Matteo Mannino was an undergraduate student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University when he completed this work. He graduated in Dec. 2006 with BS degree of Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. He is interested in graduate study in stochastic models and algorithms for computations that require large data sets, particularly in the areas of signal and image processing and semiconductor device simulation. He is continuing his graduate education at the University of Michigan.