Chief Information and Technology Officer
COMPLETE VITA – JANUARY 2011
RAY FORD
Chief Information and Technology Officer
Professor - Department of Computer Science
University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812
ray.ford@umontana.edu - 406-243-2964
EDUCATION
PhD, Computer Science, 1980, U. Pittsburgh.
MS, Computer Science, 1972, U. Missouri-Rolla (AKA Mo. Instit. Science & Technology)
BS (honors), Applied Mathematics, 1970, U. Missouri-Rolla
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Advanced networking; software development processes; distributed systems; data visualization; image processing algorithms and applications.
TEACHING BACKGROUND AND INTERESTS
Networking, software development principles and environments, distributed systems.
PRIVATE/COMMERCIAL INTERESTS
1999-present: Co-founder and co-owner, Visualization and Imagery Solutions Incorporated, Whitefish/Butte/Missoula, Montana. VisInc provides 3rd party support for the open source “OpenDX” software package formerly commercially marketed as “IBM Data Explorer”.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1996-present: Professor, Computer Science, U. of Montana
1990-1996: Associate Professor, Computer Science, U. Montana
1988-1990: Associate Professor, Computer Science, U. Kansas
1980-1988: Assistant and Associate Professor, Computer Science, U. Iowa
1976-1980: Research and Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, U. Pittsburgh
1972-1976: Instructor, Math/Computer Science, Augustana College (Illinois)
1970-1972: Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, U. Missouri-Rolla
ACADEMIC GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
2006-present: Chief Information & Technology Officer (CI&TO), U. Montana.
2000-2006: Associate Vice President for Information Technology (CIO), U. Montana.
1999-2000: Chair of the Faculty/Faculty Senate, U. Montana
1998-1999: Vice-Chair of the Faculty/Faculty Senate, U. Montana.
1998-1999: Chair of the Strategic Budget and Planning Committee, U. Montana.
1993-1999: Special Advisor to the Provost on Information Technology, U. Montana.
1984-1986: Associate Chairman, Department of Computer Science, U. Iowa
1974-1975: Secretary of the Faculty/Faculty Senate, Augustana College
INDUSTRIAL AND GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE
2002-present: Montana University System representative on Montana State Information Technology Board.
1986-1991: Consultant on real time, distributed systems and programming environments, Collins Avionics - Rockwell International, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Summer 1980: Visiting scholar, Applied Mathematics and Computing Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Summer 1970: Programmer, General Electric Information Services, Bethesda, Maryland.
1969-1970: Part-time computer operator, Computer Center, U. Missouri-Rolla
Summer 1969: Computer operator, Pontiac-Division of General Motors, Pontiac, Michigan.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
ACM, IEEE Computer Society; Educause and Internet2 (institutional representative)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES – NETWORKING & CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
Health Care/Networking
2009-present: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Health Information Exchange of Montana (HIEM is a recipient of a $13M RCC Rural Health Care Pilot Project award to build health care network capabilities in western Montana)
Internet2
Fall 2007-Spring 2010: Member of Applications, Middleware, & Services Advisory Council; AMSAC Chair, Fall 2007 – Summer 2009.
Fall 2007 – Summer 2009: Member of Internet2 Board of Trustees
Fall 2007-Fall 2008: Member and co-leader of Strategic Planning Execution Committee; presenter on the Strategic Plan and its implementation to various groups at Spring and Fall 2008 Member Meetings
April 2004-February 2007: Member Network Policy and Planning Advisory Council
2006: Member of Subcommittee on Membership and Network Advisory Group
February 2005-April 2006: Member of Campus Expectations Task Force; one of the lead authors for final report; presenter of the report to various groups at subsequent Internet2 Member Meetings
Northern Tier Networking Consortium
2003-2008: One of the NTNC co-founders, primary author of By-Laws, Member of the Executive Committee (2003-2008), NTNC representative for the Quilt (2003-present), Secretary/Treasurer (2003-2006), President (2006-2008)
2003-present: Numerous presentations on Northern Tier at Internet2 Member Meetings, Montana State Board of Regents meetings, and meetings of Montana State Government and telecommunications vendors
Cyberinfrastructure Development
October 2010: Invited participant, Future of Advanced Regional and State Networks in the Broadband Era, Salt Lake City, UT.
October 2010: Invited participant, Workshop on NSF/EPSCoR and Cyberinfrastructure, Arlington, VA.
