Date: Thursday, 21-Nov-96 19:12:54 GMT Server: NCSA/1.2 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Wednesday, 18-Sep-96 05:23:42 GMT Content-length: 7001 Jerry Potter


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Jerry Potter

Professor

Jerry Potter received his Bachelors degree from the University of Iowa, his Masters from Stevens Institute and his Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has worked at IDA's Supercomputing Research Center, Goodyear Aerospace, Xerox Research and Bell Telephone Laboratories. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Kent State University. While at Goodyear, he was involved in software development for the STARAN, ASPRO and MPP SIMD computers. While at the Supercomputing Research Center, he performed research on the Connection Machine for 1 and 1/2 years. He has been funded by the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Naval Surface Weapon Center (NSWC), NASA Langley, NASA Lewis and an Ohio Edison Innovative Research Grant. His research interests include the continuing development of the associative computing paradigm, the integration of associative SIMD computers with other architectures in a heterogeneous supercomputer environment, the development of techniques for compilation on massively parallel SIMD computers, natural language and artificial intelligence processing on SIMD computers, and the development of techniques for the introduction of parallel programming at the high school level.

Selected Research Accomplishments

Over the last 5 years, Dr. Potter has developed and implemented the ``Associative Computing Paradigm" as a general purpose approach to parallel computing. His research has resulted in an associative language (ASC) incorporating constructs to exploit associative search and memory allocation for scalable parallel computing. He has recently published a ``Frontiers of Computer Science" research monograph ``ASSOCIATIVE COMPUTING'' (Plenum Publishers, February 1992) on his work in associative computing. He was awarded an ``Ohio Innovator Award" in 1987 for his research on parallel OPS5 and associative computing. He has supervised 2 Ph. D. students, 24 MS students, and refereed for numerous conferences and journals. He is also an area editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He has had support from NOSC and NASA for the investigation of Heterogeneous Associative Computing.

Ph. D. Students

1. C. Asthagiri, ``An Associative Parallel Compiler for an Associative Computing language'', July 1991.

2. C. Leangsuksun, ``Practical Task Mapping Strattegies for Heterogeneous Computing Environments'', May 1995.

3. S. Scott, ``Heterogeneous Associative Computing'' In progress.

4. G. DeLozier, ``A Natural Language Operating System'' In progress.

M. S. Students Graduated:
24 (Four recent graduates below)

1. G. DeLozier, ``Image Processing Algorithms for Radiographic Analysis'', Fall 1992.

2. R. Miles, ``Parallel Algorithms for Global Optimization," Fall 1993.

3. D. Haverstock, ``A New Assembler for the STARAN E," Spring 1994.

4. M. Kotran, ``Dynamic Dump Debugger for ASC," Fall 1994.

Selected Research Funding and Awards

1. ``Robot Environment Expert System,'' NASA - Langley

2. Ohio Edison Innovative Research Award - State of Ohio

3. ``Associative Heterogeneous Computing'', NRAD

4. ``Programming Techniques for SIMD Computers'', ONR

Miscellaneous Research Activities

1. Area Editor: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

2. Outstanding Reviewer Award from COMPUTER

3. Associative Processing -

Invited presentation to ONR.

Invited presentation to USC.

Invited presentation to SUNY Albany.

4. Robot Vision and SIMD Computers - Invited presentation to George Mason University.

Selected Research Publications

1. ``THE MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSOR,'' MIT Press, 1985.

2. ``An Associative Model of Computation'', Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Supercomputing, Volume III May 4-7, 1987, pp. 1-8.

3. ``Data Structures for Associative Computers'', in Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, Oct. 10-12, 1988, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

4. `` Array Processor Supercomputers'', (with W. Meilander), Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 77, No. 12, December 1989, pp. 1896-1989.

5. ``Exploiting Data Parallelism for Efficient Execution of Logic Programs with Large Knowledge Bases'', (with A. K. Bansal), Proc. of the International Conference of Tools for Artificial Intelligence, Washington D. C., USA, November 1990, pp. 674 - 681.

6. ``Parallel Associative Lexing'', (with C. Asthagiri), in Proceedings of the International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1992, pp. 366-369.

7. ``Associative Computing'', Research Monograph, Plenum Publishing, February 1992.

8. ``Associative Prolog'', (with A. K. Bansal), Associative Computing by J. L. Potter, Plenum Publishers, February 1992

9. ``An Associative Model to Minimize Matching and Backtracking Overhead in Logic Programs with Large Knowledge Bases'', (with A. K. Bansal), The International Journal for Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Pergamon Press, Volume 5, Number 3, pp. 247-262.

10. ``A Data Parallel Shell for Large Knowledge bases'', with A. Bansal in Advanced Research Series in Knowledge Base Shells, World Scientific Publishers, 1992.

11. ``Heterogeneous Associative Computing'', Keynote Speech, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Heterogeneous Processing, New Port Beach, Calif, April 13-16, 1993, pp. 3-11.

12. ``ASC: An Associative Computing Paradigm'' in COMPUTER, November 1994, pp. 19-26 (with J. Baker, et al.).



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