Michael P. Frank, Assistant Professor, CISE Department

Degrees:

	B.S. 6/91,
		Symbolic Systems, Stanford Univ.,
		Stanford, CA (with distinction).
	M.S. 6/94,
		Electrical Eng. and Computer Sci., Mass. Inst. of Tech.,
		Cambridge, MA.
		Thesis: Advances in Decision-Theoretic AI: Limited
		Rationality and Abstract Search.
	Ph.D. 6/99,
	        Electrical Eng. and Computer Sci., Mass. Inst. of Tech.,
		Cambridge, MA.
		Dissertation: Reversibility for Efficient Computing.

Years of service: 1/2.  Asst. professor 8/99 to date.

Other experience:

	Post-doctoral researcher 5/99-8/99,
		Mass. Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA.
	Research Assistant, Mass. Inst. of Tech., 1992-1999, except as below.
	Senior web developer, Marketplace.Net Inc., 3/98-2/99.
	Summer Intern, NASA Ames Res. Ctr., Mountain View, CA, 1996.
	Summer Intern, IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY, 1994-95.
	Summer Intern, NEC Research, Princeton, NJ, 1993.
	Teaching Assistant, Mass. Inst. of Tech., 9/91-12/91.
	Summer Intern, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, 1990-91.

Consulting and patents:
	Consultant for Marketplace.Net Inc., San Jose, CA, 1997 and 1999.
	Consultant for Microsoft Corp., through Newton Research Labs,
		   Cambridge, MA, 1995.

State(s) in which registered: none.

Principal Publications since 8/95:

	M. P. Frank and C. J. Vieri,
			Reversibility for Efficient Computing (book,
			working title), MIT Press, in preparation.

	M. P. Frank and T. F. Knight,
			Ultimate Theoretical Models of Nanocomputers,
			Nanotechnology
			9(3):162-176 (Sep. 1998)

	M. P. Frank, T. F. Knight, and N. H. Margolus,
			Reversibility in Optimal Scalable Computer
			Architectures,
			In Unconventional Models of Computation,
			pp. 165-182, Springer, 1998.

	M. P. Frank, C. J. Vieri, M. J. Ammer, N. Love, N. H. Margolus,
	and T. F. Knight,
			A Scalable Reversible Computer in Silicon,
			in ibid., pages 183-200.

Memberships:  ACM (lapsed)

Honors and awards:

	National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1992-1995.
        International championship, ACM Collegiate Programming
        Contest, 1991.

Institutional and professional service since 8/95:

	Departmental committees: facilities, ACM contest coach.
	Program committee member,
		International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology,
		2000.

Professional development since 8/95:
	
	none