October 2007: Invited participant, Workshop on NSF/EPSCoR and Cyberinfrastructure, U. Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
October 2006: Invited moderator of discussion session, Research & Education Peering Strategy – How do we collectively leverage to Benefit the R&E Community?, The Quilt’s Internet Peering Workshop. St. Louis, MO.
August 2006: Panel member - Developments in Advanced Networks & Cyberinfrastructure in the West, Workshop: Shaping the Future of the West through Technology, Geography, and Demography – Connection Minority Serving Institutions to the US Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Bozeman, MT.
February 2006: Member of Organizing Committee for workshop and invited speaker, Networking for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in EPSCoR States, held in Lawrence, KS, February 2006.
January 2004: Invited participant and presentation, NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure, Arlington, VA.
2002-2007: Coordinator of Distance Delivery & Instructional Technology Development, Inland Northwest Research Alliance - Subsurface Science PhD Program
1993-1999 Creater and leader of Distributed Applied (Visualization) Systems Lab; co-developer of a wide range of visualization demos, videos, CDs, and multimedia/Web presentations
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES – COMPUTER SCIENCE & HIGHER EDUCATION
2007: Member of the Program Committee, 2007 Educause Western Regional Conference, San Francisco, CA.
1980-2002: Referee for journals including ACM Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, Journal of Systems and Software, International Journal of Parallel Programming, Journal of Information Technology and Software, and Journal of Systems and Software.
1980-2002: Referee for conferences including International Conference on Parallel Processing, International Conference on Fault Tolerant Computing, ACM Computer Science Conference, and ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.
1980-2002: Regular grant proposal reviewer for NSF, NASA, and the Australian Grants Scheme.
1980-2002: Regular manuscript reviewer for Prentice-Hall, Addison-Wesley,
John Wiley, Wadsworth, Benjamin-Cummings, and other publishers.
September 1988: Ph.D. Dissertation ``Opponent'' (distinguished externel reviewer) for Johan Fagerstrom, Department of Computer Science, University of Linkoping, Linkoping, Sweden.
GENERAL PUBLIC SERVICE
1997-2001: (volunteer) Member, Technology Committee, Loyola-Sacred Heart High School, Missoula, Montana
1996-2000: (volunteer) Technology Coordinator, St.Joseph School, Missoula, Montana
1973-1975: (volunteer) Member, Bi-State Metropolitan Commission on Security and Privacy in Public Information Systems, Rock Island/Moline-Illinois, Davenport-Iowa
FUNDED RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
R.Ford, G.Jacobs, “Extending Montana’s Northern Tier Network to Strategic Partners”, National Science Foundation - Cyberinfrastructure Supplement, $1,176,740, September 2009 – August 2011.
R.Ford, L.Queen, “Connecting USFS Research Sites to Internet2 Infrastructure”, USDA – Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station – Cooperative Agreement, $437,164, August 2009 – September 2010.
G.Pace, R.Ford, Community source software development contracts, CampusEAI, approx. $167,000, 2005-2007.
B.Neas, R.Ford, W.Wilson, H.Hughett,”Northern Tier Networking Development Planning Grant”, National Science Foundation, $197,657, September 2005-August 2006.
R.Ford, Community Source Portal Co-Development Grant, CampusEAI, approx. $800,000 in software and software licenses, May 2003-May 2008.
D.Morton, R.Amin, L.Churchill, R.Ford, D.Opitz. ``Northern Rockies Center for Applied Computational Science'', National Science Foundation, $499,464, August 2000-July 2002.
C.Wideman, C.Link, T.Ahmed, R.Ford, A.Wright, S.Sheriff, D.Lageson, K.Porter, D.Opitz. ``Petroleum Reservoir Characterization'', Department of Energy/EPSCoR, over $3,000,000 in total funding, October 1993-September 1999.
R.Ford, ``Software Design for Landscape Modeling and Analysis'', US Forest Service - Rocky Mountain Research Station, $15,902, September 1997-September 1999.
R.Ford, S.Barsness, ``Development of a Production Quality Version of Merge'', USGS - US Biological Survey/GAP Office, $13,107, June 1997-December 1997.
R.Ford, M.Sweet, ``Software to Support Indexing and Acessing Geospatial Data'', USGS FGDC Competitive Cooperative Agreements Program, $33,898, September 1996-September 1997.
