NSF-Sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Research Center

for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (FAU Site)

Status Report, May 2010

Industry/University Cooperative Research Center

FIU Center Created in March 2008 FAU Site Created in August 2009 From NSF page: “The I/UCRC program develops

long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and government”

“Through innovative education of talented graduate and undergraduate students, the I/UCRCs are providing the next generation of scientists and engineers with a broad, industrially oriented perspective on engineering research and practice”.

Currently there are 42 I/UCRCs in USA http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/iucrc/

Information, Communication, and Computing, 12 Centers in USA

Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC)University of Florida, University of Arizona, Rutgers University

Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR)West Virginia University, University of Arizona

Center for Information Protection (CIP)Iowa State University, University of California - Davis - Planned

Center for Advanced Knowledge EnablementFlorida International University, Florida Atlantic University

Center for Embedded Systems - PlannedArizona State University, University of California - Irvine, Southers Illinois University - Carbondale, Southern Methodist University,

University of North Texas, University of Texas - Dallas, State University of New York - Stony Brook, University of Texas - San Antonio Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS)

Georgia Institute of Technology, Ohio State University Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research

University of Maryland - Baltimore County, Georgia Tech, University of California - San Diego I/UCRC for Intelligent Storage - Planned

University of Minnesota, University of California Santa Cruz High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC)

University of Florida, The George Washington University, Virginia Tech University, Brigham Young University Center for Software for Ultra Large Systems - Planned

University of Virginia, Michigan State University, Vanderbilt University, University of South Dakota Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT)

Polytechnic University, University of Virginia, Auburn University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Advanced Space Technologies Research and Engineering Center (ASTREC)

University of Florida and North Carolina State University

Model of the I/UCRC

Industry partners pay the memberships ($5K to $50K+++ per year) NSF sponsors the Center ($60K to $200K per university per year) Industry Advisory Board selects the research projects Industry members select the products for commercialization – no

royalties Expectations: $750K from NSF + $7.5M from Industry (5 years) Similar to MIT Media Lab model (but different)

Universities(FIU + FAU)

Industry partner 1

Industry partner 3

Industry partner 2

Industry partner 4

NSF

Current FAU Members(Total Commitment: $515K)

LexisNexis ($20K +$300K equipment) Jansyl Technologies ($5K) Treasure Coast Health Associates

($180K) Relli Technologies ($25K) First Lightwave ($185K)

Potential Members

Research in Motion ($25K) ProntoProgress ($70K) FIU has 12 industry members with

~$340K memberships

Originally Proposed Research

Project Title Leading faculty

Video Copy Detection Hari Kalva

Highly Efficient Video Coding Hari Kalva

iPortal: Software Maintenance & Evolution of a Web Ordering System

Shihong Huang

Interactive System for Visualization, Navigation, and Retrieval of Video Data

Borko Furht

Application Mapping on an EmbeddedSystem

Ankur Agarwal

Application Development with RFIDs Ankur Agarwal

The Development of an Interactive Visualization and Evaluation System (iVESTA) for Drive Test Data

Abhijit Pandya

Overlay Semantic Networks for the Mobile User

Ionut Cardei

I/UCRC Center – ExampleFundamental Research Proposal

NSF$200,000

(44.5% FAU overhead)

Treasure Coast Health Assoc.

$200,000(10% FAU overhead)

PROJECT:

Cloud Computing BasedPatient-Centric Global

Medical Information System

LexisNexisSuper Computer+

$20,000(10% FAU overhead)

Global Medical Information System

I/UCRC Center

Collaborative Research Project(NSF CORBI)

University of Maryland, FIU and FAU A Multi-Center Distributed Cloud

Computing Collaborative Feasibility Study to Provide Massive 3D Visualization Services for Climate Data on Demand

Total: $100K, approved in May 2010

CORBI Project - Objectives

UMBC, FIU and FAU proposed to implement, test and complete the installation of a distributed cloud computing system based on the open Apache Hadoop architecture operating under the open Sun Grid Engine

FAU proposed to complete testing the feasibility of executing the autostereoscopic displays either multiple views or a single view and the 3D depth map on the CHMPR/CAKE cloud.

Proposal to MTC Members

Example: 15 companies Total budget $75,000

Initiate 2-3 joint projects of interests for all companies

Company 2

Company n

Company 3 Company 4

Company 5

Company 1

I/U CRCFAU

Memberships: $5,000

I/UCRC Reports

NSF Report for the FAU Site completed and submitted to NSF, May 2010

Evaluator Report for CAKE (Dr. Vida Scarpello) submitted to NSF, May 2010

FAU Institutional Certification completed and submitted, May 2010

Next joint IAB meeting, May 27