in scope, and there will be special efforts to bring in women, minorities, and students from institutions without rich computing resources. Participants will work under the joint guidance of a faculty member from Cornell University, and a member of the scientific and technical staff of the Theory Center. Problems in the area of computational science research will be investigated. CDA9246495 $10,000 06 mos Lewis, Phillip M. SUNY at Stony Brook REU SUPPLEMENT: CISE Infrastructure Instrumentation: ACTIVE (Animated Color 3D Interactive Visual Environments) This REU supplement supports two students to work on two software projects. The first project is to design and code the user interface for a three dimensional visualization system. The second project is to integrate the use of three dimensional input devices into the visualization system. This research is on the cutting edge of visualization work. 'L0*0*0* CDA9200091 $35,448 12 mos Lopez, Antonio M. Loyola University Research in MultiParadigm Software Design This project will bring eight students to the Loyola Campus. They will be recruited from Loyola and several minority institutions in the New Orleans area. The students will be divided into two groups of four each to work in the area of different software development methodologies (logicoriented and objectoriented)using CASE tools. The students will spend six weeks at Loyola in the summer of 1992, and then continue work, with assistance from faculty at their home institution, during the school year. CDA9123643 $50,240 12 mos Loui, Ronald P. Washington University Summer Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program This project will bring ten undergraduates to the Washington University Campus in St. Louis, for an eleven week period in the summer of 1992. Recruitment will be national in scope. The participants will work as members of existing research groups at the University. Groups that will be involved include the following; the Advanced Networking Group, the DNA Mapping Group, the Drug Design Group, the Center for Intelligent Computing Systems, the Concurrent Systems Group, the Computer Visualization Group, the Office of the Network Coordinator, and the Electronic Radiology Laboratory. CDA9240440 $4,961 06 mos O'Donnell, Michael J. University of Chicago REU SUPPLEMENT: The University of Chicago Computer Science Laboratory This is a supplement to grant CDA-8822657 for Research Experience for Undergraduates. This supplement supports the work of an undergraduate to implement a new classification algorithm, based on research of Professor James Firby, that can be used for local navigation by a robot. The data to be classified consists of sonar and infra- red range data. The result of the research will be LISP codeh)M0*0*0*Ԍthat will be incorporated into a larger robotic navigation system. CDA9200654 $38,000 12 mos Reichenbach, Stephen E. University of Nebraska Lincoln The Institute for Visual Information Processing This project is to bring ten students, in each of two successive summers, to the University of NebraskaLincoln campus to work in digital image processing and computer vision. Projects that will be part of the program include the following; image restoration and automatic target recognition, image restoration and infrared imaging system design, adaptive image restoration of satellite data, digital archive of the Mari Sandoz collection, image analysis of irrigation systems, human face recognition, and classification based on physical features. The program involves instruction, research, and enrichment activities. CDA9200240 $75,053 12 mos Sabelli, Nora H. University of Illinois Urbana REU Site Program in Computational Science This project will bring eight undergraduates to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois for a one semester experience during the school year. Recruiting will be national in scope. The selected students will be matched with an NCSA research project in accordance with their interests and background. The disciplinary focus will be in the computational sciences, with particular emphasis in the application of parallelization and visualization concepts and techniques. CDA9270343 $20,000 06 mos Schnabel, Robert B. REU SUPPLEMENT: Effective Use of Parallel and Distributed Language. This is a supplement to grant CDA-8922510 for Research Experiences for Undergraduates. The award supports software development in a facility for both numerical computation and software engineering. The projects that the undergraduates will work on are the following: 1. Implement and instrument new BSD network architectureh)N0*0*0*Ԍ code for Hewlett Packard 730 workstations. 2. Tune 4.4BSD Unix release that includes the Mach virtual memory system. This requires both instrumentation and some optimizations. 3. Develop interface software for the Kendell Square KSR-1 to allow implementation of tools such as PICL and paragraph. CDA9200369 $78,350 12 mos Shah, Mubarak A. University of Central Florida Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision This is a collaborative project of the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida. Ten undergraduate students will be involved in the program which will span the calendar year. The students will select from several possible projects to provide a more active involvement in the program. They will follow a course of general immersion within the research environment including regular meetings, and plans for professional presentations. Examples of the kinds of projects with which the participants will work, are the following: segmentation of optical flow field, modeling human walking for computer vision system, pose estimation using motion trajectories, functionbased modeling of articulated objects, range image analysis, and parallel algorithms in computer vision. CDA9247014 $20,000 06 mos Weiss, Stephen F. University of North CarolinaChapel Hill REU SUPPLEMENT: Integration and Capitalization of Image Sciences Research Software This University of North Carolina REU award is to support four undergraduates doing research in a software engineering laboratory. The undergraduates will be working directly with PhD students on topics related to the PhD student's dissertations. One project will involve the development of an architectural simulator (to test chip designs) and a second project involves tool development to support automated software packaging. Each project will involve two undergraduates. 'O0*0*0* CDA-9246685 $96,350 0 mos Wakim, Nagi Bowie State University Laboratory for Electronic Networking and Distributed Systems    This grant provides infrastructure support for the development of the research and educational activities of the Laboratory for Electronic Networking and Distributed Systems at Bowie State University. The support includes computing equipment and software, faculty development costs, and student assistant ships. The principal investigators will conduct research in (1) distributed heterogeneous data and information management, (2) data compression techniques, and (3)distributed artificial intelligence systems. In addition, the educational activities will include further development of a pipeline program to attract and retain more minority students in computer science careers. Components of this program include a mentoring project for minority undergraduates, summer training in computer programming for high school students, tutoring, and laboratory research experiences for undergraduates. CDA9200408 $70,538 12 mos Wesselkamper, Thomas C. CUNY Hunter College Undergraduate Research in Combinatorial Computing This program