Ron Weiss

More Recent News: I returned to MIT in September 2009 joined the BE and EECS faculty. A newer homepage is here.

News: I finally graduated, and in September of 2001 joined the faculty at Princeton's Electrical Engineering Department. My new homepage is here (under construction).

I was a graduate student working for Project Mac, associated with both the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. I was working on Amorphous Computing and completed a PhD in the area of programming biological cells. My general research interests also include multimedia and digital video, as well as distributed systems and information retrieval.

Education

S.M. EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May, 1994. Thesis: Content-Based Access to Algebraic Video (postscript, compressed , pdf), abstract only.
B.A. from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, May 1992
Westwood High School, Austin, Texas, June 1988

Publications

"Engineered Communications for Microbial Robotics"
Ron Weiss, Tom Knight
Proceedings of the Sixth International Meeting on DNA Based Computers (DNA6), June 2000
"Amorphous Computing"
H Abelson, D Allen, D Coore, C Hanson, G Homsy, T Knight, R Nagpal, E Rauch, G Sussman, R Weiss
Communications of the ACM, May 2000 -- Volume 43, Number 5 (issue TOC)
"Toward in vivo Digital Circuits"
Ron Weiss, George Homsy, Tom Knight
Proceedings of the Dimacs Workshop on Evolution as Computation, January 1999
"Fast and Effective Query Refinement"
Bienvenido Vélez, Ron Weiss, Mark Sheldon and David K. Gifford
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 97)
"HyPursuit: A Hierarchical Network Search Engine that Exploits Content-Link Hypertext Clustering"
Ron Weiss, Bienvenido Velez, Mark A. Sheldon, Chanathip Nemprempre, Peter Szilagyi, Andrzej Duda, and David K. Gifford.
Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext, Washington, DC, March 1996.
"Composition and Search with a Video Algebra"
R. Weiss, A. Duda, and D. Gifford
IEEE Multimedia Magazine, 2(1), Spring 1995.
"Discover: A Resource Discovery System based on Content Routing"
Mark A. Sheldon and Andrzej Duda and Ron Weiss and David K. Gifford
Proceedings of the Third International World Wide Web Conference
Elsevier, North Holland
Also appears in a special issue of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, April 1995
Here is an HTML version of the paper.
"Content-Based Access to Algebraic Video", by R. Weiss, A. Duda, and D. Gifford, Proc. IEEE First International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Boston, MA, May, 1994.
"A Content Routing System for Distributed Information Servers" by M. Sheldon, A. Duda, R. Weiss, J. O'toole and D. Gifford, Proc Fourth International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Cambridge, England, Mar, 1994.

Workshops

"Programming Biological Cells"
Ron Weiss, George Homsy, Radhika Nagpal
ASPLOS-VIII, Eighth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems , Wild & Crazy Ideas Session, October 1998
"Evaluating the Accuracy of Query Refinement"
Bienvenido Vélez and Ron Weiss
Proceedings of the MIT Student Workshop on Computing Technology, August 1996
"Services and Metadata Representation for Distributed Information Discovery"
Mark A. Sheldon, Ron Weiss, Bienvenido Vélez, and David K. Gifford.
World Wide Web Consortium Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop, May 1996.

Technical Reports

"Amorphous Computing", by H. Abelson, D. Allen, D. Coore, C. Hanson, G. Homsy, T. Knight, R. Nagpal, E. Rauch, G. Sussman, and R. Weiss, MIT/AI/Memo-1665, August, 1999.
"Paradigms for Structure in an Amorphous Computer", by Daniel Coore, Radhika Nagpal, and Ron Weiss, MIT/AI/Memo-1614, Nov. 97.
"Structured Video: A Data Type with Content-Based Access" (compressed), by A. Duda and R. Weiss, MIT/LCS/TR-580, Sept. 93.
"The Integration of the Organization Engine and Library 2000" (compressed) by R. Weiss, MIT/LCS/TM-473, August, 1992.