Amorphous and Cellular Computing (2008)
The Problem: The objective of this work is to create a new engineering discipline for reliably obtaining useful, prespecified behavior from vast numbers of asynchronous, irregularly arranged...
Analysis, Design and Implementation of High Speed Electrical Interconnects in Si VLSI (2008)
Edward J. Ouellette, Thomas F. Knight
The Problem: Interconnect delays have become the major limit in VLSI system speeds today. For frequencies in and above the GHz range on chip, on-chip electrical interconnect bandwidthislimited by the...
Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts (2008)
Shetty, Reshma P, Endy, Drew, Knight, Thomas F
Abstract Background The underlying goal of synthetic biology is to make the process of engineering biological systems easier. Recent work has focused on defining and developing standard biological...
Abstract. Multicellular organisms create complex patterned structures from identical, unreliable components. Learning how to engineer such robust behavior is important to both an improved...
Agency under Contract N00014-87-K-0825. References (2007)
W. H. Wu, L. A. Bergman, A. R. Johnston, C. C. Guest, S. C. Esener, Yo M. R. Feldman, ...
Tom Knight originally suggested the idea of using fat-tree structures as a means for scaling Transit networks. Tom Knight and Henry Minsky were invaluable for discussion and criticism of these ideas...
Probabilistic Analysis of Multistage Interconnection Network Performance (2007)
Neil A. Brock, Thomas F. Knight, Arthur C. Smith, Patrick G. Sobalvarro, Patrick G. Sobalvarro
Low-latency communication in large-scale multiprocessors requires highperformance interconnection schemes. Multistage interconnection networks with redundant paths combine high performance with...
Thomas F. Knight, Andrew "bunnie Huang, Andrew "bunnie Huang
The furious pace of Moore's Law is driving computer architecture into a realm where the the speed of light is the dominant factor in system latencies. The number of clock cycles to span a chip...
Probabilistic Analysis of Multistage Interconnection Network Performance (2007)
Neil A. Brock, Thomas F. Knight, Arthur C. Smith, Patrick G. Sobalvarro, Patrick G. Sobalvarro
in partial ful llment of the requirements for the degree of
Cellular Gate Technology (2007)
Knight, Thomas F., Sussman, Gerald J.
We propose a biochemically plausible mechanism for constructing digital logic signals and gates of significant complexity within living cells. These mechanisms rely largely on co-opting existing...
A Methodology for Analog Circuit Design (2007)
Piotr Mitros, Gerald Jay Sussman, Thomas F. Knight, Arthur C. Smith, Piotr Mitros
requirements for the degree of
GraphStep: A System Architecture for Sparse-Graph Algorithms (2006)
Michael Delorimier, Nachiket Kapre, Nikil Mehta, Dominic Rizzo, Ian Eslick, Raphael Rubin, ...
Abstract — Many important applications are organized around long-lived, irregular sparse graphs (e.g., data and knowledge bases, CAD optimization, numerical problems, simulations). The graph...
GraphStep: A System Architecture for Sparse-Graph Algorithms (2006)
Michael Delorimier, Nachiket Kapre, Nikil Mehta, Dominic Rizzo, Ian Eslick, Raphael Rubin, ...
Abstract — Many important applications are organized around long-lived, irregular sparse graphs (e.g., data and knowledge bases, CAD optimization, numerical problems, simulations). The graph...
Thomas F. Knight, Jeremy Hanford Brown, Jeremy Hanford Brown
Conventional parallel computer architectures do not provide support for non-uniformly distributed objects. In this thesis, I introduce sparsely faceted arrays (SFAs), a new lowlevel mechanism for...
Design and Evaluation of the Hamal Parallel Computer (2002)
J. P. Grossman, Thomas F. Knight, Arthur C. Smith
Over the years there has been an enormous amount of hardware research in parallel computation. It os a testament...
Data Migration and a Uniform Hardware Abstraction (2002)
Andrew “bunnie Huang, Thomas F. Knight, Arthur C. Smith, Andrew “bunnie Huang
Toward in vivo Digital Circuits (1999)
Ron Weiss, George E. Homsy, Thomas F. Knight, Jr.
