The growing computational and storage needs of several scientific applications mandate the deployment of extreme-scale parallel machines, such as IBM’s BlueGene/L which can acc...
— The dangerous and time sensitive nature of a disaster area makes it an ideal application for robotic exploration. Our long term goal is to enable humans, software agents, and a...
Modern high speed interconnects such as Myrinet and Gigabit Ethernet have shifted the bottleneck in communication from the interconnect to the messaging software at the sending an...
The success and popularity of social network systems, such as del.icio.us, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube, have generated many interesting and challenging problems to the research...
Severely resource-constrained devices present a confounding challenge to the functional programmer: we are used to having powerful ion facilities at our fingertips, but how can we...