Colloquia: September 1995 - August 1997

David Johnson, AT&T Laboratories

The Traveling Salesman Problem: On the State of the Art

Peter Fenwick, University of Auckland

Block-Sorting Text Compression

Routo Terada, University of Sao Paulo and NTT

How to Strengthen FEAL Against Differential Cryptanalysis

Kazuaki Murakami, Kyushu University

PPRAM: A 21st-Century's Microprocessor Architecture

Richard Belew, University of California - San Diego

Adaptive Individuals in Evolving Populations: Models and Algorithms

Stephen Fenwick, Australian National University

Performance Analysis of Distributed Object Stores

C. W. Johnson, Australian National University

High Performance Object Store Research in Australia

George Bekey, University of Southern California

Biologically Inspired Control of Intelligent Machines

Valery Soloviev, North Dakota State University

The CANDID Video-on-Demand Server

Scott Baden, University of California - San Diego

Software Infrastructure for Irregular Scientific Computations on Parallel Processors

Steven Scott, Cray Research

The SCX Channel: A New Supercomputer-Class System Interconnect

Kirk Haller, Dalhousie University

On Blossoming and Duals

Alex Veidenbaum, University of Illinois at Chicago

Prefetching in Second-Level Caches

Una-May O'Reilly, MIT

A Comparative Approach to Understanding Genetic Programming

M. Vidyasagar, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, India

Discrete Optimization Using Analog Neural Networks

Jin-Yi Cai, SUNY Buffalo

The Resolution of a Hartmanis Conjecture

Helmut Pottmann, Technical University of Vienna

Studying NURBS Curves and Surfaces with Classical Geometry

Alexander Shevchenko, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

POLYE System: Computer Implementation of the R-functions Method

Thomas Ball, AT&T Laboratories

Tracking and Viewing Modifications on the Web

Norman Sondheimer, GE Corporate Research & Development

GE's Experience in Applying Artificial Intelligence Technology: Successes and Research Directions

Gregory Hager, Yale University

Cheap, Fast and Firmly in Control: Lightweight Systems for Real-Time Vision and Robotics

Richard Belew, University of California - San Diego

Global Sampling + Local Search: Hybridized Genetic Algorithms as Function Optimizers

Harold Jordan, University of Colorado at Boulder

Optical Computing: Speed-of-Light Digital Systems

Scott Page, California Institute of Technology

Problem Solving by Teams of Heterogeneous Agents

David Rich, BBN

Future Directions for Debugging Parallel/Distributed Systems

Andrew Glew, Intel

A Code Generator's Perspective on P6

Ronald DeVore, University of South Carolina

Wavelet-Based Image Processing

Ronald DeVore, University of South Carolina

Adaptive Methods and Regularity of PDE's

Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Laboratories

Decentralized Trust Management

Lotfi Zadeh, University of California - Berkeley

Computing with Words - A Paradigm Shift

Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Laboratories

Games, Complexity Classes, and Approximation Algorithms

Robert Colwell, Intel

The Pentium Pro Processor

Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology

How to Model an Internetwork

Lawrence Rudolph, Hebrew University

The Supersphere Electroholographic Architecture: Computer Architecture Issues for Optical Interconnection Networks

Steven Huss-Lederman, Argonne National Laboratory

What is MPI?

Michael Peshkin, Northwestern University

Image-Guided Surgery

Kim Bruce, Williams College

Typing in Object-Oriented Languages: Achieving Expressibility and Safety

Christos Papadimitriou, University of California - Berkeley

Complexity as Metaphor

Christos Papadimitriou, University of California - Berkeley

Computational Problems in Spatial Databases

Joel Emer, Digital Equipment Corporation

Internal Organization of the Alpha 21164: Design Choices for High Performance

Robert Andrews, Queensland University of Technology

Rule Refinement and Extraction with Local-Function Neural Networks

Jong-Shi Pang, Johns Hopkins University

Complementarity in Engineering

Jong-Shi Pang, Johns Hopkins University

Error Bounds in Mathematical Programming

Michael Mascagni, Institute for Defense Analysis

A Scalable Library For Pseudorandom Number Generation: Theory and Practice

Craig Chambers, University of Washington

Synergistic Language Design and Implementation Research

Wen-Han Wang, Intel

Microcomputer Research Challenges - An Introduction to Intel Microcomputer Research Labs

Kenneth Kennedy, Rice University

Compiler Support for Architecture-Independent Parallel Programming

Kenneth Kennedy, Rice University

Optimization of High Performance Fortran

Heinz-Otto Kreiss, UCLA and Royal Swedish Institute of Technology

Can One Trust Numerical Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations?

