Message from the Department Head Faculty Shreeram Abhyankar David C. Anderson Alberto Apostolico Mikhail J. Atallah Chandrajit L. Bajaj Bharat Bhargava Douglas E. Comer Samuel D. Conte H. E. Dunsmore Wayne R. Dyksen Ahmed K. Elmagarmid Greg N. Frederickson Walter Gautschi Concettina Guerra Apostolos Hadjidimos Susanne E. Hambrusch Christoph M. Hoffmann Antony Hosking Elias N. Houstis Anupam Joshi Bradley J. Lucier Robert E. Lynch Dan Cristian Marinescu Aditya P. Mathur Jörg Peters Norman Ramsey Vernon J. Rego John R. Rice Vincent F. Russo Elisha Sacks Eugene H. Spafford John M. Steele Wojciech Szpankowski Samuel S. Wagstaff, Jr. Sanjiva Weerawarana Michal Young Computing FacilitiesGeneral FacilitiesInformation ServicesI/O EquipmentNetworking ServicesCOAST LaboratoryCollaborative Modeling and VisualizationCS&E LabELLPACK-PDELabInterBaseInternetworking and Systems Research LabPacsLabRAIDScalable Parallel AlgorithmsSERCSoftLabXinuWindow Systems LabPurdue University Computing Center Facilities Research Funding Research Projects Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry Algorithmic and Combinatorial Tools for Sequence Analysis Parallel Algorithms for Geometric Problems Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures in Computer Aided Geometric Design Project SHASTRA: Distributed and Collaborative Multimedia Synthetic Environments for Geometric Design Interrogative Visualization of Multidimensional Data Digital Libraries Distributed Database Systems Research (RAID Project) Distributed Object-Oriented Database Research
Mobile Computing Multimedia Database Research Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) An Automated Environment for Engineering Software Development Xinu Operating System Xinu Port to Pentium Processors Crosspoint Project Internetworking Research Project Developing Optimal Object-Oriented Design and Programming Techniques InterBase Lab Graph Algorithms and Data Structures Applied Orthogonal Polynomials Multiresolution Object Recognition Neural Computing Parallel Scalable Libraries and Algorithms for Computer Vision Research in VLSI Circuit Compaction Geometric and Solid Modeling Spatial Constraint Solving SoftLab--A Laboratory for Computational Science High-Performance Computing (HPC) Methods and Systems for Partial Differential Equations (PDE) Parallel Methods and Collaborating Systems for Solving Partial Differential Equations PDE Solving Kernels and Systems for Scalable MIMD Multiprocessors PDELab: A Development and Problem Solving Environment for PDE-Based Applications on Parallel Machines PYTHIA: Using Computational Intelligence to Support Problem Solving Environments WWW //ELLPACK: A Web Based Problem Solving Environment for Partial Differential Equations SciencePad Vision, Geometry and Heuristic Problem Solving Regularity and Approximation for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws in Several Space Dimensions Parallel Algorithms and Methods for Solving Macromolecular Structures Parallel and Distributed Computing for Solving Very Large Structural Biology Problems The Study of the Paging and I/O Activity of Parallel Programs Effectiveness and Performance in Software Testing White-box Models for the Estimation of Software Reliability Foundations and Tools for Surface Modeling The ACES Project The Ariadne Threads System The Arachne Threads System The Conch Communications System The Clam Communications System The EcliPSe Simulation System The ParaSol Distributed Simulation System The DISplay System ELLPACK System Multidisciplinary Problem Solving Environments The Renaissance Object-Oriented Operating System Garbage Collection for Object-Oriented Software Module Constructs for Object-Oriented and Functional Languages Dynamics Research Kinematics Research Joint Modeling New Approaches to Software Debugging Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology Stability Considerations for Networks: Asymptotic Behaviors and Limits of Multidimensional Models Data Compression from String Matching Perspective: Second Order Properties Project Isaac: Building Simulations for Virtual Environments Proxima: Contact and Collision Support for Virtual Environments Algorithms for Factoring Large Integers Low-Threat Patch Distribution Concurrency Analysis Tool Suite Concurrency Control and Scheduling for Hard Real-time Systems Research Expenditures & Awards Total Government & Industrial Grants Publications S. S. Abhyankar A. Apostolico M. J. Atallah C. L. Bajaj B. Bhargava O. A. Bukhres D. E. Comer R. A. DeMillo H. E. Dunsmore A. K. Elmagarmid G. N. Frederickson W. Gautschi C. Guerra A. Hadjidimos S. E. Hambrusch A. Helal C. M. Hoffmann A. L. Hosking E. N. Houstis A. Joshi R. E. Lynch D. C. Marinescu A. P. Mathur J. Peters N. Ramsey V. Rego J. R. Rice V. F. Russo E. P. Sacks E. H. Spafford W. Szpankowski S. S. Wagstaff S. Weerawarana M. Young Ph. D. Students December 1994 May 1995 August 1995 December 1995
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