Title: NSF 97-90-Summary of Awards
Date: June 18, 1997
Replaces: NSF 96-97




SUMMARY OF AWARDS
FISCAL YEAR 1996

Office of Cross-Disciplinary Activities
Directorate for Computer and Information
Science and Engineering

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
4201 WILSON BOULEVARD
ARLINGTON, VA 22230


Preface

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; Cross-Disciplinary Activities
(CDA) Office; Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS)
Division; Microelectronics Information Processing Systems (MIPS)
Division; and the Networking and Communications Research and
Infrastructure (NCRI) Division.

The Office of Cross-Disciplinary Activities (CDA) supports the
building and strengthening of infrastructure in all CISE areas
through the CISE Research Infrastructure, the CISE Instrumentation
Programs and the Collaborative Research on Learning Technology
(CRLT). It also administers various special projects and
coordinates activities aimed at directorate-and Foundation-wide
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 had five components: Institutional Infrastructure-Research
Infrastructure, Institutional Infrastructure-Large Scale,
Institutional Infrastructure-Small Scale, Institutional
Infrastructure-Minority Institutions, and Educational
Infrastructure.

The CISE Institutional Infrastructure-Large Scale and Small Scale
Programs were discontinued in Fiscal Year 1993 and 1994
respectively and no new awards have been made. However, continuing
grants in this program, whose initial awards were made prior to
Fiscal Year 1993, are listed in the CISE Research Infrastructure
Program in this Summary of Awards.

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 1996 through the Office of Cross-Disciplinary
Activities (CDA). This report lists projects including continuing
grants funded using Fiscal Year 1996 dollars and hence does not
list multi-year standard awards made prior to Fiscal Year 1996.

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 duration's are identified first. Grantee institutions and
award titles are enumerated after the principal investigators'
name. Within each category, the awards are listed alphabetically by
principal investigator.

Readers wishing further information on a particular project
described in this report are advised to contact the principal
investigator directly.

John C. Cherniavsky
Head
Office of Cross-Disciplinary Activities

Table of Contents
Preface
Table of Contents
CDA Organization & Staff
Summary
Introduction
CISE Research Infrastructure Program
CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure
CISE Educational Innovation Program
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies
     (CRLT)
Academic Research Infrastructure
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associates
CISE Research Instrumentation
CISE SPECIAL PROJECTS
CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates-Site Grants
Special Initiatives
Index

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
DIRECTORATE FOR
COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND ENGINEERING

Office of
Cross-Disciplinary Activities


CDA Staff

FY 1996

John C. Cherniavsky, Head
jchernia@nsf.gov

PROGRAMS
PROGRAM DIRECTOR(S)    E-MAIL

CISE Research Infrastructure
Tse-yun Feng   tfeng@nsf.gov

CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure
Rita V. Rodriguez   rrodrigu@nsf.gov

CISE Educational Innovation
Harry G. Hedges     hhedges@nsf.gov

Collaborative Research on Learning Technology (CRLT)
Caroline E. Wardle  cwardle@nsf.gov

Academic Research Infrastructure
John C. Cherniavsky  jchernia@nsf.gov

CISE Postdoctoral Research Associates
Rita V. Rodriguez   rrodrigu@nsf.gov

CISE Instrumentation
Rita V. Rodriguez   rrodrigu@nsf.gov

Cross-Directorate Special Projects
Rita V. Rodriguez   rrodrigu@nsf.gov
Harry G. Hedges     hhedges@nsf.gov

Special Initiatives
John C. Cherniavsky   jchernia!@nsf.gov

Administrative Manager
Barbara H. Palmer   bpalmer@nsf.gov

The address and telephone number for all of the above:
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 1160
Arlington, VA 22230
(703) 306-1980

Summary-FY 1996  Number of Projects  Value of Awards


CISE Research Infrastructure  43   $11,573,001
CISE Institutional Infrastructure-Minority Institutions     16
$ 2,693,949
CISE Educational Innovation   11   $ 1,634,405
Collaborative Research on Learning Technology (CRLT)   24   $
5,586,270**
Academic Research Infrastructure   17   $ 9,490,311*
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associates   11   $ 459,162
CISE Instrumentation     20   $ 1,496,433
CISE Special Projects     6   $ 531,173
CISE Research Experience for Undergraduate-Site Grants 11
$ 397,710
Special Initiatives  3   $ 3,550,000

These data include 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 and Technology Infrastructure

**Funds from Director's Opportunity Fund

Introduction

This report provides summaries of awards made in Fiscal Year 1996
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 Research Infrastructure

The Research Infrastructure component of the CISE Institutional
Infrastructure program integrates the prior CISE Large Scale and
Small Scale components of this program. The Research Infrastructure
Program provides support to aid in the establishment, enhancement,
and operation of major experimental facilities planned to support
research in all CISE areas. It recognizes the emergence of research
groups requiring infrastructure strengthening in a variety of
environments-those solely within a single academic department,
those drawing from several departments in a single institution, and
those which may span several different institutions.

CISE Institutional Infrastructure-Large Scale (discontinued in
Fiscal Year 1993)

This program has provided 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 has been
provided for equipment, maintenance, technical support staff, and
other appropriate costs.

CISE Institutional Infrastructure-Small Scale (discontinued in
Fiscal Year 1994)

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 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 Innovation Program

The objective of the Educational Infrastructure program is to
stimulate innovative educational activities at the undergraduate
level in CISE disciplines by encouraging the transfer of research
results into the undergraduate curriculum.

Academic Research Infrastructure

The Academic Research Infrastructure Program (ARI) is designed to
improve the condition of research equipment and facilities in our
Nation's academic institutions in all disciplines. This program
responds to needs identified by the academic science and
engineering community. Funding is provided by the Office of Science
and Technology Infrastructure

CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS-Collaborative Research on Learning Technology
(CRLT)

The Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and
Engineering (CISE), for Education and Human Resources (EHR), and
for Engineering (ENG), and for Mathematical and Physical
Sciences(MPS) sponsor and manage the new joint program. The program
responds to the national need to improve quality, accessibility and
efficiency of learning and education-particularly, science,
mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET)-at all levels.

CISE Postdoctoral Research Associates

These awards provide opportunities for recent PhD'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.

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.

 CISE Research Experience for Undergraduates-Site Grants

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) provides
undergraduates with hands-on training experience in active research
in science and engineering. There are two categories of projects:
(1) REU Sites and (2) REU Supplements. REU Sites are based on
independent proposals to initiate and conduct undergraduate
research projects for a minimum of six students. REU Supplements
are intended to provide research experiences for one or two
undergraduate students by adding support for them to existing NSF
projects. REU Supplements are listed after the ongoing NSF grant
they are supplementing.

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.

In accordance with Federal statutes and 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 Division of Human Resources for information
relating to NSF programs, employment, or general information. This
number is (703) 306-0090.

Facilitation Awards for Handicapped Scientists and Engineer (FAH)
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) 306-1697.

The Foundation welcomes proposals on behalf of all qualified
scientists and engineers, and strongly encourages women,
minorities, and persons with disabilities to complete fully in any
of the research and research-related programs described in this
document.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 47.070, Computer and
Information Science and Engineering.

CISE Research Infrastructure Program

CDA-9625374
$673,312-12 mos.
Aho, Alfred
Columbia University
CISE Research Infrastructure: Scalable Multimedia Information
Processing

This award is for the creation of a computer infrastructure that
will enable realistic and practical demonstrations for future
computing environments. The award will allow researchers at
Columbia University to upgrade their storage, networking and
processing capabilities to conduct interrelated research projects
in four major areas: 1) High Performance Integrated Multimedia
Information Systems; 2) Visual Information Processing; 3) Mobile
Multimedia User Interfaces; 4) Scalable Systems for Mobile and
Portable Computing. The requested research equipment, which is
critical to support these research projects and will be treated as
a shared resources, includes a data farm, a
multimedia/visualization supercomputer, multimedia workstations,
high-performance multimedia PC's and high-bandwidth networking
hardware.


CDA-9401021
$247,807-12 mos.
Ambler, Allen
University of Kansas
DesignLab

This award provides support for the establishment of the Design
Technologies Laboratory, or DesignLab. The laboratory will
stimulate experimental research in technologies fundamental to
building design support tools. Many such design support
technologies are inherently nonprocedural and ill-suited to von
Neumann uni-processor architectures. Efficient implementation
strategies demand parallel and distributed computing environments
with large shared memories and/or ultra high-speed
interconnections. The requested equipment includes a 16-processor
SGI Challenge and a very high speed network. The research topics to
be explored include intelligent information databases for
multimedia and 3D drawings; computer vision, modeling and
visualization; declarative design specification languages;
collaborative multi-agent design; meta-languages for defining
reasoning systems; implementation strategies for non-procedural
design technologies; and applied design technologies.

MIP-9420397
$250,000-12 mos.
Bajcsy, Ruzena
University of Pennsylvania
Rapid Prototyping of Rehabilitation Aids for the Physically
Disabled

The methods of rapid prototyping are ideally suited to
rehabilitation devices. Because each person requires unique
performance and function in a rehabilitation device, devices
specific to each person must be rapidly designed and produced. This
project is investigating a completely integrated approach to the
design and prototyping of passive mechanical rehabilitation
devices. The approach involves: the quantitative assessment of the
form and performance of human limbs; the design of the assertive
device; evaluation of the device using virtual prototyping;
feedback from the consumer and therapist; actual prototyping of the
device; evaluation of the function and performance of the device;
and redesign based on performance. The contributions of the product
include: the development of new computer-based tools for the
assessment of human performance; a manufacturing technique for a
new class of hyperelastic materials; the integration of tools into
a rapid prototyping system for rehabilitation devices; and
development of mechanisms for systematic evaluation of the final
product.

CDA-9216202
$150,000-12 mos.
Bruno, John
University of California-Santa Barbara
An Infrastructure Facility for Parallel Processing

This Institutional Infrastructure award is for the support of
research projects in experimental and implementation aspects of
distributed and parallel computing. The funds will support the
acquisition of a parallel computer and for the support staff to
maintain it. The research supported includes systems and
programming issues for parallel machines, parallel algorithms, and
dynamic visualization.

The High Performance Computing, Communications and Information
Technology initiative recognizes as important to the nations future
the development of new architecture computers to solve problems
which now cannot be solved on computers. This infrastructure award
gives the University of California, Santa Barbara the equipment
necessary to participate in this research initiative.

CDA-9401124
$170,127-12 mos.
Campbell, Roy
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Broadband Network Infrastructure and Data Storage for Research and
Education

This award provides support for an experimental, high-speed network
infrastructure that would interconnect parallel systems,
large-capacity secondary and tertiary storage devices, and
muli-media workstations capable of supporting high-quality digital
audio and video. The network architecture is based on a broadband
ISDN backbone of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switches and
fiber optics links. A high-bandwidth, gigabit/second HIPPI network
would interconnect an Intel Paragon distributed memory parallel
system and a tertiary storage system. The research spans three
basic areas: system software infrastructure for managing high-speed
networks, data pre-fetching and staging policies for high-latency,
high-capacity secondary and tertiary data stores, and information
access and multimedia collaboration software.

CDA-9623865
$372,876-12 mos.
Chen, Marina
Boston University
CISE Research Infrastructure: Research Infrastructure for Parallel
and Distributed Systems: Real-Time, Multimedia and High-Performance

This award is for the acquisition of computing and communications
resources to support the two primary research thrusts of the
Computer Science Department's experimental scientists. The
disciplines of both high performance computing and digital
multimedia are characterized by their need for distributed
computing nodes connected by high-bandwidth interconnections. For
high performance computing, distributed architectures are necessary
to achieve sufficient price/performance when constructing
gigaflops-capable machines. In addition, high-bandwidth
interconnects provide the necessary data distribution paths to
supply each processor with work. For digital multimedia,
distributed systems allow multiple simultaneous users, and
high-bandwidth interconnects are needed to supply the demands of
multiple video and audio streams per user. The equipment will also
enable Boston researchers to apply advances in high performance
computing to multimedia, medical imaging research and their three
WWW related projects, capitalizing on the unique collective
strength of the department.

CDA-9303150
$100,000-12 mos.
Cohen, Jacques
Brandeis University
Parallel Computing and Complex Systems

This award is for the acquisition of a parallel computer and
several high performance work stations to support research in the
Computer Science Department of Brandeis University. The department
is engaged in three major areas of research: Parallelism and
Languages, Data Compression, and Artificial Intelligence. The
department is part of the Brandeis Center for Complex Systems and
the theme of parallelism and the study of large complex systems is
common to all three groups. The research topics to be explored by
the parallel programming group include the design and analysis of
parallel algorithms; and the design and implementation of high
level parallel languages which facilitate the rapid construction of
programs that can easily be verified to be correct and which can be
compiled to run efficiently on MIMD and SIMD machines. Research
topics of the data compression group include adaptive vector
quantization with variable size vectors, adaptive video
compression, issues in coding theory that include error resilient
communication, the design of high speed data compression hardware,
and context prediction for lexicography. Research topics for the AI
group include data extraction from existing databases and text
corpora, the role of memory in storing extracted data, and the
construction of integrated agents that are data driven and exhibit
goal directed behavior.

CDA-9401156
$63,630-12 mos.
Culler, David
University of California-Berkeley
A Next Generation Infrastructure for Integrating Computing and
Communications

This award provides support for the development of Titan, a
computing system consisting of an integrated ensemble of computing
and communication elements, organized to provide the user with a
number of services. These services will include multimedia
capabilities in delivery vehicles; storage and communication; large
computing power; large storage space; innovative parallel
languages, debuggers, and libraries; and high accessibility from
both mobile and fixed locations. The experimental facilities
requested include workstations and servers constituting the
backbone of the distributed system providing cycles to the user,
ATM switches for linking workstations and servers, a video editing
system, a massive storage unit, and equipment for linking the
network to the currently available CM-5 parallel computer. The
proposed research projects fall into three areas: network and
communications; distributed supercomputer projects which are mainly
concerned with providing parallel computing to every user through
a combined architecture, operating systems, and programming
language effort; and multimedia services which requires integrating
systems support, software support, and artificial intelligence
tools to create, store, play, edit, search, input, and output
multimedia objects. The networking, multimedia, and computing
aspects of Titan form will form the infrastructure for a number of
computationally intensive applications.

CDA-9303433
$400,000-12 mos.
DeFanti, Thomas
University of Illinois-Chicago
CISE Research Infrastructure

This award is for the establishment of a laboratory for research on
the design, implementation, dissemination, and use of highly
interactive computing technologies for the benefit of
computational, biomedical and engineering sciences. The application
areas share the need for very high-speed data capture and
presentation facilities, very high bandwidth communication, and
very large information stores. The research topics to be explored
by this laboratory include the design and implementation of virtual
reality environments; the storage, retrieval, and navigation of
very large information stores; the design and evaluation of
user-centered domain-specific, multi-media applications; and the
remote, shared access to specialized instrumentation resources. The
researchers come from the Computer Science Department, the School
of Art and Design, the Department of Electrical Engineering, the
Department of Bioengineering, and the Laboratory for Biomedical
visualization. Extensive collaborations are in place with the
National Laboratories. The award provides for the acquisition of
instrumentation to match this research. The laboratory consists of
the CAVE Virtual Reality Theater, a Database Computing Facility, an
Interactive Multimedia laboratory, and a Networked Remote User
Facility. The instrumentation provided consists of high performance
visualization computers, mass storage devices, and high speed
communications equipment.

CDA-9115428
$200,000-12 mos.
Dongarra, Jack
University of Tennessee
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 non-numeric 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.

CDA-9643288
$416,209-12 mos.
Du, David
University of Minnesota
CISE Research Infrastructure: Collaborative Research Activities
over the vBNS

This award is to the University of Minnesota in order to enable
collaborative research activities over the vBNS. This is a
supplement to a present NSF research grant. Under the existing CISE
grant, the University of Minnesota is developing a prototype
distributed computing, storage, and scientific visualization
facility for the National Information Infrastructure. The vBNS
connection will enhance the research projects currently funded
under multiple federal grants in high performance computing and
high performance networking. The proposed uses of the vBNS
connectivity to be established include: distributed computing;
visual supercomputing; and collaborative scientific visualization.

CDA-9303152
$174,001-12 mos.
Ehrich, Roger
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Interactive Accessibility: Breaking Barriers to the Power of
Computing

This award provides infrastructure for the support of laboratories
for research in interactive computing, especially as it relates to
human/computer interface studies. The principal investigators are
drawn from the department of Computer Science and the department of
Industrial and Systems Engineering. In addition, there are
substantial collaborations with the Naval Research Laboratory and
the Blacksburg Electronic Village. The laboratories are a Usability
Methods Research Laboratory, an Interaction Technology Laboratory,
and an Information Access Laboratory. This award is being jointly
funded by the Cross Disciplinary Activities (CDA) Office and the
Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Division. The
Instrumentation for the laboratories is being supported by CDA
while the research is being supported by IRIS.

The specific research performed in the laboratories includes:
identifying and overcoming usability and conceptional barriers to
computing, the development of evaluation methodologies for
determining the effectiveness of human/computer interfaces,
development of environments for performing human/computer interface
experiments, the development of expert-based information systems,
the development of systems for access to computers for disabled
users, and development of systems for access to computers for
disabled users, and development of several domain based interfaces
for large data base systems.

CDA-9501637
$118,950-12 mos.
Fujimoto, Richard
Georgia Technical Research Corporation
CISE Research Infrastructure: Distributed Laboratories

This award provides support for infrastructure at Georgia Institute
of Technology in the form of three distributed laboratories where
individuals at geographically distinct locations can interact with
each other on-line using powerful, distributed computational tools,
to solve shared problems. The infrastructure includes a
multi-granular compute server and ATM switch, a video server with
high-performance multi-media workstations, and network equipment.
The research topics explored included interactive steering,
distributed simulations, collaborative systems; large-scale
community, ATM and wireless networks.

CDA-9624082
$442,409-12 mos.
Fussell, Donald
University of Texas
CISE Research Infrastructure: System Support for a Hierarchy of
Distributed Applications

This award provides infrastructure support for the researchers at
the University of Texas at Austin to conduct the basic and
experimental research necessary to address the problems that lie at
the core of the emerging applications. Specifically, the research
proposes projects at three levels: (1) core projects that will
create an infrastructure for storing, accessing, and transporting
large, heterogeneous information objects; (2) exploratory projects
that will develop infrastructure which will facilitate the
development of the core projects; and (3) realistic and ambitious
applications from each of the following three classes. The first
class is information retrieval applications, such as digital
libraries. These applications will support browsing of large-scale,
distributed databases of multimedia information. The second class
of applications adds the requirement that the multimedia
information be processed, not simply browsed. Finally, the third
class of applications adds the requirement of real-time
interactivity.

CDA-9401024
$211,469-12 mos.
Grosz, Barbara
Harvard University
Infrastructure for Research towards Ubiquitous Information Systems

This award provides support for the development of a new generation
computing facility to support experimental research in ubiquitous
information systems. The equipment infrastructure includes
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks, file servers capable of
handling video, and graphics workstations with advanced human
interface capabilities. The research topics to be explored span the
development of new technologies that support rapid transmission of
large amounts of data between computer systems to the development
of more flexible and adaptable systems for human-computer
communication.

