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Faculty-Authored Software

CSE faculty have produced transformative software that is used all over the world.

Our software is freely available for download. Software redistribution and licensing are at the discretion of the Principal Author.

Project	Principal Author	Description	Project Chartered
Green UML	Dr. Carl Alphonce	green is a LIVE round-tripping editor, meaning that it supports both software engineering and reverse engineering. You can use green to create a UML class diagram from code, or to generate code by drawing a class diagram.	2005-10-12
JIVE	Dr. Bharat Jayaraman	JIVE is an interactive execution environment for Eclipse that supports a declarative and visual approach to debugging object-oriented software. It can also serve as a pedagogic tool for teaching object-oriented programming. JIVE extends Eclipse's Java debugging facilities with interactive visualization, query-based debugging, and reverse stepping.	2007-10-21
SnB	Dr. Russ Miller	SnB is a computer program based on Shake-and-Bake, a dual-space direct-methods procedure for determining crystal structures from X-ray diffraction data. This program has been used in a routine fashion to solve difficult structures, containing as many as 1000 unique non-H atoms, that could not be solved by traditional reciprocal-space routines based on the tangent formula alone.
SNePS	Dr. Stuart C Shapiro	SNePS is a knowledge representation, reasoning, and acting (KRRA) system.

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New Building SW elevation

This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the southwest. This image also shows Ketter Hall (left) and Jarvis Hall (right). In 2008, UB demolished the trailers that had occupied this site.
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Grants for research

CSE faculty average some $4.5 million annually in research grants. Our research areas range from high-performance computing to data mining.
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Cutting-edge research facilities

CSE faculty are major participants in the new $200 million Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
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High-performance

CSE's MultiStore Research Group is funded by a $1 million NSF grant for the development of high-performance online data-storage systems.
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Automated mail

A CSE-affiliated research center developed the systems that postal agencies around the world use for automatically sorting hand-addressed mail.
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New Building NE elevation

This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the northeast. Ketter and Furnas Halls can be seen on the left, just south of the new building. We broke ground in April 2009.
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Working together

CSE faculty work with researchers in chemistry, the life sciences, the pharmaceutical sciences, media study, geography, and many other disciplines.
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Supercomputing

The Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory maintains one of New York State's most powerful compute systems.
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Award-winning faculty

The CSE faculty includes NSF CAREER award holders and ACM, IEEE, and AAAI fellows.
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Algorithm therapy

A geometric algorithm developed by CSE professor Jinhui Xu configures a set of radiation beams to destroy brain tumors in a form of computer-aided surgery.
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New Building NW elevation

This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the northwest. The edge of Ketter Hall is visible on the right, just east of the new building. Ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 2011.
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Image analysis

CSE professor Aidong Zhang is developing intelligent content-analysis programs to automatically analyze images, replacing human coding of semantic content.
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Structural determination

CSE professor Russ Miller is one of the authors of a program that can determine the structure of molecules as large as 2,000 atoms from X-ray diffraction patterns.
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Handwriting recognition

Pursuing work on document verification and identification, CSE researchers use machine-learning algorithms to study handwriting variability.
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Crystal clear

CSE Professor Russ Miller, along with Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman, developed an algorithm for crystal structure determination which is considered one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century by Computing in Science and Engineering Magazine.