will bring ten undergraduate students to Hunter College of CUNY in the summer of 1992, to be followed up with a once weekly academic year experience which will be a continuation of the work begun in the summer. The students will all be from underrepresented groups, and will be students at Hunter or one of the smaller private colleges in the area. In addition to the coverage of research topics, the participants will be provided with the opportunity to visit several industrial sites during the program, and will be presented with materials dealing with ethical issues in computer science and engineering. The research topics include problems about the existence of projective planes, about the existence of symmetric balanced incomplete block designs, and about the existence of perfect error correcting codes. $P0*0*0* CDA9200230 $38,000 12 mos Wiedenbeck, Susan University of Nebraska Lincoln REU Site Proposal on HumanComputer Interaction The project is to address the area of humancomputer interaction. The program will involve bringing ten students (five men and five women) to the university for a ten week period, with follow up in the academic year. The students will be from Nebraska and immediately surrounding areas, with the majority from institutions other than the host. Included in the program will be a seminar, the actual research project, and discussion of opportunities for graduate study.  Q0*0*0*  ?  CISE SPECIAL PROJECTS CDA9212935 $95,617 18 mos Baldwin, George D. Henderson State University Communication Technology and Tribal Values This research will examine the emerging uses of computermediated communication technologies by American Indians and the subsequent cultural changes associated with them. The researcher will study two online communities which have been identified as having significant American Indian populations; the Electronic Native American Network (ENAN) and NATIVEnet. ENAN is an online computer network which serves Indian children and tribal educators from across the United States. Funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ENAN resides on a desktop computer at the University of New Mexico and is accessed by four toll free telephone lines. NATIVEnet is a "newsgroup" (listserv) residing on the NSFfunded INTERNET. It connects American Indians and scholars interested in indigenous issues from around the world. These two networks will be studied using theorems from convergence and network theory which have a bearing on intercultural communication and cultural change. Techniques used in data collection will include the experimental construction of sociograms of the networked interpersonal relationships, content analysis of several years of online discussions, and ethnographic data derived from participant observation. Results will contribute to the development of network theory, as applied to intercultural computermediated communication, and to understanding the relationships of information and network social policy to cultural change. Results will be disseminated to relevant Indian organizations, tribal leaders, and appropriate scientific journals. CDA9247432 $41,500 12 mos Blumenthal, Marjory S. National Academy of Sciences Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists This award supplements a previous award for a National Academy of Sciences study on "Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists." The study has been expanded to include issues other than just evaluation of experimental computer scientist's research by universities. These include the appropriateness of large systems development at universities and the problems of scaling up to meaningful systems without the necessary systems development infrastructure. h)R0*0*0*ԌCDA9249836 $75,000 12 mos Blumenthal, Marjory S. National Academy of Sciences Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Core Support This grant provides continued partial core support of the activities of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. The CSTB maintains a membership of national leaders who address the health of U.S. computer science, computing technology, telecommunications, and applications. The board has five basic functions: (1) Monitor and promote the health of computer science, computing technology, and telecommunications fields (including human resources and infrastructure); (2) Initiate studies involving those fields; (3) Provide advice to government, nonprofit organizations, and private industry on computer and telecommunications systems planning, utilization, and modernization; (4) Foster communication among computer science, computing and telecommunications technologies, and other pure and applied science and technology; (5) Provide a base of expertise in these fields within the NRC. CDA9270297 $70,000 12 mos Blumenthal, Marjory S. National Academy of Sciences Computer Science and Technology Board This grant is a supplement to the core support provided for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academy of Sciences. The CSTB engages in a number of activities relevant to computer science and telecommunications, including studies of topical issues, colloquiums and symposia, workshops and briefings. Some of the planned activities for the funding period include: (1) A report on "Intellectual Property Issues in Software", (2) a colloquium addressing the issues relating to the competitive posture of the U.S. computer industry, and (3) a workshop on human resources in computer science and technology. Some initiatives under development are National Research and Education Network (NREN) issues, and Rights and Responsibilities in the Information Age. $S0*0*0* CDA9249381 $150,000 12 mos Dwoskin, Gary E. National Academy of Sciences Board of Engineering Education This grant will provide for the initiation of a new National Research Council (NRC) activity, a Board on Engineering Education. The Board will be ɔfeedback to the major units of the NRC with oversight jointly provided by the Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems and the Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel. The primary purpose of the Board will be to provide a continuing capability to assess the environment for engineering education in the United States and to develop strategies for shaping and implementing national engineering education policies at all levels. The Board will serve as an institutional focus at the national level that can coordinate, monitor, and advocate action for the advancement of engineering education. CDA9121475 $37,367 12 mos Manikopoulos, Constantine New Jersey Institute of Technology CISE Research Instrumentation This award is for the purchase of 64 TMS320C40 chips in order to build an asynchronous six-dimensional hypercube- based system to serve as a high-speed low-cost simulator of large neural networks. The system will be used to investigateh)>0*0*0* neural network architectures and learning laws in applications where a great number of interconnection weights is necessary. Such applications include computer network congestion management, flow control and adaptive routing, and pattern recognition. New Jersey Institute of Technology is proposing a high-speed, low-cost solution to the tasks of designing and evaluating neural network architectures and learning protocols. They will be building an asynchronous six-dimensional hypercube- based system that supports efficiently both local and global communications, has a modest number of high-power processors, but is of low overall system cost. CDA9121887 $63,585 12 mos Mudge, Trevor N. University of Michigan CISE Research Instrumentation