CDA-9502631
$160,500-12 mos.
Hanrahan, Patrick
Stanford University
CISE Research Infrastructure: High Performance Graphics and Imaging

This award provides support for a high performance giga-flop
compute server, a high performance 3D graphics server, a high
performance image/video/data server, and a high bandwidth network
to couple these machines together. The requested equipment will
contribute to the computational infrastructure of a new computer
graphics laboratory. Many national challenges such as health care,
education, manufacturing, and crisis management, require graphics
and imaging technologies. The investigators will be working in the
areas of graphics systems and algorithms, involving research in
efficient rendering algorithms, high-performance graphics
architectures, and coupling compression and graphics; in scientific
visualization with research in volume rendering for scientific and
medical applications; in vision and graphics with research in the
digitization of 3D models; and in imaging and video with a focus on
the manipulation of image and video databases.

CDA-9643633
$25,715-0 mos.
Henderson, Thomas C.
University of Utah
Computer Aided Prototyping

This is a supplement to the original infrastructure award and, it
enhanced the award by making it more national in scope. ARPA
provided the funds to UTAH to develop a test suite of descriptions
of physical objects that will be used to validate automated
manufacturing systems.

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
mathematically describe 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 their
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. This center designs and
manufactures many prototype 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.

CDA-9643633
$62,891-0 mos.
Henderson, Thomas C.
University of Utah
Computer Aided Prototyping

This supplement is for support of the annual meeting of
Institutional Infrastructure grantees. The purpose of the annual
meeting is to share research results and to share information
regarding acquisition of infrastructure, the management of large
facilities, and the management of computer research laboratories in
universities.

CDA-9503064
$312,247-12 mos.
Hollan, James
University of New Mexico
CISE Research Infrastructure: Effective Information Access:
Computer Science Research Fundamental to Creation of a National
Information Infrastructure

This award provides support for visualization facilities, servers
to support distributed simulation, and a high-speed cluster
network. In addition the University of New Mexico will establish a
National Information Infrastructure (NII) Experimental Laboratory
in the Science and Engineering Library to serve as a shared
research testbed, as well as to facilitate efforts in distributed
simulation and research collaborations in Biology, with the Santa
Fe Institute and the National Laboratories. The Laboratory
equipment will include graphics workstations connected via a
high-performance local area network to high-end symmetric
multiprocessing systems, an SGI Power Onyx and Power Challenge, and
to remote high-performance facilities at the Maui High Performance
Computing Center's IBM SP-2, the Sandia National Laboratory's Intel
Paragon, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory's CM-5. The
University will build on its existing strengths in adaptive
computation, human computer interaction, information analysis, and
simulation to focus on adaptive multiscale interfaces; distributed
computation, communication, and security for network-based
applications; data mining and filtering; and improved access to
distributed simulation.

CDA-9616321
$64,803-12 mos.
Horowitz, Ellis
University of Southern California

SCENE: The USC Experimental Networking Environment for Protocol and
Database Research
This award is for the acquisition of a network testbed for the
experimental networking and distributed database research at the
University of Southern California. The primary research activities
are concentrated in two main areas: Network Control Protocols and
Distributed Databases. The main feature that these two diverse
research areas share is a need to (1) solve problems involving
multiple nodes, (2) complement existing modeling, simulation,
emulation, and small scale implementations with multi-node
prototypes, (3) isolate the resulting network from the campus
production network, and (4) employ a support staff to maintain and
operate the network. The study of distributed networks is important
because of the wide availability of inexpensive workstations that
can be easily linked together. Not so easy is how to utilize these
networks effectively. The study of network protocols is critical to
this task as is the study of distributed databases. This award
supports both areas.

CDA-9624396
$805,884-12 mos.
Huang, Thomas
University of Illinois

A Shared distributed Facility for Multimedia Signal Processing and
Visualization with Applications to Human Computer Intelligent
Interaction.

This Infrastructure award supports the acquisition of
computational, networking, and human interface equipment for
multimedia laboratory for the investigation of human centered
information systems. The facility will connect three institutes:
the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology; the
Coordinated Science Laboratory; and the Digital Computer
Laboratory.

The research supported by this laboratory will include research in
multimodal human computer interaction, multimodal imaging and
visualization, multiresolution representation and processing, and
multimedia storage, networking, and communication.

CDA-9502639
$220,535-12 mos.
Kurose, James
University of Massachusetts @ Amherst
CISE Research Infrastructure: Infrastructure to Support Research on
Networked Multimedia Information Systems

This award provides support to equip a networked, experimental
testbed to enable research in the development of the operating
system, I/O, networking, object management, and information
retrieval components of future networked multimedia information
systems. The testbed will consist of two shared-memory
multiprocessor facilities attached to several parallel mass storage
I/O devices and a high-speed ATM network. The research team will be
developing several key hardware and software technologies needed to
support future networked, multimedia information systems. Specific
research areas include operating systems, I/O, networking, object
management and information retrieval.

CDA-9401142
$391,406-12 mos.
LeBlanc, Thomas
University of Rochester
Rapid Prototyping of Parallel Robot Vision Systems Using Virtual
Reality and Systems Simulation

This award provides support for the establishment of a laboratory
that uses two types of simulation technologies in the design of
visually controlled robotics systems. The first type of simulation
technology is the simulation of sensory interaction with physical
environments, popularly known as "virtual reality". Virtual reality
can replace the real world in testing and debugging a system. The
second is execution-driven simulation of complex parallel
algorithms at the level of individual messages and memory accesses,
which can address the performance and low-level real-time problems
of interacting processes. The experimental facilities requested
include a Silicon Graphics Reality (SGI) Engine for scene
generation in the simulated world, an upgrade of an existing SGI
Challenge multiprocessor for simulation of the virtual world and
control software, a computational engine for performing real-time
intermediate to high-level vision, a hydraulic robot arm for
real-time manipulation, a small-scale multi-processor for device
control and medium-level vision, and general purpose workstations.
The focus of the proposal is the development of simulations to aid
in the development of real-world robotics systems. Research topics
to be explored include the development of principles for
constructing complex physical autonomous systems; the development
of new modes of simulation for virtual reality, and simulation and
implementation of robotics control algorithms.

CDA-9624099
$596,131-12 mos.
Li, Kai
Dobkin, David
Princeton University
CISE Research Infrastructure: Network of Symmetric Multiprocessors:
An Infrastructure for Research in Scalable Systems and Applications

This award provides support for a research infrastructure based on
commodity PC-based Symmetric MultiProcessor (SMP) servers,
high-speed networks, and customized network interfaces and
communication software. It will enable new research activities,
extension of on-going research activities and will generate synergy
among the several research efforts. Key research areas which will
be enabled by the infrastructure include virtual memory-mapped
communication, efficient shared virtual memory, scalable virtual
storage servers, efficient message passing, and performance
measurement. Application areas include scalable DNA computing
simulations, parallel fluid dynamics, particle-based computation in
a homogeneous medium and projects in parallel computational
biology. The infrastructure consists primarily of stock hardware,
but in quantity large enough to investigate the viability of
building a large-scale scalable system.

The infrastructure will be constructed in three phases: an initial
phase, a building phase, and a large-scale experimental phase. In
the initial phase, four PC-based SMP servers will be connected
together with a custom-designed network. In the building phase, 16
PC based SMP servers will be connected with a high speed commercial
network and a Myricom/Princeton customized network. In the
experimental phase, 32 next generation PC-based SMP servers will be
connected with a commercially available high-speed network and a
Myricom/Princeton customized network. All research projects will
utilize the infrastructure to conduct large-scale experiments.

CDA-9318145
$200,000-12 mos.
Messina, Paul
California Institute of Technology
Parallel I/O Methodologies for I/O-Intensive Grand Challenge
Applications

The Grand Challenge Application Groups competition provides one
mechanism for the support of multidisciplinary teams of scientists
and engineers to meet the goals of the High Performance Computing
and Communications (HPCC) Initiative in Fiscal Year 1993. The ideal
proposal provided not only the opportunity to achieve significant
progress on (1) a fundamental problem in science or engineering
whose solution could be advanced by applying high performance
computing techniques and resources, (2) enabling technologies which
facilitate those advances, but also significant interactions
between scientific and computational activities, usually involving
mathematical, computer or computational scientist, that would have
impact in high performance computational activities beyond the
specific scientific or engineering problem areas(s) or discipline
being studied. This multi disciplinary project will investigate and
develop strategies for efficient implementation of I/O intensive
applications in computational science and engineering. Scalable
parallel I/O approaches will be pursued by a team of computer
scientist and applications scientists who will work together to:

*Characterize the I/O behavior of specific application programs
running on large massively parallel computers

*Abstract and define I/O models (templates)

*Implement and test application-level I/O tools on large-scale
computations

The Pablo performance analysis environment will provide the
foundation for the performance instrumentation and analysis. The
application programs are already fully operational on advanced
architecture systems and their authors are all co-investigators in
this project. The principal computers used will be the Intel
Touchstone Delta and Paragon systems at Caltech, each with over 500
computational nodes. Five application areas will be included: fluid
dynamics, chemistry, astronomy, neuroscience, and modeling of
materials-processing plasmas. The parallel programs for these
applications cover a range of I/O patterns and volume, and the
techniques that will be developed in this project will be of
relevance to a broad spectrum of engineering and science
applications. In addition, by overcoming their current I/O
limitations, the specific applications targeted in this award will
achieve significant new science and engineering results. By the end
of the project, sustained teraFlops computers will become
available. The project will devise and implement general methods
for scalable I/O using today's advanced computers, immediately
apply those methods to carry out unprecedented applications in
several fields, and use the methods and experience gained in the
first half of the project to tackle the I/O issues in future
sustained teraFlops computers. This project will be carried out by
a team of researchers who have many years of experience in using
parallel computers for large-scale applications, in measuring and
characterizing the behavior of applications on such computers, and
in creating methods and tools that facilitate the use of such
systems. Building on this considerable experience, the project will
concentrate initially on exploring the I/O behavior of existing
applications and on devising ways to get adequate and scalable I/O
performance. The five application areas included in this award
cover a wide range of I/O needs and behavior, including the use of
out-of-core methods, reading data from high-speed instruments,
interactive and irregular data flows in modeling, and pipelining of
data from distributed computing resources on high-speed networks.
A key part of the approach is an integration effort that will
concentrate on ensuring close communication and synergy among the
components of the project and on integrating the results. The
primary objective of the project is to develop methods and insights
that are as generally applicable as possible. This award is being
supported by the Advanced Projects Research Agency as well as NSF
programs in engineering and computer science.

CDA-9415797
$200,000-12 mos.
Messina, Paul
California Institute of Technology
Scalable I/O Initiative

This award supports the infrastructure for the Scalable I/O
national project. This national project will investigate many of
the issues surrounding the scalability of Massively Parallel
Processing (MPP) System input and outputs. The national project
consists of 18 application groups involving more than 30
researchers. The equipment provided by this award consists of I/O
nodes for an MPP and a small MPP for crashable experimentation. The
infrastructure will be available to all of the application groups
for their experimental research needs.

CDA-9500991
$198,999-12 mos.
Myers, Eugene
University of Arizona
CISE Research Infrastructure: A Laboratory for Scalable Systems

This award provides support for the research infrastructure
necessary to investigate the viability of building scalable systems
from commodity components. Hardware components will include
workstations and ATM switches. Research topics to be conducted
include the design of an operating systems that scales with
processor performance; and the design, implementation and
experimentation of five different scalable systems: DNA Assembly
Server, Scalable Storage Server, Cluster-C* applied to remote
sensing, a general computing environment based on an efficient
fine-grain parallelism on multiple processors, and a parallel
simulator.

CDA-9623632
$434,192-12 mos.
Naughton, Jefferey
University of Wisconsin
CISE Research Infrastructure: MIDSHIP: Managing Image Data for
Scalable High Performance

This award is for the acquisition of a cluster of shared-memory
processors (SMPs) to support the MIDSHIP project of research into
enabling technologies for large-scale mining of image data sets.
The equipment will help researchers at the University of Wisconsin
to perform research: (1) on the application side: medical image
mining using mathematical programming techniques, machine learning
techniques applied to image understanding, view synthesis and
visual exploration, and querying by image content; and (2) on the
systems infrastructure side: parallel hardware and software
systems, performance tools for profiling parallel systems
performance and analyzing workload requirements, image storage and
compression, and parallel image database management technology. It
will also support a wide variety of research projects in such
diverse fields as Biological Science, Geology, Materials Science,
Medicine, and Space Science.

CDA-9216172
$145,740-12 mos.
Quinn, Michael
Oregon State University
A Laboratory for Joint Research in Artificial Intelligence and
Parallel Computing

This Institutional Infrastructure award is for the support of
research projects in artificial intelligence and parallel
computing. The infrastructure consists of a parallel computer and
the staff to maintain the computer. The projects supported by this
award include learning algorithms, real time decision making,
data-parallel compilers, and parallel programming support
environments. Parallel computers are research tools in two senses.
The first is that they provide a substantial increase in
computational power. The second is that they act as an experimental
vehicle for new systems software that needs to be developed in
order to use the computers effectively. This award addresses both
questions. The artificial intelligence research needs the computing
power while the compiler and support environment work needs the
experimental vehicle.

CDA-9123502
$330,000-12 mos.
Rice, John
Purdue University
Softlab-A 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
visualization, geometric modeling, and multimedia graphical user
interfaces for parallel programming and programming in the large.

2.   High-performance computing power, upgrading Purdue's parallel
machines.

3.   Software and development support staff assisting application
researchers in making full use of this facility comprising a rich
spectrum of high-performance workstations, powerful parallel
machines, and dedicated graphics processors.

4.   A teaching laboratory providing exploratory course that
migrate cutting-edge research into the curriculum with access to
state-of-the-art facilities. This laboratory will be the principal
facility of a proposed new interdisciplinary graduate degree
program in Computational Engineering and Science.

CDA-9115021
$111,091-12 mos.
Sahni, Sartaj
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. 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 situations.

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.

CDA-9502956
$286,203-12 mos.
Schnabel, Robert
University of Colorado-Boulder
CISE Research Infrastructure: High Performance Infrastructure for
Computational Science

This award provides support for high-speed networking equipment,
high-performance multiprocessor workstation servers. a high-speed
disk array, and multimedia devices for collaboration, exposition
and visualization. The University of Colorado department of
Computer Science will be addressing issues of data movement in
Grand Challenge and National Information Infrastructure (NII)
applications. This in conjunction with the floating point needs of
Grand Challenge computations, leads to their request for high-speed
computation and communication infrastructure. The research
associated with the infrastructure falls into four inter-related
projects in the area of scientific computing, distributed systems,
and resource discovery. These four projects are data movement in
Grand Challenge computing, global optimization algorithms for
molecular configuration problems, compiler-assisted network runtime
systems, and resource discovery and information sharing.

CDA-9623614
$480,877-12 mos.
Thompson, William
University of Utah
CISE Research Infrastructure: Modeling Complex Physical and
Computational Environment

This award is for the creation of a Modeling and Simulation Support
Facility, constituting vital infrastructure for work on end user
applications in novel computer architectures, manufacturing and
design, process control, teleoperations, and medicine; while also
serving as a testbed for innovations in machine architecture,
hardware, and software systems. The Modeling Facility will use
state-of-the-art technology to achieve high-bandwidth, low-latency
machine-to-machine communications, resulting in significant
computational leverage. The use of multiple heterogeneous and
potentially specialized computers in a tightly coupled
communication environment permits model builders to explore novel
parallel simulation methods that can greatly reduce simulation run
times. This increase in capability permits entirely new classes of
critical problems to be solved. Modern simulations produce large
quantities of data, the interpretation of which may not be
immediately apparent. Thus, the second central component of the
Modeling Facility is a large capacity storage management system.
Finally, the Modeling Facility will be equipped with several
special purpose devices that can exploit the communications and
data management facilities to tackle large-scale problems that are
currently infeasible in a traditional academic computing
environment.

CDA-9502645
$75,021-12 mos.
Truszczynski, Miroslaw
University of Kentucky
CISE Research Infrastructure: A Laboratory for Research in High
Performance Distributed Computing

This award provides support for the acquisition of a
high-performance distributed cluster-based computing system
consisting of a number of high-performance multiprocessor
workstations interconnected by a high-speed LAN. These
LAN-connected clusters will themselves be interconnected by a
high-speed ATM backbone network. The Computer Science department
will thus build a distributed multicomputer based on a scalable,
distributed shared memory paradigm which will facilitate the
department s research efforts in distributed and parallel
computing, distributed multimedia, vision and scientific
computation, and distributed control for manufacturing.

CDA-9401159
$181,384-12 mos.
Turner, Jonathan
Washington University
A Research Infrastructure: A Laboratory for Research in High
Performance Distributed Computing

This award provides support for extending and enhancing a broadband
multi-media network to support a set of closely related
collaborative research activities in the area of distributed
imaging and visualization. The network will utilize Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM) technology for the fast distribution of
high-resolution images, visualizations, studio-quality video and
multi-rate data. The research topics fall into two categories:
research on enabling technologies such as scalable networks,
host/network interfaces supporting multimedia applications, design
and analysis of large-scale multimedia information servers,
protocols and operating systems, scalable parallel processing and
declarative visualization. And secondly, research on the
application of these technologies to real distributed imaging and
visualization systems.

NCR-9616754
$2,087,515-48 mos.
Turner, Jonathan
Washington University
(Split funded with Office of Cross-Disciplinary Activities for
$1,000,000) Total award $3,087,515
Gigabit Network Technology Distribution Program

In recent years research in networking, distributed systems, and
high performance computing has been hampered by the research
community's limited access to high performance networking
equipment, and more importantly, the detailed technical information
needed to use it effectively in experimental systems research
programs.

This project provides gigabit network technology to US universities
for use in research and education. This technology is distributed
in the form of Gigabit Network Kits, each kit consisting of a high
performance ATM switch (supporting link speeds of up to 2.4 Gb/s),
six network interface cards for workstations or PCs, software
(including source), extensive documentation, including hardware
design information. The kits are designed to permit flexible use in
a variety of different systems research contexts (networking,
operating systems, multimedia and high performance computing), and
can be modified at both the software and hardware levels.

In addition to the hardware and software, the program provides
initial user training in the form of a two week intensive course
and ongoing support through a users' group, an electronic mailing
list and a WWW site providing access to software, documentation,
announcements of contributed research products, bug reports and a
FAQ page. Hardware support is also provided. The program also
provides for a series of user workshops, (one every six months),
allowing users to share experiences and demonstrate results from
their work.

CDA-9123483
$120,000-12 mos.
Vitter, Jeffrey
Duke University
SIMD/MIMD Parallel Computing: Computational Theory, Scientific
Applications and 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.

CDA-9303181
$318,333-12 mos.
Warren, David
SUNY @ Stony Brook
PROUD: Parallel Resources on User's Desks

This is an award for equipment to investigate the development and
scalability of algorithms and systems for parallel computers. The
instrumentation to be acquired include a number of high performance
parallel workstations, a scalable distributed memory
multiprocessor, and a high speed network. The research supported by
this infrastructure includes organic chemical synthesis, automated
theorem proving, very high speed transaction processing, parallel
prolog, 3-D graphics and volume visualization, and simulations of
massively parallel computers.

