functional language for computing with geometry
At Dept of Informatica e Automazione (DIA) of University Roma Tre, Italy, we do research on design languages, knowledge representation and progressive combination and visualization of distributed 3D data sets.
A SUR award from IBM Corp. granted in 2004 the equipment for a new PLM Lab at DIA for Intelligent Computational Design, and made possible the start of new courses on PLM applications and on parallel computing.
The CAD/PLM Lab has strong links with people in computational and automation applications at Engineering School in Roma Tre:
Prof. Di Carlo, Mechanics of solids, Dept. of Structures; Prof. Nicolo`, Production automation, Dept. of Informatica; Prof. Morino. Aeroelasticity, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,
and with US research groups:
Prof. Bajaj, CCV, Univ. of Texas at Austin; Prof. Shapiro, Spatial Automation, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison; Dr. Bernardini, IBM Res. Division at Yorktown, NY; Dr. Pascucci, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. at Livermore, CA
The PLaSM project has been initially developed between 1991 and 1995 with grants by the Italian National Research Council, for a total amount of about US$ 370,000, in the framework of the Research Program on Building Technologies ("PF Edilizia").
In the last few years the language development was supported by a grant of US$ 190,000 from the SPIKE industrial consortium, within the SPI/9 National Research Program funded by MIUR, the Italian Agency for Research and University.