. We propose a mapping from digital logic circuits into genetic regulatory networks with the following property: the chemical activity of such a genetic network in vivo implements the computation...
Scalable Self-Calibrating Display Technology for Seamless Large-Scale Displays (1999)
Thomas F. Knight, Arthur C. Smith, Rajeev J. Surati, Rajeev J. Surati
We present techniques for combining high-performance computing with feedback to enable the correction of imperfections in the alignment, optical system, and fabrication of very high-resolution...
Programming Technology for Molecular-Scale Computing (1998)
Abelson, Hal, Sussman, Gerald J., Knight, Thomas F., Nagpal, Radhika
Progress in molecular electronics is beginning to yield the technology for creating structures that incorporate myriads of nanoscale computationally active units. These could be fabricated at almost...
Cellular Gate Technology (1998)
Knight, Thomas F., Sussman, Gerald Jay
We propose a biochemically plausible mechanism for constructing digital logic signals and gates of significant complexity within living cells. These mechanisms rely largely on co-opting existing...
Cellular Gate Technology (1998)
Knight, Thomas F., Sussman, Gerald Jay
We propose a biochemically plausible mechanism for constructing digital logic signals and gates of significant complexity within living cells. These mechanisms rely largely on co-opting existing...
A Highly Integrated Adiabatic Energy Recovery Digital to Analog Converter (1998)
M. Josephine Ammer, Thomas F. Knight, Arthur C. Smith, M. Josephine Ammer
A low-power high-resolution digital input display architecture has been developed which is scaleable to larger display resolutions and grayscale resolutions. The architecture uses parallel sampled...
High Performance, Point-to-Point, Transmission Line Signaling (1998)
André DeHon, Thomas F. Knight, Jr.
Inter-chip signaling latency and bandwidth can be key factors limiting the performance of large VLSI systems. We present a high performance, transmission line signaling scheme for point-to-point...
Ultimate Theoretical Models of Nanocomputers (1997)
Michael Frank And, Michael P. Frank, Thomas F. Knight
Although a complete nanotechnology does not yet exist, we can already foresee some new directions in theoretical computer science that will be required to help us design maximally efficient computers...
Pendulum: A Reversible Computer Architecture (1995)
Thomas F. Knight, Frederic R. Morgenthaler, Carlin James Vieri, Carlin James Vieri
Energy dissipation in modern microprocessors is rapidly becoming a primary design concern. Microprocessors containing a few million transistors and dissipating tens of watts are commonplace, limiting...
Harold Abelson, Don Allen, Daniel Coore, Chris Hanson, George Homsy, Thomas F. Knight Jr., ...
Amorphous computing is the development of organizational principles and programming languages for obtaining coherent behavior from the cooperation of myriads of unreliable parts that are...
Reversible Computing for Energy Efficient and Trustable Computation (1995)
Dr. Thomas, Jr., Thomas F. Knight, Jeanne Depass
entropy when information is discarded. Early physicists were confused on this point, suggesting that a minimum energy dissipation of kT ln 2 was associated with each boolean logic operation...
Unifying FPGAs and SIMD arrays (1994)
Michael Bolotski, Thomas F. Knight
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Single-Instruction MultipleData (SIMD) processing arrays share many architectural features. In both architectures, an array of simple, fine-grained logic...
Developing a Low Power . . . (1994)
Carlin Vieri, Thomas F. Knight
this paper we discuss an architectural approach, namely that of utilizing reversible computational blocks. Reversible blocks offer asymptotically zero power consumption through non-destructive...
Abacus: A High-Performance Architecture for Vision (1994)
Michael Bolotski, Rajeevan Amirtharajah Wei Chen, Weip Chen, Timothy Kutscha, Thomas Simon, Jr., ...
Abacus is a second generation distributed bit-parallel (DBP) architecture based on a reconfigurable mesh. A DPB organization distributes each bit of a data item to a different processor to exploit...
METRO: A Router Architecture for High-Performance, Short-Haul Routing Networks (1994)
André Dehon, Frederic Chong, Matthew Becker, Eran Egozy, Henry Minsky, Samuel Peretz, ...