R.Ford, S.Running, R.Nemani, R.Redmond, ``Ecosystem Information System Development'', National Science Foundation - Special Database Activities Program, $384,011, June 1993-June 1997.
N.Wilde, R.Wilson, R.Ford, ``An Ada-Based, Two Year Breadth-First Curriculum'', Defense Information Systems Agency, $36,817, October 1995-September 1996.
R.Ford, ``DX Format Converter Interface Development'', IBM - Visualization Group, $76,700, June 1993-December 1996.
R.Ford, M.Sweet, ``Hierarchical Modeling of Forest Stand Dynamics at the Landscape Level'', McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Research Program, $43,315, January 1994-December 1996.
R.Ford, D.Thompson, ``DX/Modular Modeling System Interface'', IBM - Federal Systems, $20,300, March 1994-December 1994.
Y.Zheng, R.Ford, A.Wright, ``Computer Graphics and Visualization Laboratory'', National Science Foundation - Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Program, $172,495, April 1992-March 1994.
T.Morrare, R.Ford, ``NSFNet Connection'', National Science Foundation - Connections to NSFNet Program, $24,550, January 1992-December 1993.
R.Redmond, S.Running, R.Ford, ``Development of a Scientific GIS Laboratory'', IBM Corporation, approx. $200,000 in equipment and research support, October 1991-September 1994.
R.Ford, ``Ada Symbolic Debugging System: Real-time Executive Interface Development'', Private Subcontract, Collins Government Avionics, Rockwell International, October 1988-March 1991, $25,000.
R.Ford, ``Concurrency Control and Distributed System Design'', National Science Foundation, $104,253, November 1986-October 1989.
B.Decker, R.Ford, ``Local Area Networks and Distributed Processing'', Hewlett-Packard Corporation, approx. $335,000 in equipment and research support, June 1985-May 1986.
PUBLICATIONS: Journals, Refereed-Conferences, Book Chapters
R.Ford, J.Brown. “Building Cyberlearning Infrastructure Across Large Sparsely Populated Spaces”, 2008 APRU Distance Learning and the Internet, Tokyo, Japan. November 2008.
S.Clouse, R.Ford, et. al., Panel – Distributed vs. Central IT. 2006 Annual Educause Conference, archived on-line, Dallas, TX. October 2006.
R.Ford, W.Wilson, B.Neas, R.Ford H.Hughett. “How to Get to a Regional Optical Network When You ARE the Middle of Nowhere – the Northern Tier Story”, Internet2 Fall Member Meeting, archived on-line, Philadelphia, PA. September 2005.
R.Ford, J.Pelton, G.Pillay. “A Collaborative Research and Doctoral Educational Program Based on Internet2”, Internet2 Spring Member Meeting, archived on-line, Washington, DC. May 2004.
S.Clouse, R.Ford, J.Henry, “Developing a University Middleware Plan with a Diverse Task Force”, 2004 Educause Western Regional Conference, archived on-line, Sacremento, CA. March 2004.
R.Ford, M.Burtis. “Inadvertent Web Postings: Public Relations Disaster Recovery”, CUMREC 2003, archived on-line, Orlando, FL. May 2003. [winner of New Horizon Grant, “… to acknowledge and promote diversity in the CUMREC program and enrich the conferences”; co-winner of Best Presentation Awards for the conference presentation]
R.Ford, G.Pace. “Web Security Breach: Lessons Learned”, 2002 Annual Educause Conference, archived on-line, Atlanta, GA. October 2002.
R.Ford. “Ecological data storage, management, and dissemination”, chapter in Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments, D.Jensen and P.Bourgeron - editors, Springer-Verlag Press, 2001, pp.108-118.
M.Hendrix, R.Ford. “Application of a novel high resolution object recognition algorithm for petrographic image analysis of reservoir facies form the Rabbit Hills oil field, Montana”, 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 6-panel poster presentation, Salt Lake City, Utah. May 1998.
D.Thompson, R.Ford. Visualizations, videos, and multimedia material for natural resource
Applications, Yellowstone National Park 125th Anniversary Symposium – Media Gallery, Yellowstone Park, May 1998.
R.Ford, M.Sweet, P.Votava. “An object-oriented database for cataloging, archiving, and disseminating spatial datasets and FGDC-compliant metadata”, 1997 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Workshop, Boulder, Colorado. October 1997.
D.Hamilton, R.Ford. “Analysis of road network accessibility”, ESRI User Conference, San Diego, California. July 1997.