CDA-9624662
$217,499-12 mos.
Weiss, Stephen
University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill
CISE Research Infrastructure: Infrastructure for Research in
Collaboration Systems

This award is to support an established, on-going program of
research in distributed, collaborative, and multimedia systems. The
infrastructure will enable new basic research in system support for
distributed collaboration. Projects include: Multimedia Networking,
Hypermedia Systems, Application-Sharing, Collaborative Virtual
Environments, and Interoperable Collaborative Environments. In
addition, researchers at the University of North Carolina will also
work with a group of forensic pathologist, located at the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology to build a digital library of
pattern-injuries containing text, images, audio/video sequences,
charts, diagrams, and numerical data. This testbed will enable
groups of forensic pathologist to consult a large repository of
case data as well as consult with one another, and jointly create
new cases using conferencing and collaboration tools.

CDA-9422701
$100,000-12 mos.
Weymouth, Terry
University of Michigan
Prototypes for Clinic-Based Collaboration

This award is made in support of the NSF initiative
ENG-CISE-IITA94, National Challenges. It is a joint initiative
between the Engineering Directorate and the Computer Information
and Engineering Directorate. A collaborative test bed will be
developed to support consultations between geographically
distributed primary care physician and radiological specialists and
sub-specialists in tertiary care hospitals. The focus will be on
the design, implementation, and the evaluation of a prototype
system for synchronous and asynchronous viewing of medical images
over a distance. This project will simultaneously address three
research issues: adaptation of conventional medical diagnostic
practice to remote collaborative technology; creation of a tool kit
of computer applications to facilitate adaptation of these
practices; and assessment of the impact of remote collaborative
technology on medical diagnostic practice. These three aspects of
the study reinforce each other through the use of rapid prototyping
strategy. A working system will be delivered to physician users
early in the project and then maintained on a frequent cycle of
user feedback, responsive redesign, and systematic evaluation. To
be successful, rapid prototyping approach requires the ability to
correctly determine initial user needs, the ability to quickly
evolve technology to meet these requirements, and continuously
monitor whether deployed technology is satisfactory. Therefore,
this project team will be multi-disciplinary, encompassing
physicians who will offer expert input into the design and
development process, computer scientists familiar with
user-oriented application development, and social scientists
trained in the assessment of the impact of technology on work
practices and routines.

CDA-9303189
$109,298-12 mos.
Wise, David
Indiana University
An Infrastructure for Conceptualization and Visualization

This award provides infrastructure for the support of
Conceptualization and Visualization of Computation. The equipment
supported includes high performance graphical workstations, a
parallel computer, and high speed networking facilities. The
faculty involved in the project are drawn from the department of
Computer Science but have substantial collaborations with
computational scientists and engineers at Indiana University. The
research supported by this infrastructure includes automated
theorem proving, circuit validation, parallel functional
programming, scientific visualization, visualization of Monte Carl
methods, visualization of processor utilization on scalable
architectures, visual programming, and visual performance
monitoring and analysis.

CDA-9216171
$121,725 -12 mos.
Wolf, Wayne
Princeton University
Experimental Facilities for Application-Directed System Synthesis

This Infrastructure Award provides computational infrastructure for
use in the areas of video coding and image understanding and
fast-turnaround system synthesis. The former research area requires
massive data stores and special purpose video processors. The
latter area requires fast simulations. The infrastructure provided
under this award includes both the special purpose computational
video equipment and storage devices and the high speed workstations
necessary for both research areas. Digital High Definition
Television requires massive amounts of memory and substantial
processing power. This infrastructure award is providing research
equipment for investigations into digital video imaging and
processing. The award also provides for a collection of very high
speed workstations for the rapid simulation of computer systems.
This capability will allow these systems to be much more rapidly
developed.

CDA-9502791
$311,737 -12 mos.
Zwaenepoel, Willy
Rice University
CISE Research Infrastructure: Multi-Processor Cluster Computing

This award provides support for the acquisition of a cluster of
shared-memory multiprocessor nodes interconnected by a high-speed
network to support research in parallel programming systems, and
algorithms and applications from a wide variety of disciplines. The
infrastructure will be used as a research vehicle for computer
systems designers as well as computational scientists. Research
projects to be supported include work on compiler and runtimes for
multiprocessor clusters, high-performance I/O, and performance
visualization; and algorithms and applications in mixed integer
programming, molecular dynamics, reservoir simulation, genetic
linkage analysis, and seismic modeling. The infrastructure will
also be used in new graduate and undergraduate courses in
multidisciplinary design optimization, and parallel computing.

CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure

CDA-9633519
$201,065-12 mos.
Adjouadi, Malek
Florida International University
CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure: Multidimensional and
Multispectral Information Processing and Computational Aspects

This grant provides support for graduate students to continue their
research with a center serving a strong graduate minority
population, the NSF funded Center for Advanced Technology and
Education (NSF-CATE). The research areas include real-time
applications of computer vision, neural networks, and
multidimensional and multispectral signal analysis and modeling,
all under a highly distributed and parallel platform. This support
provides a strong basis for the development of visual/sensing
techniques in a multi-dimensional and multispectral framework to
address various dynamic and static phenomena viewed either through
real-time confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, or a high-speed
motion analyzer. Modeling of dynamic phenomena which integrate time
with the three spatial dimensions; real-time image analysis and
interpretation; application of the fundamentals of the wavelet
theory; and implementations of the functional principles of the
hypercolumn theory of the visual cortex constitute key research
endeavors under this proposal. The important concepts of
parallelism, data compression and high-speed data communication
play a significant role in the aforementioned research goals. The
existing NSF-CATE infrastructure and the support of this grant
allows for a significant impact to be made not only in enhancing
the theoretical foundation of the outlined research goals, but in
carrying-out key applications with our industrial partners,
especially in biomedical diagnostics.

CDA-9522157
$171,001-12 mos.
Alo, Richard
University of Houston
CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure: Improving Research and
Undergraduate Education in Computer Science

This award provides for infrastructure designed to substantially
increase the numbers of minority students going into and completing
degrees in the computing disciplines at the University of
Houston-Downtown. The project has three primary components:
Students, Academic Program, and Research with strong recruitment,
mentoring, curriculum enhancement, and research development
activities as parts of the project. Collaboration with Rice
University has been established and will be an important part of
the overall effort. Community college linkages will be initiated,
a Saturday Academy for high school students has been established,
research experiences for undergraduates will be expanded, and the
faculty research environment will be enhanced. It is anticipated
that this project has the potential to become a model for
development of programs for minority success at other similar urban
universities.

CDA-9522207
$239,888-12 mos.
Bernat, Andrew
University of Texas-El Paso
CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure: Building Affinity Groups
to Enable and Encourage Student Success in Computing

This award provides infrastructure support for a program designed
to substantially increase the number of minorities, particularly
Hispanics, who complete degree programs in the areas of computer
and information science and engineering. It involves both the
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Departments at the
University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). The project is built around
the concept of Affinity Groups, groups which are centered about a
research area and which involve both graduate and undergraduate
students and one or two faculty members at the center of each
group. Within the groups, emphasis is on developing social and
communication skills as well as on research and technical skills.
A strong evaluation component is built into the project. It is
anticipated that the structure developed has the potential to
become a model for the success of minority students at a wide range
of similar urban, commuter institutions.

CDA-9642542
$5,304-0 mos.
Bernat, Andrew
University of Texas, El Paso
A Center for Excellence for Computer Science

This supplement to CISE II-MI Center of Excellence for Computer
Science Education and Research grant supports the expenses incurred
for a Research Workshop held within the programmed workshop
exploring CS/CE Curriculum. Its purports to foment collaborative
proposals for the NSF-CONACyT initiative, thereby sustaining one of
the goals of the original proposal: increase minority research in
the academic and research areas supported by the CISE Directorate.

CDA-9215983
$191,519-12 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) high-speed/parallel
computing, (2) software engineering, (3) computer graphics, and
(4)artificial intelligence/expert system development.

CDA-9633159
$45,477-12 mos.
Eschen, Elaine
Fisk University
CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure Grant: Expanding the
Minority Pipeline: Computer Science at Fisk University

Fisk University, a small HBCU-MI with 69.8% female students has an
outstanding reputation of producing highly qualified graduates in
many scientific disciplines. As such, Fisk is excellently situated
to be instrumental in the national effort to increase the numbers
of African-Americans and women in computer science. The purpose of
this project is to design a five-year plan for the development of
the human and technological infrastructure necessary for Fisk to be
a national model for the attraction and retention of female and
African-American computer science students. To attain this goal
Bellin and Monroe of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State
University recommend that three main program components be
addressed: recruiting, mentoring and graduate study (Computing
Research News, Jan. 95). Instead of targeting isolated aspects of
the student experience, a broad strategy that manages all stages of
student progress from high school to professional career is
proposed. Recruitment is addressed by outreach and bridge programs,
and expanded computer science specific recruitment efforts.
Retention strategies include scholarships and mentoring at all
levels. The establishment of a graduate degree program and
under-graduate research programs is an integral part of the plan.
The enhanced infrastructure supports the expansion of faculty
research programs which are the basis for student research
activities.

CDA-9417659
$212,046-12 mos.
Espinosa, Ramon
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
Development of a Computer Engineering Research Environment at the
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

The ECE Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez has
a tradition of producing highly qualified Computer Engineering
graduates with the necessary skills, knowledge, and expertise to
succeed in either graduate school of the industrial environment.
Involving undergraduates students in research as; increased their
enthusiasm and interest in their studies, provided them with
additional knowledge and experience, increased their employment
opportunities, and motivated them towards graduate school. Besides
continuing this successful undergraduate research program, the
major goal of this project is to develop the research environment
needed to start a Ph.D. program in Computer Engineering and to
increase minority participation in graduate school and research. To
maintain an excellent research environment and to accomplish the
CISE II-MI program's goal of increasing minority participation the
following activities are planned:

- to create a proposal during the first two years to establish a
Ph.D. program in collaboration with the Mathematics Departments of
the Rio Piedras and Mayaguez Campuses:

- establish a plan to retain and increase minority participation;
conduct research and establish a productivity plan for researchers;

- establish a plan for faculty development;

- acquire new research equipment; and
 
- establish a Computer Engineering Center to administer and
coordinate the proposed activities

CDA-9522079
$240,763-12 mos.
Giguette, Marguerite
Xavier University
Minority Institutions Infrastructure: Furthering the Goal of
Increasing the Number of Minority Undergraduates and Graduates

This award provides support for a comprehensive program that will
make substantial infrastructure changes to the computer science and
related disciplines at Xavier University. The goals of the program
are 1) to increase the number of majors in CISE disciplines by 50%,
2) to increase the number of CISE majors who go to graduate school
by 100%, and 3) to expand the research activities of all of the
CISE students and faculty. These goals will be addressed by
revising and significantly expanding the current summer outreach
programs, expanding the undergraduate research and mentoring
programs, and establishing new teaching and research laboratories.
This project builds on the very successful similar efforts in the
health sciences at Xavier. It is anticipated that comparable
results can be achieved in the computing disciplines as well and
that the model developed in this project has the potential to
become a national model for minority student success at other
similar institutions.

CDA-9313299
$249,823-12 mos.
Harmon, Marion
Florida A&M University
Institutional Infrastructure Minority Institutions Program:
Software Engineering Research and Education Laboratory

This award provides infrastructure support for the development of
research and educational activities in the area of software
engineering in the Department of Computer Information Systems at
Florida A&M University. Included in the program is a research
productivity enhancement component, a computer facilities
enhancement component, an instructional program enhancement
component, and a student success assurance component. The program
will improve the research productivity and instruction
effectiveness of the department resulting in an increase in the
number of minority students entering graduate programs and the
computer science field.

CDA-9633299
$297,621-12 mos.
Hiromoto, Robert
University of Texas @ San Antonio
CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure: Building an Academic
Pipeline for Minority Scholars

This project builds a pipeline of minority students, focusing on
the retention of qualified undergraduate and graduate students by
appropriate financial support and mentoring activities. The goal is
to involve students directly in ongoing faculty research projects
and thus prepare them for graduate studies and research programs.
Graduate minority students involved in the program will help
faculty in mentoring undergraduates, in addition to their own
studies and research obligations. The project encompasses two main
thrust designed to improve the pipeline of minority students
prepared for graduate programs. The first goal is to aggressively
recruit and develop minority students interested in computer
science by providing preparatory training, tutoring, and mentoring
at the pre-college and lower-division undergraduate levels. The
second goal is to provide upper-division and graduate students with
funding support and increased involvement in faculty research in
order to improve minority retention and graduate enrollment.

Students will be involved in faculty research within five important
areas:

1)   parallel and distributed algorithm design for applications in
high-performance scientific computing;

2)   software visualization, and program execution monitoring;

3)   parallel compiler technology;

4)   network routing and scheduling algorithms;

5)   parallel and distributed simulation techniques.

CDA-9633155
$29,715-12 mos.
Karant, Yasha J.
California State University-San Bernadino (CSUSB)
CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure: Infrastructure
Improvement to Increase Access for Minorities to CISE Career

The purpose of this NSF CISE MII planning grant proposal is to
provide minority students enrolled in the CISE disciplines of
Computer and Information Science at California State University,
San Bernadino (CSUSB), with facilities to pursue careers in the
CISE fields. To achieve this goal, this planning grant will develop
an NSF MII proposal and integrate the NSF funding with existing and
newly developed funding sources necessary for the proposed quality
instruction and improved minority opportunities. Thee funding
sources involve vendor participation and support, including
minority owned small business vendors. A number of specific
strategic program areas have been identified: improved minority
recruitment and retention into the CISE disciplines, using both the
pool of students at CSUSB and recruitment of otherwise unsupported
minority students; upgrades and innovations in curriculum to
produce minority graduates with both an industrial and an advanced
degree path open to them; establishment of facilities to teach
modern data communications; measures to address the problems faced
by minority students with physical disabilities; means to improve
minority student access to facilities from remote (home) sites;
and, upgrades to general infrastructure in terms of computers and
communications to support these programs

CDA-9417362
$134,773-12 mos.
Moreno, Oscar
University of Puerto Rico
Infrastructure for Computer Science Research in Puerto Rico

The Mathematics (and Computer Science) Department of the University
of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras has an excellent record of research
accomplishments in the areas of computational and computer science,
while the ECE Department at Mayaguez has been producing highly
qualified students in the areas of computer engineering. It is
expected that the collaboration of these two departments through
faculty and student encounters will provide a research environment
to substantially increase the number and quality of students. The
major goal of this project is thus develop the research environment
needed to start a PhD program n Computer Science and to increase
minority participation in graduate school and research. To maintain
an excellent research environment and to accomplish the CISE II-MI
program's goal of increasing minority participation in the
following activities are planned.
     
- to create a proposal during the first two years to establish
a PhD program in collaboration with the Mathematics and ECE
Departments of the Mayaguez Campus;
     
- establish a plan to retain and increase minority
participation; conduct research and establish a productivity plan
for researchers;
     
- establish a plan for faculty development;

- acquire new research equipment; and
     
- establish and strengthen a Computer Science program.

CDA-9633177
$50,000-12 mos.
Larason, Katherine S.
Navajo Community College
CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure: Computer Information
Systems Programs for The Navajo Nation

The goal of the project is to update and expand a two-year
computing curricula and courses for Navajo students based on
regional employment needs, students' educational experience, and
recommendations of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Governmental, educational, health services, and private employers
in the Four Corners region will be surveyed to assess current and
projected needs for information science employees. Survey results
will be presented to high school and college information science
educators and employers at a Tsaile meeting. The CS and CIS
programs at Navajo Community College will be modified and
expanded-based on survey findings, recommendations from the
meeting, and ACM suggested curricula for two-year programs in
computing-to better prepare Navajo students for further education
or to find employment in the information industry. The project is
significant for several reasons, such as: including the first
survey of information science employment ever done in this area;
establishing communications among high school and college computing
educators, and employers that do not currently exist; and,
enhancing students' educational and employment prospects.

CDA-9633675
$343,000-12 mos.
Narang, Hira
Tuskegee University
CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure: The Establishment of
Infrastructure for High Performance Computing Program (HPCP) for
Teaching and Research at Tuskegee

This minority institution infrastructure grant proposes to
establish research infrastructure in High Performance Computing
(HPC) involving students and faculty of Tuskegee University with
scientists and researchers of Oak Ridge and Argonne National
Laboratories. To sustain and invigorate the proposed research
infrastructure, three supportive components are proposed: -
Computing Facilities Component - Education and Training Component,
and - Summer Programs Component. The computing facilities component
proposes to provide the high performance computing facilities
consisting of workstations and high-end PCs, as well as necessary
software tools, to support both appreciative and fundamental
research in high performance computing. The Education and Training
component proposes to develop students and faculty interests and
skills in high performance computing methodology through structured
courses, seminars, workshops, and hands-on training in the usage of
high performance computing machinery at national laboratories. The
Summer Programs Components envisages bringing high school students,
from 9th through 12th grade levels in varying periods of summer,
and train them in problem solving as well as Internet access and
multi-media applications. The additional objective of this
component is to intensively involve undergraduate, graduate
students and, faculty in high performance computing research
through summer programs at national labs.

CDA-9417390
$232,025-12 mos.
Van Cleave, Nancy
Fond du Lac Tribal College
A Cooperative Learning Environment that Fosters the Pursuit of
Scientific Careers for American Indians

This project proposes to significantly increase the number of
American Indian students attaining four year and graduate degrees
in computer science and engineering, FDLTCC and Fond du Lac Ojibwe
School (a tribal K-12 institution) will hold summer camps for
American Indian youth in grades 5-8, and bridge-to-college camps
for grades 9-12, to study interesting, engaging computer science
activities and application. They shall also study traditional
Native American view of the world-not to abandon standard Western
scientific methods, but to examine fresh approaches to problem
solving. FDLTCC will create a lower division computer science
program designed specifically to support and encourage American
Indian students through successful transfer to a four year
institution to complete their upper division CISE studies. Formal
mentoring and curriculum designed to encourage performance in a
cooperative manner will characterize the tribal college program.
This model, cultivating interest in CISE work among American Indian
youth, supporting the bridge from K-12 schools to the tribal
college, strongly supporting American Indian students in lower
division CISE studies, and supporting students through transfer to
high quality four year computer science programs, is designed to be
attractive and applicable to tribal K-12 schools and colleges
governed by sovereign tribal nations which are the key education
providers for American Indian youth living on or near tribal lands.

CDA-9612513
$ 49,929-12 mos.
Vasquez, Ramon
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Special Project: A Proposal for Assistance in Attending: ADMI
'96-Building for the Future: The Symposium on Computing at Minority
Institutions

This grant provided travel assistance for faculty and students from
minority institutions to participate in the 1996 ADMI Symposium.
The 1996 Symposium incorporated major new themes:

1)   to enable minority faculty to present papers on strategies for
increasing the number of CISE-discipline students from
underrepresented populations and to share these topics with
representatives from major research universities and,

2)   to provide for inclusion of student participants, giving them
valuable experience in presenting research papers and providing for
their participation in graduate study workshops.
Participants were chosen by a selection committee following
submission of their papers. A conference proceedings is being
published containing all of the papers presented at the conference.

CISE Educational Innovation Program

CDA-9643311
$44,742-0 mos.
Cartwright, Robert S.
William Marsh Rice University
CISE Educational Innovation Supplement: Can We Unify the
Programming Curriculum?

