Internet of Things
SHF: Small: Reclaiming Dark Silicon via 2.5D Integrated Systems with Silicon Photonic Networks
Emerging applications in the growing domains of cloud, internet-of-things, and high-performance computing require higher levels of parallelism and much larger data transfers compared to applications of the past. In tandem, power and thermal constraints limit the number of transistors that can be used simultaneously on a chip and this limit has led to the ?Dark […]
CPS: Breakthrough: A Dynamic Optimization Framework for Connected Automated Vehicles in Urban Environments
Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs), often referred to as “self-driving cars”, will have a profound impact not only on transportation systems, but also in terms of associated economic, environmental, and social effects. As with any such major transformative undertaking, quantifying the magnitude of its expected impact is essential. The first part of this project aims at […]
NSF, CISE Look to the Future of Smart Healthcare at Campus Workshop
By Sara Cody As the National Science Foundation looks to the future of science in smart and connected health, the agency partnered with the Center for Information and Systems Engineering to convene a gathering of principal investigators and other research leaders on the BU campus this month. The interdisciplinary researchers discussed their progress and identified […]
Achieving Consensus Among Autonomous Dynamic Agents using Control Laws that Maintain Performance as Network Size Increases
Recent advances in automation and robotics have created a pressing need for new “protocols,” that is, for algorithms or control laws that allow teams of multiple autonomous agents to cooperate and accomplish complex tasks. Unfortunately, many of the best protocols for multi-agent coordination problems suffer from scalability issues, that is, while they perform well when […]
CPS: Breakthrough: Collaborative Research: A Framework for Extensibility-Driven Design of Cyber-Physical Systems
A longstanding problem in the design of cyber-physical systems is the inability and ineffectiveness in coping with software and hardware evolutions over the lifetime of a design or across multiple versions in the same product family. The objective of this project is to develop a systematic framework for designing extensible cyber-physical systems that can enable […]
NeTS: Small: Analytic Tools for Evolving Path-Based Networks
The Internet is collectively composed of tens of thousands of individual networks, operated independently. Data flows from one network to another over paths that reflect agreements between network providers to exchange traffic. The ability of the Internet to connect computers around the world depends on the establishment and maintenance of these paths using a complex […]
EAGER: Design and Exploration of Optical Nanoantenna Technology for Advanced IC Testing and Hardware Security
Non-technical: Today’s integrated circuit (IC) chips are used in practically all consumer electronics, as well as in critical defense technologies and municipal support systems such as power and water supply services. To build these chips, state-of-the-art technologies are used that integrate billions of transistors on a single chip. Currently, we do not have the technological […]
XPS: FULL: CCA: Collaborative Research: Automatically Scalable Computation
For over thirty years, each generation of computers has been faster than the one that preceded it. This exponential scaling transformed the way we communicate, navigate, purchase, and conduct science. More recently, this dramatic growth in single processor performance has stopped and has been replaced by new generations of computers with more processors on them; […]
SHB: Type II (INT): Collaborative Research: Algorithmic Approaches to Personalized Health Care
The US health care system spends major resources on the treatment of acute conditions in a hospital setting rather than focusing on prevention and keeping patients out of the hospital. While there is no broad agreement on the potential solutions, structural reform is on the horizon. The meaningful use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is […]
ABI Development: Refinement Algorithms and Server for Protein Docking
Protein-protein interactions are integral to virtually all biological pathways. Predicting these interactions and the function of the protein complex in key to understanding how biological pathways function. Detailed multistage docking algorithms, which starts from the unbound structures of two proteins, can determine the structure of the protein complex. The docking server, ClusPro, strives to make […]