This award is for the purchase of a Tektronix DAS 9200 logic analyzer and DECstation 5000 workstation to support research and development of a high performance GaAs microcomputer system, implementation and evaluation of a distributed real-time fault-tolerant system, and studies on the interaction between operating systems and computer architecture. Microcomputer systems have enjoyed a performance increase of 100% to 200% every three years. Much of this increase of performance is due to the growth in chip integration. The University of Michigan plans to develop a prototype "micro- supercomputer" that will achieve the best of both the supercomputer and microprocessor traditions by using a high- speed technology that has good integration density, and a state-of-the-art packaging technology to prevent chip- crossings from dominating the overall speed of the system. CDA9121641 $77,000 12 mos Ni, Lionel M. Michigan State University CISE Research Instrumentation This award is for the purchase of a 32node NCUBE2 multicomputer to support research in parallel computing, Projects include the investigation of multicast communication in multicomputers, parallel numerical algorithms and software support, a simulation environment based on shared workstation capacity, and contention in wormholerouted multicomputers. h)?0*0*0*ԌMichigan State University plans to purchase an NCUBE2 multicomputer in order to support research in parallel computing. Multicast communication is finding increasing demand in parallel applications including simulations, search , search algorithms, and numerical algorithms. Research projects using the NCUBE will include studies of hardware support for multicast communication, parallel numerical algorithms with a focus on steady state solutions of power flow equations, the development and evaluation of a simulation environment based the sharing of capacity from privately owned workstations. CDA9121969 $76,000 12 mos Parhi, Keshab K. University of Minnesota Institute of Technology CISE Research Instrumentation This award is for the purchase of equipment and accessories for testing VLSI analog and digital integrated circuits. The research projects include design of novel, regenerative comparators, on-chip voltage generators, low- voltage, low-power OP amp for switch capacitor filters, and low power mixed-signal integrated circuits for biomedical applications. The equipment and accessories requested in this proposal will be used by the principal investigators and their students to test VLSI analog and digital integrated circuits for a variety of applications ranging from signal and image processing, to biomedical, space and mobile radio. Their specific research topics are divided into the areas of digital signal processing integrated circuits, analog and mixed signal integrated circuits, and analog integrated circuit synthesis. CDA9121899 $90,000 12 mos Ponce, Jean University of IllinoisUrbana CISE Research Instrumentation: Practical Algebraic Techniques for Robotics and Computer Vision This award is to purchase two Transputer networks, a forcecontrolled Zebra Zero robot and two Silicon Graphics Personal Iris workstations. This is a collaborative research effort between the University of Illinois and Yale University in the areas of parallel numerical curve tracing and cell decomposition, planning forceclosure grasps, trajectory planning for visual servo control, and modelbased vision. A Transputer network will be installed at the University ofh)@0*0*0* Illinois and at Yale University. A Zero Zebra robot and a Silicon Graphics Person Iris workstation will also be acquired to support collaborative experimental work in parallel numerical curve tracing and cell decomposition, planning forceclosure grasps, trajectory planning for visual servo control, and modelbased vision. CDA9121983 $200,000 12 mos Porter, John H. Boston University CISE Research Instrumentation: Architectural Enhancement for Connection Machine Environment This award is for the purchase of a Thinking Machines Corporation Connection Machine, Model CM5 to enhance Boston University's massively parallel scientific computing environment. This proposal requests funds to purchase a 20 Gigabyte CM5 disk array unit. The equipment will be used to support research in molecular dynamics simulation of freezing, simulation of neural networks, quantum chemistry calculations, high energy physics particle tracking simulations, plasma simulations and chaos in Nbody systems. Computationallybased research which requires high precision solutions of large systems of ordinary differential equations and/ or large matrix systems, will be pursued onsite at Boston University in its enhanced massively parallel scientific computing environment. Its acquisition of a Thinking Machines' CM5 Machine, and from this award, a 20 Gigabyte CM5 disk array unit, will enable Boston University to support projects in molecular dynamics, neural networks, quantum chemistry, particle tracking and plasma simulation. CDA9121872 $85,000 12 mos Prisant, Michael Duke University CISE Research Instrumentation: An Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Visualization This award is to purchase a workstation, video production hardware and software to support research in areas of analysis and presentation of experimental fluid and granular flow, visualization and mathematical analysis of pattern formations and spatiotemporal chaos in large domains, visualization of solid modeling, and photorealistic animation of chemical reactions on surfaces. The effectiveness of large-scale numerical simulation problems in computer science and the natural sciences are dependent on high-speed computation and increasingly sophisticated visualization techniques. Duke University will h)A0*0*0*Ԍbe establishing a high-quality facility for the support of scientific visualization with emphasis on computer animation, for use by faculty in computer science and the natural sciences. CDA9121860 $37,000 12 mos Riseman, Edward M. University of Massachusetts CISE Research Instrumentation: MultiInstitutional Research in Active Vision This award is for the purchase of a multiple degree of freedom, high precision, light weight stereo camera head. The same equipment is being purchased at three other institutions in a shared research effort. Research topics include gaze control and target tracking, stereo and motion analysis, landmark-based navigation, automatic acquisition of object and environmental models, hand-eye coordination, dextrous manipulation with multi-fingered hands, real-time perception and manipulation. System software, algorithms and subsystems will be shared across the institutions. The University of Massachusetts will be purchasing equipment to support a multi-institutional shared research effort in active vision for robot navigation and manipulation. Other members of the consortium are the University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland and the University of Rochester. Each institution will acquire the same state-of-the-art binocular camera head of high precision and high speed, and will share in the development of systems software and application software. CDA9212524 $64,140 12 mos Schowengerdt, Robert A. University of Arizona Research Instrumentation: Digital Image Archiving and Viewing Station High resolution recording, display, and computing equipment will be purchased with this award and used in research projects involving image processing. The research will primarily take place in the Digital Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and the Color Image Processing