Frances L. Van Scoy

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Current Positions and Contact Information

Official Appointments

Associate Professor of Computer Science

West Virginia University

G11-B Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) / Chestnut Ridge Research Building (CRRB)

P. O. Box 6109

Morgantown, WV 26506-6109

voice +1-304-293-LANE x4181

fvanscoy@wvu.edu

http://csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy

Other Affiliations

director, WV Virtual Environments Laboratory, 209 ERB, Evansdale Campus, WVU

http://wvvel.csee.wvu.edu/, [directory]

director Virtual Environments Research Experiences for Undergraduates site

http://wvvel.csee.wvu.edu/vereu

directory Creaetivit

member, Combinatorial Computing and Discrete Mathematics Institute, WVU http://www.cs.wvu.edu/ccdm/

faculty associate, WVU Center for Women's Studies http://www.as.wvu.edu/wmst/

committee member, WVU Electronic Theses and Dissertations http://www.wvu.edu/~thesis

committee member, WVU Faculty Senate Research Committee

member, steering committee, (and liason to visualization working group) Super Computing Science Consortium, http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/netl/ and http://www.sc-2.psc.edu

maintainer, Reid List of the First Course Language for Computer Science majors, http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/reid.htm

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Teaching

I teach courses in the general area of programming languages.

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136

310

Principles of Programming Languages

236

410

Compiler Construction

fall 2002 resources
fall 2003 resources

330

512

Design of Language Processors

336

510

Formal Specification of Languages

The Brighton University Resource Kit for Students (BURKS) is an excellent source of language implementations and documentation. http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks

I'm developing a new doctoral course on Multisensory Computing.

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791

771

Multisensory Computing

fall 2002 resources

I also occassionally teach courses in algorithms.

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126

320

Analysis of Algorithms

418

727

Information Dissemination

fall 2001 syllabus

Course Syllabi

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years

URL

320 / 126

1998

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/cs126syl1998.html

310 / 136

1998

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/syl13698.pdf

410 / 236

2000, 2002

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/syll236s00.htm

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/cs410f02/410SYLA.HTM

470

2002

510 / 336

2000

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/syl336f00.htm

691

2002

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/spr2002/691.htm

727 / 418

2001

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/727syllabus2001.html

791

2002

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/cs791f02/791SYLA.HTM

 

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Research

Some Recent Publications

"A Virtual Environment Based File Management System: Preliminary Work," Frances L. Van Scoy, VSMM'98, November 18-20, 1998, Gifu, Japan

conference information: http://www.vsmm.org/vsmm98/default.cfm?CFID=1692&CFTOKEN=73924484

paper: http://www.vsmm.org/vsmm98/successfulAuthorDetail.CFM?AbstractSubmission__ParticipantID=233

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/vsmm98.pdf

"Mobility Training using a Haptic Interface: Initial Plans," Frances L. Van Scoy, Vic Baker, Chaim Gingold, Eric Martino, Darrin Burton, Fourth Annual PHANTOM Users Group (PUG99), MIT Endicott House, Dedham, Massachusetts, October 9-12, 1999.

conference information: http://www.sensable.com/community/PUG99/index.htm

paper in pdf: http://www.sensable.com/community/PUG99/07_vanscoy.pdf

"Sonification of Complex Data Sets: An Example from Basketball, " Frances L. Van Scoy, VSMM'99, Dundee, Scotland, September 1-3, 1999

conference information: http://www.vsmm.org/vsmm99/

paper in html: http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/vsmm99/webmany/FLVS00.HTM

"A 3-D Lasso Tool for Editing 3-D Objects: Preliminary Work," Frances L. Van Scoy, Anatoli Peredera, Alicia Kime, Workshop on Virtual Reality, Marilia, Brazil, November 18-20, 1999

conference information: http://www.realidadevirtual.com.br/wrv99/

paper: http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/WRV99.doc

"Using Multimedia to Explore Large Data Sets," Frances L. Van Scoy, XVth Interuniversity Mathematics Research Seminar of Puerto Rico (XV SIDIM), Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, February 2000