This project will provide partial support for an investigator from
an EI project at another institution to participate in the CISE
Educational Innovation project at Rice University. The EI project
at Rice is designed to develop curricular materials for a pair of
related introductory courses in computer science. The first course
introduces students to an algebraic programming language and to the
design principles of programming. The second course introduces
students to languages that grew out of a hardware-oriented view of
computation, e.g. C, C++, and Java. The results of the overall
project will consist of courseware including, in particular,
lecture notes, problems sets, and programming environments. The
work at the second institution involves the use of functional
languages and development of a platform-independent programming
environment and tools. Support from this supplemental award allows
the two sets of EI investigators to work together to enhance both
projects, to exchange tools and teaching philosophies and to study
ways to expand the transfer of research results to secondary and
primary schools.

CDA-9642026
$12,250-0 mos.
Cushing, Judith B.
Evergreen State College
CISE Educational Innovation Supplement: Integrating Computer
Science Research Results Into an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate
Curriculum

This supplement provides funds to support an expansion of the
number of attendees and to support enhancements of the summer
workshop sponsored by Evergreen State College in connection with
their CISE Educational Infrastructure award. The project is
designed to integrate into the undergraduate curricula at Evergreen
State recent research results in a number of important research
areas being carried out at Oregon Graduate Institute, a partner in
the project. These curricular innovations target non-PhD granting
institutions and the workshop will involve representatives from
such institutions throughout the Northwest.

CDA-9634485
$349,664-0 mos.
Glinert, Ephraim
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
CISE Educational Innovation: A Distributed Collaborative Learning
Environment for Effective Intellectual Teamwork Across the
Curriculum.

This CISE Educational Innovation award supports the integration of
research into the undergraduate curriculum through the development
of a Distributed Collaborative Learning Environment (DCLE), a
hybrid physical and electronic space which will enable teams of
students to meet and learn in flexible configurations, across the
computer science curriculum. The project will include development
and delivery of courses that exploit the new capabilities, formal
assessment of the effectiveness of the new learning environment,
and wide dissemination of concepts, architecture, and prototype
systems developed. In the DCLE environment, the students comprising
a team may be in one room, even seated around the same table. At
other times, they may be seated around two or more tables, or some
may be located elsewhere on campus (even geographically remote).
Whatever the physical layout may be, each student's computer is
linked to those of all other teammates, and innovative system
software provides powerful support for collaborative information
development, sharing and exchange, through a variety of flexible
and natural interfaces suited to the task and the individual user.
This project is part of an overall effort jointly supported by the
Office of Cross-Disciplinary Activities (CDA) in CISE and the
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) in EHR with the DUE
funding supporting an emphasis on distance learning, utilizing the
developed DCLE in a virtual classroom and with instruction
delivered on an experimental basis from University of
California/Davis to Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.

CDA-9642829
$14,490-0 mos.
Haynes, Christopher
Indiana University, Bloomington
Educational Supplement: Tools and Techniques for Use of the Scheme
Programming Language in Undergraduate Education

Indiana University received a CISE Educational Infrastructure award
in FY93 to develop software and curricular materials to support a
dialect of the Scheme Programming language in undergraduate
computer science courses. The project is being conducted in
collaboration with Oberlin College. Both institutions are using
functional languages within the undergraduate curriculum. Indiana
University is developing a platform-independent programming
environment and tools. Oberlin College is focusing on improving
introductory courses using formal methods and static typing. In the
summer of 1996, as critical components of the dissemination process
for this award, five one-week workshops are scheduled. This award
provides supplemental funding to support an experienced faculty
member for one-month to teach in these workshops and to further
refine the materials that the project has developed in support of
the use of Scheme in introductory courses.

CDA-9641632
$43,725-0 mos.
Jones, Rhys P.
Oberlin College
Educational Supplement: CISE: Enhancement of the Introductory
Computer Science Curriculum

This project will provide partial support for a postdoctoral
position so as to reappoint an experienced, qualified individual to
continue critical work under this Educational Infrastructure grant,
originally awarded in 1993. The overall project is designed to
significantly enhance the undergraduate curriculum with the
introduction of materials from programming language research.
Support from this award allows the Postdoctoral Associate to
continue his work on the project and to teach classes otherwise
assigned to the PIs. The three researchers (the two PIs and the
Postdoctoral Associate) will then each devote effectively 1/3 FTE
to the Educational Innovation project as it moves through its
critical dissemination and evaluation phases. The work will involve
setting up websites with materials for instructors at other
institutions to use, along with provisions for easily downloading
the software and instructional materials.

CDA-9634425
$199,023-12 mos.
Long, Tim
Ohio State University
West Virginia University
CISE Educational Innovation: Development and Dissemination of a New
Undergraduate Course Sequence in Software Design and Development

This CISE Educational Innovation award supports the integration of
research into the undergraduate curriculum through the development
and dissemination of a new sequence in software design and
development. The project is a joint effort between Ohio State
University and West Virginia University, with OSU as the lead
institution. The project involves the design, development,
installation, and evaluation of an innovative three-quarter
sequence in software design and development. The sequence is
integrated and unified in its philosophical and technical bases. A
major part of the effort includes the development of a software
composition workbench consisting of an integrated set of software
tools. The workbench will be capable of guiding students and
software developers in their application of the methodologies
taught in the course sequence and it will instill in software
developers a particular mental model of software and how to
construct it. Dissemination will be facilitated through training
workshops for visiting faculty from a number of other institutions.
The total project is supported in part also by the Fund for
Improvement of Secondary Education (FIPSE) in the Department of
Education.

CDA-9634470
$391,565-12 mos.
Ranka, Sanjay
University of Florida
CISE Educational Innovation: Mainstreaming Parallel and Distributed
Computing in the Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum

This CISE Educational Innovation project incorporates the latest
research in parallel and distributed computing into core courses in
the undergraduate computer science curriculum. It introduces
students to important concepts in these areas and demonstrates both
theoretically and practically their usefulness in a wide variety of
application areas. The basic parallel and distributed computing
concepts are integrated into several existing courses including
those on simulation, computer vision, operating systems, numerical
analysis and databases. Investigators from Research Centers at the
University, including the centers on Database Systems, Computer
Vision and Visualization, Software Engineering, and Parallel
Computing are involved in this Educational Innovation Project.

CDA-9643310
$13,578-0 mos.
Smith, Jonathan
University of Pennsylvania
CISE Educational Innovation Supplement: TeleMentoring A Novel
Approach To Teaching Undergraduate Computer Scientists

This project provided funds for acquisition of special hardware
items under this Educational Infrastructure grant, originally
awarded in 1992. The EI project utilizes the unique Bellcore Video
Window as a means of teaching undergraduate computer science
laboratory courses and to develop TeleMentoring as a distance
learning technique. The Video Window was used in research projects
by members of the AURORA Gigabit Testbed and experimental prototype
custom hardware elements were utilized as part of the system. The
units acquired under this award will allow the project to attach
the Video Window to newly installed commercial ATM equipment, to
replace the failing experimental prototypes and hence to preserve
the educational value of the system.

CDA-9634462
$184,942-12 mos.
Vemuri, Ranganadha
University of Cincinnati
Innovation in VLSI Systems Education: Integration of High Level
Synthesis, Analysis and Test Generation Research Results into
Undergraduate Minor Curriculum in VLSI Systems Engineering

This CISE Educational Innovation award supports the integration of
research in high-level VLSI synthesis, performance analysis and
test vector generation into the undergraduate curriculum in VLSI
systems engineering. The model curriculum will contain topics on
the development of high-level functional and behavioral modeling of
VLSI designs, use of high-level VLSI synthesis techniques and
tools, developing and using performance models throughout the
design process, and generation of design verification tests.
Curriculum support material will include mini-books on these
topics, term project modules, and, most importantly, free software
tools for high-level synthesis, performance analysis and test
generation. All of the curriculum material will disseminated
through the Internet and the World-Wide-Web.

CDA-9634333
$329,794-12 mos.
Wulf, William
University of Virginia
CISE Educational Innovation: Research Integration and Dissemination
for Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum.

This CISE Educational Innovation award supports the integration of
research into the undergraduate curriculum through the development
of three new upper division courses along with establishment of a
visiting faculty program and other working relationships with
institutions to enhance dissemination of the results of the
project. The new courses are in the areas of computer aided design,
usability engineering, and translation systems. Dissemination will
be accomplished through use of the World-Wide Web, through special
relationships with a selected set of diverse schools, and a
visiting faculty program in which individual faculty from other
institutions will be in residence at the University of Virginia
campus so as to become directly involved in the project and to then
transport the material back to their home institutions. Development
and dissemination of the new courses has the potential to impact
curricula widely.

CDA-9643438
$50,632-12 mos.
Zhang, Jianping
Utah State University
CISE Educational Innovation Supplement: Multimedia Computer-Based
Computer Literacy Courseware and ID Expert/CS-An Authoring System

This supplement supported a workshop in Salt Lake City, Utah , to
evaluate the effectiveness of projects supported by the CISE
Educational Innovation program, with a focus on dissemination
mechanisms and evaluation methods. The workshop was held in
conjunction with the Frontiers in Education Conference, a major
annual conference sponsored by the ASEE, the IEEE Education Society
and the IEEE Computer Society, with some of the EI workshop
participants also making presentations at the FIE Conference.
Participants in the workshop were principal investigators of funded
EI projects, two invited experts in project dissemination and
evaluation, and selected NSF staff. A workshop report contains
summaries of the funded EI projects, analysis of the dissemination
and, evaluation mechanisms that have been used and are planned and,
includes lessons learned that can be applied to future projects.

CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies

CDA-9616373
$237,298-12 mos.
Bailey, Diane
University of Southern California
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies:

Taming the Complexities of Modern Manufacturing: A Network Enabled
Virtual Factory to Support the Exploration and Learning in
Engineering Education: The University of Southern California has
been awarded a 1-year grant of $237,298 to start on the development
of a virtual factory on the World Wide Web to present manufacturing
complexities in an understandable form for university engineering
students. University instructors will use the workspace to
illustrate the concepts of factors management in a realistic
setting, and students will assume roles of various factory
personnel in small team settings. Student teams may span
institutional boundaries thus allowing information-sharing among
students and professors at a number of institutions.

CDA-9616563
$50,000-12 mos.
Campbell, Thomas
Bell High School
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies
Program

Project Technovision X-33, Planning Year: The Los Angeles Unified
School District has been awarded funding in the amount of $50,000
for a period of 12 months for a planning grant to study the effect
of access to technology on the education of a traditionally
underrepresented, culturally and linguistically undeserved
student/parent population. The proposed research will lead to the
formation of policy and curricular changes which will significantly
affect education in urban, low-income communities into the
twenty-first century. The project will involve the collaboration of
many different entities: K-12, teachers and administrators;
university researchers and professors; governmental organizations;
and private businesses. During this planning year, approximately 15
specific collaboratively development projects will be tested for
feasibility and eventual implementation. Data and analyses gathered
from these projects will be disseminated widely, using the full
resources of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

CDA-9616410
$50,000-06 mos.
Carraher, David
TERC, Inc.
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies
Visualization Research Center TERC, Inc. has been awarded $50,000
for a 6-month period to plan a research Center for the study of
scientific and mathematical visualization.

The goals of the center are:

(1) to undertake interdisciplinary empirical research on the
technological development and cognitive interpretation of
visualization technologies; and

(2) to improve K-12 math and science education by creating
innovative visual curricular tools and

(3) to contribute toward a new conceptual framework on the role of
visualization in learning and understanding mathematics and
science.

To promote a broad understanding of visualization as historically,
culturally, and psychologically grounded, the Visualization
Research Center will draw upon expertise not only from the natural
and mathematical sciences but also from the humanities and social
sciences. Partnerships are being established with the National
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Media Lab, the CalSpace at University of California-San
Diego, Pennsylvania State University, the Boston University Medical
Center Hospital, and the Cranbrook Institute, among others.

CDA-9616991
$50,000-06 mos.
Cole, Ronald
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology
Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies: Conceptualization
of a Flagship Center for Collaborative Research in Learning and
Human Language Technologies

The Oregon Graduate Institute has been awarded funding in the
amount of $50,000 for a period of 06 months to plan a NSF Flagship
Center for Collaborative Research on Learning and Human Language
Technologies. The mission of the proposed Center is to support
basic research on the use of human language technology to create
better tools and strategies for learning. Areas of research and
tool development will include using speech as an input modality in
computer assisted learning; speech training for second language
learning or articulation training; speech as a primary input
modality for physically challenged individuals; and speech as a
context for learning about other things.

CDA-9616441
$215,498-12 mos.
Dev, Pravati
Stanford University
Design-Based Learning of Vertebrate Biology, Comparative Anatomy
and Physiology of Virtual Creatures

Stanford University has been awarded $215,498 for a one-year
planning grant to help integrate pre-college education
implementation and research questions and strategies with an
ambitious program of developing advanced computer-based tools for
teaching biology at the secondary and undergraduate levels. Prior
efforts to create interactive virtual creatures have restricted
interaction to viewing selected structures. This project will
develop and evaluate for their educational efficacy a small library
of transitional creatures that will allow virtual dissection and
other simulated physical manipulations on a personal computer.

CDA-9616544
$50,000-12 mos.
Dubinsky, Ed
Georgia State University
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies
Program

Incorporating Computers and Group Work to Develop Effective and
Efficient Learning Experiences Georgia State University has been
awarded funding in the amount of $50,000 for a period of 12 months
to initiate a planning effort leading to the creation of a
collaborative research program to investigate the effects of using
an innovative instructional approach, called ACE Teaching Cycle, on
the learning of undergraduate mathematics in relatively large size
classes. The ACE Teaching Cycle is based on a cognitive theory of
learning and integrates activities of students: writing computer
programs and using the programs to represent mathematical concepts,
investigating mathematical phenomena using computer tools (both
constructed by the student and provided in the form of software
packages), and students working in cooperative groups.

CDA-9616992
$50,000-12 mos.
Evans, D. L.
Arizona State University
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies
Program: Planning Grant for Center for Collaborative Research in
Learning Technologies based at Arizona State University

Arizona State University has been awarded funding in the amount of
$50,000 for a 12 month planning grant for a Center to address the
rapid development of two types of delivery systems-integrated
software for science, engineering, and mathematics education use,
and technology improvements for distributed/distance education. The
desired outcomes are to enhance the quality and accessibility of
education at all academic levels, K-16, graduate, and extended
education. A key role of the Center will be to provide tools for
functioning as team and facilitation of team processing. Partners
in this planning project include Motorola, Intel, Cox
Communications, Peoples Choice, and the Foundation Coalition
Schools.

CDA-9616500
$50,000-08 mos.
Ewing, R.
Texas A&M University
Collaborative Research On Learning Technologies: A Center for
Collaborative Research in Learning Technologies-Planning Proposal

Texas A&M University has been awarded $50,000 for a period of 08
months to provide support for planning to develop a proposal for a
Center for Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies (CRLT)
at Texas A&M. The Center would serve as a major focal point for
on-going research projects, and would provide leadership and
administrative support for large scale collaborative projects
involving interdisciplinary teams of researchers and participants
from a multiplicity of locations and backgrounds. The Center would
also provide for the dissemination of research and newly developed
technologies, and serve as a link to the telecommunications and
other related hi-tech industries, working actively with private
industry to commercialize successful technologies for their
introduction into the classroom of the 21st century.

CDA-9616485
$50,000 -12 mos.
Fischer, Gerhard
University of Colorado
CRLT: Making Learning a Part of Life: Theories, Technologies,
Practices, and Assessment in Support of Lifelong Learning.

The University of Colorado has been awarded funding in the amount
of $50,000 for a period of 12 months to initiate a planning effort
to establish a CRLT Center focused on the theme "making learning a
part of life: theories technologies, practices, and assessment in
support of self-directed life long learning" The Center will build
on funded research in computer science, cognitive science,
psychology and education. The University of Colorado and its
extended community will function as a testbed for the development
and evaluation of learning technology tools and approaches. The
planning grant will allow current research approaches to be shaped
into specific activities that will comprise the collaborative
project of the Center.

Partners in this planning grant include MIT, University of
Colorado, University of California at Berkeley, University of
Wisconsin, Addison-Wesley Interactive, Apple Computer, and
Netscape.

CDA-9616478
$372,292-12 mos.
Fontana, Lynn
George Mason University
How Can an Information Environment Support Higher-Order Thinking
Skills in Science Education?

George Mason University has been awarded a 1-year grant of $372,292
to examine how emerging information technologies can be integrated
to create a learning environment that supports new approaches to
science instruction at the college and secondary school levels.
Basic research will address how to integrate effectively knowledge
about science instruction, higher-order skills acquisition,
instructional design, intelligent assessment, and computer
networks. A student-centered, interdisciplinary, problem-centered
and collaborative information environment to support teaching and
learning will be built and field-tested.

CDA-9616396
$49,945-12 mos.
Gilland-Swetland, Anne
University of California-Los Angeles
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies
Program

Digital Portfolio Archives in Learning: Modeling Primary Content
Transformation for Science Education The University of California,
Los Angeles has been awarded funding in the amount of $49,945 for
a 12 month planning grant to develop a process model that (1)
transforms primary sources into digital library content; (2) allows
teachers to build personalized information systems or "Digital
Portfolio Archives" (DPAs) that contain content and associated
descriptions derived from the digital library, together with other
relevant materials that teachers wish to incorporate; (3) enables
students to incorporate components of teachers' DPAs, and (4)
facilitates the optional incorporation of these DPAs back into the
digital library, but as a distinct layer of user-created content
distinguished to provenance. Content for the base digital library
will be drawn from the seven archival, manuscript, and museum
repositories at UCLA. The development and testing of the DPA
process model builds on the work of, and feeds into several
educational and technological initiatives underway at UCLA,
including cross-disciplinary collaborations with the Smithsonian
Institution, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Special
Collections at the UCLA University Research Library. This planning
grant will generate: (1) generalizable processes for structuring
digital libraries and enriching content descriptions that meet the
needs of primary content creators, providers, and non-traditional
users such as teachers and students; (2) knowledge of how teachers
might select primary content and integrate it into classroom
activities if it were digitally accessible; and (3) knowledge of
how digitized primary sources might contribute to the enhancement
of students' understanding of, and engagement in, the health and
natural sciences.

CDA-9616990
$684,260-24 mos.
Honey, Margaret
Education Development Center
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies:
The Portal Project

The Education Development Center, Inc. has been awarded $684,260
for a 24-month period to develop computational tools, with access
to World Wide Web resources, to support effective learning and
integration of computational processes with real-world research
problems. This software consists of a suite of computer-based,
Web-enabled programs for systematically documenting, examining, and
offering feedback on students' project work. The goals of the
project are: (1) to develop the Portal Tools; (2) to implement the
tools in up to 70 schools in five states; and (3) to evaluate the
impact of the tools on student learning, through case studies and
analysis of student presentations and process documents.

CDA-9616397
$50,110-12 mos.
Kolodner, Janet
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies
Program

A Design Education Center: Using Cognitive Science and Technology
to Facilitate Learning and Doing Design Georgia Tech has been
awarded funding in the amount of $50,110 for a period of 12 months
to initiate a planning effort to design a multi-institute,
multi-disciplinary, collaborative center to design, develop and
evaluate environments (both physical and virtual) for design
education at all education levels; to design, develop and evaluate
curricula, curriculum guidelines, and classroom practices for
learning and doing design. The center will serve as a research
center, a forum for issues in design education, a forum for teacher
and faculty development, and an agent for pragmatic dissemination
of the results of its research. Partners in this planning grant
include MIT, University of Colorado, University of California at
Berkeley, University of Wisconsin, Addison-Wesley Interactive,
Apple Computer, and Netscape.

