Tony Scarlatos

Rank/Position Title:

Lecturer

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~tony

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

• 1/95 - 6/98: successive appointments (P/T)
• 9/98 - 6/00: joint appointment CSE, CELT, and EST (F/T)
• 9/00 - present: F/T CSE

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

I attended several CELT teaching workshops between 1998 and 2000. I have also attended ACM SIGGRAPH and Multimedia conferences.

Other related computing experience:

• I taught a computer science course at Hampshire College, Fall 1995.
• I designed the CELT multimedia computing facility, and specified hardware, software, and the network, 1999.
• I designed the original CS multimedia lab (1995) and provided specifications for its upgrades (1999, 2000, and 2003).

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• CS Undergraduate Recruiting Committee
• CS Web Committee
• CS Visibility Committee
• I have served on search committees for both CS and CELT.

Principal publications of the last five years.

• "iSign: Making the Benefits of Reading Aloud Accessible to Families with Deaf Children"; Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging; 2003
• "The Learning Cafe: Thought for Food"; Syllabus Conference; 1999

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

• Senior personnel on NSF Combined Research Curriculum Development (CRCD) grant (#0203333).
• NY State Department of Education Learning Technologies grant.
• I developed an interactive CD-ROM for the CEAS (1996).
• I developed web sites for the CS department and the CEAS (2002).
• I worked on SPIR projects in 1995 and 1996.
• I was the CD-ROM Proceedings Co-Chair for the IEEE Visualization conference, 1994.

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

Honors and awards:

• Printing Industries of America award, 1990.
• Federal Design Achievement award, 1988.
• "Introduction to Multimedia" received citation in the Recognition Award for the Integration of Research and Education (RAIRE) from the National Science Foundation (1997).

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term

Academic advising: 7

Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004-2005 academic year.

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

• My current research concerns multimodal interfaces and physical computing applications.
• My general area of research is Computer-Based Training (CBT).