The Multipath Enhanced Transit Router Organization (metro) is a flexible routing architecture for high-performance, tightly-coupled, multiprocessors and routing hubs. A metro router is a dilated...
Asymptotically Zero Energy Split-Level Charge Recovery Logic (1994)
Saed G. Younis, Thomas F. Knight, Jr.
1 As the clock and logic speeds increase, the energy requirements of CMOS circuits are rapidly becoming a major concern in the design of personal information systems and large computers. Earlier, we...
metro: A Router Architecture for High-Performance, Short-Haul Routing Networks (1994)
Andr'e Dehon, Frederic Chong, Matthew Becker, Eran Egozy, Henry Minsky, Samuel Peretz, ...
The Multipath Enhanced Transit Router Organization (metro) is a flexible routing architecture for high-performance, tightly-coupled, multiprocessors and routing hubs. A metro router is a dilated...
Building a Better Butterfly: The Multiplexed Metabutterfly (1994)
Frederic Chong, Eric A. Brewer, F. Thomson Leighton, Thomas F. Knight
Multistage networks are important in a wide variety of applications. Expander-based networks, such as multibutterflies, are a tremendous improvement over traditional butterflies in both fault and...
Building a Better Butterfly: The Multiplexed Metabutterfly (1994)
Frederic T. Chong, Eric A. Brewer, F. Thomson Leighton, Thomas F. Knight, Jr.
Multistage networks are important in a wide variety of applications. Expander-based networks, such as multibutterflies, are a tremendous improvement over traditional butterflies in both fault and...
Unifying FPGAs and SIMD arrays (1994)
Michael Bolotski, Andre Dehon, Thomas F. Knight
Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD) processing arrays share many architectural features. In both architectures, an array of simple, ne-grained logic elements is employed to provide high-speed,...
Metro: A Router Architecture for High-Performance, Short-Haul Routing Networks (1994)
Andre Dehon, Frederic Chong, Matthew Becker, Eran Egozy, Henry Minsky, Samuel Peretz, ...
The Multipath Enhanced Transit Router Organization (metro) is a exible routing architecture for high-performance, tightly-coupled, multiprocessors and routing hubs. A metro router is a dilated...
Routing Statistics for Unqueued Banyan Networks (1990)
Thomas F. Knight, Patrick G. Sobalvarro
Banyan networks comprise a large class of networks that have been used for interconnection in large-scale multiprocessors and telephone switching systems. Regular variants of Banyan networks, such as...
Design of an integrated optical sensor with on-chip preprocessing (1983)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1983.
Design of an integrated optical sensor with on-chip preprocessing /--by Thomas F. Knight, Jr. (1983)
Knight, Thomas F., Massachusetts Institute Of Technology.--Dept. Of Electrical Engineering And Computer Science.--Thesis. 1983. Ph.D.
Supervised by Gerald J. Sussman.
Design of an integrated optical sensor with on-chip preprocessing (1983)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1983.
Renal transport of oxalate: Effects of diuretics, uric acid, and calcium (1979)
Thomas F Knight, Harry O Senekjian, Kent Taylor, Deborah A Steplock, Edward J Weinman
Implementation of a list processing machine (1979)
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1979.
Implementation of a list processing machine /--by Thomas F. Knight, Jr. (1979)
Knight, Thomas F., Massachusetts Institute Of Technology.--Dept. Of Electrical Engineering And Computer Science.--Thesis. 1979. M.S.
Supervised by Marvin L. Minsky.
Implementation of a list processing machine (1979)
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1979.
Jürgen Bohn, Aaa Ward Andy, Jones Alan, A New, Location Technique, Aac Harold Abelson, ...
citizen of Germany accepted on the recommendation of Prof. Dr. Friedemann Mattern, examiner Dr. Albrecht Schmidt, co-examiner
Engineered Communications for Microbial Robotics
Ron Weiss, Thomas F. Knight, Jr.
. Multicellular organisms create complex patterned structures from identical, unreliable components. Learning how to engineer such robust behavior is important to both an improved understanding of...