Research Bytes 4

Professors Mark Claypool, Michael Gennert, and Matthew Ward
Professors, Computer Science Department, WPI

October 15, 2004
11 a.m. - 12 noon
Fuller Labs 320

Abstract

Professors Mark Claypool, Michael Gennert, and Matthew Ward will be giving 15 minutes presentations of their research areas. Everyone is invited to learn more about each professor's research area and the problems he or she is currently pursuing. Below are brief descriptions:

Professor Claypool: The promise of up to 54 Mbps capacity from a wireless access point has meant that users now expect to see streaming video on their wireless media clients. However, it remains unknown at this point which wireless channel characteristics, such as signal strength or link layer bit rate, are the most useful for adapting streaming the video. This research byte will briefly present the design of experiments aimed at correlating wireless link layer performance and network layer performance with streaming media application layer performance. The intent is to build custom measurement tools at each layer and conduct wireless measurement studies at several pre-selected locations. The immediate focus is to consider several key questions about streaming media performance over wireless networks, and then to use the knowledge gained to build better streaming systems. Preliminary results will be presented, representing one snapshot of a larger set of data to be gathered for the different network locations and different video characteristics.
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.
Professor Ward: Prof. Ward will talk about his interests in the visual display of data and information. In particular, he is interested in exploratory visualization of very large repositories of heterogeneous data in a wide range of application domains, which draws on fields such as computer graphics, user interface design, statistics, data mining, and data management.

Host

Neil T. Heffernan
Refreshments will be served.

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