OSCER
OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research

Oklahoma
Supercomputing Symposium 2003

Wednesday September 24 -
Thursday September 25 2003
at the University of Oklahoma


Prof. S. Lakshmivarahan
George Lynn Cross Research Professor
School of Computer Science
University of Oklahoma

S. Lakshmivarahan

Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan received his Ph.D. in 1973 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Before joining the University of Oklahoma in 1978 where he is currently a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the School of Computer Science, he has held faculty/postdoctoral positions at the Indian Institute of Technology (1973-75), Brown University (1975-76) and Yale University (1976-78). He is the author of Learning Algorithms: Theory and Applications (Springer-Verlag 1981), and co-author (with S. K. Dhall) of Analysis and Design of Parallel Algorithms (McGraw Hill 1990), and Parallel Computing using the Prefix Problem (Oxford University Press 1994). He is a Fellow of the IEEE (1993) and a Fellow of ACM (1995). He has held short term visiting positions at the AMOCO Research Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma; University of Bonn, Germany; ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico; National Institute of Standards and Technology; Storm Prediction Center, Norman, Oklahoma; CIMAT, in Guanajuato, Mexico; National Tsing-Huo University in Taiwan; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado. He is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. His research interests include learning algorithms, interconnection networks, time series, parallel processing and its applications to meteorology and finance.

Talk Abstract

This talk will summarize the topics we cover in our first year graduate level course CS 5613 Computer Networks and Distributed Processing offered in Spring semester at OU.


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