University of Utah
Department of Computer Science

Current Funded Research

As an indication of the breadth and specialties of current research activity in the department, the following list summarizes a partial list of funded projects underway at the time of this handbook's publication.

• Design of Asynchronous Circuits, NSF, Erik Brunvand and Ganesh Gopalakrishnan.

• Investigating Hybridfunction and Data Shipping Parallel Programming Environment, NSF, John Carter.

• Summer Computing Institute, NSF, Elaine Cohen and David Hanscom.

• Lightweight Protocols and Systems Support for Closely Coupled Multicomputers based on High Performance Interconnects, HP, Al Davis and Mark Swanson.

• Communication and Memory Architectures for Scalable Parallel Computing, ARPA, Al Davis

• Helysis LOM 1015, ARPA, Sam Drake.

• A Multi-Paradigm Verification System Tailored for the Design Refinement Cycle, NSF, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan.

• AASERT Traineeships, ARPA, Thomas Henderson.

• Graduate Research Traineeships, NSF, Thomas Henderson and Stephen Jacobsen.

• Computer Aided Prototyping, NSF, Thomas Henderson, Stephen Jacobsen, Gary Lindstrom, Richard Riesenfeld, and Kent Smith.

• CISE Research Instrumentation, NSF, Thomas Henderson and William Thompson.

• Implementation and Evaluation of a Parallel Text Searcher for Very Large Data Bases, NSF, Lee Hollaar.

• Medical Robotics, UBC, John Hollerbach.

• Rapid Virtual Prototyping of Mechanical Assemblies, NSF, John Hollerbach.

• Academic Research Infrastructure Award, NSF, Chris Johnson, Tom Henderson, Gary Barbour.

• Quantitative Inverse Electrocardiography, NIH, Chris Johnson.

• Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, NSF, Chris Johnson

• Bioelectric Field Simulation, Medtronics, Chris Johnson.

• Defibrillation Simulation Software Development, Siemens Corp, Chris Johnson.

• Fate of the Universe Visualization, Hansen Planetarium, Chris Johnson.

• Fast and Flexible Mach-Based Systems, ARPA, Jay Lepreau.

• Institutional Training Grant in Genomic Science, NIH, Gary Lindstrom, Thomas Henderson, Chris Johnson, Ellen Riloff, John Hollerbach, John Carter, Robert Mecklenburg, Robert Kessler, and Kent Smith.

• Sound and Flexible Module Combination, ONR, Gary Lindstrom.

• Object Management---AASERT Traineeships, ARPA, Gary Lindstrom.

• Utah Center for Human Genome Research, NIH, Gary Lindstrom, Robert Kessler, and Robert Mecklenburg.

• Concurrent Integrated Design and Manufacturing, Navy, Richard Riesenfeld and Elaine Cohen.

• Center for Excellence for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, State of Utah, Richard Riesenfeld and Elaine Cohen.

• Integrated Computer Aided Geometric Design and Manufacture, ARPA, Richard Riesenfeld and Elaine Cohen.

• Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, NSF Science and Technology Center, Richard Riesenfeld, Elaine Cohen, and Beat Bruderlin.

• Advanced Combustion Engineering Research Center - Parallel Processing, NSF, Kris Sikorski.

• Cell Matrix-Based Design of High-Speed Systems, Navy, Kent Smith.

• Rapid Prototyping of Analog/Digital Circuits, FBI, Kent Smith.

• Prototype Implementation of a High Performance Multiple User Spread Spectrum Network Receiver, University of Utah Research Foundation, Kent Smith and Robert Short.

• PPL Cell Maintenance, Maryland Procurement, Kent Smith.

• SINC Algorithm Development, NSF, Frank Stenger.

• Structure from Motion Based on Information at Surface Boundaries, NSF, William Thompson.

• Sensing Strategies for Advanced Manufacturing, ARPA, William Thompson, Thomas Henderson, and Beat Bruderlin.

• Interactive Software Tools for Teaching Scientific Computing, DOE, Joe Zachary.

• Computer Based Laboratories for Introductory Computing, NSF, Joe Zachary.