Curriculum Vitae of
Dr. Samuel H. Russ
Education
Employment
Publications
Book Chapters
Journal Articles
U.S. Patents Granted
Non-U.S. Patents Granted
Conference Papers
Courses Taught at USA
Honors and Awards
Other Professional Activities
Grants and Contracts
Technology Transfer
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Mail Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
75 Electrical Engineering Building (EEB)
University of South Alabama
307 University Blvd., N.
Mobile, Alabama 36688-0002
Home Page http://www.ece.usouthal.edu/russ/
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991
Thesis Title: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Analysis of Computer Architectures and
Compression of Instruction Memory Usage
Bachelor's of Electrical Engineering (with Highest Honor), Georgia Institute of
Technology, 1986
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Employment
University of South AlabamaAssociate Professor2007 - Present
Scientific-Atlanta Manager, Advanced Technology R&D 2000 - 2007
IVI Checkmate Manager, Electrical Engineering 1999 - 2000
Mississippi State UniversityAssistant Professor1994 - 1999
Dickerson Vision Technology Staff Electrical Engineer1992 - 1994
Georgia Tech Graduate Research Assistant1987 - 1991
Publications
U.S. Patents Granted
U.S. Patent Number 6,748,080, Apparatus for entitling remote client devices, Samuel
Russ, Michael Gaul, Anthony Wasilewski, and Howard Pinder, June 8, 2004.
U.S. Patent Number 7,181,010, Apparatus for entitling remote client devices, Samuel
Russ, Michael Gaul, Anthony Wasilewski, and Howard Pinder, February 20, 2007.
U.S. Patent Number 7,360,233, Broadcast carousel system access for remote home
communication terminal, Samuel Russ, Michael Gaul, and Anthony Wasilewski, April 15,
2008.
U.S. Patent Number 7,360,235, Systems and methods for operating a peripheral
record/playback device in a networked multimedia system, David Davies, Samuel Russ, and
Irvan Krantzler, April 15, 2008.
U.S. Patent Number 7,499,822, "Analog set-top calibration patterns in manufacturing", Leo
Montreuil, Wayne B. Williams, Samuel H. Russ, and Robert Kriete, March 3, 2009
U.S. Patent Number 7,505,592, "Apparatus for entitling and transmitting service instances
to remote client devices", Samuel H. Russ, Michael Gaul, Anthony Wasilewski, and Howard
Pinder, March 17, 2009.
U.S. Patent Number 7,516,470, "Locally-updated interactive program guide", Samuel H. Russ
and Michael Gaul, April 7, 2009
U.S. Patent Number 7,826,711, "Digital Video Disc (DVD) Player or Digital Video Recorder
(DVR) Playback with Memory", Samuel H. Russ, Nov. 2, 2010
U.S. Patent Number 7,849,486, "Networked Subscriber Television Distribution", Samuel H.
Russ, David Lett, Jonathan Robinson, and Michael Gaul, Dec. 7, 2010.
U.S. Patent Number 7,860,250, "Apparatus for entitling and transmitting service instances
to remote client devices", Samuel H. Russ, Michael Gaul, Anthony Wasilewski, and Howard
Pinder, Dec. 28, 2010
U.S. Patent Number 7,861,272, "Networked Subscriber Television Distribution", Samuel H.
Russ, David Lett, Jonathan Robinson, and Michael Gaul, Dec. 28, 2010.
U.S. Patent Number 7,870,584, Interactive program guide with selectable updating,
Samuel H. Russ and Michael Gaul, Jan. 11, 2011.
U.S. Patent Number 7,876,998, DVD playback over multi-room by copying to HDD, William
Wall and Samuel H. Russ, Jan. 25, 2011.
U.S. Patent Number 7,908,625, "Networked multimedia system", Neil C. Robertson, David B.
Lett, Samuel H. Russ, Bohdan S. Prus, Michael A. Gaul, and Ajith N. Nair, March 15, 2011.
