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Dr. Victor Piotrowski is a Lead Program Director for the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation. At NSF, he is responsible for the Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS), and the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) programs. Before joining NSF, he served as a professor and chair of the computer science department at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He previously held faculty positions at North Dakota State University and at the Institute of Informatics in Poland. Dr.

Restoration of realistic animation is a critical part in the area of computer graphics. The goal of this sort of simulation is to imitate the behavior of the transformation in real life to the greatest extent. Physics-based simulation provides a solid background and proficient theories that can be applied in the simulation. In this proposal, the problems of  terrain deformation and ship oscillations will be addressed.

Assistive Technology (AT) helps people with cognitive impairment (CI) in their use of computers. Studies have found that AT systems are abandoned by CI users at shockingly high rates. One of the major causes of abandonment is an eventual misalignment with: (1) user goals and abilities and (2) the functionality delivered by the system. We use data stream-mining techniques to recognize when a user seems to learn (or forget) desired behaviors that are part of a plan for cognitive rehabilitation. In our case study, CI users are given an email system to aid their cognitive rehabilitation.

The last decade witnessed a wild growth in Internet traffic, caused by bandwidth-hungry applications such as YouTube, P2P, and VoIP. This explosive increase is expected to proceed with an annual rate of 34% in the near future, which is a huge challenge for the Internet's infrastructure. One way to provide relief is advances in optical networking and switching, by which abundant bandwidth can be provided in an energy-efficient manner.

Simulation software, generally based on the process of imitating a real phenomenon with a set of mathematical formulas, is widely used in simulating wildfire spreading processes, weather conditions, electronic circuits, chemical reactions, and so on. Simulation software with real-time response has important industrial applications, especially where the penalty for improper operation is costly, such as nuclear power plants, airplanes, or chemical plants.