Grants and Contracts

  • National Science Foundation
    "Evolution Park: An Evolutionary Robotics Habitat for the Study of Crawling, Swimming and Flying Creatures," (P. McKinley, X. Tan, J. Boughman) $305,000, 2011-2013.

  • National Science Foundation
    "BEACON: An NSF Center for the Study of Evolution in Action," (PI; E. Goodman) $24,999,147, 2010-2015. McKinley roles: Thrust group leader, senior personnel. MSU overhead credit: 10% of total.

  • National Science Foundation
    "TEAMS: Transplanting Artificial Life Behaviors to Mobile Robots," (P. McKinley) $494,364, 2009-2012.

  • Army Research Office
    "AWARE: Adaptive Software Monitoring and Dynamic Reconfiguration for Critical Infrastructure Protection," (P. McKinley, B. Cheng) $315,000, 2008-2011.

  • National Science Foundation
    Software for Real-World Systems Program, "ORCHID: Harnessing Digital Evolution to Design High-Assurance Adaptive Systems," (B. Cheng; P. McKinley, C. Ofria, X. Tan) $600,000, 2008-2011.

  • National Science Foundation
    Computing Research Infrastructure Program, "A Testbed for Evolving Adaptive and Cooperative Behavior Among Autonomous Systems," (P. McKinley, B. Cheng, C. Ofria, R. Pennock, X. Tan) $188,110, 2008-2011.

  • National Science Foundation
    Small Grants for Exploratory Research, "Applying Digital Evolution to Behavioral Models," (B. Cheng; P. McKinley, C. Ofria, R. Lenski) $100,000, 2007-2008.

  • National Science Foundation
    IUCRC Program, "Planning grant: Center for Software-Intensive Ultra-Large-Scale Systems," (B. Cheng; S. Biswas, C. Ofria, P. McKinley, L. Dillon) $10,000, 2007-2008.

  • Michigan State University
    Quality Funds Program, "High-Assurance Systems Initiative," (PIs: B. Cheng, P. McKinley, Co-PIs: S. Gage, B. Pentland, C. Radcliffe, X. Tan, S. Biswas), $370,000, 2006-2008.

  • National Science Foundation
    ITR Program, "ITR: Supporting Adaptable Pervasive Computing through a Kernel-Middleware eXchange," (P. McKinley), $210,000, 2003-2007.

  • Office of Naval Research
    CIP/SW, "RAPIDware: Component-Based Development of Adaptive and Dependable Middleware," (P. McKinley, R. Stirewalt, B. Cheng, L. Dillon, S. Kulkarni), $3,135,609, 2001-2007.

  • National Science Foundation
    CISE/EIA, "Meridian: An Integrated Toolkit for Developing Interactive Distributed Applications," (B. Cheng, L. Dillon, P. McKinley, R. Stirewalt), $1,934,076, 2000-2007.

  • National Science Foundation
    CISE/CCR, "Host-Level Protocol Support for Interoperable Distributed Computing," CCR-9912407, (P. McKinley), $199,904, 2000-2004.

  • National Science Foundation
    CISE/NCRI, "LSR-Based Group Communication in ATM Networks," NCR-9706285, (P. McKinley), $214,945, 1997-2000.

  • National Science Foundation
    CISE/CDA, "CISE Research Instrumentation for an SMP Cluster Testbed," CDA-9617310, (P. McKinley, B. Cheng, A. Jain), $125,200 plus $65,000 MSU matching, 1997-1998.

  • National Science Foundation
    CISE/CDA, "CISE Research Instrumentation for ATM Networking," (H. Hughes, P. McKinley, M. Mutka), CDA-9529488, $169,068 plus $94,000 MSU matching, 1996-1997.

  • National Science Foundation
    CISE/CCR, "Collective Communication in Wormhole-Routed Massively Parallel Computers," CCR-9503838, (P. McKinley), $208,200, 1995-1998.

  • Manufacturing Research Consortium
    "Environmental Information and Decision Support System for Secure Access to Distributed Multimedia Data," (B. Cheng, P. McKinley), $42,360, 1995-1996.

  • National Science Foundation
    EHR/DUE, "Cooperative Multimedia Computing Laboratory," DUE-9551180, (P. McKinley, B. Cheng, J. Weng) $94,610 plus $100,000 MSU matching, 1995-1997.

  • AT&T Foundation
    "Enhancements to High-Speed Network and Performance Laboratory," (H. Hughes, P. McKinley, M. Mutka, A. Wojcik), $50,000, 1994-1995.

  • U.S. Department of Energy
    "A Scalable Communications Library for Distributed-Memory Computing Environments," DE-FG02-93ER25167, (P. McKinley and L. Ni) $294,918, 1993-1996.

  • AT&T Foundation
    "Enhancements to High-Speed Network and Performance Research Laboratory," (H. Hughes, P. McKinley, M. Mutka, A. Wojcik), $25,000, 1993-1994.

  • National Science Foundation
    CISE/CDA, "Equipment Proposal for High Speed Local Area Networks," CDA-9222901, (H. Hughes, P. McKinley, M. Mutka, A. Esfahanian) $100,000 plus $45,851 MSU matching, 1993-1994.

  • National Science Foundation
    CISE/MIPS, "Multicast Communication in Multicomputers," (L. M. Ni, P. McKinley, A. Esfahanian), MIP-9204066, $357,914 (includes two REU supplements, $13,000 each), 1992-1996.

  • National Science Foundation
    CISE/CDA, "Equipment Proposal for Wormhole-Routed Multicomputer," CDA-9211641, (L. Ni, P. McKinley, M. Mutka, and R. Enbody), $77,000 plus $45,890 MSU matching, 1992-1993.

  • AT&T Foundation
    "Development of Computer Performance Evaluation and Computer Network Laboratory," (H. Hughes, P. McKinley, M. Mutka, A. Wojcik), $25,000, 1992-1993.

  • Ameritech Corporation
    Faculty Fellowship Program, "Multicast Communication in High-Speed Optical Networks," (P. McKinley), $30,000, 1991-1993.

  • Michigan State University
    (AURIG Program), "Architectures and Protocols for High-Speed Networks," (P. McKinley), $7,607, 1991.
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