U.S. Patent Number 7,937,737, "Field qualification of disk drives in consumer electronics
devices", Samuel H. Russ and Mark R. Murray, May 3, 2011.
U.S. Patent Number 7,961,780, Generated set top calibration patterns in manufacturing,
Leo Montreuil, Wayne B. Williams, Samuel H. Russ, and Robert Kriete, Jun. 14, 2011.
U.S. Patent Number 7,978,720, Digital media device having media content transfer
capability, Samuel H. Russ, Christopher L. Stallings, July 12, 2011.
U.S. Patent Number 8,046,806, Multiroom point of deployment module, William E. Wall,
Samuel H. Russ, Oct. 25, 2011.
U.S. Patent Number 8,127,236, Proximity detection using wireless connectivity in a
communications system, Paul J. Claussen, Ajith N. Nair, and Samuel H. Russ, Feb. 28,
2012.
U.S. Patent Number 8,181,205, PVR Channel and PVR IPG Information, Samuel H. Russ,
Michael A. Gaul, and Dariusz S. Kaminski, May 15, 2012.
U.S. Patent Number 8,208,796, Systems and methods for prioritizing the storage location
of media data, Bohdan Prus and Samuel H. Russ, June 26, 2012.
For a complete list of U.S. Patent Applications click here
Non-U.S. Patents Granted
European Patent Number EP1543680B1, Locally-updated interactive program guide, Samuel
Russ and Michael Gaul, Feb. 17, 2010
European Patent Number EP1673937
EE 264 Microprocessor Systems and Interfacing 4 Intro to microprocessors, I/O circuits,
and assembly language
EE 268 Digital Logic Design Lab 1 Lab for basic digital class -- gates, simple logic
circuits
EE 368 Microprocessor Systems and Interfacing Lab 3 Lab for assembly language and
microprocessor I/O circuits
EE 469/569 Advanced Digital System Design 1 Lab for assembly language and microprocessor
I/O circuitsEE 534 VLSI Design Systems 2 Intro to VLSI layout and technology
EE 560 Advanced Computer Architecture 2 RISC and other computer architecture concepts
EG 231 Engineering Economics and Ethics 1 Economics and ethics for engineers
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Honors and Awards
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, 2009
University of South Alabama Mortarboard "Top Prof" Banquet, 2009
Outstanding Professor of the Year - University of South Alabama Chapter of Tau Beta Pi,
2008
Other Professional Activities
Funded Grants and Contracts
University of South Alabama Research Council (USARC), Feb. 2008 - Feb. 2009,
"Instrumentation of Hurricane Forecast Models for Performance Optimization", $5,000 for
one year.
Office of Naval Research, Nov. 1996-Nov. 1998, ` Distributed Visualization and Virtual
Environments for Oceanography and Meteorology'', Co-PI, $200,000.
National Science Foundation, April 1998-March 1999, An ERC-CREST Partnership in
Distributed and Computational Systems", PI, $100,000/year, renewable for 5 years.
Office of Naval Research, Nov. 1996-Nov. 1998, ` Distributed Visualization and Virtual
Environments for Oceanography and Meteorology'', Co-PI, $200,000.
U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, July 1996-July 1999, ` Efficient Parallel Wave
Modeling'', PI, $200,000, Funded under CHSSI (Common HPC Scalable Software Initiative) of
the DoD. ($50,000 actually funded.)
NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation, April 1995- May 1999,
Heterogeneous Computing Testbed (CA 8)", PI, By year: $34,983/$70,111/$55,916. Funded
through NSF Engineering Research Center.
Small Business Innovations Research Program of the NSF, Division of Industrial Interface,
September 1993 - February 1994, Award No. III-9260914. ($50,000 Phase I contract conducted
at Dickerson Vision Technologies.)
Technology Transfer and Licensing
Hector Distributed Run-Time Environment licensed by MPI Software Technology, Inc.,
Starkville, MS in June 1998
Authored by Samuel H. Russ.
Revised: June 26, 2012