Computer Architecture

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Computer Systems Laboratory
Our mission is to invent and evaluate new ideas in computer architecture. As academics, we are more interested in stimulating creative thinking than in the immediate practicality of the ideas. Of course, it is always nice to see one's ideas implemented in a product, but (a) in academia, the quality of one's PhD research should not hinge on the immediate practicality of the ideas, (b) there have been many far-reaching ideas that were initially branded as impractical that eventually ended up having significant impact on the industry, and (c) with much of the computer industry's research having shifted to a short term product focus, computer architects in academia need to pursue far-reaching ideas with the potential for broad longer term impact.

M³ Architecture Research Group
The Microprocessor, Multicore, and Multiprocessor architecture research group. Our research seeks to define the architectures that will shape the future of computing in our society. Our goal is to improve the performance, programmability, reliability, and energy efficiency of next-generation computers.

Software and High-Performance Computing

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Fusion Research Group
We are a diverse group of people dedicated to a wide range of research areas. Led by Prof. Sally McKee, we are currently working on numerous projects (see Research).

Why "Fusion"? (Think cuisine, not physics. We meld cultures and skillsets.) We work on software and hardware (hence the yin/yang symbol), focusing on the interactions between them and the fuzzy lines that divide them.

Projects are inter-related (back to the fusion theme), and include: designing memory hierarchies for many different computing models and platforms; applying machine learning to microarchitectural components; optimizing applications, middleware, and operating systems for improved memory performance on new or existing system designs; and various aspects of performance monitoring and analysis.

Vision and Image Processing

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Computer Vision and Image Analysis Group
The Computer Vision and Image Analysis Group develops computer vision algorithms for medical, scientific, and industrial applications. Computer vision is the construction of explicit meaningful descriptions of a physical object from images.
The current primary research goal of the group is the development of a medical computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) system. The focus of this research, in collaboration with the Weill Medical College at Cornell University, is to evaluate patient health and diagnose disease (including cancer) through analysis of three-dimensional images from CT scans.

Visual Communications Lab
The primary objective of our research is to enable high-quality, reliable visual communications for all users. All users, regardless of their individual network connection bandwidths, qualities-of-service, or terminal capabilities, should have the ability to access still images, video clips, and multimedia information services, and to use interactive visual communications services.

Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
Circuits and Systems

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Asynchronous VLSI and Architecture Research Group
The asynchronous VLSI and architecture group is a research group that is part of the Computer Systems Laboratory at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell. Our group uses formal synthesis methods for the design of provably correct, highly concurrent, reliable, and robust asynchronous systems.

Optoelectronic VLSI Laboratory
The OEVLSI group is led by Prof. Alyssa Apsel with broad interests in the field of high performance analog and mixed signal integrated circuits and systems. Our research is guided by a unifying core value: Scaling of integrated circuit technology, while solving many problems, creates many other interesting problems and new research challenges at the system level and the circuit level.