CDA-9616611
$599,947-25 mos.
Kozma, Robert
SRI International
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies

Building Virtual Places for Collaborative Simulations: A
Heterogeneous Network Architecture to Support Distant Learning SRI
International has been awarded $599,947 over 25 months for an
effort to study collaborative learning within two learning
communities: undergraduate chemistry students and science teachers
involved in professional development. The results of the research
will be used to design and develop a network-based learning
environment that supports a range of asynchronous and synchronous
collaborative interaction among distributed teams on heterogeneous
platforms. The project will involve collaborations between social
scientists studying social and task environments in learning, and
computer scientists developing collaboration technologies that will
support these environments.

CDA-9616532
$589,701-36 mos.
Madigan, David
University of Washington
Use of On-Line Assessment in Forming and Coaching Learning Groups

University of Washington has been awarded a 3-year grant for
$589,701 to develop experimental software tools and methodologies
to support various on-line assessment activities in both the High
School environment and the University environment. Tools will be
developed that combine assessment functions with facilities to
translate results of assessment into meaningful interventions in
both physical and virtual classrooms. The facilities include means
of visualizing assessment of information for individual students
and groups, means for organizing groups of students for particular
activities, electronic mail exchanges, and means to help teachers
articulate pedagogical goals and progress within the contexts of
these groups. The project experimentation will focus in the subject
area of probability and statistics with the aim of enhancing the
productivity and effectiveness of teachers in guiding their student
groups in mastering the subject matter using Internet-based group
discussion.

CDA-9616445
$50,000-12 mos.
O'Keefe, Barbara J.
University of Illinois
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies
Program

National Center for Collaborative Research: The University of
Illinois, has been awarded $50,000 for a 12 month period to develop
the rationale and plan for establishing a virtual National Center
for Collaborative Research (NCCR) on Learning Technologies. The
proposed NCCR will perform multi-disciplinary research and
development in learning technologies. The activities of the
proposed center will be directed toward developing and evaluating
web-based learning technologies for application domains in which
the community of learners is relatively heterogeneous. These
application domains include learning in K-12 and College
environments, learning for industrial competitiveness, and learning
for health care and social services. Partners in this planning
grant include BBN, University of Arizona, Southern Illinois
University, and the University of Southern California

CDA-9616584
$50,000-12 mos.
Pea, Roy
SRI International
Center for the Integration of Learning Technologies

SRI International has been awarded a 1 year grant for $50,000 to
plan for a model center for collaborative research on learning
technology. This center will eventually address pressing issues in
the integration of research and education, train postdoctoral
scholars to work at the intersection of technology and instruction,
support a community-wide dialogue about the future of educational
technology, and develop or refine methodologies that enable this
work. Collaborative partners are SRI International, the University
of California at Berkeley, and Vanderbilt University. Teams will
share research approaches and findings in detail, identify
commonalties and differences in finding and approach, establish
priorities, and commission activities. During the planning year,
the team concept will be tried out and evaluated with initial
activation of one theme team. Planning year activities include also
the design of a system for continuous evaluation and refinement of
CRLT activities, development of a plan for postdoctoral
interdisciplinary research training, and the establishment of
linkages to leverage the intellectual and financial contributions
of other investigators and institutions, including university
scientists, school systems, industry scientists and groups, think
tanks, technology-based corporations and libraries. The World Wide
Web will be an integral part of the Center's communication and
dissemination activities.

CDA-9616444
$880,658-36 mos.
Resnick, Michael
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research Learning Technologies

Beyond Black Boxes: Bringing Transparency and Aesthetics back to
Scientific Instruments Massachusetts Institute of Technology has
been awarded $880,658 over 3 years for a collaborative project
between MIT, Wellesley College and the University of Colorado, to
develop computational tools and project materials to allow children
to create their own scientific instruments, engaging them in
designing and building, as well as in observing, measuring and
interpreting. It is hypothesized that more students, like
scientists of old, will be motivated to participate in scientific
activities, and in addition the design process will help them
develop critical capacities for evaluation. The project promises to
provide students with deeper understanding of the relationships
between science and technology, and between science and the real
world. The project will develop a family of tiny, fully
programmable computational devices (crickets) that students can
embed in everyday objects. Crickets can control motors and lights,
receive information from sensors and communicate with one another
via infrared light. The technologies will be evaluated in a range
of settings, including work with teachers in classrooms and a
vocational-technical school. In addition to testing their
hypothesis, the PI's will evaluate theoretical learning issues of
balance between physical and virtual objects, and between
"transparent" and "opaque" objects.

CDA-9616434
$50,000-12 mos.
Schank, Roger
Northwestern University
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies
Program

Technology Transfer and Development of Transferable Learning
Technology: A Center for Collaborative Research on Learning
Technologies Based at Northwestern University: Northwestern
University has been awarded funding in the amount of $50,000 for 12
months to plan an NSF Center for Collaborative Research on Learning
Technologies with the theme of "Technology Transfer and the
Development of Transferable Technology." The mission of the Center
will be two-fold. The infrastructure mission of the Center will be
to transfer learning technologies developed at Northwestern to
teachers, and content learning for applications to science,
mathematics, and technology education in schools, homes, and
workplaces. Its research mission, to be carried out collaboratively
with these teachers and content experts, will be to develop and
investigate tools and technologies for the design and
implementation of education software that truly are
transferable-i.e., tools and technologies that teachers and content
experts can really use, even if they are not expert programmers, to
develop new, high quality educational software applications that
meet the needs of their students in science, mathematics and
technology.

CDA-9616585
$149,318-12 mos.
Schlager, Mark
SRI International
CRLT: Tapped in MUVES to the Web: A Web-Aware Multi-User Virtual
Environment for Studying On-line Collaboration

SRI International has been awarded funding in the amount of
$149,318 for a period of 12 months. SRI and several San Francisco
Bay Area K-12 science professional development providers (six
Lawrence Hall of Science programs, Life Science Program, California
Science Project, and the Science Education of the Bay Area) will
jointly develop a new vision of on-line professional development
activities in a place where teachers with diverse interest, skills,
and backgrounds can meet and learn from one another on any given
day; where teachers can be exposed to not one but many education
reform concepts and approaches; where teachers can find quality
resources in minutes rather than hours; and add and annotate
resources that they find useful. The goals of this project are to
(a) scale up from prototype to implementation and (b) to conduct
the research needed to assess the utility of the concept and
technology and inform the development of future collaborative
on-line learning communities.

CDA-9616564
$50,000-12 mos.
Semper, Robert
Exploratorium
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies
Program

Toward the Development of a Center for Collaborative Research on
Learning Technologies: The Exploratorium in San Francisco,
California has been awarded funding in the amount of $50,000 for a
period of 12 months to initiate a planning effort leading to the
creation of a Center for Collaborative Research on Learning
Technologies. The Center will draw upon the efforts and expertise
of a wide ranging group of San Francisco Bay Area participants from
industry, research, and education to formulate powerful responses
to challenges and opportunities in science, mathematics,
engineering and technology education. During the proposed planning
period, the Center will initiate reexamination of the basic methods
and practices of these fields in light of the pedagogical potential
to newly developing learning technologies. At the heart of the
Center's activities will be a set of carefully selected projects
that address major educational challenges and opportunities. The
Center is particularly interested in projects that focus on the
convergence of new hybrid technically-augmented learning
spaces/situations and new pedagogical theory. By focusing efforts
on a specific problem or content area of sufficiently wide interest
to the fields, the Center will be able to identify core issues for
education as a whole; and thus be able to design generalizable
research strategies. It is anticipated that important work will be
undertaken by members from primary and secondary school system and
by informal education (such as directors of public libraries or
broadcasting groups) of different kinds.

CDA-9616565
$858,545-36 mos.
Stanley, Eugene
Boston University
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies

Teacher Researcher Collaboration in Scientific Modeling: The High
School Science Virtual Machine Laboratory Boston University has
been awarded $858,545 to establish over 3 years an approach to high
school science education by allowing students to model and
visualize physical, chemical and biological phenomena of increasing
complexity. The project will take advantage of two advances in
technology: One is the emergence of JAVA, a platform independent
language that enables transmission of applications over the WEB to
run locally on any platform. The other is the existence of public
domain versions of distributed parallel computing operating
systems. One such system, PVM, will be used and modified to enable
students to use many computers in a school as a larger parallel
computer. The tools and applications will be used by the
researchers and teams of high school teachers to develop
education-oriented modeling programs that do not sacrifice needed
functionality or sophistication.

CDA-9616499
$298,698-12 mos.
Walters, Jim
Maricopa Technical Community College
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS: Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies:
Community-Based Learning Systems: Exploring Models in Use.

Maricopa Technical Community College has been awarded $298,698 for
a 1 year planning project that will use the motivational and social
learning potential of Multiple User Design environments (MUDs or
MUSEs) in conjunction with computational modeling to help students
develop conceptual understanding of scientific concepts. The social
characteristics of MUDs, which students construct themselves, bring
students into environments where they interact with adult mentors,
including teachers, who expand student's horizons. While engaging
in their current state, MUDs can be transformed into powerful
pedagogical spaces. This planning project will develop the
technological aspects of MUDs to integrate computational modeling,
and define specific pedagogical goals, building on the work of Mari
Muse with Longview Elementary School, a Title K-6 school, serving
a culturally diverse population of students. The project is a
collaboration of Longview Elementary, Phoenix College (part of
Maricopa Community College District, and Xerox Parc Alto Research
Center.

CDA-9616436
$50,000-12 mos.
Woolf, Beverly Park
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research On Learning Technologies
Program

A Center for Intelligent Multimedia Instructional Systems: The
University of Massachusetts, Amherst has been awarded funding in
the amount of $50,000 for 12 months to plan a Center for
Intelligent, Multimedia Tutoring Systems (IMTS) for science,
mathematics, engineering and technology education in higher
education and for life-long learning. ITMSs combine the power of
visualization and animation with the student modeling capabilities
of intelligent tutors to produce interactive learning environments
that are highly effective for conveying complex, dynamic processes.
The Center plan will incorporate studies of many existing ITMSs,
including a number of systems developed at the University of
Massachusetts. This particular corpus of work, combined with new
systems that the University has pledged to develop, provides both
an accumulated body of experience in IMTS development and an
opportunity to submit many of them to the kind of laboratory
analysis that will offer new educational insights into their
effectiveness.

Academic Research Infrastructure

CDA-9601787
$0-24 mos.
Adeyemi, Hazekiah
Clark Atlanta University
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $250,000)
Total Award $250,000

Academic Research Infrastructure: Acquisition of Instrumentation to
Provide Scientific and Data Visualization Capability at Clark
Atlanta University

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of a high end visualization computer. The research
projects supported by this instrumentation include:

1.   Research in the Geographic Information Systems laboratory
including health risk assessment, GIS DB improvement, and 3-D
Virtual GIS.

2.   Research on the synergy of Design, Simulation, and
Visualization in Engineering.

CDA-9601602
$0-36 mos.
Bergeron, R. Daniel
University of New Hampshire
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $475,859)
Total Award $475,859
Academic Research Infrastructure: Laboratory for Advanced
Communications Systems

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of high speed networking equipment including wireless
and wired networking infrastructure and switches. The research
projects supported by this instrumentation include research on
local electromagnetic field characterization, testing tools for
wireless local area data communications standards, model-based
network diagnosis, implementation and evaluation of algorithms for
ATM Quality of Service policies, and the design, implementation and
evaluation of data parallel I/O using high speed networks and
heterogeneous workstations.

CDA-9601632
$0-24 mos.
Bramley, Randall
Indiana University
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $1,204,208)
Total Award $1,204,208
Academic Research Infrastructure: Acquisition of a Distributed
Computation and Immersive Visualization Environment for Complex
Systems

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of a high speed SMD computing system operating at a
peak speed of approximately 15 GFLops. The research projects
supported by the equipment include:

1.   The computational study of gravitational instabilities in
realistic protostellar disks.

2.   The computational study of collisional stellar systems.

3.   Gravitational lensing.

4.   Schrodinger equations for molecules.

5.   Sedimentary basin and whole planet evolution modeling.

6.   Quantum chromodynamics.

7.   Global illumination simulations of complete, large scale
structures (bridges, etc.).

CDA-9601802
$0-24 mos.
Cuny, Janice E.
University of Oregon
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $444,000)
Total Award $444,000
Academic Research Infrastructure: Collaborative Research Between
Geological Sciences, Astrophysics, and Computer Science:
Infrastructure Support for a Visualization Laboratory

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
development of high speed computational, networking, and graphics
facility. The research projects supported by the facility include:

1.   Geophysical studies of mid-ocean ridges.

2.   Kinematic and dynamic modeling of the deformation of the
western United States lithosphere.

3.   Geological and environmental fluid mechanics.

4.   Characterization of fault rupture and the recurrence behavior
of large earthquakes: and

5.   Retrieving and processing observational astrophysical data by
representing it as a virtual N-dimensional universe.

CDA-9601670
$0-36 mos.
Garcia, Oscar N.
Wright State University
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $241,314)
Total Award $241,314
Academic Research Infrastructure: Development of Specialized
Communications and Terminal Equipment for Research in Information
Technology and Education Technology

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of a ]networked human factors experimental facility.
The projects supported by this equipment include:

1.   Multimodal human-computer dialogue.

2.   Computer sensor instrumentation and their integration.

3.   Accessibility to large multimodal databases by novel query
methodologies.

4.   Experimentation with various virtual environments in
collaboration with psychologists and educational researchers.

5.   Experimentation and development of software engineering
environments to support human-computer interaction software
development and usability assessment.

CDA-9601861
$0-36 mos.
Hollebeek, Robert
University of Pennsylvania
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $2,000,000)
Total Award $2,000,000
Academic Research Infrastructure: Development of a Wide Area
Scaleable Infrastructure for Data Intensive Computing: Consortium
Proposal

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of equipment to enhance the National Scaleable Cluster
Project. The equipment will be sited at 3 universities to further
the development of a national meta computing center. The equipment
consists of large fast disk arrays, high performance computer
cluster enhancements, ATM network switches to OC-12 capabilities,
network connections, and associated software. The research projects
supported by the equipment include:

1.   Applications computing that is data intensive including data
mining of particle physics data, digital library development of the
linguistics data consortium, digital library development of
astrophysics, gravitational lenses data maps, galactic large
structure simulations, and the development of numerical and
statistical digital libraries.

2.   Real time computing applications including collecting reduced
astronomical data, medical imaging, and telepresence.

3.   Parallel compute intensive applications including liquid
crystal imaging, phase transition simulations, crystal surface
computational studies, and vortex flow studies.

4.   High speed network research including network striping and the
inclusion of tertiary store in high performance memory hierarchies.

5.   Computer science research on scaleable object stores, research
on caching, transforming, and replicating data, and software tools
for cluster management.

CDA-9601519
$0-12 mos.
Kraimeche, Belkacem
Cooper Union
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $193,000)
Total Award $193,000
Academic Research Infrastructure: Acquisition of an Automated VLSI
Test Facility

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of an automated VLSI testing facility to support
research in VLSI design and test engineering. The research projects
supported by the equipment include ATM switching fabric designs for
VLSI implementation, Systolic Array implementations of CODECs using
innovative coding algorithms, and speech coding for wireless
communications implemented in VLSI circuits.

CDA-9601874
$0-36 mos.
Kriz, Ronald
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $850,000)
Total Award $850,000
Academic Research Infrastructure: Acquisition of a CAVE: Breaking
Research and Education Barriers by Developing 3-D Visualization
CAVE Technology

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of a virtual environment laboratory incorporating the
CAVE Immersive virtual reality system. The projects supported by
this equipment include:

1.   User interfaces using Immersive VR.

2.   Visualization of scientific phenomena.

3.   Molecular modeling applications.

4.   General research on human centered systems enabled by
Immersive virtual reality.

CDA-9601580
$0-12 mos.
Loh, Eugene C.
University of Utah
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $1,000,000)
Total Award $1,000,000
Academic Research Infrastructure: The Purchase of a Scaleable
Parallel Computer to Complete the High End Computing Infrastructure

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of a high speed SMD computing systems operating at a
peak speed of approximately 15 GFLops. The research projects
supported by the equipment include:

1.   Astrophysics research in simulation of cosmic ray cascades.

2.   Numerical simulations of strong nuclear interactions.

3.   Molecular structure simulations.

4.   Quantum chemistry.

5.   Applied seismology.

6.   Advanced materials including nanostructures and electronic
properties of solids.

7.   Atmospheric physics.

CDA-9601692
$0-24 mos.
Mediavilla, Ricardo
Inter American University of Puerto Rico Bayamon Campus
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $108,258)
Total Award $108,258
Academic Research Infrastructure: Development of Automatic Test
Station for Network Synchronization Performance Characterization

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
development of an automatic test station for synchronization
characterization of telecommunications networks. The research
projects supported by the award include:

1.   The development of the test station.

2.   Development of software for the generation of test signals and
for the user interface.

3.   Research on better synchronization in synchronous optical
networks.

CDA-9601675
$0-36 mos.
Reddy, A.L. Narasimha
Texas A&M University
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $127,450)
Total Award $127,450
Academic Research Infrastructure: Development of a Novel Systems
Software for Multimedia and High Performance Computing

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
development of a distributed network of workstation for multi-media
research. The research projects supported by the award include
video server applications, distributed circuit simulation, test
generation, and device level multimedia scheduling.

CDA-9601804
$0-24 mos.
Scholtz, Robert A.
University of Southern California
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $403,852)
(and Engineering $100) Total award $403,952
Academic Research Infrastructure: Acquisition of Instrumentation
for Testing of Ultra-Wideband Wireless and Wired Communications and
Design of Enabling Instruments

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of very high speed analysis and test equipment for
research on high speed communication networks. The research
projects supported by the equipment are:

1.   The design and implementation of ultra-wideband wireless and
wired computer network systems.

2.   An experimental research project on the design of an impulse
radio wireless network for Ghz bandwidth base stations.

3.   A research program in ultra high-speed circuit and test
fixturing.

CDA-9601655
$0-12 mos.
Schwartz, Jacob E.
New York University
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $578,878 12
mos.) Total Award $578,878
Academic Research Infrastructure: Instrumentation Acquisition for
Improvisational Animation Research and Training

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supported by the
facility include:

1.   Communication (simulated conferences, shared virtual worlds).

2.   Education (computer guides and instructors, large-scale
simulations), and

3.   Entertainment (synthetic performance, role playing games).
This research seeks to bring human participation more fully into a
virtual environment.

CDA-9601737
$0-12 mos.
Scott , T. Gordon
Jarvis Christian College
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $50,600)
Total Award $50,600
Academic Research Infrastructure: Jarvis Christian College Science
Research Training Equipment Acquisition

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of computer and laboratory equipment for computer
modeling and environmental science. The research projects supported
by the award include faculty and undergraduate research on
molecular synthesis, environmental science, and molecular modeling.

CDA-9601603
$0-36 mos.
Shapiro, Steven S.
Guilford College
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $85,500)
Total Award $85,500
Academic Research Infrastructure: Acquisition of Computation and
Visualization Tools for Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Research
Training of Undergraduates in Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology and
Physics.

