Name of institution: Auburn University 

Name of contact person:      Stephen B. Seidman

Address for contact person:  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
                             Auburn University
                             Auburn AL 36849

E-mail Address:              seidman@eng.auburn.edu

Telephone number:            (205) 844-6305

Access to what computers:    Transputers, nCUBE, Cray

Degree offered?              BSCS, BSCPE, MS, PhD

Short Curricul(um)(a) Statement:

Our programs offer relatively standard curricula (the undergraduate programs
are accredited by CSAB and ABET), but we offer a rather wide variety of
courses in parallel computing.  These include the following:

CSE 501		Advanced Scientific Computing
CSE 526		Software Methodologies for Parallel Computing
CSE 533		Parallel Computing I
CSE 534		Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors I
CSE 633		Parallel Computing II
CSE 634		Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors II
CSE 733		Theory of Concurrency
CSE 734		Advanced Topics in Parallel Computation

The first four courses are regularly taken by undergraduates.


Research activities:

(1) (Seidman)  A unified approach to systolic and wavefront computation,
               which includes the syntax and semantics of a wavefront
               algorithm language, algorithm verification, and multiprocessor
               implementation.

(2) (McCreary) A methodology for automatic parallelization and scheduling
               of programs for multiprocessors, that is based on a new
               approach to graph parsing.

(3) (Pancake)  The design and development of software tools for advanced
               scientific computing, including debuggers and tools for the
               visualization of parallel program execution.

(4) (Carlisle) Techniques for the design and implementation of channel
               protocols for parallel data communication.