Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Undergraduate students will helped develop hardware designs and software tools for accurate and reliable numerical computations. For this research, the undergraduate students will work with high school students, graduate students, and the supervising professor to enhance processor simulators and hardware description models to provide support for floating point, interval, and high-precision arithmetic. They will also help to design web sites and interactive programs to illustrate various topics in computer architecture and arithmetic. In addition to providing valuable research results, the tools developed and experiences gained through these activities will be used to enhance undergraduate and graduate courses in related areas. While working on this project, the students will have an opportunity to meet and interact with researchers from the Advanced Digital Signal Processing Compilers and Architectures Group at Lucent Technologies. The students will write a paper and give an oral presentation, based on their research experiences.This research is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9703421. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.