Speaker
Joe Touch
Professor / Poster Center Diretor, University of Southern California / ISI, USA
Joe Touch is the Postel Center Director at the USC/Information Sciences Institute and a Research Associate Professor in USC's CS and EE/Systems Departments. He received his Ph.D. in CS from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1992 when he also joined ISI. His current projects include satellite networking, virtual networks, optical Internets, and high-performance network security. He has 4 US patents and over 80 conference and journal publications. Joe is a member of Sigma Xi, a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He currently serves as IEEE Communications Society Director of Conference Operations, IEEE TCCC Chair, as a member of numerous conference steering and program committees, and is active in the IETF. He also serves on the editorial board of IEEE Network and Elsevier's Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences.
Title: Digital Optical Computation for High-Speed Networking
Abstract:
High-speed networking requires optical encoding, which drives the need for digital optical computation. The Optical Turing Machine (OTM) is our effort to design and implement a digital device that computes using multibit optical symbols. Its goal is to support high-speed computation using an encoding capable of high-speed long-distance transmission. OTM explores the unification of communication and computation, and investigates the nature of Turing-equivalent computation. This talk presents the OTM concept and discusses its key challenges. We discuss our current OTM projects, including the extension of our earlier all-optical packet hopcount decrement to multibit encoding, and the design and implementation of the world's first all-optical Internet checksum.