Laboratories where projects include a common need for long-term archival storage of large, multi-dimensional imagery and visualization of processing results. h)B0*0*0*Ԍ CDA9120722 $16,349 12 mos Segal, Andrew C. University of Illinois Chicago CISE Research Instrumentation: A Proposal for Equipment to Support Joint Research Needs of Faculty at UIC This award provides funds for the purchase of a high performance workstation, frame grabber and high resolution camera to support research in image processing and computer vision. The equipment will be used for several research projects including Fourier domain motion estimation, representation and matching of deformable objects, and multirate model-based image compression. High performance computer equipment is required to handle the complex, data intensive problems found in image processing and computer vision problems. The University of Illinois at Chicago will be purchasing an image processing system to support research in motion estimation, representation and matching of deformable objects, and image compression. CDA9122006 $33,469 12 mos Shah, Mubarak University of Central Florida CISE Research Instrumentation: Equipment for Research in Image Understanding & Image Compression for Dynamic Scenes This award is for the purchase of a Datacube Maxvideo 20 Image Processing System and two Sun SPARCstations each with an image database server. This equipment will support research in image understanding and image compression for dynamic scenes. Research in image understanding and image compression requires high computational power and large memory space. Virginia Polytechnic Institute will purchase equipment to build a realtime vision system to support several research projects in image understanding and image compression for dynamic scenes. `"C0*0*0* CDA9121976 $57,100 12 mos Sood, A. K. George Mason University CISE Research Instrumentation: Exploiting Mixed Performance Characteristics: A Heterogeneous Hypercube System This award is to purchase two 80386 and two i860 nodes, two disk drives, I/O controller and 16MB memory to upgrade an Intel IPSC/2 hypercube. The equipment will support the development of a test-bed environment to support research projects including the verification of highly-complex protocols, the exploitation of parallelism with an integrated relational textual and image database, the development of a hardware design functional simulator, and the characterization of background clutter in natural scenes. George Mason University plans to upgrade an existing Intel IPSC/2 hypercube facility to enable research in heterogeneous, tightly-coupled multicomputing. The proposed equipment will be used to develop algorithms for applications requiring large data transfer. CDA9213133 $43,948 12 mos Sorenson, Henrik University of Pennsylvania Research Instrumentation: Equipment for Real Time Performance Evaluation of High Quality Video Services The video display capabilities of the Video Processing and Telecommunications Laboratory will be upgraded using the resources of this award. The added equipment will provide 24 bits of color and the capability for real time video capture. This will be used in research involving the transmission of video signals over fiber optic Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks. A coded/packetizer for video data is planned.  D0*0*0*  ?  CISE SPECIAL PROJECTS ă CDA-9247432 $41,500 12 mos Blumenthal, Marjory National Academy of Science Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists This grant supports the formation of a study committee by the Computer Science and Technology Board (CSTB) of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council to investigate the academic environment for experimental computer scientists. Specifically CSTB hopes to "determine the scope and scale of the difficulties of the country's doctorate granting computer science departments in evaluating the work of faculty whose work is predominately focussed on building functional systems for external users." The committee will assess the problem, identify successful models and develop recommendations, and finally prepare a report on its findings. CDA-9249836 $55,000 12 mos Blumenthal, Marjory National Academy of Science  ?  (Split Funded with the Office of Engineering Infrastructure Development for $20,000) Total award $75,000 Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Core Support This grant provides continued partial core support of the activities of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. The CSTB maintains a membership of national leaders who address the health of U.S. computer science, computing technology, telecommunications, and applications. The board has five basic functions: (1) Monitor and promote the health of computer science, computing technology, and telecommunications fields (including human resources and infrastructure); (2) Initiate studies involving those fields; (3) Provide advice to government, nonprofit organizations, and private industry on computer and telecommunications systems planning, utilization, and modernization; (4) Foster communication among computer science, computing and telecommunications technologies,and other pure and applied science and technology; and (5) Provide a base of expertise in these fields within the NRC. h)E0*0*0*ԌCDA-9247590 $10,000 12 mos Gardner, John A. Oregon State University Special Grant for Exploratory Research Feasibility Study of Efficient Tactile Equation Methods for the Blind The Oregon State University will study the feasibility of printing efficient, easytoread tactile equations for blind people. They will use the normal equation format with fonts redefined to something resembling Braille symbols. The equations will be printed with a raised image printer and will be tested for readability by blind scientists and engineers. The investigator will try to find more efficient characters than the standard 2x3 Braille raised dot cell. CDA9220322 $71,000 12 mos Gardner, John A. Oregon State University New Technologies for the Blind: Improving Accessibility to Science At present, blind people have limited access to scientific literature and few means beyond "working it out in one's head" to do math. New raisedprint technology permits printing scientific equations, figures, and diagrams that can be read tactilely. Development and testing of an equationprinting method that retains the intuitive and conceptual advantages of the standard spatial representation of math equation is under development. Research to date has worked with equations comprised of braille numbers and letters and with tactile representations of the math symbols that replace the often ambiguous braille math symbols. Math equations are now presented in a spatial format as they are for sighted people, unlike that used with braille. Fractions are printed as numerator over denominator. Subscripts and superscripts are printed in the proper sub or superscripted positions. Limits of sums and integrals are printed in their normal positions. The symbols are represented by compact tactile patterns that can be read more easily than the Braille math symbols. The process is referred to as the "Dots+" method. Research is being done to determine whether representation of common math symbols can be done with an enhanced 6symbol cell with three distinguishable symbols, or if it will be necessary to use an 8symbol cell with two symbols. Work is also being done to use the enhanced Braille cell to represent alphabetic charters, greek, italic, bold, script, etc. Nonoverprinted attributes (for example, vector signs, dots, carets, tildes, and other such things over a character) are being printed normally with some enhancement for readability. h)F0*0*0*ԌThe printing technology needed for producing such dot+ equations exists, but an actual machine does not. The project has been promised a betatest version of a desktop plotter capable of making any of the required shapes. During the project, the Director is working with two undergraduate computer science students, one of whom is blind. In addition, he is researching international activities in aspects of blind technology. The research being done should result in the ability to write equations for blind people that retain all the intuitive and conceptual advantages of visual equations. CDA9214887 $82,663 24 mos Glinert, Ephraim P. