Associate Professor, CS Department Chair

Professor Walter’s research concentrates on the development and simulation of distributed algorithms. Her particular focus currently involves adapting existing distributed algorithms for use on wireless ad hoc networks and creating new motion planning algorithms for self-reconfigurable robotic systems. Jenny teaches introductory computer science (CMPU-101 and 102), analysis of algorithms (CMPU-241), formal language theory (CMPU-240), computational complexity, computational geometry, and distributed algorithms. Jenny's website contains a list of her publications.

STINT Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science (Fall 2009)

Professor Ekeberg comes to the department from Stockholm University, Sweden. He earned his M.S. in physics and Ph.D. in computer science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is an active researcher in computational neuroscience with focus on the neural control of locomotion, with grants from the European Commission.

Associate Professor

Professor Ellman earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His interests include computer animation and formal methods in software engineering. His research is currently focused on specification and synthesis of interactive animation programs.

Associate Professor

Professor Hunsberger’s research focus is on collaborative multi-agent systems. In particular, he is interested in endowing computer agents with intentions, as well as an ability to reason about temporal constraints, especially in group situations. Luke teaches CMPU-101 (Introduction to Computer Science), CMPU-245 (Declarative Programming) and CMPU-365 (Artificial Intelligence). Luke's web site contains more information re: his research interests, publications and courses.

Nancy Ide, Professor of Computer Science

Professor Ide earned her B.A, B.S., M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University, where she studied in several areas including neuroscience, linguistics, and computer science. Professor Ide is an active researcher in the field of computational linguistics, and has received several grants to support her research from the National Science Foundation, the European Commission, and others. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Language Resources and Evaluation and co-editor of a book series Text, Speech, and Language Technology for Springer Publishers.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Professor Jones earned his BS in Electrical Engineering at Cooper Union, MS in Computer Science at Marist College, and is currently completing his doctorate in Computer Science at Pace University. He was an Industry Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for 18 years at the Polytechnic University Graduate Center, Westchesterr, NY. During that period he was also an Engineering and Computer Science Consultant to a number of organizations. He spent the following 3 years at The Sage College of Albany as an Associate Professor of Computer Science, with 2 years as department chair. His research is in computational music composition systems. His interests include digital hardware design and issues in multicore and distributed operating systems.

Assistant Professor

Professor Smith earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Central Florida. He worked for AT&T for fifteen years, in several different IT capacities, during which time his Ph.D. studies were sponsored by AT&T’s Doctoral Support Program. His research spans elements of theoretical and experimental computer science, in the area of parallel and distributed computation. His interests include models of concurrency, bioinformatics (specifically, computational phylogeny), and programming languages (semantics, paradigms, and unifying theories).

Elle Gohl, formally, is a Computer Technical Specialist and the Computer Science Department liason. Informally, she is the heart and soul of the Department, and perhaps the most helpful person you will ever meet.

She has been with Vassar College since 1979. Ms. Gohl has a B.A. from Vassar in Religion/Women’s Studies and a certificate of Ministry with emphasis on Peace and Justice from Maryknoll School of Theology. Her research interest is late twentieth-century women and their spirituality within the organized religious structures of mainstream Christianity.

Greg Priest-Dorman, Systems Administrator and Lab Coordinator. Greg came to Vassar as a student in 1978 and began working in the Computer Science Department that Fall. He returned to the department in 1992 as a part time Faculty Research Associate and became our full time Sys Admin shortly there after.

— Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/04/10 10:37