Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA n 2003

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Dissertation: “Building and Using Educational Virtual Environments for Teaching about Animal Behaviors”

Defense of research completed, May 2002; currently making final edits requested by my committee.

National Technological University, Fort Collins, CO n 1989

M.S. in Computer Engineering

Concentrations in artificial intelligence and computer graphics.

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL n 1981

M.S. in Mathematics

Bethany Nazarene College, Bethany, OK n 1979

B.S. with a double major in Mathematics and Physics

teaching experience

SUNY at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY n 2000 – present

Assistant Professor

I am presently an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics. While here I have taught courses in Introduction to Computer Technology, Fundamentals of Programming, Programming for Non-majors, Data Structures, Computer Graphics, Compiler Construction, Artificial Intelligence, and Programming Languages. Next semester I will be teaching Computer Architecture and an advanced graphics course in Virtual Reality, as well as Introduction to Computer Technology and Programming for Non-majors.

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA n 1992 – 2000

Teaching Assistant

In the College of Computing I taught the undergraduate computer graphics course, and was offered the opportunity to teach the software engineering real-world lab course. In addition, I TA’ed for introductory and advanced undergraduate computer graphics, the real-world lab course, scientific visualization, computer animation, and the introduction to graduate studies course required of all new Ph.D. students. I presented guest lectures on virtual reality and software engineering for other professors in the college. I also designed and taught a two hour introduction to Alias Studio for three years for the Office of Information Technology’s Scientific Visualization Lab.

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL n 1979 – 1981

Teaching Assistant

I taught college algebra and business calculus for the math department at the U of I for four semesters. The last three semesters I was ranked excellent based on my student evaluations, and after graduating and leaving, I was asked to return as an instructor.

Other WOrk experience

Hewlett-Packard, Colorado Springs, CO n 1981 – 1991

Software R&D Engineer

I designed, developed and debugged realtime firmware and software for HP’s digitizing oscilloscopes. I worked on all aspects of the systems, from low level hardware drivers, pixel display routines, and test and calibration software through user interface design and implementation, to data management and measurement routines. I’m quite familiar with HP’s microprocessor development systems, emulators, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, pSoS, and design issues related to software engineering realtime interrupt driven systems (for example handling 8KB data records when the samples are collected every nanosecond).

Bethany Nazarene College, Bethany, OK n 1976 – 1979

Computer Operator

I ran computer labs and also production systems to handle grades, attendance records, and other data for the college and local high schools.

United States Air Force, Selma, AL n 1972 – 1976

Ground Radio Equipment Repairman

I maintained ground to air communications equipment (VHF and UHF) along with point to point (HF) communications systems, and other assorted electronic equipment (including the base PA system). I spent part of my time working in maintenance control, where I coordinated the repair of all ground-based electronic equipment.

awards

· Richard Siegfried Junior Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence, SUNY College at Oneonta, 2000

· Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center Leadership Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997

· President’s Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992 – 1996

· Outstanding Young Men of America, 1986

· Who’s Who Among Colleges and Universities, 1979

· Computer Honors Program Fellowship, University of Alabama, 1971 – 1972

· National Merit Scholarship, 1971 – 1972

Publications and Papers

Supervised Student Projects:

§ Creating Digital Models from Real-World Objects, Brian Wenzel. Research in progress.

§ Virtual Fish Project, Jonathan Weinell. Presented at the SUNY Oneonta Student Research Show (2002) and as a poster at CCSCNE 2002. Awarded second place at CCSCNE.

§ Tracking using Video, Didier Arango. Presented at the SUNY Oneonta Student Research Show (2001).

§ Building a Virtual World from a Dog’s Point of View, Sammie Lam and Yinshao Luan. Presented at the SUNY Oneonta Student Research Show (2001).

Publications:

§ ”Virtual Reality for Education?,” Don Allison and Larry F. Hodges, VRST'00: The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2000, October 2000.

§ “Virtual Gorilla Modeling Project: Middle School Students Constructing Virtual Models for Learning,” Kenneth E. Hay, Jane Crozier, Mike Barnett, Don Allison, Meredith Bashaw, Beth Hoos and Lori Perkins, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Learning Sciences, June 2000,

§ “The Educational Value of an Information-Rich Virtual Environment,” Doug Bowman, Jean Wineman, Larry F. Hodges and Don Allison, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, vol 8, num 3, June 1999, pp 317-331.

§ “Virtual Gorilla Project,” Don Allison and Larry F. Hodges, AERA Symposium on Cross Project Research in Virtual Environments, American Education Research Association 1999 Annual Meeting, April 19--23, 1999.

