Research Activities & Projects
Active Projects, by area:
Reversible programming
systems (architectures, languages,
emulators, compilers, debuggers) (goals 1, 2, 3, D D paper,
overview)
Collaborators: Carlin Vieri, Dave
Small. Current students: Andrew Dickinson, Charles Vermette, Shawn Outman. Past students: Steve
Lewis, Waishan Lau, Christian
Roberson, Matt DeBergalis. Potential
collaborators: Chris Carothers (Renssalaer),
Antonio Gentile (Italy). Past collaborators: Tom Knight, Norm Margolus, Scott Rixner.
Reversible algorithms (goal)
Current
students: Andrew Dickinson. Past
collaborators: Josie Ammer.
Adiabatic circuits (overview)
Collaborators: Bill Eisenstadt, Ken O, Rob Fox, Khai Ngo (ECE).
Current students: Krishna Natarajan, Venkiteswaran
Anantharam.
Past students: Brent Lang, Percy Liang, Tom Holz.
Past collaborators: Carlin Vieri, Tom Knight, Norm Margolus, Josie Ammer, Nicole Love,
Scott Rixner.
Adiabatic power supplies,
MEMS-based (or not) (goals, proposal)
AdiaMEMS Project –
MEMS-based adiabatic power supplies.
Collaborators: Huikai Xie (ECE) Khai Ngo (ECE), Ken O (ECE).
Current
students: Maojiao He (ECE)
Past
students: Carol Demas.
Potential collaborators: Toshi Nishida (ECE),
Mark Sheplak (AeMES)
Complexity theory of
reversible computing (goal, paper)
Past
collaborators: Josie Ammer
(Berkeley), Michael Sipser (MIT). Students:
Eric Spellman. Past students: Alex Vayner,
Brian Schuster.
Energy/cost/time scaling
analysis for reversible/adiabatic computing
Past
collaborators: Norm Margolus, Tom Knight.
Physical
limits of computing & communications
(course)
Current
students: Mark Rossman.
Potential collaborators: Sumi Helal, Seth Lloyd, Warren Smith
Reversible
quantum mechanics simulations (C & Java code & reports)
Current
students: Corneliu Manescu <manescu@qtp.ufl.edu> (Physics) Past
students: DoRon Motter.
Potential collaborators: Jeff Krause (Chemistry) Jeff Yepez (Air Force)
Quantum computing (readings,
paper, a goal)
Collaborators: Mark Schmalz (CISE). Gerard Emch, Rick Smith, Doug Cenzer,
and Steve Summers in Math Department. Jeff Krause
(Chemistry/Physics). Current students: Nathan Farrington, Chris
Hawkins. Past students: Clifton Mastran.
Other potential collaborators: Jeff Krause (Physics/Chemistry)
Reversible
DNA computing
Collaborators: David Wood (U.Del.),
Harvey Rubin (U.Penn.), Junghuei
Chen (U.Del.). Past collaborators: David
Gifford (MIT), Julia Khodor (MIT)
Potential future projects that haven't been
started:
Adiabatic circuit
visualizations (goal)
Programming language for
physical algorithms (goal)
Currently dormant projects that could be ressurrected:
Reversible superconducting
circuits (goal)
Past
students: Erik Island. Potential collaborators: Dmitri what's-his-name (SUNY)