"Sonification of Remote Sensing Data: Initial Experiment," Frances L. Van Scoy, Information Visualisation 2000, London, UK, July 19-21, 2000

conference information: http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2000/

paper: http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/G287.PDF

"Haptic Display of Mathematical Functions for Teaching Students with Vision Disabilities: Design and Proof of Concept," Frances L. Van Scoy, Takamitsu Kawai, Marjorie Darrah, Connie Darrah, Haptic Human Computer Interfaction, Glasgow, Scotland, August 31-September 1, 2000

conference information: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/workshops/haptic/

paper: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/workshops/haptic/

"Documentation of Virtualized Architecture: A Proposal," Frances L. Van Scoy, Virtual Systems and Multi Media (VSMM 2000), Ogaki, Japan, October 4-6, 2000.

conference information: http://www.vsmm.org/vsmm2000

paper:

 

Frances L. Van Scoy, Jeremy Jarrell, and Gena Wagaman, "Cemetery Preservation and Laser Scanning," in Proceedings Seventh International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia Enchanced Realities: Augmented and Unplugged, October 25-27, 2001, Hal Thwaites and Lon Addison, editors, pp. 309-317.

conference information:

paper:

Frances L., Van Scoy, Takamitsu Kawai, Angela Fullmer, Kevin Stamper, Iwona Wojciechowksa, Addis Perez, Jesir Vargas, and Shelma Martinex, "The Sound and Touch of Mathematics: a Prototype System," Proceedings of the PHANToM Users Group PUG 2001, 4 pages, unpaginated; also to appear on web site at www.sensable.com.

conference information:

paper: http://www.cs.sandia.gov/SEL/conference/pug01/papers.htm

Using Sonification Immersive Technololgy to Understand Properties of Materials, Frances L. Van Scoy, Martina Bachlechner, Shelma Martiz, Addis Perez, and Jesir Vargas, IPT 2002, Orlando Florida, March 24-25, 2002.

conference information:

paper: http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/IPT2002.DOC,

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/IPT2002.HTM

"An Object-Oriented Neuroanatomic Atlas," Jeffrey L. Sponser, Frances Van Scoy, Doru Pacurari, Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing,Banff, Canada, July 17-19, 2002.

conference information:

paper:

"A VRML-Based Immersive Projection System: Frances L. Van Scoy, Jared Zelek, Hiral Patel, VSMM 2002, South Korea, September 25-27, 2002.

conference information: http://www.vsmm.org

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Some Recent Presentations

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2002 Calendar

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People

Some of those who have influenced me professionally

Some of my students

Virtual Environments Laboratory directory

Links to computer scientists

Academic ancestors and siblings

Mailing lists I administer

Web pages of some relatives


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Personal Information

Education

South Central High School

Greenwich, Ohio

1966

Michigan State University

B.S.

mathematics

1970

University of Virginia

Ph.D.

computer science

1976

Previous Employment

Old Dominion University

1975-1979

Previous Temporary or Part-Time Positions

Carnegie Mellon University

academic year 1982-1983, summer 1988 (at Software Engineering Institute), calendar 1989

visiting scientist

developing language sensitive editor, designing Ada education handbook, developing course material for teaching Ada

West Virginia Northern Community College

summer 1988

adjunct lecturer

teaching Ada

Gifu University

winter 2000

visiting researcher

doing research in virtual reality

West Virginia Governor's Office of Technology

1998-2000

coordinator for advanced scientific computing initiatives

West Virginia EPSCoR

1998-2001

co-project director

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Personal Interests

Christianity

Wesley United Methodist Church http://www.gbgm-umc.org/WesleyWVA01

World Wide Study Bible http://www.ccel.org/wwsb/

Christian Classics Ethereal Library http://www.ccel.org/

Genealogy

Family Names:

Bond, Cooper, Cox, Crites, Cunningham, Fields, Hubley, Jeffers, Keller, Kemp, Kimble, Kime, King, Knapp, Marvin, Mouse, Oakley, Stout, Strimple, Stump, Van Scoy, Waldren, Wise, Yokum

Locations:

Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
Ohio: Fulton, Huron, Mahoning, Meigs, Richland, Trumbull, Washington, and Williams counties
Pennsylvania: Lancaster county
West Virginia: Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, and Pendleton counties

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This page was last modified December 28, 2001.

My old web page (with lots of links) can be found at: http://www.cs.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/index20000206.html

More recent web pages can be found at:
http://www.cs.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/index200101.html

http://csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/index200108.html

http:/www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/index20011231.html

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~vanscoy/index20020215.html