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<html><head><title>Clifford A. Shaffer's Short Vitae</title></head><body><h1><img src="Shaffer.gif">Clifford A. Shaffer</h1><hr><address><i>Associate Professor</i><br><i>(540) 231-4354</i></address><i><a href="mailto:shaffer@cs.vt.edu">shaffer@cs.vt.edu</a></i><h3>Education:</h3><ul><li>Ph.D., 1986, University of Maryland, College Park<li>M.S., 1982, University of Maryland, College Park<li>B.S., 1980, University of Maryland, College Park</ul><h3>Current Research Interests:</h3><ul><li>Computer-supported cooperative work, component architectures,computer-aided education, visualization, hierarchical data structures,Geographic Information Systems, computer graphics,algorithm design and analysis, data structures.</ul><h3>Major Research Grants and Awards:</h3><ul><li>1996--1999 C.A. Shaffer, J.B. Campbell, J.M Carroll, N. Hauenstein, andB. Hertel, ``Integrating Statistics and Models across theSocial Sciences Curricula'': FIPSE, $277,801.<li>1996-1998 J.M. Carroll, C.A. Shaffer, M.B. Rosson and J. Burton,``Leveraging Networks for Collaborative Education in the BlacksburgElectronic Village'': NSF NIE program, $1,117,128.<li>1995--1996 C.A. Shaffer and N.D. Barnette, ``The GeoSim InterfaceLibrary for Introductory Programming Courses'': NSF Course andCurriculum Development program, $19,768<li>1994 AMES Laboratory Undergraduate Computational Science EducationAward for <b>Project GeoSim</b>.<li>1994 <i>Journal of Geography</i> award for best article related toteaching in a University or College.<li>1993--1997 E.A. Fox, J.A.N. Lee, H. Rex Hartson, C.A. Shaffer and N.D.Barnette, ``Interactive Learning with a Digital Library in ComputerScience'': NSF Educational Infrastructure grant, $449,088.<li>1992--1994 C.A. Shaffer, L.W. Carstensen, R.W. Morrill and E.A. Fox,``<b>GeoSim</b>: A GIS-Based Simulation Laboratory forIntroductory Geography'': NSF, $107,940; FIPSE, $149,571<li>1989--1990 ``Hierarchical Data Structures for Robot Collision Avoidance'':NASA $27,500.<li>1989--1990 ``A prototype Geographic Information System for PersonalWorkstations'': General Dynamics $43,000; Virginia Center forInnovative Technology $33,890.</ul><h3>Academic/Professional Activities:</h3><ul><li>Chair, Graduate Program Committee, Department of CS, 1998-present<li>Member, Graduate Program Committee, Department of CS, 1992-1995, 1997-present<li>Member, Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of CS, 1990-1992<li>Member, Computing Resources Committee, Department of CS, 1987-90<li>Member, ACM, SIGGRAPH, IEEE, AAAS, and Sigma Xi</ul><h3>Selected Publications:</h3><ul><li>C.A. Shaffer, D.L. Knill, and L.T. Watson,Visualization for Multiparameter Aircraft Designs,to appear in <i>Proceedings of IEEE Visualization'98</i>,Research Triangle Park, NC, October 1998.<li>C.A. Shaffer,<i>A Practical Introduction to Data Structures and AlgorithmAnalysis</i>, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997.<li>J.B. Begole, C.A. Struble, and C.A. Shaffer,Toward Collaboration Transparancy in Java,<i>IEEE Internet Computing 1</i>, 2(Mar--Apr 1997), 57-64.<li>P.L. Isenhour, J. Begole, W.S. Heagy, and C.A. Shaffer,<b>Sieve</b>: A java-based collaborative visualization environment,<i>Late Breaking Hot Topics Proceedings, IEEE Visualization'97</i>,Phoenix, AZ, October 1997, 13-16. <li>J. Begole, C.A. Struble, C.A. Shaffer, and R.B. Smith,Transparant Sharing of Java Applets: A Replicated Approach,<i>Proceedings of UIST'97</i>, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 1997,55-64.<li>C.A. Shaffer, L.S. Heath, J.M. Nielsen and J. Yang,SWAN: A student-controllable data structure visualization system,<i>Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 96</i>, Boston MA, June 1996, 632-637.<li>Carstensen, L. W., Jr., C. A. Shaffer, R. W. Morrill, and E. A. Fox."Geo-Sim: A GIS-Based Simulation Laboratory for Introductory Geography."<i>Journal of Geography 92</i> 5(Sep/Oct 1993), 217-22.<li>Shaffer, C. A., R. Juvvadi, and L. S. Heath."A Generalized Comparison of Quadtree and Bintree StorageRequirements."<i>Image and Vision Computing 11</i> 7(1993) 402-12.<li>Shaffer, C. A. "Data Representations for Geographic Information Systems."<i>Annual Review of Information Science and Technology</i> 27.Medford: American Society for Information Science, 1992. 135-72.<li>Shaffer, C. A., and G. M. Herb. "A Real-Time Robot Arm Collision AvoidanceSystem." <i>IEEE Transactions on Robotics 8</i> 2(1992) 149-60.</ul><h3>Major Research Projects</h3><ul><li>1996--present: Principal Investigator for FIPSE-supported``Integrating Statistics and Models across the Social SciencesCurricula.'' This project integrates statistical processing withlarge databases and tutorials to teach Social Sciences students basicstatistics and data visualization.<li>1996--1998: Co-Principal Investigator for NSF-supported``Leveraging Networks for Collaborative Education in the BlacksburgElectronic Village.'' University researchers are working with thelocal county K12 school system to build a ``virtual school'' over theinternet. Stressing collaborative, interactive courseware and a sharedenvironment, our goal is to allow students from both rural andsuburban schools to work together.<li>1993--1997: Co-Principal Investigator for departmental NSFEducation Infrastructure project.This includes moving our Data Structures class to take advantage ofon-line network services, writing a Data Structures textbook anddirecting a project to create the SWAN data structures visualizationsystem.<li>1990--1996: Project director for {\bf Project GeoSim},a series of software modules that apply geographic information systemsand simulation to introductory geography education.This software simulates of various geographic and economicprocesses, such as commuter traffic, migration, and populationdynamics.<li>1989--1990: Principal Investigator fora real-time robot arm collision avoidance safety system.Supported by NASA/Goddard SFC.<li>1980--1987: Designer and chief implementor for the <b>QUILT</b> project,the first Geographic Information System based on advanced hierarchicaldata structures.</ul></body></html>⌨️ 快捷键说明
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