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A "VISUAL" Interface for the Blind This project is to address the issues of accessibility of computer equipment by persons with visual disabilities. Concern is expressed that the current trends in visual interfaces may significantly inhibit access by such individuals. Within this project input will be obtained by potential users, prototype systems will be developed and tested by users, and based on feedback, appropriate revisions in the system will be implemented. Finally, the materials developed will be distributed to individuals and organizations who can benefit from it. The work is an extension of the previously funded "UnWindows" project. CDA-9149351 $32,900 12 mos Hughes, Herman Michigan State University Information System for Minority Graduate Recruitment and Networking A three year pilot project will be implemented that will focus on increasing the presence of minorities in computer science. This will be done by developing and testing an information system to enhance both the recruitment of minorities for computer science graduate programs and the interaction among minorities already in computer science as graduate students or as professionals. The information system will be online and accessible to other universities via networks. It will contain data such as students' personal data, financial support mechanisms, contact persons, description of graduate program in computer science, personal data will be obtained from a select group of colleges/universities, including CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation plus the University of Chicago), along with 10 institutions with predominantly minority students. Faculty, counselors, administrators, and students from Michigan State University will serve as a pilot grouph)G0*0*0* for the proposed system on a vax computer system and use the database, INGRESS. Also, workshops are planned in order to obtain feedback from the project participants, including outside evaluators. * CDA9242176 $96,747 12 mos Hughes, Herman D. Michigan State University Information System for Minority Graduate Recruitment and Networking This grant is a supplement to CDA9149351.  < DDM9248768* $22,857 03 mos Interrante, Leslie D. University of Alabama Huntsville  ? * Proposal funded by CDA, originated in the Division of Design &  ?h Manufacturing Systems. Intelligent Material Handling Systems: Intelligent Dynamic Control of Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) Systems This award supplements the existing Intelligent Materials Handling Grant by supporting a graduate student to carry out research activities that complement the objectives of this project. The major task to be carried out in the development of a software interface between machine microprocessors and/or sensors and the intelligent control system under development. The project includes collaborative work with a major automobile manufacturing facility. CDA9244574 $17,000 06 mos Thomas, Valerie NASAGoddard Space Flight Center NASA MUSPIN Workshop This award supplements the MUSPIN Network supportCDA9122468. MUSPIN, The Minority UniversitySpace Interdisciplinary Network is a program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Universities, as well as colleges with a significant minority enrollment, which is oriented around wide area networking technology and its use for supporting multidisciplinary research. Sponsorship is by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Space, Data and Computing Division, the University Programs Office, the Equal Opportunity Office, and NASA Headquarters. h)H0*0*0*ԌThis project is to support the September 2527, 1991 meeting of the MUSPIN Users Working Group at the Goddard Space Flight Center. The meeting provides a forum for the exchange of ideas on networking to support interdisciplinary research. Funding supports the cost of participant travel, meals, and meeting arrangements. The project is directly related to the interests of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate in that CISE is actively supporting programs to enhance the opportunities of underrepresented populations in the computer field. Access to adequate facilities, and the interchange made available by network connections is an important aspect of this effort, and the program of the workshop should enhance the opportunities of the participants. NCR9119003* $35,051 12 mos Yaghi, Husam Southern University  ?  *Proposal funded by CDAoriginated in Division of Networking & Communications Research.  ?0  SUBR NSFNet Connection Via SURANet Southern University requests support from NSF for connection of their campus network to SURAnet. SURAnet is the midlevel network located in the southeastern United States. It will provide operations management and information services and give Southern University a 1.5 million bits per second connection to the NSFNET, a high speed (1.5 million 45 million bits per second) National Backbone Network. The University needs greater functionality and network speed to be able to access supercomputers, libraries, and make file transfers along with being able to collaborate with peers at other schools on common projects. Students and faculty research will benefit from the link. This is also a unique opportunity for the school to explore innovative educational resources. @I0*0*0*  ?  Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mentions ă CDA9121459 $6,000 12 mos Ammar, Mostafa Georgia Tech Research Corporation GIT CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Charles Ryan Hardnett) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activities related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9121463 $6,000 12 mos Bahler, Dennis North Carolina State University CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Timothy Figgins) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activities related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9121461 $6,000 12 mos Ball, William E. Washington University CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Margarita FloresSicich) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activities h)J0*0*0*Ԍrelated to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9123251 $6,000 12 mos Dean, Thomas L. Brown University CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Toni LaTrese Hall) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activities related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9123250 $6,000 12 mos Goldstine, Jonathan Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park CISE Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Evelyn Arroyo) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activities related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9121460 $6,000 12 mos Ho, Thomas I. Carnegie Mellon University CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Marissa Gonzalez) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activitiesh)K0*0*0* related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9121465 $6,000 12 mos Kaltofen, Erich L. Rensselaer Polytechnic University CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Angel Diaz) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activities related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9121448 $6,000 12 mos Lawler, Eugene L. University of California Berkeley CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Francesca A. Barrientos) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activities related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9121462 $6,000 12 mos Leveson, Nancy G. University of California Irvine CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Ruben Ortega) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activitiesh)L0*0*0* related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9121468 $6,000 12 mos Pang, Alex University of California Santa Cruz CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Michelle Denise Abram) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activities related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9201930 $6,000 12 mos Patterson, Wayne University of New Orleans CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Ramon Pereda) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activities related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9121464 $6,000 12 mos Reilly, Kevin D. University of Alabama Birmingham CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Katrina Brightman) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activitiesh)M0*0*0* related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. CDA9123147 $6,000 12 mos Smotherman, Mark K. Clemson University CISE 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (Loretta E. Winston) Applicants to the NSF 1991 Minority Graduate Fellowship competition who were awarded "Honorable Mention" status and who enrolled in a computer science or computer engineering graduate program at a U.S. university were eligible to apply to the CISE Directorate for this special award. The purpose of the award is to assist the student in both research and educational activities related to his/her graduate education. The award is made on behalf of the student to the institution with the student's advisor designated as principal investigator. N0*0*0*  ?   CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates ă  ? * ă CDA9245024 $20,000 03 mos Adrion, W. Richards University of Massachusetts REU Supplement: Real Time Computing: Issues and Applications This REU Supplement supports four undergraduate Students to work on projects under the CISE Institutional Infrastructure grant. Two of the students will work on the vision project and two on the robotics project. CDA9200371 $66,852 18 mos Allan, Vicki H. Utah State University REU SiteParallel Processing This project will bring fourteen students to Utah State University for eight weeks in the summer of 1992. Recruiting will be primarily in Utah, with a focus on minorities and women, and in particular Native Americans. The students will develop tools useful for the research projects through a series of lectures, and then will work on particular research projects with Utah State faculty members. The following research topics will be emphasized: parallel algorithms, debugging tools for a parallel environment, optimization which combine fine grain parallelism with course parallelism and neural networks. CDA9246972 $25,000 03 mos Barnden, John New Mexico State University REU Supplement: Parallel Processing Projects in Artificial Intelligence This New Mexico State University REU award is for the support of four undergraduates working on Artificial Intelligence problems on a parallel computer. The students will be doing research in two areas: parallel processing and intelligent systems. The research projects include language comprehension, large scale data collection, software interface development, and neural net models of learning. Strong efforts to recruit both hispanic and women students are being made. h)O0*0*0*ԌCDA9149865 $10,000 03 mos Brown, Christopher M. University of Rochester Parallel Laboratory for RealTime Vision and Robotics The Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplemental award is for the support of two undergraduate students to work in real time vision and robotics. Rochester has been very successful in involving students in their research activities in the past including in robot control algorithms, real time vision algorithms, robot planning algorithms, real time programming, operating systems, and full scale demo development. CDA9200288 $40,300 12 mos Cukor, Peter GTE Laboratories Inc. REU: Industrial Research for Undergraduates This project will bring ten undergraduate students to work at the GTE Laboratories for a ten week period in the summer of 1992. Recruiting for the program is national in scope, and will build on the past success of similar projects at the Laboratories. Each participant will be assigned to a member of the GTE Laboratories Technical Staff. A sequence of oral and written reports will be included in the experience. Projects will be involved from the following organizations within the Laboratories: Computer and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Systems Technology Laboratory, Telecommunications Research Laboratory, and Wireless and Secure Systems Laboratory. CDA9200118 $28,850 12 mos Dershem, Herbert L. Hope College REU: An Undergraduate Research Participation Program in Computer Science This project will bring six undergraduate students to the Hope College Campus for a ten week period in the summer of 1992. In this time, the students will be provided with a research experience, and given the encouragement to pursue a career in computer science research. Half of the participants will be from Hope College, and half from other institutions. A strong emphasis will be placed on the recruitment of women and minorities. Areas for research include parallel algorithms, neural networks, data communication, concurrent processing, voice recognition, fractal growth and graphics algorithms. h)P0*0*0*ԌCDA9247590 $10,000 06 mos Gardner, John A. Oregon State University Special Grant for Exploratory Research: Feasibility Study of Efficient Tactile Equation Methods for the Blind This REU supplement will support two undergraduate students to work on the project to develop a "Braillemath system". The students work will focus on developing graphics programs for the specialized printing procedures, and in the development of appropriate fonts for the project. The project has significant promise of success in the area of technological aids to persons with disabilities. CDA9200577 $46,000 12 mos Fox, Geoffrey C. Syracuse University Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Computational Physics This proposal will bring twelve undergraduate students for a ten week session at Syracuse University in the summer of 1992. At least seven will be from locations external to Syracuse University. The program will combine the resources of the Syracuse Center for Computational sciences, the Northeast Parallel Architecture Center, the Department of Physics, and the School of Computer and Information Science. A particular effort will be made to attract women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. The areas from which the projects will be selected include the following: parallel computing vision, neural networks, optimization