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of computation and visualization workstations. The
workstations are to be used for faculty and undergraduate research
in computational science. The research projects supported by the
equipment include projects on astronomy and chemistry using
spectral studies of galactic clouds; geology and physics using
predictive techniques to determine mantle viscosity from rebound
effects of the glacial age-this research also will involve GIS
access and use; interdisciplinary research involving novel uses of
computational visualization.

CDA-9601797
$0-24 mos.
Shephard, Mark
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $850,000)
Total Award $850,000
Academic Research Infrastructure: Developmet of a Distributed
High-Performance Computing Environment for Research in Science and
Engineering

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of a high speed network and high speed computational
workstations to build a high performance distributed computing
environment. The research projects supported by the equipment
include:

1.   Development of distributed parallel processing techniques for
scientific computations.

2.   Application of distributed parallel computing to support
research in the areas of material processing, multiscale failure
analysis, and multiphase flows.

3.   Development and application of virtual reality techniques to
investigate the results of large scale simulations and to
interactively steer the simulations.

4.   Research, development, and evaluation of student mobile
computing for delivery of anywhere, anytime instruction.

5.   Research and development in advanced networking, and the
development of an ATM-based network to support all facets of this
program.

CDA-9601954
$0-36 mos.
Sugar, Robert
University of California-Santa Barbara
(Funded by Office of Science and Technology Information $627,392)
Total award $627,392
Academic Research Infrastructure: Acquisition of a High-Performance
Computing Facility

This Academic Research Infrastructure award supports the
acquisition of a high speed SMD computing system operating at a
peak speed of approximately 15 GFLops. The research projects
supported by the equipment include:

1.   Computational materials science in the NSF funded Materials
Research Laboratory.

2.   Computational cheistry in crystal growth, zeolite properties,
and surface chemistry.

3.   The computational investigation of electronic microstructures.

4.   Simulation of 3-D ground motion in earthquake simulations of
the LA basin.

5.   Quantum chromodynamics.

6.   Fluid mechanics, geophysical fluid dynamics, and free and
moving boundary problems.

7.   Research at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, the National
Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, and the Alexandria
Digital Library project.

8.   Research in computer science, numerical mathematics, and
general scientific computation for SMD architectures.

CISE Postdoctoral Research Associates

CDA-9625577
$46,200-12 mos.
Carroll, John M.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associate: Networks for Collaborative
Education in the Blacksburg Electronic Village

This award supports associate Jurgen Koenemann. This project is
part of an effort to create and study a virtual physics laboratory
for middle and high school students in a rural area of Southwestern
Virginia. The virtual laboratory is implemented as a real-time,
multi-user domain, integrated with World-Wide Web resources. The
postdoctoral work focuses on two technical challenges within this
paradigm of network-based collaborative education: (1) supporting
the design of virtual laboratory activities and materials by
teachers, and (2) evaluating usability and learning outcomes for
teachers and students. Regarding (1), a set of software tools will
be developed to help teachers locate and incorporate World-Wide Web
resources into activities they design for the virtual laboratory.
For example, the tool will automatically generate appropriate
hyperlinks and manage simulation software. Regarding (2), an
evaluation tool will be developed to facilitate the collection and
analysis of "critical incident" reports, episodes in which
something went very well or very badly for the user. The reports
will be linked to portions of the virtual laboratory software that
may have been implicated in causing the critical incident to
facilitate diagnosis and redesign.

CDA-9625756
$46,191-12 mos.
Colgate, James E.
Northwestern University
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associate: Robust Haptic Display of
Dynamical Virtual Environments 

This award supports associate Brent R. Gillespie. To provide for
direct interaction and to more effectively immerse their users, the
designers of virtual environments now have the option to render
objects for the haptic (touch) senses, thanks to the new and
flourishing field of haptic interface technology. At present,
however, the fidelity of haptic display is limited. Restrictions
must be placed on the mechanical impedance of the virtual object or
exceptional computational power must be demanded of the interface
controller lest sustained or even unstable vibrations arise between
user and virtual object. This postdoctoral research aims to remove
these obstacles by developing simulation and control methods which
guarantee the absence of unstable vibrations and other non-physical
interactive behaviors. The research begins by noting that the
destabilizing effects of sampled-data and computational delays can
be fully compensated out if the entire coupled Dynamical system is
modeled, including the human limb. On-line system identification of
the coupled human limb is integrated into the controller design to
allow for active behavior on the part of the human. Concurrent
theoretical treatments and hardware/software development efforts
are employed to extend the methods to Dynamical objects and objects
which are subject to changes in kinematic constraint.

CDA-9625668
$46,200-12 mos.
Davis, Larry
University of Maryland, College Park
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associate: High Performance Computing
for Remote Sensing Applications

This award supports CES associate David Bader. The main objective
of the proposed training and research plan is to develop innovative
computational methods and software for applying high performance
computing to fundamental problems arising in the analysis of
remotely sensed image data. This work will be conducted at the
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
(UMIACS) in close cooperation with Professor Davis (Computer
Science), Goward (Geography), Ja'Ja' (Electrical Engineering), and
Townsend (Geography), who are pursuing a number of closely related
efforts. The application to be developed is a high performance
system for estimating net primary production (NPP) using the
production efficiency model (PEM) developed at the University of
Maryland. The overall aim is to build a family of software modules
that make use of a variety of algorithms to carry out geometric
correction of images, to eliminate signals from extraneous sources
(e.g. atmospheric correction), to sample spatially and temporally,
and to generate derived geophysical properties. The modules will be
constructed using proven portable and practical high performance
programming languages and libraries. Our applications development
will be conducted on two high performance computing platforms at
UMIACS; a 16-node IBM SP-2 and a Digital Alpha cluster consisting
of 40 Alpha processors networked via a Digital ATM Gigaswitch. The
Maryland facility has approximately 300GB of online disk storage
and a multi-terabyte tertiary storage system.

CDA-9625816
$46,200-12 mos.
Farin, Gerald E.
Arizona State University
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associate: Approximation of Complex
Geometry's and Data Reduction with NURBS

This award supports associate Anshuman Razdan. At a high level,
this research aims to develop a methodology for the computer
representation of complex objects such as bone surfaces.
Anthropologists and bio-medical engineers are restricted for lack
of mathematical structure of data that can be analyzed, an example
being the surfaces of bones. Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD)
techniques will be applied to convert this unstructured data into
a structured form. Dense point cloud data will be used to describe
the discretized surfaces as a smooth parametric NURB (Non Uniform
Rational B Spline) surface(s). Data reduction techniques will be
developed to reduce the amount of data required to describe the
surface(s). 3D tools will be developed to facilitate interrogation
and analysis of these surfaces, to quantify measures such as
curvature. The research will collaborate with a physical
anthropologist at the new inter-disciplinary facility on campus,
called PRISM. The surface models will also generate the STL
(stereolithography format) files for 3D hard copy outputs on rapid
prototyping machines. These can be used as tactile models for
research into human morphology and the teaching of comparative
anatomy and bio-engineering courses.

CDA-9625755
$46,200-12 mos.
Ginsberg, Matthew L.
University of Oregon, Eugene
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associate: Planning and Scheduling as
Constraint Satisfaction Investigating Fundamental Similarities and
Differences

This award supports CES Associate David Joslin. Although planning
and scheduling are closely related fields, the latter has enjoyed
far greater success in recent years. Research in the field of
scheduling has benefited greatly from treating scheduling problems
as constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs); the application of CSP
techniques to planning has been more limited, and has tended to be
ad hoc. The Descartes algorithm, introduced by Joslin in 1995, has
demonstrated that planning problems can be transformed into dynamic
CSPs, allowing CSP techniques to be applied uniformly to all
decisions. The CSP formulation also makes it possible to leverage
successful scheduling algorithms in the solution of planning
problems. The focus of this research is on understanding when and
why CSP-based scheduling techniques are (or are not) effective when
applied to planning problems. In the first phase, an efficient
scheduling algorithm is integrated with the Descartes planning
algorithm. The resulting hybrid system is experimentally evaluated
on both planning and scheduling problems. In the second phase,
differences between planning and scheduling are characterized in
terms of a common CSP representation, and these differences are
exploited to improve the performance of the planning system.

CDA-9625910
$20,910-12 mos.
Kuh, Ernest S.
University of California, Berkeley
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associate: Research in Computer Aided
Design of VLSI Circuits with Emphasis on Deep Submicron Technology

This award supports associate John P. Lillis. With the advent of
deep submicron technology, the VLSI community is now faced with
many new technical challenges which are currently inadequately
addressed by the state of the art in Computer Aided Design for VLSI
circuits. Because of the scaling of feature size in the submicron
domain, performance of VLSI systems is now largely dominated by
interconnect delay. Some powerful techniques for addressing this
interconnect dominance are timing optimization by buffer insertion,
wire sizing and performance driven routing. We propose that the
time during the award period be used to further develop these
techniques into a mature, cohesive set of tools. Among the research
objectives of the proposals are (1) development of algorithms for
routing and buffer insertion to address the problems of
electromigration and crosstalk noise, (2) experimental evaluation
of gate replication techniques for timing optimization and (3)
integration of the optimization techniques at a higher level in the
physical layout process which included circuit placement. All of
these topics are of great practical importance in deep submicron
systems of today and the future.

CDA-9625875
$46,200-12 mos.
Lilja, David J.
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associates: Processor Allocation in
Hierarchical Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations

The wide availability and reasonable cost of networks of
workstations makes them an attractive alternative to traditional
supercomputer systems. However, the low degree of uniformity in the
execution and communication times of parallel applications in
heterogeneous systems can impose significant constraints on the
possible parallel task scheduling solutions. The primary goals of
this work are to develop techniques for determining the appropriate
number and type of processors to be allocated to each application
in a heterogeneous network of multiprogrammed workstations, and to
match the diverse hardware platforms to the computational and
communication requirements of the specific application tasks. The
proposed "matching factor," which provides a performance indicator
for pairing hardware and applications in a dedicated environment,
will be extended with scheduling heuristics for a network of
multiprogrammed workstations with heterogeneous processor types and
interconnection networks. The highly experimental nature of this
work will greatly benefit from the interaction with computational
scientists and engineers working at the University of Minnesota,
and from the availability of the University's unique hardware and
software resources.

CDA-9626370
$46,200-12 mos.
Mitchell, Joseph S.
SUNY @ Stony Brook
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associate: Efficient Geometric
Algorithms in Support of Virtual Reality Systems

This award supports CES associate Claudio Silva. The goal of this
project is to advance the state of the art in virtual environment
systems by making use of methods of the field of computational
geometry and the power of highly parallel computing architectures.
New efficient algorithms are being devised and implemented for
critical geometric problems that arise in virtual environments and
three-dimensional simulations, including collision detection,
visibility/visualization, and mesh simplification. A prototype
software system is being written, incorporating new algorithms
(sequential and parallel), and a library of efficient code for
geometric primitives. Special attention is being given to
robustness and efficiency issues of the algorithms and
implementations. The impact of the project will be to advance the
state of the art in virtual environment simulations, by increasing
the complexity of the models that can be handled in real time.

CDA-9625748
$23,100-12 mos.
Sohraby, Khosrow
University of Missouri-Kansas City
CISE Postdoctoral Research Asociate: Teletraffic Modeling and
Analysis of Communications Network with Parallelizable Algorithms
and Their Implementations

Design, dimensioning and control of high-speed telecommunication
networks requires a thorough understanding of traffic
characteristics of various types of communication services and the
ability to use these characteristics for performance assessment.
Teletraffic modeling techniques existing in the literature either
lead to very large-scale structured Markov chain solution problems
for which available algorithmic approaches suffer from huge CPU
time requirements, or to models for which, at this time, there are
no practically analytical results for queuing analysis. The PIs do
Teletraffic modeling consisting of simple, general and systematic
algorithms to model building based on D-BMAP's (discrete-time Batch
Markovian Arrival Process). The modeling process is desired to
capture the first and second order statistics of the original
traffic streams that are known to play the dominant role in
Teletraffic performance. Moreover, the PIs propose parallel
algorithms for modeling as an alternative to techniques based on
serial procedures for large-scale nonlinear optimization problems.
Such traffic models when fed into single server queues can be
analyzed by the paradigm of M/G/1 or G/M/1 type Markov chains. They
propose to use matrix sign function based algorithms for the
associated invariant subspace computation. These algorithms have
high convergence rates (unlike the linear convergence rates of
existing algorithms), they are amenable to parallelization and,
therefore, it is now possible to efficiently analyze moderately
sized M/G/1 and G/M/1 type Markov chains.

CDA-9625898
$45,561-12 mos.
Vardi, Moshe Y.
William Marsh Rice University
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associate: Diagrammatic Reasoning in
Hardware Verification

This award supports CES associate Kathryn Fisher. Diagrams are
fundamental to hardware design. Designers use them extensively to
convey details, to express properties, and to reason informally
about designs. Despite this, little attention has been paid to
supporting diagrammatic reasoning in verification. As a result, a
substantial gap exists between design practice and verification
methodology that makes performing verification difficult for
designers. The project aims to bridge this gap through a logic
developed around common hardware representations. The logic has
five syntactic representations: three diagrammatic and two
sentential. The inference rules support reasoning with information
from multiple representations, thereby providing formal support for
how diagrammatic information is used in practice. The practical
objective is to investigate whether this logic makes verification
easier for designers. A verification tool based on the logic will
be implemented and evaluated alongside existing methodologies by
both novices and experienced practitioners. The main theoretical
objective is to examine how diagrammatic information can help
refine the current boundaries between automated and interactive
verification methodologies. The integration of these approached
will be an important feature of the tool.

CDA-9626318
$46,200-12 mos.
Zwaenepoel, Willy
William Marsh Rice University
CISE Postdoctoral Research Associate: Scalability of Software
Distributed Shared Memory

This award supports CES associate Povl Koch. Software Distributed
Shared Memory (DSM) architectures strike a balance between the
distributed-memory and shared memory architectures by providing an
abstraction of shared memory in software on distributed memories.
They are built using standard processors/workstations and they are
easy to program using a shared address space based on virtual
memory pages. DSM systems are suitable for many parallel scientific
applications. Although many systems have been designed, only the
scalability issues for hardware shared-memory systems have been
addressed. For software DSM systems, the focus has been on
performance with a moderate number of nodes using relaxed memory
consistency models and multiple-writers protocols. Most experiments
have been on 8 nodes and a few with 16 nodes. When going from 8 to
64 or more nodes, each may have multiple processors, scalability
problems exist with the current size of data structures and their
allocation and deallocation. A scalable DSM should only capture
actual causality of modifications, minimize space overhead per
shared page, and the address space should be dynamically
partitioned. We plan to analyze and build a scalable DSM system to
run on a distributed-memory machine with 64 nodes and a fast
interconnect.

CISE Research Instrumentation

CDA-9529499
$93,180-12 mos.
Bajaj, Chandrajit L.
Purdue University
CISE Research Instrumentation: Repetitive Contact Modeling,
Analysis and Visualization

The 3D motion and position measurement system coupled to a high
performance graphics workstation is used to model, analyze and
visualize the effects of repetitive contact on human joints. It is
part of a high performance computational environment for research
on human joints and problems caused by repetitive strain. The
motion and position measuring system measures and tracks the
movement of light emitting diodes mounted on a body with an RMS
accuracy of 0.1 mm and a resolution of 0.01 mm. This system enables
the measurement of the kinematics of knees and for determining the
kinematics in the hand during typing and piano playing activities.
The system also has a probe with light emitting diodes that enable
the establishment of landmarks and coordinate reference points on
bones as well as mapping surface geometry's of the joint surfaces.
The high performance graphics permit real-time, interactive
visualization and querying of geometric models and stress/strain
analyses. The potential payoffs of the research are in clinical
diagnostics, surgical techniques and preparation, prosthesis
design.

CDA-9529520
$31,051-12 mos.
Barreto, Armando B.
Florida International University
CISE Research Instrumentation: Multiprocessor Workstation for
Advanced Digital Signal Processing Research

Emerging Digital Signal Processing techniques are being applied to
the solution of challenging problems of signal detection and system
modeling: Dynamic neural networks are used as spatio-temporal
classifiers for the detection of electroencephalograph (EEG)
patterns that can be elicited voluntarily, as part of the process
of motion preparation. Reliable detection of these patterns will
provide the basis for the development of a new form of computer
interface that will be accessible even to individuals deprived of
motor execution functions. Similarly, chaotic dynamics analysis is
being applied for the detailed study of the three-dimensional
propagation of ocean acoustic waves. Indices such as the Lyapunov
exponent are numerically estimated using real sound propagation
data collected in the North Atlantic to characterize the chaotic
properties of the phenomenon. While these emerging DSP techniques
hold great promise to increase our capability to obtain useful
information from signals and develop accurate models of physical
phenomena, they are complex and computationally intensive. The
availability of multiprocessor workstations is necessary to shorten
the algorithm development and analysis cycles (i.e., large-scale
dynamic neural network training, numerical Lyapunov exponent
estimation, etc.) to practical levels. Additionally, these systems
will familiarize our faculty and students with parallel algorithm
development techniques

CDA-9529459
$100,000-12 mos.
Berry, Michael W.
University of Tennessee
CISE Research Instrumentation: High Performance ATM Network for
Computational Science

An ATM networked 12 high-performance workstations supports several
research projects in the Computer Science Department at the
University of Tennessee, including in particular: Scientific
Applications in a Distributed Computing Environment, PET Image
Reconstruction in a Distributed Environment, Parallel Algorithms
and Software for Unstructured Mesh Computations, Fast Checkpointing
in Parallel Environments, and Parallel Sparse Matrix Computations.
This computing laboratory provides required resources of CPU time,
local memory, communication bandwidth and disk storage for the
computationally intensive projects. Some of the research tasks
require this dedicated laboratory for their exceptionally long
runtimes. The systems project requires access to such an
environment to run meaningful experiments. In addition, the
dedicated laboratory facilities may be reconfigured or subjected to
simulated faults without concern about the effects on other users.
The research projects will produce public-domain software. Because
several government and industrial sites will soon have facilities
similar to that which we propose, regular access to such a
laboratory is essential for quality software research and
development.

CDA-9529462
$36,627-12 mos.
Burleson, Wayne P.
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
CISE Research Instrumentation: Equipment for Real -Time System
Protyping

The development of real-time embedded computing systems requires a
combination of software simulation and hardware emulation to verify
functionality and estimate performance, costs, power consumption
and reliability. The requested equipment is for the development of
a generic approach to the prototyping of real-time systems as well
as specific hardware and software for applying this approach to
ongoing research projects in Wireless Networks and Real-time
Robotics. The equipment consists of a small network of Personal
Computers which run Computer Aided Design tools for software
simulations as well as serving as hosts for hardware emulation
systems based on microprocessors and digital signal processors.
Together , the entire system allows the rapid development,
verification and analysis of systems which could not be explored by
either simulation or emulation alone. In particular, it allows the
statistical study of data-dependent and environment-dependent
properties which are difficult to model analytically and too slow
using traditional software simulation.

