Research Bytes V

Profs. Emmanuel Agu, Michael Ciaraldi, Fernando C. Colon Osorio, and Michael Gennert
Professors C.S. Dept., WPI

November 07, 2003
11 a.m. - 12 noon
Fuller Labs 320

Abstract

Professor Agu:: Mobile graphics explores research issues involved in running networked graphics applications on mobile devices, over wireless networks. Computer graphics applications are computationally intensive and resource hungry, requiring significant amounts of CPU time, battery power, and storage capacity. Mobile devices on the other hand, have limited resources and wireless channels have low bandwidths and high error rates, making the delivery and interaction with graphics content in mobile environments even more challenging. Adaptation based on a client device's capabilities and wireless network conditions is necessary. The Mobile Adaptive Distributed Graphics Framework (MADGRAF), is a programmable distributed client-server architecture for interactive 3D graphics in mobile environments. In MADGRAF, a server may assist a client in several ways, including applying intelligent graphics optimizations such as polygon or image-based simplification, efficient transmission by compressing graphics files in order to save bandwidth, parallelizing and distributing the stages of graphics pipeline and intelligent caching, all tailored to the client's capabilities.
Professor Ciaraldi:: Why is Professor of Practice Mike Ciaraldi called "The utility infielder of the CS Department?" From Worcester, to Wall Street, to Venice, my interests cover the financial, embedded, distributed, historical, and software engineering fields.
Professor Colon Osorio:: Security, Architecture & Secure Networking - By the year 2013, the "World is Connected". Such a Global Network consists of Billions of Nodes. In this context, every conceivable device (PC's, notebooks, traditional business servers, PDA's, cars, telephones, home infrastructure, others) has an embedded processor, which is connected to the Global net via a high-speed link (wired or wireless). The typical device/appliance has the computational capability equivalent to that of a 1 THz microprocessor with a Terabyte of memory, and a network connection to THE GLOBAL NET of at least 1 Gbit/sec.; The problem of attacks where sophisticated communities, such as BLACKHAT users, compromised larger and larger numbers of unsuspecting (and unsuspected) devices/appliances, with computing & connectivity power similar to those described above, in an effort to launch major attacks on both Government and Corporate Global Infrastructure of the year 2013 must be addressed. We called these attacks "Swarm Attacks", like a "swarm of bees" [1]. In this short talk the problem will be described and potential solutions presented.
Professor Gennert:: What do Nuclear Physics, Human Anatomy, Software Engineering, Cluster Computing, Discrete Mathematics, and Image Processing have in common? They are all useful for Medical Imaging! Find out how.

Refreshments will be served.

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