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2011 Faculty Scholarship Report Design and Layout Erica Macarthur 2011 Faculty Scholarship Report Design and Layout Erica MacArthur Photography A. Sue Weisler/RIT Elizabeth Torgerson-Lamark/RIT Mark Benjamin/RIT/NTID Mike Venson/Laumeier Museum Published by The Scholarly Publishing Studio https://wallacecenter.rid.edu/scholarly-publishing-studio/ © 2012 Rochester Institute of Technology TabLe oF ConTenTS 2 MeSSaGe FRoM THe PRoVoST RIT’s faculty members are must use a multi-disciplinary, both teachers and scholars; this becomes clear when teacher/scholar model pro- motes experiential learning, artistic accomplishments, ar- setting the foundation for a ticles published and research completed in 2011. These en- students and our faculty. teacher relationship, show- case RIT’s areas of excellence RIT is widely recognized as a and address real-world chal- - lenges. In conferences, pro- ucation, design, imaging sci- fessional presentations, ence and sustainable manu- exhibits or scholarly publica- facturing to name only a few. tions, our teacher/scholars It is the work of the faculty - that consistently upholds this pact on human welfare that reputation. Through the con- goes beyond the walls of RIT. tinued pursuit of excellence in scholarship, our faculty en- rich and deepen our knowl- - edge of these areas and the strength of all our academic facing our world today. Our programs. I am proud to teachers understand that present this report highlight- ing some of our noteworthy pressing issues facing our - society, our brightest minds ments during 2011. b. THoMaS GoLISano CoLLeGe oF CoMPUTInG & InFoRMaTIon SCIenCeS - Journal Paper: in Weighted Planar Graphs." The 4th Nayantara Bhatnagar, and Dana Ran- Eastern Great Lakes Theory of Com- dall. "On the Diaconis-Gangolli Mar- putation Workshop (EAGL). State Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 2011. Lecture. Journal Paper: Xu, Ke, et al. "Path Journal Paper: Fluet, Matthew, et Lengths in Protein-Protein Interaction al. "Implicitly-threaded Parallelism in Manticore." The Journal of Functional Proteomics Programming Published Conference Published Conference Proceedings: Mertzios, George B. Proceedings:et al Proceedings of the Arc Graphs in Polynomial Time." 2011 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Proceedings of the Latin-American Memory Systems Performance and Algorithms, Graphs, and Optimization Correctness (MSPC '11; San Jose, Symposium. CA; June 2011). Ed. Madanlal Mu- Mario Valencia-Pabon. Bariloche, Ar- gentina: Electronic Notes in Discrete Print. * £ external Scholarly Fellowships: National Science Foundation (continued on page 8) Key for use with all citations * Blind Peer Reviewed Invited Paper ˜ Non-Blind Peer Reviewed † RIT Student « Double Blind Peer Reviewed £ Refereed ^ Trade Publication External Funding Creating useful systems for STePHanIe LUDI - - and contrast. The system is grounds in order to make iPad-based and it will en- the project as widely usable able students to also take - notes during the lecture and to access the lecture and notes after class. The Dr. Ludi also leads Project written/drawn lecture ma- - terial is captured wirelessly by sensors in the whiteboard which are both funded by The use of the stroke-based the National Science Foun- capture eliminates the issues with glare, room lighting, workshops for middle and instructor position, and oth- high school students who er obstacles that exist with Dr. Ludi leads the Ac- a camera-based approach. teaches them programming - concepts through Lego Mind- oping and testing a portable knowledge in accessible multi- storm Programming. The tu- - touch user interface design ly impaired students, at the and user interface design secondary school and uni- Prof. Tom Reichlmayr and project intends to increase students in Software En- access to science and math access to math/science lec- material in and out of the - classroom. The project uti- students. The low cost of ect is a multi-institutional the hardware will also en- project that will use robot- - able the use of AccessLec- ics and other programming - ture by students on a large - scale. The project brings accessible set of tools and terial that is being written together students, parents curriculum for pre-college on the whiteboard at the - students, including those ous socio-economic back- with disabilities. Left page: A repre- sentation of how lec- ture material is displated on the iPad bottom left: A sample Lego Mindstorms NXT robot used during Project bot tom right: Visually impaired high school student programs a robot, external Scholarly Fellowships: Journal Paper: Schweppe, Marla Virtual Stage: Incorporating Soft National Science Foundation Graphics Education." IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Amsden, Edward. "Fairness for Trans- 23rd Symposium Journal Paper: Geigel, Joe. "Teach- on Implementation and Application ing Animation in a Virtual Space: The of Functional Languages (IFL'11). Journal of Virtual Worlds and Education 1. 