Michael Brown, Microsoft

New Technology and the Global Economy: A Vision for the Future

Usama Fayyad, Microsoft Research (formerly at JPL)

Observing the Universe Can Drown You in Images: Data Mining Solutions at JPL

Robert Borchers, NSF

From MegaFLOPS to TeraFlops: Computational Science in the Nineties

Craig Dedo, Elmbrook Computer Services

Current and Future Fortran Standards

Steven Huss-Lederman, Argonne National Laboratory

Strassen's Algorithm: A Practical Method for Fast Matrix Multiplication

Alex Pentland, MIT

Smart Rooms: Machine Understanding of Human Action

Alex Pentland, MIT

Toward Second-Generation Image Databases

Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab

Software Standards and Tools for Concurrent Computing

Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab

Recent Work in Parallel Algorithms for the Linear Algebra

Joao Meidanis, University of Campinas, Brazil

A Theory for the Consecutive Ones Property

Gary Schultz, Pacific Gas and Electric

Optimization Problems in Electric Power

Reinhard Wilhelm, University of the Saarland, Germany

Cache Behavior Prediction by Abstract Interpretation

Murray Pearson, Waikato University, New Zealand

The Architecture of an Optimistic CPU: The WarpEngine

Renato De Leone, University of Camerino, Italy

Data Envelopment Analysis

Donald Pfefferkorn, Hewlett Packard

Developing Support and Monitoring Software for a Parallel Processor System

Edward Felten, Princeton University

Java Security: Myth vs. Reality

Daniel Boneh, Bellcore

Collusion Secure Fingerprinting of Digital Data

Toshiyuki Shimizu, Fujitsu

AP3000 Parallel Server

Michael Lehman, Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems' View of the Future of the Java Computing Environment

Raphael Finkel, University of Kentucky

The Unify Project

Mihalis Yannakakis, AT&T Laboratories

Testing Finite State Systems

Brian Wylie, Swiss Center for Scientific Computing

The Annai Integrated Environment for HPF/MPI Application Engineering

Christian Kanzow, University of Hamburg

Hybrid Methods for Nonlinear Complementarity Problems

Richard Belew, University of California - San Diego

Competitive Co-evolution

Daniel Scales, DEC Western Research Laboratory

Shasta: A Low Overhead, Software-Only Approach for Supporting Fine-Grain Shared Memory

Jorg Peters, Purdue University

Surface Representations

James Golden, GeneSys Technologies

Evolutionary Optimization of Neural Networks For DNA Sequencing

Daniel Lieuwen, AT&T Laboratories

Recovering Scalable Spin Locks

Men-Chow Chiang, IBM-Austin

Experience With Modeling SMP System Performance - A Case Study in an IBM Product Development Site

Sandy Fraser, AT&T Laboratories

Broadband Communications for Consumers

Thomas DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago

The Coming Defenestration: Immersive Environments Without Windows

Daniel Lynch, CyberCash

Micropayments - The Energy Pill for a New World Order

Paul Mockapetris, Software.Com

Next Generation Internet: The Cable Perspective

Eric Schmidt, Novell

Evolution or Revolution? The Future of Network Computing

John Morgridge, Cisco Systems

Catching the WAVE

Christian Bischof, Argonne National Laboratory

Building Automatic Differentiation Tools

Jeffrey Hollingsworth, University of Maryland

Online Evaluation of Performance Tuning Alternatives

Eberhard Bertsch, Ruhr University

Non-Correcting Syntax Error Recovery

Robin Milner, Cambridge University

Computing is Interaction

Robin Milner, Cambridge University

The Pi Calculus and its Applications

Susan Eggers, University of Washington

Simultaneous Multithreading: Maximizing On-Chip Parallelism with a New Threaded Processor Architecture

Todd Austin, Intel

Cache-Conscious Data Placement

Joan Boyar, Odense University, Denmark

The Seat Reservation Problem

Kim Larsen, Odense University, Denmark

Search Trees with Relaxed Balance

Jeffrey Thomas, Exponential Technology

The Architecture of Exponential PowerPC X704

Roland Wismueller, Technical University of Munich

OMIS v2.0 - A Universal Interface for On-line Monitoring Systems

Richard Stellwagen, NCR

Data Warehousing in the Real World: An NCR/Teradata Perspective

Sarita Adve, Rice University

The Impact of ILP Processors on Shared-Memory Multiprocessing

Michael Mascagni, University of Southern Mississipi

A Deterministic Particle Method for One-Dimensional Reaction-Diffusion Equations

Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University

The Stanford Hydra Single Chip Multiprocessor

Yoonho Park, University of Houston

Physical Memory Management for Scientific Applications

Donald McClure, Brown University

Examples of Mathematical Approaches to Machine Vision Problems in Manufacturing and Entertainment

Jason Wu, Argonne National Laboratory

A PLAPACK-Based Symmetric Band Reduction Routine

Michael Smith, Harvard University

Code Movement and Code Placement Optimizations in Machine SUIF

Anthony Barrett, Allen-Bradley

The Current State of the Art in Control Programming

Joseph Hellerstein, University of California - Berkeley

Online Aggregation

Margo Seltzer, Harvard University

Issues and Challenges in Extensible Operating Systems

Joseph Flaherty, RPI

A Framework for the Parallel Adaptive Solution of Partial Differential Equations

Tian-Xiao He, Illinois Wesleyan University

C^1 Quadratic Macroelements and C^1 Orthogonal Multiresolution Analyses in 2D

Tomas Pajdla, Czech Technical University

Image-Based Scene Representation at the Czech Technical University

Andre Seznec, IRISA / INRIA

Multiple-Block Ahead Branch Predictors

Ronald Jones, CSIRO, Australia

A Graph-Based Segmentation of Wood Micrographs

Yuhua Luo, University of Balearic Islands

Virtual Studio for TV Program Production