User:Russ Abbott/Vita

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Russ Abbott

Professor, Computer Science, California State University, Los Angeles

and

Senior Engineering Specialist, The Aerospace Corporation

[edit] Education

BA, Mathematics, Columbia University
MA (and "ABD"), Computer. Science, Harvard University
PhD, Computer Science, University of Southern California

[edit] Experience

Professor, Computer Science, 9/87 to present
Department of Computer Science, California State University, Los Angeles, California

• Taught wide range of courses in computer science.
• Developed interdisciplinary Multimedia Minor.
• Created courses in complex system, web development, and other areas.
• Led restructuring of BS degree program.
• Academic administration and governance.
  Resource Allocation Advisory Committee (University) '03-present;
  Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility (University) '03-‘07;
  Accreditation Coordinator (with C. Sun), Dept. of Computer Science; '01-present; many others.

Senior Engineering Specialist, 7/78 to present (with gaps)
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California,

·         Advise the US Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center on issues related to software, net-centricity, complex systems, systems of systems, horizontal integration, etc.

Director, Natural Language Systems, 11/83 to 1/87
Silogic, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca.

• Designed and developed a natural language knowledge-base system using the logic programming language Prolog.

Professor, Computer Science, 19/73 to 12/85 (Full Professor from 9/81)
Dept. of Computer Science, California State University, Northridge

• Taught graduate and undergraduate courses; developed graduate and undergraduate courses and curricula; coordinated MS program; supervised MS students.

[edit] Recent publications, presentations, and other professional activities

"Abstraction abstracted," submitted to the Workshop on The Role of Abstraction in Software Engineering .

A. Chu. (MS student) and Russ Abbott, “An evolutionary strategy for real-time search,” in preparation.

J. Kim, (MS student) and Russ Abbott, “Unintended Consequences: an application of computational thinking,” Third Asia-Pacific Conference on Computing and Philosophy, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 2007.

“Innovative Organizations,” (position paper) Workshop on Innovative Organizations and Complex Systems, DRDC, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 2007. Initiated and organized this workshop with P. Comeau, A. Grisogono, and A. Ryan.

“Bits don't have error bars,” Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, Oct. 2007.

Russ Abbott and R. Ewart, “Advanced Space C2,” Space 2007, Long Beach, Ca., Sept. 2007.

“Multi-sided platforms,” Fifth European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, June 2007. Invited for submission to best papers collection.

L. Wei, E. Keogh, H. Van Herle, A. Mafra-Neto, and Russ Abbott, “Efficient query filtering for streaming time series with applications to semisupervised learning of time series classifiers,” Knowledge and Information Systems, (11, 3) April 2007

“Putting Complex Systems to Work,” Symposium on Complex Systems Engineering, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, Ca. Jan. 2007. Initiated and organized this symposium with P. Davis, D. Norman, S. Sheard, and B. White. Paper in a special issue of Complexity (Nov-Dec 2007) devoted to the best papers from this workshop, which will also include my “Introduction to the special issue on Complex Systems Engineering.”

“Emergence Explained: getting epiphenomena to do real work,” Complexity, (12,1) Sep/Oct 2006.

“If a Tree Casts a Shadow, is it Telling the Time?” Fifth International Conference on Unconventional Computing, York, UK, September 2006. Best paper. To appear in the International Journal of Unconventional Computing.

“Systems of Systems Engineering” (Panel presentation), INCOSE Symposium, Orlando, Florida, July 2006.

“Emergence Explained,” Presented in various forms: International Conference on Complex Systems-ICCS2006 (New England Complex Systems Institute, Boston 2006), The Sixth Understanding Complex Systems Symposium (University of Illinois, Urbana/Champagne, 2006), Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference-GECCO 2005 (Washington, D.C., 2005), The Third Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems (UCLA, 2005).

“Open at the Top; Open at the Bottom; and Continually but slowly Changing,” IEEE Conference on System-of-Systems Engineering, Los Angeles, 2006.

“Complex Systems + Systems Engineering = Complex Systems Engineering,” Conference on Systems Engineering Research, Los Angeles, 2006.

"A Collaborative Knowledge Base with Richness, Immediacy, and Responsiveness," The 4th IASTED International Conference on Web-Based Education, February 2005.

"Telepresent Agents: A New Paradigm for Networked Systems," The IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2005), February 2005.

"Emergence, Entities, Entropy, and Binding Forces," Agent 2004, October 2004.

Russ Abbott, C. Sun, and B. Parviz, "Genetic Programming Reconsidered," The 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'04), June 2004.

Russ Abbott, B. Parviz and C. Sun, "Telepresent Agents: A New Paradigm for Networked Systems," The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'04), June 2004.

Russ Abbott and V. Crespi, "Potential-Based Computing for Action-Game Experimentation," The 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'04), June 2004.

"Emergence and Entities," International Conference on Complex Systems ICCS2004, May 2004.

"Telepresent Agents: A New Paradigm for Networked Communication," Ground Systems Architecture Workshop, March 2004.

Russ Abbott and A. Sharif, "Can Computers Replace Faculty: Technology Mediated Instruction at California State University, Los Angeles," Engineering Education April 2004 and  Cyberspace@UCLA: workshop on Technology in Instruction, October 2003.

"Creativity in Complex Systems," Proc of Third International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance, September 2003; also presented at The Second Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems, March 2003.

Russ Abbott and J. Guo and B. Parviz, "Guided Genetic Programming," Sixth International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing, September 2003; an earlier version is in The 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications, June 2003.