R.Righter, R.Ford, M.Sweet, P.Votava. “Ecosystem information system: a Web-compatible data management tool for GIS and remote sensing data”, Resource Technology Institute Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington. April 1997.
R.Ford, Z.Ma, S.Barsness, R.Redmond. “Rule-based aggregation for region identification”, 1997 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington. April 1997.
R.Ford, R.Righter, M.Sweet, P.Votava. “A Web-based tool for data organization and dissemination”, Symposium on Spatial Information and the Environment, Waterton Lakes, Alberta, Canada. September 1996.
R.Ford, D.Thompson, J.Braun. “A network-accessible repository for petroleum reservior information”, Extended Abstracts Volume of American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Billings, Montana. July 1996.
R.Ford, G.Hellenga, V.Palaiya. “Linking Specialized Network Data Repositories to Standard Access Tools”, 1996 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp.219-223, Philadelphia, PA. February 1996.
Y.Reimer, R.Ford, N.Wilde. “Merging task-centered UI design with complex system development: a risky business'', 1996 ACM Computer Science Conference, pp.34-42, Philadelphia, PA. February 1996.
R.Ford, M.Sweet. “Organizing A Network-Accessible Repository for the Characterization of Spatial Ecosystem Components”, Third International Conference/Workshop on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling, Santa Fe, New Mexico. January 1996.
R.Ford, R.Thompson, T.Duce. “Data Interchange Between GIS and Visualization Environments”, 9th Annual Symposium on Geographic Information Systems, pp.1011-1015, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. March 1995.
M.Sweet, R.Ford. “Data Visualization and GIS”, 9th Annual Symposium on Geographic Information Systems, pp.1001-1006, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. March 1995.
R.Righter, R.Ford, T.Duce, V.Hemige, D.Thompson. “A Network-Based Repository for GIS and Natural Resource Information”, 9th Annual Symposium on Geographic Information Systems, pp.928-933, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. March 1995.
R.Ford, R.Righter, T.Duce, V.Hemige, D.Thompson. “EIS: A network-accessible repository for ecosystem modelers and managers”, 1995 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp.76-80, Nashville, Tennessee. February 1995.
R.Ford, R.Thompson, D.Thompson. “Supporting Heterogeneous Data Import for Data Visualization”, 1995 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp.81-85, Nashville, Tennessee. February 1995.
R.Righter,R.Ford. “An object-oriented characterization of spatial ecosystem information”, Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Vol.19, No.8 (1994), pp.17-29.
R.Ford, R.Righter, T.Duce, V.Hemige, D.Thompson. “A network-based object-oriented ecosystem information system'', Decision Support 2001 - Resource Technology '94 Symposium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. September 1994.
R.Righter, R.Ford. “An object-oriented characterization of ecosystem information”, Decision Support 2001 - Resource Technology '94 Symposium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. September 1994.
R.Ford, S.Running, R.Nemani. “Large scale terrestrial ecosystem modeling”, IEEE Computational Science and Engineering, Vol.1, No. 3 (Fall 1994), pp.32-44.
R.Ford. “Integrating data management, visualization, and instruction: the object is objects'', IFIP WG3.2 Working Conference on Visualization in Scientific Computing, Irvine, CA. August 1993.
J.Cummings, R.Ford. “Using the Linda distribution paradigm to address a variety of computational balancing concerns'', 1992 Symposium on Applied Computing, pp.767-774, Kansas City, Missouri. March 1992.
R.Ford. “SGISL: A distributed computational environment supporting environmental and ecological research”, 1992 ACM Computer Science Conference, pp.165-172, Kansas City, Missouri. March 1992.
R.Ford, H.Chew. “AWING: A general purpose command interface generator”, 1st International Symposium on Environments and Tools for Ada, April 1990, published as Ada Letters Special Edition, Vol. XI, No. 3 (May 1991), pp.73-82.
R.Ford, M.Pfreundschuh-Wagner. “Incremental concurrent builds for modular systems”, Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1991).
D.Lyttle, R.Ford. “A symbolic debugger for real time embedded Ada software”, Software: Practice and Experience,Vol. 20, No. 5 (May 1990), pp.499-514. [reprinted in Monitoring, Debugging, and Visualization of Distributed Real-Time Systems, Tsai and Yang - Editors, IEEE Press, 1994.]
