Larry D. Wittie

Rank/Position Title:

Professor

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~lw

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

• September 1982 as an Associate Professor, with tenure. Rank achieved at SUNY/Buffalo in 1979.
• September 1987 as Professor.

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

• Instructor in Class Program - in Fall 2001 an experienced education instructor took my CSE110 course - Introduction to Computer Science, Java for non-majors - and critiqued my teaching methods at end of the course.
• Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'98), West Lafayette, IN, October 20, 1998.
• 2nd Int'l Conf. on Perspectives of System Informatics, Novosibirsk, Russia, June 1996.
• Fifteenth International Conf. Distributed Computing Systems, Vancouver BC, June 2, 1995.
• Int'l Conf. Software for Multiprocessors & Supercomputers: Theory, Practice, Experience, Moscow Russia, Sep. 1994.
• 14th International Conf. on Distributed Computer Systems (DCS14), Poznan, Poland, June 23, 1994.
• Int. Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer & Telecommunications Systems, Durham NC, Feb. 1994.
• 27th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-27), Maui HI, 6 January 1994.

Other related computing experience:

• Research Scientist (on Sabbatical), Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook, 5/98-1/99.
• Member, NSF Review Panel for Parallel and Distributed Systems, Washington DC, 11 February 1998.
• Visiting Scientist (on Leave), Institute for Systems Programming, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 3/94-8/94.
• Liaison to Computing Institutes of Russian Academy of Sciences for Office of Naval Research, 1994-96.
• Program Chair, Thirteenth International Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, Pittsburg PA, May 1993.
• Member, Executive Board, IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Computing, 1992-93.
• Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1989-92.
• Chair, New York State Science and Technology Foundation (STF) site visit team, Columbia Univ., Oct. 1988.
• Visiting Research Scientist (on Sabbatical), Robotics, Courant Institute, New York University, 5/84-8/85.
• Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, SUNY at Buffalo, 9/73-8/82.

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

Graduate admissions committee, 2002-2004.

Principal publications of the last five years.

• Larry D. Wittie, ''Microprocessors and Microcomputers'', Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 4th edition by A. Ralston, E. Reilly and D. Hemmendinger. Natures/Grove, 2000, pp. 1161-1169.
• D. Zinoviev and L. Wittie. ''Ultra-Fast Low-Latency Superconductor Packet Switching Networks for Petaflops Computing'', Proceedings Sixth IEEE Int'l Conference on Parallel Interconnects, Anchorage AK, October 1999, pp. 65-72.
• L. Wittie, D. Zinoviev, G. Sazaklis, and K. Likharev. ''CNET: RSFQ Switching Network for Petaflops-Scale Computing'', IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 1999, pp. 4034-4039.
• P. Bunyk, M. Dorojevets, K. Likharev, P. Litskevitch, S. Polonsky, G. Sazaklis, L. Wittie, D. Zinoviev, Y. Kameda, and S. Yorozu. ''RSFQ Subsystem for Petaflops-Scale Computing: COOL-0''. Proc. 3rd Petaflops Workshop, Annapolis MD, February 1999, pp. 3-9.

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

• NSF 1998-2000; CISE Res. Instr: Cluster-based Network Memory Server (1 of 9 PIs) $150,000
• JPL/NSA 1997-2001; Superconductor Technology for HTMT Computer Architecture (3 PIs) $1,641,100
• USB 1999, Lab for Undergrad Research in Enterprise Systems (LURES) $5,010
• ONR 1996; Creation of Efficient and Portable Parallel Programs $84,824
• ONR 1994-1996, High Performance Computing in Russia, 5 grants totaling $ 180,365
• NSF/CISE 1993-98, PROUD: Parallel Resources on Users Desks (10 PIs) $1,999,499
• SSC/DOE 1991-93, Sesame: High-Performance VME Memory Sharing Interfaces $30,000
• NSF 1991-92; CISE Research Instruments: Parallel Scientific Computing (5 PIs) $ 195,822
• NSF 1991-93, CISE Research Instruments for VLSI & Exp. Architectures (3 PIs) $ 113,971
• Sandia 1990-90; Merlin Simulator System $ 30,000

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

Assoc. for Computing (ACM); Inst. for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Soc. for Neuroscience; Sigma Xi.

Honors and awards:

• Special commendation, Office for Research Integrity, Dept. Health & Human Services, 1999, for photoanalysis of biomedical autoradiographs in first scientific fraud case won by NIH, settled 04/20/1999.
• Elected Senior Member IEEE, May 1988.
• Invited Speaker, University of Kaiserslautern Visiting Scientist Distinguished Lectures, Sep. 1986.
• ACM National Lecturer, 1978-1980.

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term:

Academic advising: 8 (6 UG + 2 Grad.)

Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year.

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

• Methods for creating networks of carbon nanotubules to perform useful computations using random interconnections.
• Peer-to-peer internet distribution of massive volumes of physics data. Interconnection topologies appropriate to computer networks where propagation delays limit system performance.