Server: Netscape-Commerce/1.12 Date: Tuesday, 26-Nov-96 00:07:15 GMT Last-modified: Thursday, 15-Jun-95 00:38:37 GMT Content-length: 1947 Content-type: text/html Programmming Systems Research Group

David K. Gifford,
Professor
Electrical Engineering,
and Computer Science

The Programming Systems Research Group is exploring methodologies to facilitate the discovery and use of information. Our current projects include an intelligent query access system that implements resource discovery on the Internet (NII); digital video storage, composition, and presentation; mobile access to Internet resources; caching architectures for information; and personal information discovery agents. These projects are presently based on extensions to Semantic File Systems, Mosaic/WWW servers, WAIS servers, and object repositories.

Each of our projects is designed to test a new concept. Examples of concepts we are currently examining include content routing, algebraic video, and the creative use highly asymmetic bandwidth.

Our approach to research is to use formal tools, implementation, and experimentation to help us understand the strenghts and limitations of a given system. The end goals of a project are to publish new algorithms and experimental findings, to create a complete system that can be released for use by people outside of MIT, and to have fun (of course).