MIME-Version: 1.0 Server: CERN/3.0 Date: Monday, 16-Dec-96 23:56:40 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 7215 Last-Modified: Monday, 16-Dec-96 19:49:19 GMT Research Projects in the Cornell CS Department

Research Projects

These are links to the home pages for a variety of departmental research projects and groups. Some projects (marked with a *) have interactive demonstrations available - try them out!

* Masters of Engineering Projects

Proposal for new projects and a show-case for completed ones.

* SimLab Modeling and Simulation Project

Brings together the technologies of geometric modeling, symbolic mathematics, numerical analysis, compilation/code generation, and formal methods to forge new software tools for creating scientific software.

Robotics and Vision Lab

Focuses on the topics of machine vision, navigation and tracking, robotic manipulation, distributed and cooperative robotics, microelectromechanical systems, planning and control, uncertainty and error, and geometric algorithms.

* NuPrl

A system that implements a constructive theory of types. NuPrl provides both a formal system of mathematics and a programming language. It allows the user to express a wide variety of proof and program-building methods as metalevel programs of the system and use these to construct mathematical theorems and evaluate their computational content.

HyTech

HyTech is an automatic tool for the analysis of embedded systems. HyTech computes the condition under which a linear hybrid system satisfies a temporal-logic requirement.

Horus

The Horus project has developed a modular and extensible process-group communication system, addressing the requirements of a wide variety of robust distributed applications.

CS-TR Project

The Computer Science Technical Report (CS-TR) project is an ARPA-funded consortium of the top five computer science departments (Berkeley, CMU, Cornell, MIT, and Stanford) and the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). The project's goals are to further research in the electronic publication of technical reports over the Internet and to make available the existing library of technical reports at the member universities.

Project Zeno

Focuses on multimedia systems technologies, including video file servers, network transport protocols, multimedia user interface toolkits, and video special effects.

Information Capture and Access

The information capture and access research group works on ways that computers can locate information in the ever increasing volume of online data, determine its structure, and extract the information for human users.

Cluster Computing

U-Net - A user-level network interface architecture

U-Net offers communication performance on par with parallel machines on an ATM cluster of Sun workstations. It supports parallel programming environments (such as Active Messages and Split-C) as well as traditional networking protocols like TCP.

Active Messages -- High-performance communication

Information about developments using the Active Messages communication architecture.

Split-C -- A simple parallel extension to C

Information about developments of Split-C.

CUCS SP-2 -- Computer Science SP-2 info

Information about our baby SP-2. What's installed, where to find it and how to use it.

Design Research Institute

The Design Research Institute is an organization of collaborating industry and academic scientists and engineers devoted to research bringing computer science and computation technology to bear on problems of engineering design.

ACRI (Advanced Computing Research Institute)

The ACRI, under the direction of Thomas F. Coleman, is concerned with scientific computation research and its application to engineering and scientific problems. Of particular importance is the use of advanced computer architectures and environments. The ACRI resides in both the Cornell Theory Center and the Computer Science Department.

* Audio System for Technical Readings (AsTeR)

AsTeR --Audio System For Technical Readings-- is a computing system for rendering technical documents in audio.

QMG: Finite Element Mesh Generation

QMG is a toolkit of C++ and Matlab routines for geometric modeling, unstructured mesh generation for complicated geometries in two and three dimensions, and finite element solution of boundary value problems. This software is available by anonymous FTP. The mesh generation algorithm is based on research by S. Mitchell and S. Vavasis.

ARPA funded projects

MediaNet: A High-Performance Platform for Network Media Processing

MediaNet combines three technologies developed at Cornell to develop a flexible, high performance testbed for storing, transporting, processing, and using multimedia data.

Horus Distributed Computing Environment

Formal Support for High Assurance Systems

Foundations and Support for Survivable Systems

Air Force funded projects

NYNET ATM Tools for Parallel and Distributed Computing