Department of Computer Science Industry Board

The following information is compiled from a survey of University of Pittsburgh Computer Science faculty members and Computer Science Industry Board members:

General Area of Interest	Specific Interest	Faculty Member(s)	Industry Member(s)
Algorithms and Theory
	Middleware Support for Multicast-Based Data Dissemination	Panos Chrysanthis Kurt Pruhs
	Server Scheduling	Kurt Pruhs Patchrawat Uthaisombut
Architectures and Compilers
	Power Aware Real-Time Systems	Bruce Childers Rami Melhem Daniel Mosse Kirk Pruhs Patchrawat Uthaisombut	The Technology Collaborative Mark Borger
	Fault Tolerant Systems	Rami Melhem	Compunetix Ben Krokosky Jerry Pompa
	Optical Networks	Rami Melhem	Bank of NY Mellon Denis Smith Mark Shozda
	Chip Level Optoelectronic Interconnections (MCMs)	Don Chiarulli
	Optical-Electronic-Mechanical Multi-Domain CAD	Don Chiarulli
	Optical Memory Systems	Don Chiarulli
	Robotics	Don Chiarulli	The Technology Collaborative Mark Borger
	SOC Voice-Based Interfaces	Don Chiarulli	Compunetix Ben Krokosky Jerry Pompa
	CoCo: Continuous Compilation	Bruce Childers
	CAST: Computer Architecture, Systems, and Technology Lab FIESTA (flexible and energy-efficient embedded systems architecture) and MCC (malleable many-core architectures)	Sangyeun Cho	The Technology Collaborative Mark Borger
	RADAR: reliability-aware design and adaptive reconfiguration	Sangyeun Cho
	CA-Ram (content addressable random access memory)	Sangyeun Cho
Artificial Intelligence
	The ForestBott Project: Towards putting robots in the forest	Robert Daley
	Stochastic Networks: Analysis and Optimizations	Milos Hauskrecht	Union Switch & Signal Frank Boyle
	Anomaly Detection in Clinical Databases	Milos Hauskrecht	Union Switch & Signal Frank Boyle
	Bioinformatics	Milos Hauskrecht
	Markov Decision Processes	Milos Hauskrecht	Union Switch & Signal Frank Boyle
	Natural Language Processing	Rebecca Hwa Diane Litman Janyce Wiebe	Compunetix Ben Krokosky Jerry Pompa
	Tutoring Scientific Explanations via Natural Language Dialogue	Janyce Wiebe
	Andes Intelligent Tutoring System	Kurt VanLehn
	Atlas	Kurt VanLehn
	Why2000	Kurt VanLehn
Information and Data Management
	Advanced Data Management Technologies	Panos Chrysanthis Alexandros Labrinidis
	Data and Knowledge-Relational Mining: (1) intelligent medicine applications and (2) e-learning	Yasir Khalifa	Union Switch & Signal Frank Boyle
	Network-centric data management w/ emphasis on Quality of Data and Quality of Service: Web databases, data-stream management systems, data management for mobile and tiny devices, data management in p2p networks	Alexandros Labrinidis
	Bioinformatics/medical informatics	Alexandros Labrinidis
Operating Systems and Networks
	Embedded Systems: Pebble: a Component-Based System for Embedded Applications	Jose Brustoloni	The Technology Collaborative Mark Borger Compunetix Ben Krokosky
	Network I/O Buffering and Scheduling	Jose Brustoloni Buffer snap-off: Optional hardware support for emulated copy and I/O oriented IPC Emulated copy: Copy avoidance with copy semantics in monolithic systems I/O-oriented IPC: Copy avoidance with coy semantics in microkernel systems NetTap: Efficient PC-based platform for network programming SRP: Signal-based processing of incoming packets
	Network Security	Rami Melhem Daniel Mosse Taieb Znati Youtao Zhang Jose Brustoloni MicroISPs: Secure LAN-based nomadic Internet access in public areas VIPnet: Protecting e-commerce from distributed denial-of-service attacks	The Technology Collaborative Mark Borger
	Emergency and Disaster Management	Daniel Mosse	Compunetix Robert Haley Bank of NY Mellon Denis Smith Mark Shozda
	Network Traffic Control	Daniel Mosse	Union Switch & Signal Frank Boyle
	Quality of Service Eclipse/BSD: Retrofitting quality of service into a time-sharing system	Jose Brustoloni	The Technology Collaborative Mark Borger
	Connection Control and QoS Routing in WDM Networks	Rami Melhem Taieb Znati
	Productive, Easy to Use, Reliable Computer Systems	Rami Melhem
	Network Research Lab	Taieb Znati
Additional Areas of Interest from Board Members
	Software Engineering Processes, Project Management Methodologies and Commercial Programming Languages (Java and .Net)		CEI D. Raja
	Rapid Application development techniques/tools		Bank of NY Mellon Mark Shozda William Saunders
	Grid Computing		Bank of NY Mellon Denis Smith Mark Shozda William Saunders
	Web Mining		Bank of NY Mellon Peter Johnson Mark Shozda William Saunders
	Autonomic Computing		Bank of NY Mellon Peter Johnson Mark Shozda William Saunders
	Security - Authentication methods (i.e. what future holds direction, etc)		Bank of NY Mellon Paul Smocer Mark Shozda William Saunders