R.Ford. “Monitoring distributed embedded systems”, 1990 ACM/IEEE Symposium on Applied Computing, pp.237-244, Fayetteville, AR. April 1990.
R.Ford, M.Jipping, R.Shultz, B.Wenhardt. “On the performance of concurrent tree algorithms”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 8 (March 1990), pp.253-265.
R.Ford. “A generic embedded real-time monitoring subsystem”, 1990 ACM Computer Science Conference, pp.312-318, Washington, DC. February 1990.
R.Ford, “Concurrent algorithms for a real time memory management system”, IEEE Software, Vol. 5, No. 5 (September 1988), pp.10-24.
J.Gilles, R.Ford. “A window-based visual debugger for a real time Ada tasking environment”, 1988 Washington Ada Symposium, pp.59-67, Tyson's Corner, Virginia. June 1988. [nominated for symposium Best Paper Award.]
J.Gilles, R.Ford. “A guided tour through a window oriented debugging environment for embedded real time Ada systems”, 3rd International Conference on Ada Applications and Environments, pp.93-104, Manchester, New Hampshire. May 1988.
M.Pfreundschuh-Wagner, R.Ford. “Using attribute grammars to control incremental, concurrent builds of modular systems”,International Workshop on Software Version and Configuration Control, pp.285-304, Grassau, West Germany, B.G. Teubner Publishing, Stuttgart, West Germany. January 1988.
R.Ford, M.Wagner. “Performance evaluation methodologies for abstract data type implementation techniques”, Computer Languages, Vol. 12, No. 3/4 (1987), pp. 145-162.
M.Jipping, R.Ford. “Predicting performance for concurrency control design”. 1987 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, pp.132-142, Banff, Alberta, Canada. May 1987.
R.Ford, K.Miller. “Abstract data type development and implementation: an example”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-11, No. 10 (October 1985), pp.1033-1037.
R.Ford, J.Norton. “An expert system for selection of module representations''. 1985 Conference on Intelligent Systems and Machines, pp.109-114, Rochester, Michigan. April 1985.
R.Ford, D.Sawamiphakdi, “A greedy concurrent approach to incremental code generation”, 12th ACM SIGACT/SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pp.165-178, New Orleans, Louisiana. January 1985.
M.Wagner, R.Ford. “Performance evaluation of abstract data type implementations”, 8th IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, pp.244-253, Chicago, Illinois. November 1984.
R.Ford, R.Shultz, M.Jipping. “Performance evaluation of distributed concurrency control Mechanisms”, 4th Symposium on Reliability in Distributed Software and Database Systems, pp.84-89, Silver Spring, Maryland. October 1984.
R.Ford, J.Calhoun. `”Concurrency control mechanisms and the serializability of concurrent tree algorithms'”, 3rd ACM SIGACT/SIGMOD Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, pp.51-60, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. March 1984.
MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTIONS (PRODUCER)
G.Pace, M.Dreesman, R.Ford. “INRA Subsurface Science Research Institute”, promotional video/DVD, Inland Northwest Research Alliance, October 2003.
R.Hughes, J.MacDonald, D.Thompson, R.Ford. “Oil: The Hidden Resource”, instructional CD, DOE/EPSCoR Petroleum Reservoir Characterization Project, January 1997.
R.Hughes, J.MacDonald, D.Thompson, R.Ford. “An Overview of the Rabbit Hills Characterization Project”, 10 minute videotape for the DOE/EPSCoR Petroleum Reservoir Characterization Project, October 1996.
R.Hughes, J.MacDonald, D.Thompson, R.Ford. “Rabbit Hills Petroleum Reservoir Characterization Project”, 20 minute videotape for the DOE/EPSCoR Petroleum Reservoir Characterization Project, September 1996.
S.Blundell, D.Thompson, R.Ford. “A Oil Production/Water Source Contamination Scenario”, 5 minute videotape for Integrated Geosciences Inc., July 1996.
J.Braun, D.Thompson, R.Ford. DOE/EPSCoR Petroleum Reservoir Characterization Project Visualizations, September 1994. http://www.cs.umt.edu/DOE.
GRADUATE AND HONORS THESIS STUDENT SUPERVISION
University of Iowa, 1980-1988 (4 MS, 4 PhD)
D.Eichmann, A Preprocessor Approach to Separate Compilation in Ada. MS, Computer Science - University of Iowa, November 1983 (joint with Prof. Chris Marlin).
