Energy Systems
CNH-S: Coupling of Physical Infrastructure, Green Infrastructure, and Communities
This interdisciplinary research project will examine the connectivity and functional interdependencies among co-located, critical infrastructure systems, such as gas, water and sewer pipes, roads, and the urban canopy, as well as the networks of people and institutions that depend on and manage and maintain the urban infrastructure. The project will center on an aged, leaking […]
Workshop on Smart Cities, Arlington, Virginia, December 3-4, 2015
This Workshop will bring together researchers and technical leaders from academia, industry, and municipal government in order to set a short and long-term research agenda for Smart Cities aiming to integrate the three broad fields of Engineering, Computer Science, and Social Science. The Workshop topics cover a variety of fields and specialized disciplines including: transportation, […]
Energy Efficiency for Urban Housing Project Receives Renewed Support
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Longer-Range Future’s project, “Enhancing Energy Efficiency for Urban Housing”, last month received renewed support from Wells Fargo to fund its ongoing research. The project aims to identify the factors that drive energy use and determine effective programs that can achieve greater energy efficiency, while considering residents’ comfort levels and desired energy-use needs. The new funds will allow for […]
CAREER: System-level Run-time Management Techniques for Energy-efficient Silicon-Photonic Manycore Systems
The general purpose computing capacity of the world has been increasing at an annual rate of more than 50% over the past few decades, and this trend is expected to continue in the future. However, this increasing compute capacity directly translates to increasing power dissipation. In fact, the server farms and data centers in US […]
CAREER: 3D Stacked Systems for Energy-Efficient Computing: Innovative Strategies in Modeling and Runtime Management
Energy efficiency is a central issue in computing. In large-scale computing clusters, operational and cooling costs impose significant sustainability challenges. Embedded systems run increasingly complex, performance demanding workloads, making the well-known energy management policies inadequate. High power densities also cause high on-chip temperatures and large thermal variations, both of which degrade system reliability. The research […]
CPS: Synergy: Data Driven Intelligent Controlled Sensing for Cyber Physical Systems
The goal of this project is to develop the foundations of a control and optimization science base for sensor networks viewed as complex systems operating in an uncertain and potentially adverse environment. The approach taken is a combination of addressing fundamental research issues while maintaining a focus on a specific target application domain, a manufacturing […]