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My undergraduate research experience includes corporate, university,
and independent research projects.  These fall into three main fields:
semiconductor processing, distributed software, and computer
architecture.

As a freshman at MIT I worked in a silicon and gallium arsenide
processing laboratory under Professor August Witt, using standard
crystal growing equipment modified to supply a strong, moveable
magnetic field to the melted material.  The distribution of heat in
the material was detected with an infrared-sensitive camera, and the
images produced by the camera were fed into a Masscomp real-time UNIX
system for image processing.  My primary contribution was development
of image processing software to accurately detect convections and
analyze how they affect crystal growth.

My next research project was conducted as an employee of MIT's Project
Athena.  Project Athena is an eight year experiment in the use of
computers in education, and consists of approximately 1,000
distributed workstations connected by a campus-wide network.  This
setup provides a unique environment in which to develop distributed
software.  The most interesting project I worked on at Athena was {\em
Zephyr\/}, a distributed message multicast system.  I investigated
various communications methods, and was the primary designer of the
protocol and the authentication system used by {\em Zephyr\/}.  Our
development team published a paper on {\em Zephyr\/} in the Winter
1988 Usenix Conference Proceedings.

During the summer of 1988 I was employed by DEC to research multimedia
authoring systems.  I visited several research sites, including
Stanford and Bell Communications Research, investigating the state of
the art in multimedia technology.  I then returned to Project Athena
and designed a prototype authoring system (``Muse II'') that allows
educators to develop teaching environments using prerecorded video
discs.

My independent research into computer architecture has centered around
optical computing research at Bell Laboratories.  I investigated the
compiler technology required to compile a low-level language into
processor assignments for an ultra-fine-grained, pipelined optical
computer.  I developed a compiler that used a simple VLSI-style
placement and routing algorithm to assign processors, and presented a
paper on the algorithm at the {\em MIT-ACM Undergraduate Computer
Science Conference\/} in 1988.  Then, with a partner also involved in
optical computing research, and in collaboration with Dr.\ Alan Huang
at Bell Labs, I designed and built a hardware simulator for a 512,000
processor optical computer.  A report on the success of the simulator
was presented as part of a visiting lecture series at Bell Labs before
an audience of 40 optical computing researchers.

My most recent computer architecture research has related to my thesis
with Professor Thomas Knight, Jr.  I am using fractal geometry to
analyze clumping phenomena in parallel processors and networks.  I
hope to expand these methods to produce additional metrics that can be
used by optimizing compilers.

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