problems, virtual reality, computational condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, and use of computers in education. CDA9200513 $52,838 12 mos Gillett, Billy E. University of MissouriRolla Parallel Processing: Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Parallel Algorithms This project will bring ten undergraduates to work in the Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri, Rolla in the summer of 1992. Recruiting will be primarily from the midwest, and will be directed at students who have limited or no opportunities for research projects, the students will be introduced to the job of a researcher, and to basic research techniques. Students will be involved in the design, analysis, and implementation of parallel combinatorial optimization algorithms, to include parallel composite graph coloring algorithms.h)Q0*0*0*ԌCDA9200191 $40,000 12 mos Gray, Paul R. University of CaliforniaBerkeley Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley _ This project will bring eight undergraduate students to the University of CaliforniaBerkeley for an eight week period in the summer of 1992. Recruiting for the program is to be national in scope. The participants will work with faculty and graduate students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The students will be in, or will have completed their junior year, and will all be women, or members of an underrepresented ethnic minority. In addition to working one on one with a faculty member, each participant will be assigned to a graduate student of the same gender and ethnicity. Faculty involved come from analog integrated circuit design, optical communications, computational biology, control theory and supplications, graphical user interfaces and CIM, and the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center. CDA9200635 $36,080 12 mos Hodges, Larry F. Georgia Tech Research Corporation Graphical Representation & Display of Complex Data Sets This project will bring eight undergraduates from Georgia Tech, and ClarkAtlanta University to work at Georgia Tech in Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center of the College of Computing. This project will extend over four, ten week, quarters in each year of operation. The participating students will be divided into two subgroups of four, each to address problems and develop techniques in the area of the graphical representation and display of complex data sets. One of the student groups will work in the image representation and display area, and the other in the data representation and visualization area. CDA9244922 $7,407 03 mos Jain, Anil K. Michigan State University REU Supplement: A Laboratory for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Research This Research Experience for Undergraduate supplement is for the support of two undergraduates to work on face recognition and animation, and perceptual grouping in computer vision. The students will work beside fifteen graduate research assistants in the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory at Michiganh)R0*0*0* State University. CDA9200152 $83,755 12 mos Kalos, Malvin H. Cornell University REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates This project will bring twelve undergraduate students to work at the Cornell Theory Center for a ten week period in the summer of 1992. Recruiting will be national in scope, and there will be special efforts to bring in women, minorities, and students from institutions without rich computing resources. Participants will work under the joint guidance of a faculty member from Cornell University, and a member of the scientific and technical staff of the Theory Center. Problems in the area of computational science research will be investigated. CDA9246495 $10,000 03 mos Lewis, Philip M. State University of New York @ Stony Brook REU Supplement: CISE Infrastructure Instrumentation: ACTIVE (Animated Color 3D Interactive Visual Environment) This REU supplement supports two students to work on two software projects. The first project is to design and code the user interface for a three dimensional visualization system. The second project is to integrate the use of three dimensional input devices into the visualization system. This research is on the cutting edge of visualization work. CDA9200091 $35,449 12 mos Lopez, Antonio M. Loyola University Research in MultiParadigm Software Design This project will bring eight students to the Loyola Campus. They will be recruited from Loyola and several minority institutions in the New Orleans area. The students will be divided into two groups of four each to work in the area of different software development methodologies (logicoriented and objectoriented) using CASE tools. The students will spend six weeks at Loyola in the summer of 1992, and then continue work, with assistance from faculty at their home institution, during the school year. h)S0*0*0*ԌCDA9123643 $50,240 12 mos Loui, Ronald P. Washington University Summer Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program This project will bring ten undergraduates to the Washington University Campus in St. Louis, for an eleven week period in the summer of 1992. Recruitment will be national in scope. The participants will work as members of existing research groups at the University. Groups that will be involved include the following: the Advanced Networking Group, the DNA Mapping Group, the Drug Design Group, the Center for Intelligent Computing Systems, the Concurrent Systems Group, the Computer Visualization Group, the Office of the Network Coordinator, and the Electronic Radiology Laboratory. CDA9240440 $4,961 06 mos O'Donnell, Michael J. University of Chicago REU Supplement: The University of Chicago Computer Science Laboratory This is a supplement to grant CDA8822657 for Research Experience for Undergraduates. This supplement supports the work of an undergraduate to implement a new classification algorithm, based on research of Professor James Firby, that can be used for local navigation by a robot. The data to be classified consists of sonar and infrared range data. The results of the research will be LISP code that will be incorporated into a larger robotic navigation system. CDA9200654 $38,000 12 mos Reichenbach, Stephen E. University of NebraskaLincoln The Institute for Visual Information Processing This project is to bring ten students, in each of two successive summers, to the University of NebraskaLincoln campus to work in digital image processing and computer vision. Projects that will be part of the program include the following; image restoration and automatic target recognition, image restoration and infrared imaging system design, adaptive image restoration of satellite data, digital archive of the Mari Sandoz collection, image analysis of irrigation systems, human face recognition, and classification based on physical features. The program involves instruction, research, and enrichment activities. h)T0*0*0*ԌCDA9270343 $20,000 03 mos Schnabel, Robert B. University of Colorado REU Supplement: Effective Use of Parallel & Distributed Language This is a supplement to grant CDA-8922510 for Research Experiences for Undergraduates. The award supports software development in a facility for both numerical computation and software engineering. The projects that the undergraduates will work on will include the following: 1. Implement and instrument new BSD network architecture code for Hewlett Packard 730 workstations. 2. Tune 4.4BSD Unix release that includes the Mach virtual memory system. This requires both instrumentation and some optimizations. 