CDA-9529403
$95,167-12 mos.
Chen, Marina
Boston University
CISE Research Instrumentation: Real-Time, Multimedia and High
Performance Computing in Distributed Systems

The requested instrumentation is to enhance and support a rapidly
growing research group in areas of high performance computing and
communication, digital multimedia, and real-time systems. The
instrumentation consists of a 12 x 12 ATM switch connecting nodes
that serve as compute engines, files servers, and video clients
which provide high bandwidth access to the university's
supercomputing facility. Five research projects will directly
benefit from the requested instrumentation:

1.   Parallel compilers,

2.   Performance prediction of high-bandwidth networking
environments connecting a Heterogeneous set of computers and
supercomputers,

3.   Efficient multi-threaded shared memory parallel computing on
distributed systems,

4.   Information dispersal and retrieval protocols to provide for
real-time, fault-tolerant communication, and

5.   3D extension on deformable shape modeling for content-based
retrieval for video and image databases.
The advancement of these projects depends on emerging technology of
high-bandwidth networking environments connecting a heterogeneous
set of computers and supercomputers, and the availability of a
network that delivers a guaranteed bandwidth and real-time graphics
and video I/O capabilities.

CDA-9529530
$76,918-12 mos.
Cohen, Elaine
University of Utah
CISE Research Instrumentation: Layered Manufacturing Machine in
Support of Rapid Prototyping and Unmanned Manufacturing

A rapid prototyping machine, Helisys, supports research in computer
and information science and engineering, particularly in following
projects: (1) Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics
and Scientific Visualization, (2) Concurrent Integrated Design and
Manufacturing, (3) Rapid Virtual Prototyping of Mechanical
Assemblies, and (4) Sensing Strategies for Advanced Manufacturing.
The machine is a Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) System which
is used to generate visualization models, to help in verification
of reconstructed models, and to support a variety of casting
operations and other secondary manufacturing operations including
vacuum forming and silicon rubber molding. The LOM process in the
Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory is used primarily for research in
manufacturing and to produce prototype parts for other research
programs. The process is also used to offer a variety of
experimental manufacturing services over the network. The
educational use of rapid prototyping provides strong visualization
feedback in solid modeling and shape understanding for
undergraduate and graduate level courses as well as for high school
students selected from the state of Utah under a National Science
Foundation Young Scholars Program.

CDA-9529561
$62,000-12 mos.
Cook, Diane J.
University of Texas-Arlington
CISE Research Instrumentation: Design of a Distributed Computing
Environment Using Power PC Micro Kernel

The goal of this project is to investigate, design, and develop a
unique distributed computing environment using a cluster of 12
networked PowerPcs. The uniqueness of the proposed research is
based on the development of a set of tailor-made, PowerPC micro
kernel routines to efficiently manage the overall system for a
specific, large-scale AI application: parallel knowledge discovery
from large complex databases. The main objectives are: (1)
Developing a set of new and unique load balancing schemes for
management of distributed systems. The schemes will be tailored for
AI applications and implemented using the PowerPC micro kernel
routines. (2) Developing a new distributed system for parallel
knowledge discovery from large complex databases. The application
will be carried out using the computing facility and proposed load
balancing environment.

CDA-9529524
$37,510-12 mos.
Erlinger, Michael A.
Harvey Mudd College
CISE Research Instrumentation: ATM Switch and Workstation

The ARC is a Southern California consortium investigating ATM
(Asynchronous Transfer Mode) for suitability as a high speed
networking technology for advanced applications such as medicine,
teleconferencing, and metacomputing. ATM service is being provided
by Pacific Bell and GTE, while the local premise equipment,
switches and workstations, is being provided by each ARC member.
Using the ATM equipment provided by the CISE grant, experiments in
the areas of remote learning, network management, and performance
evaluation will be performed by HMC and CGS. In the area of remote
learning the ARC network will be used to support real-time
interactive courses and seminars between HMC and CGS and other ARC
members. During such sessions ARC network performance and
management will be investigated by HMC and CGS researchers. Because
of the high speed nature of ATM, new paradigms for performance and
management will be developed by ARC researchers. A primary goal of
the research conducted by HMC and CGS will investigate through
experiments the suitability of ATM for supporting advanced network
applications. Without NSF support for an ATM switch and
workstation, Harvey Mudd College and the Claremont Graduate School
would be unable to participate actively in ARC activities

CDA-9529549
$61,300-12 mos.
Fischer, Gerhard
University of Colorado at Boulder
CISE Research Instrumentation: Shared Interaction in Support of
Design, Learning, and Planning

Two InterSim (Interactive Simulation) stations are being developed,
each composed of a large interactive surface and multiple 3-D
interactors. These systems allow us to move beyond the interaction
model of single user/single computer-with an emphasis upon shared
interaction to mediate social aspects of learning, design, and
planning. These paradigms integrate the use of physical objects-to
support and encourage face-to-face interaction among the
participants-with virtual objects-to provide computational support
for the model underlying the simulation. When linked across a
network, these systems can allow the interaction with simulations
and among individuals at a distance. A two-phase prototyping
process is being used: First, an initial version utilizing
front-surface projection is being developed, allowing us to deal
with some of the software and device-controller issues and
demonstrating the applicability of the approach. Subsequent
development will utilize newer technology to create a back-imaged
system to resolve shadowing problems. To test and guide its
development, applications of the technology are underway in the
form parallel efforts in the areas of Conflict Resolution, Decision
Making and Planning; Learning by Design: Cross-Cultural Science
Classroom Interchange; and Human-Centered, Intelligent Agents
Supporting Communication and Collaboration.

CDA-9529471
$67,177-12 mos.
Hachtel, Gary D.
University of Colorado
CISE Research Instrumentation: High Performance Computing
Environment for Symbolic Synthesis and Verification.

Decision diagrams are data structures that allow the compact
representation of very large sets. Problems involving graphs with
10 to the 36th edges and beyond have been solved successfully,
thanks to the compactness of decision diagrams and the efficiency
of the symbolic algorithms that manipulate them. Such large
problems routinely arise in the synthesis and verification of
today's digital systems. The requested instrumentation is intended
to support the development and experimental validation of a system
(called BOLD-HSV) that addresses the aforementioned synthesis and
verification problems for the very large digital systems that the
continued technological advances will make possible in the near
future. The algorithms that are going to be developed require high
speed computers and large amounts of memory. Experiments performed
at the University of Colorado and elsewhere show that, although one
can trade memory for time, the best results are obtained with large
memories (over 0.5 GB). The proposed instrumentation will make it
possible the study of the performance of the algorithms on
realistic test cases, also with respect to new computer
architectural features, like sophisticated memory hierarchies.

CDA-9529470
$61,028-12 mos.
Hanson, Eric N.
University of Florida-Gainesville
CISE Research Instrumentation: Research in Parallel and
Shared-nothing Database and Storage Systems

The University of Florida Computer and Information Science and
Engineering (CISE) department is undertaking the following three
research efforts: (1) a project investigating the use of
shared-nothing multiprocessors for fast rule processing in active
database systems using a partitioned, parallelized discrimination
network, (2) a project to develop and evaluate parallel techniques
and algorithms for object-oriented knowledge-base management
systems to support data partitioning and distribution, query
processing, query optimization and knowledge rule processing using
a network-of-workstations (NOW) environment, and (3) a project to
develop high performance storage servers to allow storage and
processing of data generated by high energy physics experiments.
All of these projects are experimental in nature, and involve
implementing parallel software prototypes. This experimentation is
essential to help validate design proposals and get feedback on the
designs to help refine and improve them. The research
instrumentation, consisting of four new high-speed workstations and
a very-high-speed communication network, allows the construction of
a parallel processor to conduct the work described.

CDA-9529529
$31,867-12 mos.
Jacobson, Douglas W.
Iowa State University
CISE Research Instrumentation: Computer System Security Laboratory

A research laboratory in computer system security is supported by
this grant. The projects targeted for the laboratory collectively
address the problems of denial of service and intrusion detection,
two problems of increasing importance as the nation becomes
dependent on the computer communication infrastructure. Research
has identified several methods of attacks that can render a network
unusable. Hardware obtained from this grant will facilitate the
establishment of a laboratory with an isolated subnet, a network
logic analyzer, and several UNIX-based workstations and personal
computers. In this environment, the researchers have full control
of all components so that network traffic can be closely monitored,
and denial of service experiments can be safely and fully explored.
The end goal of the collection of projects outlined in the proposal
is to develop an insight into potential countermeasures for
intrusion and denial of service attacks.

CDA-9514898
$175,300-12 mos.
Jain, Raj
Ohio State University
CISE Research Instrumentation: ATM Testbed for Multimedia and
Distributed Computing

This research proposes to establish an ATM Networking Testbed. The
Testbed is targeted to provide networking research infrastructure
to enable experimental research in the areas of ATM networking, ATM
switch testing, parallel computing, distributed computing, and
multimedia. Specifically, the Testbed will be used for the
following four research projects: a) Development of performance
metrics and benchmarks for various components involved in ATM
networked systems including switches, network interface cards,
end-system hardware, and operating systems; b) Development of new
mechanisms and primitives for communication and synchronization
over networks of workstations (NOWs) connected with ATM
interconnection; c) Development of an environment for simulation
and implementation of computer protocols that are subject to
faults, security attacks, and real-time constraints; and d)
Reinventing of the familiar spreadsheet paradigm to enable
transparent parallel computation and distributed sharing,
circumscribed by the simple yet powerful programming and modeling
paradigm. The National ATM Performance Test Lab established by this
proposal will provide impartial performance measurements using
standard benchmarks for equipment from different vendors. This will
also allow the creation of a vigorous center for experimental
research in high-speed multimedia networking and parallel
processing over ATM-connected networks.

CDA-9529304
$46,680-12 mos.
Kaiser, Gail E.
Columbia University
CISE Research Instrumentation: Semantics-based Prefetching for
Mobile Computing

This proposal investigates collaborative workflow environments, and
previously constructed an infrastructure that assumes conventional
high-speed networking. Professor Kaiser is developing new
algorithms and techniques to support mobile hosts. The research
addresses prefetching based on semantic information on what the
user is likely to do next drawn from the workflow definition
tailoring the specific environment instance, to permit
low-bandwidth and temporarily detached operation by participants in
collaborative enterprises. Professor Duchamp is developing
operating system support for intelligently prefetching files from
a file system or objects from an object base. The goal is to
improve performance and automate cache loading prior to
disconnecting from the network, via two types of prefetching: The
first is performed by the file system, transparent to applications;
the file system "learns" file access patterns and uses these
patterns to prefetch if/when the patterns recur. The second type of
prefetching is application-directed; applications with knowledge of
their future data accesses can use a special interface to instruct
the operating system what to prefetch. Professor Kaiser's workflow
system is the major example application for this type of
prefetching. Both the collaborative work and operating systems
directions require mobile notebook computers for development,
testing, and measurement of the prototype support.

CDA-9529518
$200,000-12 mos.
Kearney, Joseph K.
University of Iowa
CSE Research Instrumentation: Instrumentation for Virtual
Environments Integrating Dynamics and Real-Time Interactivity

The equipment for high-speed computation and real-time image
generation is used for a coordinated set of research projects
attacking the computational requirements of interactive, real-time
simulation with rich physical and behavioral interactions. The
research focuses on four related areas: (1) Merging geometric
analysis, dynamic analysis, and control programming for
interactive, real-time multibody simulation; (2) Numerical methods
for fast, accurate solution and integration of motion equations;
(3) Scenario authoring and behavior modeling for semiautonomous
agents; and (4) Distributed, real-time systems. building on
existing facilities, the instrumentation provides a combination of
compute power, graphics power, interaction hardware, and
workstations to support real-time simulation and virtual
environments research.

CDA-9529503
$54,187-12 mos.
Ozsoyoglu, Gultekin Z.
Case Western Reserve University
CISE Research Instrumentation: Presentation Languages in Multimedia
Databases

Multimedia presentation refers to the concurrent presentation of
multimedia data using monitors for text, video or still images, and
speakers for audio. Each presentation contains multimedia segments
retrieved from a database, and is constructed and played out by a
presentation manager software. This research has three components.
(a) A prototype system is developed to automate the assembly of
presentations from multimedia databases for beginning computer
users. The system is then revised and evaluated in different
application domains. One example is a Course-Assistant software in
education. (b) A presentation construction language for
intermediate computer users is implemented and evaluated in
different application domains. The language provides control on the
number and contents of concurrent segments in a presentation, and
has the ability to specify playout-time changes in a presentation,
and communication and synchronization among multiple playout
managers. (c) For advanced users, a presentation manipulation
language is developed and evaluated. The development is carried out
on multimedia personal computers with MPEG capture and playout
capabilities and on workstations, acquired by the instrumentation
grant. The development platforms are Windows NT and UNIX.

CDA-9529463
$55,815-12 mos.
Peshkin, Michael A.
Northwestern University
CISE Research Instrumentation: Robot for Human Workspace

The requested equipment of computer hardware and software for
real-time control of robotics systems is used in furtherance of
research in computer and information science and engineering in the
departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Computer
Engineering. The real time control and computation system is
associated with the robot requested under this proposal and other
robots in several closely related projects. Specific research tasks
are as follows. (1) Research and development of robot-assisted
surgical systems. Most immediately, a system for directing linear
insertions, such as biopsies and orthopedic pins, under
fluoroscopic imaging. These systems require fast dedicated
computers for control, and a 6-axis force sensor to facilitate
interaction with a surgeon. (2) Research and development of
assertive devices to be used in the final assembly of automobiles
and light trucks, with General Motors. This project requires a
considerable amount of high-speed real-time digital signal
processing hardware, and associated software.

CDA-9529541
$51,546-12 mos.
Psarris, Kleanthis
The University of Texas at San Antonio
CISE Research Instrumentation: Research in Parallel Computer
Systems Design using Workstation Clusters with High-Speed Networks

This award is for the acquisition of a cluster of four
multiprocessor workstations to support several research projects,
including the research on the design of architectures and compilers
for distributed shared memory multiprocessors and on large-scale
applications such as the design and implementation of parallel
discrete event simulators. The proposed instrumentation provides a
multi-granular parallel and distributed computing platform, where
both tightly coupled and loosely coupled systems coexist. It
interconnects four Sun workstations with an SCI (scalable coherent
interface) based high-speed network. The SCI interconnects will
provide low-latency message passing and shared memory support. The
SUN workstations with Solaris OS support threads and high precision
clocks. The low-latency inter-workstation communication and threads
will be used to implement parallel architecture simulators and
parallel discrete event simulators. Precise clocks will be used to
extract message communication and shared memory traces from
applications. These traces in turn will be used to evaluate the new
architectural mechanisms through simulations. The shared memory
support provided by the interconnect will be used to run the
parallel code generated by a parallelizing compiler. Several
benchmark applications will be compiled and run on the equipment to
evaluate the effectiveness of various dependence analysis
techniques.

CDA-9529418
$86,840-12 mos.
Ibarra, Oscar H.
University of California, Santa Barbara
CISE Research Instrumentation: A Next-Generation High-Performance
Network of Commodity PCs

The proposed instrumentation consists of a collection of commodity
personal computers (PCs) connected by a commodity ATM network. This
computing platform supports four experimental research projects in
the area of high performance parallel and distributed systems. The
first project investigates efficient communication primitives for
cost-effective commodity computing and networking platforms. The
objective is to enable important parallel computations to execute
efficiently in this computing environment. The second project
investigates a new parallelizing compiler technique called
commutativity analysis. The objective is to extend the range of
parallelizing compilers to include computations that manipulate
complex pointer-based data structures. The third project
investigates scheduling and run-time supporting techniques for
irregular scientific computations. The objective is to understand
how to map these computations efficiently onto a modern parallel
computing environment consisting of commodity hardware components.
The final project investigates issues in developing a scalable WWW
server for digital library applications. The objective is to
strengthen the server's processing capabilities to match huge
expected increases in simultaneous access requests from the
Internet. The main research activity in all of these projects is
developing, testing and measuring software. The instrumentation
provides the hardware platform required to perform these
activities.

CDA-9529442
$72,240-12 mos.
Vaidya, Nitin
Texas A&M University
CISE Research Instrumentation: Distributed Computing and Real-Time
Networking Research

This proposal requests funding for a homogeneous workstation
cluster and ATM-FDDI networking hardware to aid research in
distributed computing and real-time networking. The equipment is
useful for several projects, including: (1) Real-time communication
in heterogeneous networks: This project develops techniques for
guaranteeing deadlines in heterogeneous networks popular in
mission-critical systems. Requested equipment enables
experimentation with a network consisting of ATM and FDDI. (2)
Algorithms for distributed systems management: Algorithms are
developed for managing performance and faults in distributed
systems, using formal analysis and experimentation. Realistic
assessment requires a dedicated cluster of homogeneous workstations
to allow undisrupted testing and trend prediction. (3) Failure
recovery schemes for parallel applications: Design of efficient
recovery schemes is necessary to minimize execution time in
presence of failures. The requested workstations provide a
homogeneous computing environment necessary for quantitative
comparison of different recovery schemes. (4) Distributed shared
memory (DSM) system design: Requested equipment provides a
workstation cluster and high-speed networking for development of an
adaptive fault-tolerant DSM capable of achieving high performance.

CISE SPECIAL PROJECTS

CDA-9412718
$149,193-12 mos.
Alo, Richard
University of Houston-Downtown
Special Projects: Visiting Scientist Programs for Minority
Institutions and Small Colleges

This project is designed to strengthen the research and related
educational activities in computer and information science and
engineering at minority institutions without doctoral programs. For
the twenty-five selected institutions, it provides funds for
Visitation Programs by recognized computer scientists, engineers
and educators who can respond to the needs of the program proposal
submitted by the institution to the Program Committee and who will
establish a working relationship with the institution that is
expected to extend beyond the period supported by this grant. The
project includes a strong evaluation component that extends
throughout the period of the grant.

CDA-9507756
$288,039-12 mos.
Condon, Anne
Special Projects: The CRA Distributed Mentor Project

In an effort to increase the number of women entering graduate
school in CISE disciplines, the Computing Research Association
(CRA) has been awarded a continuation of the Distributed Mentor
Project (Award CDA-9302536) where 20-25 female students are matched
with a number of female professors in CISE research areas each of
the years 1996-1998, to participate in a summer of research at the
mentor's institution. The students will most likely be computer
science or computer engineering majors although this is not
required. In addition, the PI's have been funded to conduct a
longitudinal evaluation of the two projects over the year's
1994-1998. The evaluation will measure how well the projects have
met the goal on increasing the number of women in CISE disciplines
entering graduate school. The most useful aspect of the
mentoring/research will also be assessed on an annual basis in
order to provide feedback for improving the remaining years of the
project. The CRA is an association of U.S. and Canadian academic
departments of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and
Industrial Laboratories engaging in basic computing research. The
mission of CRA is to represent and inform the computing research
community and to support and promote its interests. Dr. Weingarten
is the Executive Director of CRA. Dr. Anne Condon, the academic
leader of this project, is an Associate Professor of Computer
Science at the University of Wisconsin

CDA-9642990
$6,000-0 mos.
Cuny, Janice
Computer Research Association
Special Projects: Technical Support in Editing Transcripts from the
Workshops on Academic Careers for Women in Computer Science

This supplement to the CRA Special Project CDA 9411983 supports the
expenses to be incurred in technically editing the transcripts from
the workshops supported by the underlying proposal. Transcripts
will be professionally edited into a single, coherent volume to be
made available over the net. The workshops, held in conjunction
with the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing, with
Supercomputing 1994, and with the ACM Computer Science Conferences
of 1995 and 1996, present practical information, advice and, basic
information necessary to succeed in academic careers. The workshops
are considered "outstanding, useful, invaluable, informative, and
practical" by many. CRA is an association of U.S. and Canadian
academic departments of Computer Science and Computer Engineering,
and industrial laboratories engaging in basic computing research.
The mission of CRA is to represent and inform the computing
research community and to support and promote its interests.