M.Wagner, Performance Evaluation of Abstract Data Type Language Implementations.
MS, Computer Science - University of Iowa, June 1984.
D.Sawamiphakdi, A Multiprocess Design for an Integrated Programming Environment.
PhD, Computer Science - University of Iowa, July 1984.
D.Glover, Experimentation With an Adaptive Search Techniquefor Solving a Keyboard Design and Configuration Problems. PhD, Computer Science - University of Iowa, April 1986 (joint with Prof. Keith Brinck).
M.Jipping, An Information-Based Methodology for the Design of Concurrent Systems.
PhD, Computer Science - University of Iowa, April 1986.
B.Wenhardt, A Comparison of Concurrency Control Algorithms for Distributed Data Access. MS, Computer Science - University of Iowa, May 1986.
M.Pfreundschuh, A Model for Building Modular Systems Based on Attribute Grammars.
PhD, Computer Science - University of Iowa, November 1986.
J.Gilles, A Window-Oriented Debugging Environment for Embedded Real-Time Ada Systems. MS, Computer Science - University of Iowa, January 1988.
University of Kansas, 1988-1990 (1 BS, 2 MS)
H.Chew, AWING: A General Window Interface Generation System. MS, Computer Science - University of Kansas, July 1990.
P.Cook, Developing an Environment for Ada Cross-Compilation. BS-Honors, Computer Science - University of Kansas, May 1990.
P.Spencer, Kastens' Attribute Evaluation Algorithm: An Implementation of a Theoretical Model. MS (with honors), Computer Science - University of Kansas, March 1992.
University of Montana, 1990-present (25 MS)
Z.Chen, A Spiral Model Approach to Microprocessor Laboratory System Design. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, July 1992.
J.Hofmann, Small C on the Motorola MC68HC11 EVB and EVBU. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, October 1992.
L.Sun-Zheng, Object-Oriented Method for Graphical User Interface Design in a Distributed
System Environment. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, April 1993.
G.Hegde, Clock Synchronization in Multiprocessor Systems. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, April 1993.
H.Vedavyasa, Quantative and Qualitative Evaluation of Linda in a Distributed Environment. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, May 1993.
V.Srinivasan, A Tree Compression Scheme for Displaying Large Trees. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, May 1993.
R.Righter, An Object-Oriented Domain Analysis of Ecosystem Modeling. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, December 1993.
J.Guo, An Object-Oriented Model with Efficient Algorithms for Identifying and Merging Raster Polygons. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, December 1993.
K.Kahl, Animation of a Process for Identifying and Merging Raster Polygon Areas. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, June 1994.
P.Mi, Vector to Raster Data Structure Conversion in DX Software and Related Issues. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, May 1995.
V.Hemige, Object-Oriented Design of the Groupware Layer for the Ecosystem Information System. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, June 1995.
X.Hou, The Design of a Graphic User Interface for a Network Management Protocol. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, December 1995 (joint with Prof. Youlu Zheng).
B.Doddy, Network Management and Security for Unix. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, February 1996.
V.Palaiya, Design and Construction of a Language Processor Based on an Attribute Grammar for EIS. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, May 1996.
S.Holbrook, Data Visualization Tools for the Production of Data Visual-Animations. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, May 1996.
S.Barsness, Aggregating Raster Polygons Derived from Large Remotely Sensed Images.
MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, September 1996.
K.Moeller, Porting Graphical User Interfaces from X/Motif to Microsoft Windows. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, May 1997.
D.Hamilton, Analysis of Road Network Accessibility. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, May 1997.
S.Mondava, A Process in User Interface Development. MS, Computer Science, May 1997.
P.Votava, Object-Oriented Design and Implementation of Ecosystem Information System (EIS) Using Java. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, September 1997.
M.Wijayasundara, An Object-Oriented Solution for the Geospatial Metadata Standard. MS, Computer Science - University of Montana, October 1997.
J.Braun, Computer Visualization of Petroleum Reservoir Characterization Data. MS, Computer Science. May 1998.
T.Duce, An Ordered Attribute Grammar for the Ecosystem Information System. MS, Computer Science. October 1998.
D.Sandholdt, Custom Software for Rule-Based Aggregation, With Applications. MS, Computer Science, May 2000.
D.Thompson, The Visualization-to-Video Computation Pipeline. MS, Computer Science, December 2000.