Timothy Normand Miller

Personal Info

Email: millerti AT cse DOT ohio-state DOT edu

Friends & Interesting Links

• The Open Hardware Foundation
• Aaron Oneal / Spicy Pixel
• James Dinan
• Ben Schroeder
• Bruce Adcock
• Darla Shockley
• Chem-Hydro Science and Consumer Products, LLC (Ron Miller)
• The Modern Soy Epidemic
• Donate to the OGP via the Linux Fund
• Electronic Frontiers Foundation
• Free Software Foundation
• "Linux" is GNU, with a Linux kernel

Background

• B.S. in Computer Engineering from University of South Florida, 1996
• Worked for Tech Source since 1996: Graphics device drivers, applications, web programming, FPGA/ASIC (chip) design
• Interned at the The Samraksh Company in 2008: Low-power FPGA design
• Founder/leader of the Open Graphics Project [Wikipedia article|OGP wiki]
• President of Traversal Technology, LLC

Academics

• Ph.D. student in Computer Science at OSU since Autumn 2005
• Major: Computer Architecture (Adviser: Dr. Radu Teodorescu)
• Minor: Artificial Intelligence (Adviser: Dr. John Josephson)
• Minor: Cognitive Science

Interests

• CPU architecture
• GPU architecture
• Chip design
• Machine learning
• Knowledge-based reasoning
• Human-computer interaction
• Linguistics

Research

• I work as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Teodorescu.
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• Projects:
• CPU architectures that are robust to the challenges of today's ever-shrinking transistors, such as process variation, circuit aging, hard faults, and soft errors.
• The use of hardware-accelerated message-passing to reduce multi-threading issues associated with locking and performance issues associated with cache coherence.
• Minimalist GPU vertex/fragment shader designs.

Publications

• Timothy N. Miller, Radu Teodorescu, Nagarjuna Surapaneni, Joanne Degroat, Flexible Redundancy in Robust Processor Architecture, WEED 2009 (ISCA), Austin, TX
• Joshua Eckroth, Dikpal Reddy, John R. Josephson, Rama Chellappa, Timothy N. Miller, FROM BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION TO THREAT DETECTION IN AUTOMATED VIDEO SURVEILLANCE, ARL CTA report chapter, 2009
• John Josephson, Joshua Eckroth, Timothy Miller, Estimation of Adversarial Social Networks by Fusion of Information from a Wide Range of Sources, FUSION 2009, Seattle, WA, 2009
• Timothy Miller, Nagarjuna Surapaneni, Radu Teodorescu, Joanne Degroat, Flexible Redundancy in Robust Processor Architecture, (Poster) 2009
• Timothy N. Miller, John R. Josephson, Optimizing Sensor Deployment with Genetic Algorithms, (Poster) 2007
• Abraham Kandel, Yan-Qing Zhang, Timothy Miller, Knowledge representation by conjunctive normal forms and disjunctive normal forms based on n-variable-m-dimensional fundamental clauses and phrases, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 76 (1995) 73-89.
• Abraham Kandel, Yan-Qing Zhang, Timothy Miller, Fuzzy Neural Decision System for Fuzzy Moves, Proceedings of The Third World Congress on Expert Systems Volume 2 (1996) 718-725.
• Timothy Miller, Motorola 68000 Microprocessor Lab, Lab Experiment Guide, (privately published, used by USF Computer Science Department) 1995, 1996.
• Timothy Miller, Michael Tobias, Multiple Overlay Extension, Tech-Source white-paper, given to those who want to support MOX (1997/1998)
• Timothy Miller, Selwyn Henriques, Clear Windows, Air Traffic Technology International 2001 (2000) 114-115