CDA-9642997
$10,000-0 mos.
French, James C.
University of Virginia
Special Projects: NCSTRL: A National Computer Science Technical
Report Library

The two students will work under the direct supervision of the PI.
One student will help with the design and deployment of the new
software to facilitate polling remote sites for their bibliographic
data. The software will also have to ensure the integrity of the
bibliographic data, detecting errors and alerting the contributing
sites to problems. The other student will participate in the
development and deployment of a new advanced browsing mechanism
being design at the University of Virginia. This mechanism will be
used after initial keyword searching to help users identify more
relevant documents. Since all seniors are required to produce a
thesis, these projects will provide an opportunity to expose
undergraduates to research "doing" to "writing."

CDA-9634182
$50,000-12 mos.
Harrington, James
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Special Projects: 6th Annual MU-SPIN Conference (1996) and
Supplemental Support for on-campus Regional Training Workshop

This interagency transfer purpose is to partially support a large
conference and supplemental smaller workshops on high performance
computing and communications and infrastructure development for
minority institutions. NASA, through its National Space Science
Data Center, has developed a program called the Minority University
Space Interdisciplinary Network (MU-Spin). The program constitutes
a major networking and education initiative for minority
institutions, and other universities with large minority student
enrollments. Connecting these institutions with the NASA Science
Network, and promoting the activities such connections provide
serve as primary goal of the program.

CDA-9612360
$27,941-12 mos.
King, Willis
IEEE Computer Society
Special Projects: Annual International Workshop on Computer Science
and Engineering

This proposal, from the IEEE Computer Society, partially supports
an International Workshop on CS and CE accreditation. Selected
visitors from foreign countries will be brought to the meeting
November 10-11, 1996, immediately following the FIE Conference in
Salt Lake City, Utah. Goals include the understanding of
educational objectives and standards of different nations, to
attempt to form a common set of criteria for accreditation and to
work toward mutual recognition of computing degrees among nations.
The workshop is an IEEE-CS initiative and the Computer Society will
provide 50% of the total cost. Other cooperating societies include
ACM, ABET, CSAB, and IEEE.

CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates--Site Grants

CDA-9642993
$40,000-12 mos.
Adjouadi, Malek
Florida International University
REU Supplement: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in the NSF
Center for Advanced Technology and Education 

This REU Supplement to NSF CISE Institutional
Infrastructure-Minority Institutions (II-MI) Grant, Establishment
of an Institutional Infrastructure: Center for Advanced Technology
and Education (CATE), supports the involvement of eight students
selected to foment undergraduate research utilizing the
infrastructure provided by the grant in the following projects:

-Image Processing

-Multimedia

-Robotics

-Biomedical Engineering

-Computer Networking

-Parallel Processing

Three faculty researchers will continue their involvement in these
research areas and would monitor the selected students who will in
turn work their graduate colleagues.

CDA-9642997
$10,000-12 mos.
French, James C.
University of Virginia
REU: NCSTRL: A National Computer Science Technical Report Library

The two students will work under the direct supervision of the PI.
One student will help with the design and deployment of the new
software to facilitate polling remote sites for their bibliographic
data. The software will also have to ensure the integrity of the
bibliographic data, detecting errors and alerting the contributing
sites to problems. The other student will participate in the
development and deployment of a new advanced browsing mechanism
being design at the University of Virginia. This mechanism will be
used after initial keyword searching to help users identify more
relevant documents. Since all seniors are required to produce a
thesis, these projects provide an opportunity to expose
undergraduates to research "doing" to "writing."

CDA-9424075
$41,186-12 mos.
Hodges, Larry
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
REU: Software Development Experimental Quantification, and
Application Development for Virtual Reality and Real-time
Visualization

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates project will support
undergraduates to participate in research projects in the areas of
computer graphics, virtual environments and visualization. The goal
is to involve junior and senior students in a long term research
experience (1-2 years) in which they make real contributions to the
research, present papers at academic conferences, and author or
co-author papers submitted to journals. The research project will
focus on software and algorithm development, experimental
quantification, and application development for virtual reality and
real-time visualization systems. The student participants will be
split into two groups of four each. One group will focus on the
development of design tools for 3-D environments, image display
techniques and algorithms, and application of virtual reality to
exposure therapy. The other group will develop methods and tools
for highly-interactive visualization and analysis in scientific
applications. The methods and tools will be both for
workstation-based and virtual environments and will be based on a
common set of principles. Undergraduate participants will work in
a state-of-the-art visualization laboratory and will meet weekly
with faculty members and graduate students who are also involved in
these projects.

CDA-9641023
$10,800-12 mos.
Lawrence, Patricia A.
University of Texas, El Paso
REU Supplement: Effects of Interpersonal and Mass-mediated Messages
on Hispanic Undergraduates' Decisions to Pursue Degrees in Computer
Science

This REU Supplement will support two undergraduates to work on the
grant "Effects of Interpersonal and Mass-mediated Messages on
Hispanic Undergraduates' Decisions to Pursue Degrees in Computer
Science". The students will participate in tracking random samples
of student respondents for the longitudinal survey, collecting and
entering data for computerized analyses, conducting statistical
tests, and then assisting with writing the research report.

CDA-9531543
$64,000-24 mos.
Miller, W. Thomas
University of New Hampshire
REU: Intelligent Structures Group Research Experiences for
Undergraduate Site

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates project will support
17 students per year in programs carried out during the Summers and
the academic years for two years. Twelve students will be supported
during the Summers and five during the academic years. During each
time period the students will be divided into three teams in the
areas of analog and digital microelectronics design, intelligent
robotics and machine vision, and computer communications. The
Intelligent Structures Group, based within the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, provides a combination of
structure and diversity to enhance the students experience. Group
members have active collaborations with several other research
units at UNH and the students will participate in these
collaborative efforts.

CDA-9531730
$46,400-12 mos.
Murphy, Robin
Colorado School of Mines
REU: Multiple Autonomous Mobile Robots For Search And Rescue
Applications

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates project will support
ten students per year in programs carried out both during the
Summers and the academic years, for two years. Activities will
include technical (e.g., hands-on laboratory skills), intellectual
(e.g., problem-solving skills), and on professional and personal
development (e.g., communication and management skills). The
project targets both CSM resident students and students from
traditionally minority institutions. In the first year and a half,
the students will use two identical mobile robots certified for
search and rescue activities in underground mines and will
demonstrate and test their results in the CSM Edgar Experimental
mine. During the second year, the participants will transfer their
software to small robots suitable for SAR work in collapsed
buildings. The use of two sets of robots and two variations of the
same task will reinforce the development of general purpose
solutions and basic software engineering skills. Analysis and
design procedures will be emphasized at each step of the project
and the project also entails significant written and oral
presentations during the year.

CDA-9531535
$37,000-12 mos.
Shirazi, Behrooz
University of Texas, Arlington
REU: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Software Tools for
Concurrent Programming

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates project will support
six students in Summer programs each year, for three years. The
goal of the project is to continue an already established REU site
program so as to continue to provide opportunities for highly
talented and qualified upper division women, minority and disabled
undergraduate students to participate in research programs in the
field of parallel processing. The students will investigate
problems related to parallel program development, debugging,
scheduling, and performance profiling under the supervision of the
principal investigators and faculty mentors and in collaboration
with graduate students. The students will be recruited nationally
with emphasis on recruitment of students from institutions lacking
research facilities and located in the southwest region of the
United States.

CDA-9643536
$10,000-12 mos.
Singh, Ambuj
University of California, Santa Barbara
REU Supplement: Broadcasting on ATM Networks

This REU Supplement to NSF CISE Research Instrumentation Grant,
9421978, High Speed Cluster of Workstations, supports the
involvement of two undergraduate students chosen to partake in the
research concerning the design and implementation of various
reliable protocols on the ATM network installed at UCSB. Broadcast
protocols with different properties in terms of reliability,
delivery order and assumptions about the underlying system
synchrony have been proposed recently posing some interesting
design issues. These implemented protocols are expected to lay the
foundations for future work on building replicated databases on a
cluster of foundations connected by an ATM network.

CDA-9527932
$48,000-12 mos.
Truhlar, Donald G.
University of Minnesota
REU: Undergraduate Internship Program in Biophysical Computing and
Computational Dynamics

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates project will support
nne students per year in programs carried out during the summers,
for three years. The program's objective is to promote and help
support undergraduate involvement in ongoing and new research in
biophysical computing and computational dynamics and new software
development efforts for scientific computing and graphics support
for such research, as well as to carry out interesting and useful
research. Undergraduates will work with faculty on a wide variety
of projects. The Supercomputer Institute, an interdisciplinary
research program spanning all colleges of the University, provides
a focal point for the project and arranges sessions at which the
students working on various subprojects share their work, visit
each others' labs, and learn about related work.

CDA-9531571
$43,900-12 mos.
Vakakis, Alexander F.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
REU: Undergraduate Symbolic Computations in Engineering and Science
(USCES)

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates project will supprt
ten students per year in programs carried out during the summer,
for three years. The project will promote the emerging field of
symbolic computational science as an approach to computational
modeling and scientific computing with problems drawn primarily
from mechanical and industrial engineering. Specific goals of the
project are (a) to introduce the students to modern computational
and symbolic methodologies for solving challenging problems, (b) to
increase understanding of the qualitative and quantitative nature
of these problems, (c) to develop the students' ability to derive
and interpret mathematical models, and (d) to provide an integrated
educational experience to a selected group of undergraduate
students with special emphasis on underrepresented groups. Members
of the research team are from the University of Illinois and from
Wolfram Research and use of the symbolic manipulation package
Mathematica will be a focus of the effort.

CDA-9531321
$46,424-12 mos.
Wiedenbeck, Susan
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
REU: Research in Human-Computer Interaction and Multimedia
Interface Design

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates project will support
ten students per year in programs carried out during the Summers,
for three years. Students will be recruited from institutions
across the nation, particularly from predominantly undergraduate
institutions and with a maximum of three students per year from the
University of Nebraska. The research topics will be drawn from the
field of human-computer interaction (HCI) and multimedia interface
design. The program will involve seminars, research projects, and
academic year follow-up. The central activity will be the students'
research projects during which they will conceptualize a specific
problem within HCI, design a study to address the problem,
instrument the study and run pilot tests. During the follow-up
academic year, students will be encouraged to continue with data
collection and analysis, with the help of the PI. Students are
expected to leave the REU project with an understanding of the
research process and the job of a researcher, an appreciation of
creativity in science, and a sense of the excitement of scientific
discovery.

Special Initiatives

CDA-9640679
$150,000-0 mos.
Spohrer, James C.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Supplement: East-West Consortium: Next Generation Authoring Tools
& Instructional Applications

The East-West Consortium is a unique partnership of universities,
publishers, a computer software and hardware manufacturer, and the
government. The partnership aim is to develop next generation
authoring tools to empower non-programmers to develop interactive
content, training, and educational software. Since there is no
single learning architecture that is appropriate for all
situations, the consortium will develop a suite of tools and make
them accessible to content and design specialists who are
non-programmers. The consortium will build tools that have been
pioneered by the university partners and by Apple. These include:
cognitive tutor authoring tool (Carnegie Mellow University),
knowledge-based tutor authoring tool (University of Massachusetts
at Amherst), media-rich CBT authoring tool (Stanford Medical
School), simulation with critics authoring tool (University of
Colorado at Boulder), and simulation-based learning authoring tools
(Apple). These tools will all be cross-platform using Apple-IBM
Kaleidas Script X standard and be composed of many parts that can
be integrated to build new hybrid tools using Apple, IBM, etc. Open
Doc and SOM/DSOM standard. Apple will drive the use of these
standards, provide the core tools technology for creating the task
specific authoring tools, and provide a commercialization path for
these efforts. To ensure that the development effort is responsive
to commercial tool needs, the publishers in the consortium,
Houghton Mifflin Company and PWS Publishing Company) are building
next generation interactive content in the areas of beginning
algebra and simulations for real world problem solving.
Partnerships with publishers focused on medical application areas
are also in place.

CDA-9642912
$3,000,000-24 mos.
Spohrer, James C.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Supplement: East-West Consortium: Next Generation Authoring Tools
& Instructional Applications

The East-West Consortium is a unique partnership of universities,
publishers, a computer software and hardware manufacturer, and the
government. The partnership aim is to develop next generation
authoring tools to empower non-programmers to develop interactive
content, training, and educational software. Since there is no
single learning architecture that is appropriate for all
situations, the consortium will develop a suite of tools and make
them accessible to content and design specialists who are
non-programmers. The consortium will build tools that have been
pioneered by the university partners and by Apple. These include:
cognitive tutor authoring tool (Carnegie Mellow University),
knowledge-based tutor authoring tool (University of Massachusetts
at Amherst), media-rich CBT authoring tool (Stanford Medical
School), simulation with critics authoring tool (University of
Colorado at Boulder), and simulation-based learning authoring tools
(Apple). These tools will all be cross-platform using Apple-IBM
Kaleidas Script X standard and be composed of many parts that can
be integrated to build new hybrid tools using Apple, IBM, etc. Open
Doc and SOM/DSOM standard. Apple will drive the use of these
standards, provide the core tools technology for creating the task
specific authoring tools, and provide a commercialization path for
these efforts. To ensure that the development effort is responsive
to commercial tool needs, the publishers in the consortium,
Houghton Mifflin Company and PWS Publishing Company) are building
next generation interactive content in the areas of beginning
algebra and simulations for real world problem solving.
Partnerships with publishers focused on medical application areas
are also in place.

CDA-9642945
$400,000-0 mos.
Winner, Robert I.
The Enterprise Computing Institute
HyperEducation Consortium

The HyperEducation Consortium for NII-Based Education is a
partnership of Enterprising Computing Institute, Inc.-a private
none profit research center; Digital Equipment Corporation, Digital
Learning Services-a developer and distributor of educational
courses and training services; and Aimtech-a developer of
cross-platform software tools for developing interactive multimedia
applications. The Consortium proposes to extend and use Aimtech's
authoring system to enable the building of modular educational
materials from electronic document forms. The educational modules
can be adapted to a variety of learning styles for computer-based
training, instructor led exercises, distance learning, performance
support, and computer simulations. The Consortium plans to provide
a mechanism that will enable educators to choose modules based on
price, quality, use, and supporting materials. The modules can be
stored locally or across the National Information Infrastructure.
(NII).


Index

A

Adeyemi, Hazekiah   26
Adjouadi, Malek     12, 43
Aho, Alfred    1
Alo, Richard   12, 41
Ambler, Allen  1

B

Bailey, Diane  20
Bajaj, Chandrajit L.     35
Bajcsy, Ruzena 1
Barreto, Armando B. 35
Bergeron, R. Daniel 26
Bernat, Andrew 12
Berry, Michael W.   35
Bramley, Randall    26
Brandeis University 2
Bruno, John    1
Burleson, Wayne P.  36

C

Campbell, Roy  2
Campbell, Thomas    20
Carraher, David     20
Carroll, John M.    31
Cartwright, Robert S.    17
Chen, Marina   2, 36
Cohen, Elaine  36
Cole, Ronald   20
Colgate, James E.   31
Condon, Anne   41
Cook, Diane J. 36
Culler, David  2
Cuny, Janice   41
Cuny, Janice E.     26
Cushing, Judith B.  17

D

Davis, Larry   31
DeFanti, Thomas     3
Dev, Pravati   21
Dobkin, David  6
Dongarra, Jack 3
Du, David 3
Dubinsky, Ed   21

E

Ehrich, Roger  3
Ellis, Mary    13
Erlinger, Michael A.     37
Eschen, Elaine 13
Espinosa, Ramon     13
Evans, D. L.   21
Ewing, R. 21

F

Farin, Gerald E.    32
Fischer, Gerhard    22, 37
Fontana, Lynn  22
French, James C.    41, 43
Fujimoto, Richard   4
Fussell, Donald     4

G

Garcia, Oscar N.    27
Giguette, Marguerite     13
Gilland-Swetland, Anne   22
Ginsberg, Matthew L.     32
Glinert, Ephraim    17
Grosz, Barbara 4

H

Hachtel, Gary D.    37
Hanrahan, Patrick   4
Hanson, Eric N.     37
Harmon, Marion 14
Harrington, James   42
Haynes, Christopher 17
Henderson, Thomas C.     4, 5
Hiromoto, Robert    14
Hodges, Larry  43
Hollan, James  5
Hollebeek, Robert   27
Honey, Margaret     22
Horowitz, Ellis     5
Huang, Thomas  5

I

Ibarra, Oscar H.    40

J

Jacobson, Douglas W.     38
Jain, Raj 38
Jones, Rhys P. 18

K

Kaiser, Gail E.     38
Karant, Yasha J.    14
Kearney, Joseph K.  39
King, Willis   42
Kolodner, Janet     23
Kozma, Robert  23
Kraimeche, Belkacem 27
Kriz, Ronald   27
Kuh, Ernest S. 32
Kurose, James  6

L

Larason, Katherine S.    15
Lawrence, Patricia A.    43
LeBlanc, Thomas     6
Li, Kai   6
Lilja, David J.     32
Loh, Eugene C. 28
Long, Tim 18

M

Madigan, David 23
Mediavilla, Ricardo 28
Messina, Paul  6, 7
Miller, W. Thomas   44
Mitchell, Joseph S. 33
Moreno, Oscar  14
Murphy, Robin  44
Myers, Eugene  7

N

Narang, Hira   15
Naughton, Jefferey  7

O

O'Keefe, Barbara J. 23
Ozsoyoglu, Gultekin Z.   39

P

Pea, Roy  23
Peshkin, Michael A. 39
Psarris, Kleanthis  39

Q

Quinn, Michael 8
R
Ranka, Sanjay  18
Reddy, A.L. Narasimha    28
Resnick, Michael    24
Rice, John     8

S

Sahni, Sartaj  8
Schank, Roger  24
Schlager, Mark 24
Schnabel, Robert    9
Scholtz, Robert A.  28
Schwartz, Jacob E.  29
Scott , T. Gordon   29
Semper, Robert 25
Shapiro, Steven S.  29
Shephard, Mark 29
Shirazi, Behrooz    44
Singh, Ambuj   44
Smith, Jonathan     18
Sohraby, Khosrow    33
Spohrer, James 46
Spohrer, James C.   46
Stanley, Eugene     25
Sugar, Robert  31

T

Thompson, William   9
Truhlar, Donald G.  44
Truszczynski, Miroslaw   9
Turner, Jonathan    9

V

Vaidya, Nitin  40
Vakakis, Alexander F.    45
Van Cleave, Nancy   15
Vardi, Moshe Y.     33
Vasquez, Ramon 16
Vemuri, Ranganadha  19
Vitter, Jeffrey     10

W

Walters, Jim   25
Warren, David  10
Weiss, Stephen 10
Weymouth, Terry     10
Wiedenbeck, Susan   45
Winner, Robert I.   46
Wise, David    11
Wolf, Wayne    11
Woolf, Beverly Park 25
Wulf, William  19

Z

Zhang, Jianping     19
Zwaenepoel, Willy   11, 34