§ “Building Lifelike Animals for Educational virtual Environments,” Don Allison and Larry F. Hodges, poster presentation at Lifelike Computer Characters '98, October 1998.

§ “Designing Animal Habitats within an Immersive VE,” Doug A. Bowman, Jean Wineman, Larry F. Hodges and Don Allison, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol 18, no 5, September/October 1998, pp 9-13.

§ “COOL-VR: A Virtual Environments Toolkit,” Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Report, GIT-GVU-98-14, 1998.

§ “The Virtual Reality Gorilla Exhibit,” Don Allison, Brian Wills, Doug Bowman, Jean Wineman and Larry F. Hodges, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol 17, no 6, November/December 1997, pp 30-38.

§ “Virtual Gorilla Project: Gorillas in the Bits,” Jean Wineman, Larry Hodges, Don Allison and Brian Wills, Ed-Media/Ed-Telecom World Conference, June 1997.

§ “Gorillas in the Bits,” Don Allison, Brian Wills, Larry F. Hodges and Jean Wineman, IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium '97 Conference Proceedings, March 1997.

Video:

§ Co-editor of the video proceedings of the AAAI 1998 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition

§ Modeling and postproduction for ``Atlanta in Motion,'' shown in the ACM SIGGRAPH '96 Animation Screening Room and the ACM SIGGRAPH '97 Electronic Theater.

Invited Talks:

§ “Virtual Reality as an Educational Technology: Results from the Virtual Gorilla Project”, Richard Siegfried Lecture, SUNY College at Oneonta, December 7, 2000.

§ “Gorillas in the Bits”, International Conference of the Learning Sciences '98, The Georgia Tech Show session, 17 December 1998.

§ “Zoos and Computers”, Gig-A-Bytes, Num 9840, (UT Austin Public Radio interview), October 1, 1998.

Popular Press Coverage

§ ABC `World News Sunday,'' July 16, 2000.

§ Japanese television, Fuji TV Network Inc., “Tarzan,” December 11, 1999.

§ Discovery Channel Canada, February 3, 1998.

§ MSNBC, “The Site Tonight,” September 1997.

§ German public television, October 1997.

§ “Virtual Gorillas”, Kathy A. Svitil, Discover, Vol 18 Num 4, April 1997, p 26.

§ “Microchimp”, Colleen Theis, *surface, Num 11, 1997, p 32.

§ “Animal Lovers' Zoo”, Popular Mechanics, January 1998, p 16.

§ “Aping the Big Apes”, Adhesives Age, March 1997, p 68.

§ “Ape Close and Personal”, ASPCA Animal Watch, Spring 1997, p 8.

§ “Zoo Goes Ape over VR”, R & D, Vol 39, Num 2, February 1997, p 3, 34.

§ “Gare au gorille...”, Sonia Feertchak, Science & Vie, Num 960, September 1997, p 167.

§ “Virtueller Tierpark”, Stern, 16/97, p 156.

§ “Warnendes Grunzen”, Der Spiegel, 17/1997, p 235.

§ “Einmal selber Affe sein”, Geo (Japanese edition), Num 4, April 1997,

§ p 131.

§ “Tussen de gorilla's”, Kijk (Dutch science magazine), June 1997, p 10.

§ “Acting Like an Ape”, Super Science (for kids), Scholastic, Vol 9, Num 1, September 1997, p 3.

§ “The VR Gorilla-Rhino Test,” Ernest Adams, Gamasutra, August 14, 1998, Vol. 2, Issue 32.

§ “Virtual Gorillas”, Atlanta Constitution, March 25, 1997.

§ “Virtual Gorillas”, Atlanta Journal, March 26, 1997.

§ “Demo Days: Virtual Gorilla Exhibit”, Atlanta Computer Currents, Vol 9, Num 3, March 1997, pp 24-25.

Selected Professional Service

· Educational Technology Committee, SUNY College at Oneonta, 2001 – present

· Faculty Senate, SUNY at Oneonta, 2001 – present

· Co-chair for student volunteers, IEEE Virtual Reality 2000 conference.

· Coordinator of student volunteers for ACM Interactive 3D Graphics conference, 1999.

· Student volunteer at IEEE Visualization ’95, ACM Siggraph ’94 and ’97, IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium ’97, and ’98, IEEE Virtual Reality ’99, International Conference on the Learning Sciences ’98, and the 15^th Annual Cognitive Science Conference.

memberships

Association for Computing Machinery
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Mathematical Association of America