ISI’s Dynamic Systems researchers focus on making computing technologies more responsive to – and interactive with – the humans and machines they serve.  As computing power and storage capacity continue to leap exponentially, the processes of collecting, storing and accessing that data likewise are becoming vastly more complex.  We strive to create and deliver versatile hardware and software to augment human and machine performance at the most fundamental levels of computing processes.  

Current computing challenges include the ability for:

• humans to trust systems and electronics to provide capability to verify integrity in the manufacturing and distribution processes.
• systems to sense and intelligently respond to the physical environment, and
• programmers to more easily program tasks and applications.

Our work revolves around four related themes:

• Multicore Computing, including development of software and hardware for multicore systems, the most significant information architecture leap in 30 years.
• Reflective Computing, exploring large-scale user programmability, virtual computing, and computational prototyping, particularly for midsize American manufacturing businesses.
• Signal and Image Processing, investigating novel algorithms and techniques to augment human awareness of surrounding environments – from extracting features in nanoscale structures to low energy environmental sensing.
• Fine-grained Computing, examining the intersection and trajectory of intelligent control and fine-grained computing architectures. We also are working to automate the process of verifying trust in fine-grained computing.

ISI’s Dynamic Systems innovations range from programming tools and performance modeling to power-managed sensor networks and fault-tolerant computers.  With a lengthy track record of achievements in demanding applications, we’re uniquely positioned to deliver breakthrough research to government and corporate customers.