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Internet Systems Lab (ISL)
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Head: Robert H. Thibadeau
Contact: Robert H. Thibadeau (rht@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

For more information, see this lab's homepage.

The Internet Systems Laboratory is a scientific engineering laboratory focused on the Internet as the principal subject. We make new observations of men, machines, and nature in order to engineer new infrastructure detail, and to discover emergent new processes. Our engineering goal is to improve the functioning of the Internet. This includes improvements to all aspects of the system:

1. increase its service across people of all kinds and all ages,
2. scale to billions of computers,
3. facilitate access to all the terabytes of information and computer programs,
4. decrease effective latencies to milliseconds,
5. operate at effective speeds to billions of bytes per second,
6. move trillions of dollars and services electronically every year.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Dennis Marous - Executive Assistant, CS <dcm@cs.cmu.edu>
• Jason McMullan - Research Programmer
• Mansoo Park - Computer Programmer
• [Home] Richard Romero - PhD Student, RI
• Michael D Rychener - Visiting Scholar
• [Home] Robert H. Thibadeau - Adjunct Faculty, MLD <rht@cs.cmu.edu>

• Carnegie Mellon CD Press - A low volume CD duplicating service being offered to the campus community by the Internet Systems Lab within the Robotics Institute.
• Carnegie Mellon Digital Press - A full service document scanning and Web publishing in one easy step.
• Free and Fee
• Image Feature Access Algorithms - algorithm for handling two dimensional graphical objects in document image conversion systems
• Printed Chinese Character Recognition - An omnifont Chinese character classifier
• Privacy Server Protocol Project - We are providing research into large-scale distributed and automated negotiations for privacy and the complementary negotiations for digital rights management.
• Table Decomposition - Tools that will transform a printed/typed table of data back into a usable ASCII form
• Technical Drawing and Figure Decomposition - Tools that allow any component part of technical drawing and figure decomposition
• The Historical New York Times Project - We are providing people with a glimpse into actual historical events as they were seen by the people of the day.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Optical Chinese Character Recognition using Probabilistic Neural Networks
  R. Romero, D. Touretzky, and R.H. Thibadeau
  1996. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [84 KB], ps.gz [112 KB] copyrighted

• Neural Network Classifiers for Optical Chinese Character Recognition
  R. Romero, R.W. Berger, R.H. Thibadeau, and D.S. Touretzky
  1995. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [98 KB], ps.gz [119 KB] copyrighted

• Time dilation visualization in relativity
  P.K. Hsiung, R.H. Thibadeau, C.B. Cox, and R.H.P. Dunn
  Proceedings of Supercomputing '90, November, 1990, pp. 835 - 844. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1299 KB] copyrighted

• Wide-band relativistic Doppler effect visualization
  P.K. Hsiung, R.H. Thibadeau, C.B. Cox, R.H.P. Dunn, M. Wu, and P.A. Olbrich
  Proceedings of the First IEEE Conference on Visualization, October, 1990, pp. 83 - 92. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [731 KB] copyrighted

• Observations on the Role of Constraints in Problem Solving
  M.S. Fox
  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, May, 1986, pp. 172 - 187.
  Download: pdf [1350 KB] copyrighted

• Development of ALADIN, an Expert System for Aluminum Alloy Design
  M.L. Farinacci, M.S. Fox, I. Hulthage, and M.D. Rychener
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-86-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 1986. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [894 KB] copyrighted

• PSRL: A SRL-Based Production Rule System
  M.D. Rychener
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-85-07, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1984.
  Download: pdf [4529 KB] copyrighted

• Automatic Inspection for Printed Wiring
  R.H. Thibadeau, M. Friedman, and J. Seto
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-82-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 1982. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2083 KB] copyrighted

• Job-Shop Scheduling: An Investigation in Constraint-Directed Reasoning
  M.S. Fox, B. Allen, and G. Strohm
  Proceedings of the Second Conference of The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 1982, pp. 155 - 158.
  Download: pdf [561 KB] copyrighted

• Printed Circuit Board Inspection
  R.H. Thibadeau
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-81-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1981. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1662 KB] copyrighted