Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno

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Computer Science and Engineeringat the
University of Nevada, Reno
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University Structure

• The University of Nevada, Reno is organized into
  Colleges and Schools
• The College of Engineering is one of these
• Others include
• College of Sciences,
• College of Liberal Arts,
• College of Education,
• Reynolds School of Journalism
• College of Business Administration
• and several more

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College Structure

• The College of Engineering is organized into
  several departments
• The Department of Computer Science and
  Engineering is one of these
• Others include
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Materials Sciences and Engineering

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Location

• The Department of Computer Science and
  Engineering is housed in the Scrugham Engineering
  and Mines Building

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Location
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Faculty

• The Department of Computer Science and
  Engineering has 11 faculty Members
• Full Professors
• Yaakov Varol, Carl Looney, and Dwight Egbert
• Associate Professors
• Sushil Louis, Fred Harris, George Bebis
• Assistant Professors
• Angkul Kongmunvattana, Sergiu Dascalu, Greg Vert,
  Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu

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Degrees Offered

• Undergraduate
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
• Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information
  Engineering
• Graduate
• Master of Science in Computer Science
• Master of Science in Computer Engineering
• Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and
  Engineering

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Faculty Time

• Faculty have 3 parts to their job
• Teaching
• Courses with lectures and labs,
• Research
• Learning new things and telling others about them
• Service
• Committees,

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Active Research Grants

• Vehicle Detection and Tracking for Collision
  Avoidance
• Ford Motor Company, 130K
• Computer Vision Technologies for Effective Human
  Computer Interaction
• NASA, 1,149K
• Combined Research and Curriculum Development in
  Computer Vision
• NSF, 659K

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Active Research Grants

• Automatic Target Recognition Using Algebraic
  Functions
• DOD-ONR, 550K
• Fuzzy Neural Fusion with Case Based Reasoning
• DOD-ARO, 361K
• SMP Clusters for Supporting Shared Memory
  Metacomputing
• NSF, 149K

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Active Research Grants

• Information Fusion with Dynamic Probabilitistic
  Bayesian Networks
• DOD-ARO, 502K
• Non-invasive Techniques for Monitoring Human
  Fatigue
• DOD-USAF, 470K
• Affordable Modeling of Human Decision Making with
  Case Injected Genetic Algorithms
• DOD-ONR, 510K

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Active Research Grants

• Parallel Beowulf Computing Cluster for High Speed
  Brain Simulation
• DOD-ONR, 244K
• Large Scale Biologically Realistic Models of
  Cortical Microcircuit Dynamics
• DOD-ONR, 542K
• Models of Cortical Microcircuit Dynamics
• ONR, 660K

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Active Research Grants

• Advanced Computing in Environmental Sciences
• NSF, 3,300K
• Modeling the Effect of Mountainous Terrain on
  Stratospheric/Tropospheric Exchange
• NASA, 1,001K

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Advanced Computation and Visualization

• Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
• University of Nevada, Reno
• Immersive Visualization Lab
• Desert Research Institute

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Cool Places, Cool Science, Cool Things

• Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
• University of Nevada, Reno
• Immersive Visualization Lab
• Desert Research Institute

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The Place The Human Brain

• Goal
• create the first large-scale, synaptically
  realistic cortical computational model.
• Purpose
• Simulation Experiments
• Drug Trials
• Alzheimers Research
• Robotics

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The Science

• Neurons
• Excitatory
• Interneurons (inhibitory)

• Columns
• High connectivity within columns.
• Less connectivity across columns

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The Science (cont)

• Channels
• Potassium Family
• M, A, AHP Channels
• Suppressing behavior on parent cell

• Synapses
• Analog converter of binary spike event.
• Contextual filters.

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Brain Computation Hardware Overview
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Brain Computation Hardware Overview

• Myrinet
• CLOS network with cut-through routing
• High Bandwidth (1.92Gbits/sec)
• Low Latency ( 9micro seconds)
• Low latency reduces minimizes the effect of fine
  grain parallelization in a large network.

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Brain Computation Hardware Overview

• Clos network with 128 hosts

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Brain Computation Hardware Overview

• Myrinet switch line card

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Brain ComputationRobotics Overview

• Getting Information from the robot, to the Brain
  Simulator, making a decision, and getting the
  information back to the robot.

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The Place The International Space Station

• Topic
• Science Experiments aboard the International
  Space Station.

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The Science

• Studying the long-term effects of microgravity on
  living systems
• Issue
• You need to train and practice before you get
  there.

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Solution (round 1)

• Solution
• Build the same setup here
• Whats the problem?
• Gravity (or lack thereof) for the simulation

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Solution (round 2)

• NASA built a Virtual Glove Box (VGX)

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Solution (round 3)

• To enhance the utility and effectiveness of the
  VGX, we are developing a non-contact, computer
  vision-based system for real-time tracking of the
  human arm, hand, and fingers in space.

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Solution (round 3) (cont)

• This encompasses
• Computer Vision
• Virtual Reality
• Distributed computation

• We have several modules completed
• Hand pose estimation
• Virtual Model (and API) of the hand.
• GUI interface to show the two together.
• Video Clip

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GUI Design (cont)
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Preliminary Results

• Hand animation example American Sign Language
  numbers 0-9

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The Place

• Nevada Terawatt Facility

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The Science

• Plasma Creation

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The Stuff

• This one is missing some of the cool stuff.
• All they have are numbers and standard graphs

• But these are huge problems so you get to run on
  huge machines
• ASCI Red, ASCI White

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The Place Lake Tahoe

• The Science
• Pollution Transport from that BIG BAD State to
  the West.
• Video Clip

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The Place Computer Graphics Class

• Student Selected Project
• The Science
• Physics Interaction
• Video Clips

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The Place Round Mountain, NV
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The Place University of Nevada, Reno

• Virtual Tours of Campus
• Video clips

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The Place Desert Research Institute

• The Science You name it!
• Atmospheric Science
• Hydrological Science
• Earth and Eco Systems
• .

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The Cool Things

• Environmental Visualization Center

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The Challenge to You

• The world is changing.
• Interdisciplinary Science is where it is at

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Join Me

• As I go to Cool Places,
• Do Cool Science,
• And play with Cool Things
• Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
• University of Nevada, Reno
• Immersive Visualization Lab
• Desert Research Institute

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