1 Journal Paper: Geigel, Joe, et al. "Adapting a Virtual World for Theatri- Journal Paper: Faliszewski, P., et al. cal Performance." IEEE Computer with Single-Peaked Preferences Are - trol." Information and Computation Journal Paper: Faliszewski, P., E. Virtual Worlds." Proceedings of the - 4th International Conference on Af- fective Computing and Intelligent In- Elections." - teraction - Volume Part II (ACII'11). ligence Research Ed. Sidney D'Mello, et al. Berlin, Published Conference Proceedings: Geigel, Joe and Marla - - Proceedings of the 36th International Distributed, Theatrical Performanc- Symposium on Mathematical Foun- es." Proceedings of Automatic Face & dations of Computer Science (MFCS Gesture Recognition and Workshops 2011). Ed. Murlak and Sankowski. (FG 2011), 2011 IEEE International Berlin: Springer, 2011. Print. * Conference on Automatic Face. Ed. A. Nijholt and R. Poppe. Santa Barbara, Published Conference Proceedings: Published Conference - Proceedings: alized Boolean Formulas." Proceed- Rajendra K. Raj, and Minseok Kwon. ings of the Twenty-Second Interna- “Work-In-Progress: An Immersion Intelligence (IJCAI 2011). Ed. Toby - tiers in Education (FIE). Ed. IEEE. 2011. Web. « Published Conference Proceedings: Faliszewski, P., E. Journal Paper: Radziszowski, Stani- - slaw. "Small Ramsey Numbers." - Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Dynamic Surveys DS1 Electorates." Proceedings of the Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK XIII). Ed. Apt. Journal Paper: Xu, Xiaodong, Zehui Shao, and Stanislaw Radziszowski. Journal editor: SIAM ed. Electronic Commerce Research. Journal on Discrete Mathematics Berlin: Springer, 2011. Print. * Journal editor: Journal Paper: ed. Journal of Universal Computer Stanislaw Radziszowski. "Multi-Vertex Science. Graz: n.p., 2011. Web. * Deletion Graph Reconstruction Num- bers." Journal of Combinatorial Math- external Scholarly Fellowships: ematics and Combinatorial Comput- ing NSF Journal Paper: Lathrop, Joel and - puting the Folkman Number external Scholarly Fellowships: Journal of Combi- natorial Mathematics and Combinato- rial Computing Print. £ Journal Paper: external Scholarly Fellowships: "New Bounds on Some Ramsey Num- bers." Journal of Combinatorial Math- NSF ematics and Combinatorial Comput- ing Published Conference Published Conference Proceedings:et Proceedings: Bailey, Reynold J., et al al Proceedings of the Parallel and Dis- Proceedings of the 41st ASEE/IEEE tributed Processing Techniques and Frontiers in Education Conference Applications, Las Vegas, NV. Ed. (FIE 2011). Ed. Stuart Kellogg and Press, 2011. Print. ˜ 2011. Print. * Radziszowski, Stani- Published Conference Proceedings: Ramsey Theory: Yesterday, J., Rajendra K. Raj, and S. Manian Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Alexan- Ramkumar. "Successful Practices for Proceedings of the 41st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Radziszowski, Stani- Education Conference (FIE 2011). Ed. slaw. "Some Ramsey Problems In- Stuart Kellogg and Jennifer Karlin. - proach." Ramsey Theory: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Alexan- Published Conference Proceedings: J., Rajendra K. Raj, and Minseok Proceedings of the 41st ASEE/IEEE Raj, Rajendra K., et al. "Panel: Ro- Frontiers in Education Conference bust Information Sharing Among (FIE 2011). Ed. Stuart Kellogg and Fifth Annual International Conference 2011. Print. * on Critical Infrastructure Protection. International Federation for Informa- Published Conference tion Processing (IFIP) Working Group Proceedings:et al - - sentation. £ graduate Degree Programs." Pro- ceedings of the 6th Annual Sympo- sium on Information Assurance (ASIA '11), Academic Track of 14th Annual NYS Cyber Security Conference. Ed. n.p., 2011. Print. * 10 Published Conference Proceedings: Raj, Rajendra K., et Journal Paper: al- tion." Proceedings of the 15th Collo- quium for Information Systems Se- Journal curity Education (CISSE),. Ed. Mark of Computing Sciences in Colleges n.p., 2011. Print. « Journal Paper: Zanibbi, Richard and Dorothea Blostein. "Recognition Journal Paper: - V., et al. "Resource Awareness in pressions." 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