3. Develop interface software for the Kendell Square KSR-1 to allow implementation of tools such as PICL and  paragraph. CDA9200369 $78,350 12 mos Shah, Mubarak A. University of Central Florida Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision This is a collaborative project of the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida. Ten undergraduate students will be involved in the program which will span the calendar. The students will select from several possible projects to provide a more active involvement in the program. They will follow a course of general immersion within the research environment including regular meetings, and plans for professional presentations. Examples of the kinds of projects with which the participants will work, are the following: segmentation of optical flow field, modeling human walking for computer vision system, pose estimation using motion trajectories, functionbased modeling of articulated objects, range image analysis, and parallel algorithms in computer vision. CDA9247014 $20,000 03 mos Weiss, Stephen F. University of North CarolinaChapel Hill REU Supplement: Integration and Capitalization of Image Sciences Research Software h)U0*0*0*Ԍ This University of North Carolina REU award is to support four undergraduates doing research in a software engineering laboratory. The undergraduates will be working directly with PhD students on topics related to the PhD student's dissertations. One project will involve the development of an architectural simulator (to test chip designs) and a second project involves tool development to support automated software packaging. Each project will involve two undergraduates. CDA9200408 $70,538 12 mos Wesselkamper, Thomas C. CUNY Hunter College Undergraduate Research in Combinatorial Computing This program will bring ten undergraduate students to Hunter College of CUNY in the summer of 1992, to be followed up with a once weekly academic year experience which will be a continuation of the work begun in the summer. The students will be from underrepresented groups, and will be students at Hunter or one of the smaller private colleges in the area. In addition to the coverage of research topics, the participants will be provided with the opportunity to visit several industrial sites during the program, and will be presented with materials dealing with ethical issues in computer science and engineering. The research topics include problems about the existence of projective planes, about the existence of symmetric balanced incomplete block designs, and about the existence of perfect error correcting codes. CDA9200230 $38,000 12 mos Wiedenbeck, Susan University of NebraskaLincoln REU Site: Proposal on HumanComputer Interaction The project is to address the area of humancomputer interaction. The program will involve bringing ten students (five men and five women) to the university for a ten week period, with follow up in the academic year. The students will be from Nebraska and immediately surrounding areas, with the majority from institutions other than the host. Included in the program will be a seminar, the actual research project, and discussion of opportunities for graduate study. CDA9200240 $75,053 12 mos Wlhelmson, Robert University of IllinoisUrbana REU Site Program in Computation Science h)V0*0*0*ԌThis project will bring eight undergraduates to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois for a one semester experience during the school year. Recruiting will be national in scope. The selected students will be matched with an NCSA research project in accordance with their interests and background. The disciplinary focus will be in the computational sciences, with particular emphasis in the application of parallelization and visualization concepts and techniques. W0*0*0*  ? l  INDEX OF PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS  ?X NAME H' PAGE(S)  ?   A Abbott, A. L............23 Abrams, Marc............23 Ahamad, Mustaque........16 Adrion, W. Richards ....1, 36 Allan, Vicki H..........36 Allebach, Jan P.........23 Aloimonos, J. Yiannis...23 Alo, Richard............16 Ammar, Mostafa..........33 Andrews, Gregory........1 Aylor, James............13  ?  B Bahler, Joseph..........33 Bajcsy, Ruzena K........1, 13, 24 Baker, Harlyn...........13 Ball, William E.........34 Barba, Joseph...........16 Barnden, John...........7, 36 Bernat, Andrew..........16 Bhatt, Ravindra N.......24 Blumenthal, Marjory.....31 Brooks, Frederick D.....2 Brown, Christopher M....2, 24, 36 Burns, Patrick J........12 Burton, Orville V.......13  ?  C Canny, John F...........24 Cartwright, Robert S....14 Clements, Mark A........14 Cole, Ronald A..........25 Costello, Daniel J......25 Cukor, Peter............36  ?!  D Dean Thomas L...........34 Dennis, John E..........25 Dershem, Herbert L......36 Despain, Alvin M........25 Donald, Bruce R.........25 Dongarra, Jack J........7  ?h)  Eh)X0*0*0*Ԍ ?  ęEllis, Mary.............17  ?  F Flaherty, Joseph........7 Fischer, Thomas R.......26 Fox, Geoffrey...........37  ?@  G Galil, Zvi..............2 Gardner, John A.........31, 37 Ghafoor, Arif J.........26 Gillett, Billy E........37 Glinert, Ephraim P......32 Goldstine, Jonathan.....34 Gosink, Joan P..........12 Graham, Susan...........3 Gray, Paul R............37 Gries, David J..........20  ?h  H Henderson, Thomas C.....3 Hodges, Larry F.........37 Hopcroft, John..........3 Huang, Thomas S.........8 Hughes, Herman D........32 Ho, Thomas I............34  ?p  I Ikeuchi, Katsuhi........26 Interrante, Leslie D....33 Irwin, Mary J...........8  ?   J Jain,Anil K.............8, 9, 37 Jennings, William C.....12 Jones, Anita............4 Johnson, Donald B.......14  ?!  K Kalos, Malvin H.........37 Kaltofen, Erich L.......34 Kanade, Takeo...........14, 26 Karp, Richard M.........14 Kaufman, Arie E.........20 Kearney, Joseph K.......14, 27 Khatri, Daryao..........17  ?h)  Lh)Y0*0*0*Ԍ ?  ęLawler, Eugene L........34 Leveson, Nancy G........35 Levy, Henry.............4 Lewis, Philip M.........38 Lopez, Antonio M........38 Loui, Ronald P..........38 Loveland, Donald W......4 Luo, Ren C..............27  ?  M  ?  Maly, Kurt..............20 Manikopoulos, C.........27 Mantey, Patrick E.......9 Masson, Gerald..........9 Martin, Harold L........17 McCracken, W. Michael...21 Moreno, Oscar...........18 Mudge, Trevor N.........27  ?  N Nevison, Christopher H..21 Ni, Lionel M............28  ?  O O'Donnell, Michael J....4, 38  ?  P Pang, Alex..............35 Parhi, Keshab K.........28 Patterson, Wayne........35 Ponce, Jean.............28 Porter, John............28 Prisant, Michael........29 Proakis, John G.........10  ?  R Rebbi, Claudio..........21 Reed, Daniel............5 Reichenbach, Stephen E..38 Reilly, Kevin D.........35 Rice, John..............5 Riseman, Edward M.......29 Rogers, Edwin H.........21  ?h)  Sh)Z0*0*0*Ԍ ?  ęSahni, Sartaj K.........10 Savage, John............5 Schnabel, Robert........5, 38 Schowengerdt, Robert A..29 Segal, Andrew..........29 Shah, Mubarak A.........29, 39 Shen, John P............22 Siegel, Howard..........10 Smith, Jonathan.........22 Smotherman, Mark K......35 Snyder, Lawrence........15 Sood, A. K..............30 Sorenson, Henrik........30  ?  T Thomas, Valerie.........33 Turner, A. J............22 Turner, Jonathan S......12  ?  V Vasquez, Ramon..........18 Vernon, Mary............6 Volz, Richard A.........11  ?P  W  ?  Wakim, Nagi.............18 Wang, Paul S............15 Warsi, Nazir............18 Wiess, Stephen F........39 Wiedenbeck, Susan.......39 Wesselkamper, Thomas C..39 Wilhelmson, Robert......39  ?X  Y Yaghi, Husam............33