Computer Science Assistant

Location:

Portland, OR

Posted:

November 20, 2012

Contact this candidate

Resume:

August ****

Genevieve Beth Orr

Professor Phone: 503-***-****

Department of Computer Science Email: abpy0j@r.postjobfree.com

Willamette University Web: http://www.willamette.edu/~gorr

*** ***** *****t

Salem, OR 97301

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Oregon Graduate Institute, 1995

M.S., Applied Mathematics, Drexel University, 1986

M.S., Physics, University of Wisconsin, 1982

B.A., Physics and Mathematics, Grinnell College, 1979

Work Experience

Willamette University, Computer Science Department. Full Professor (2008-present), Associate

Professor (2002-2008), Assistant Professor (1995-2002). Teaching includes wide range of

undergraduate computer science courses including computer graphics for both computer science

majors and non-majors, as well as interdisciplinary study courses in 3D animation. Primary research

interest: computer graphics and animation.

Intel Corporation, 1/98-6/98 Visiting Faculty. Application of genetic programming and machine

learning techniques to automatic test generation of computer chips.

Oregon Graduate Institute, 9/91-9/95 Graduate Research Assistant. Modeling statistical dynamics

of stochastic learning in neural networks and development of fast neural network learning

algorithms.

Quantics, Inc., 3/85-8/90 and summer 1984. Senior Operations Research Analyst (1988-90), Senior

Programmer/Analyst (1986-87), Programmer Analyst (1984-86). Development and implementation

of mathematical models used for long-term prediction of non-nuclear ordnance and electronic

countermeasures. Clients included U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and NATO.

Spring Garden College, 1/83--5/85 Mathematics and Physics Instructor.

University of Wisconsin, 9/79-12/79, 1/82-5/82 Graduate Teaching Assistant in Physics.

University of Wisconsin, 1/80--1/82 Graduate Research assistant in Nuclear Physics. Nuclear

polarization experiments on Tandem Van de Graaff and participation in the building of spin-

refrigerator polarized proton target.

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Summers 1978 & 1979 Student Internship with Nuclear

Physics Group. Research on new models of nuclear structure through the study of neutron capture

experiments performed at Brookhaven's High Flux Beam Reactor.

Professional Affiliations

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); ACM SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group in Computer

Graphics); ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education); ACM Cascade

SIGGRAPH Chapter Interest Group; Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges Northwest (CCSC-

NW)

Professional Services

Expanding Your Horizons:

Jan 2009 - 2011, Willamette University. Led a workshop for middle school girls on programming in

August 2012

the context of art and animation using the Scratch programming environment (in 2009 & 10) and

3D modeling using SketchUp (in 2011).

Eurographics:

2009, Munich Germany. Conference attendee and participant in the post-conference Computer

Graphics Education Workshop: Teaching Computer Graphics in Context. 2008, Crete, Greece.

Education Programme Committee member; 2006: Vienna, Austria. Conference attendee and

participant in the post-conference Workshop on Computer Graphics Education.

Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northwestern Region (CCSC-NW):

2011: program chair, paper reviewer, moderator; 2000-2010: member and conference attendee;

2008-2009: panels and tutorials chair; 2007-2008 program co-chair; 2002-2008: journal editor and

board member; 1999-present: member and conference attendee; 2004: conference chair (conference

held at Willamette University); 2002: program chair; 2001: program chair; 2000: program co-chair

and paper reviewer

ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH):

2011: participated in "Visualization Curriculum" meeting and chaired "Graphics Knowledge

Base" meeting of the SIGGRAPH Education Committee; 2003-2008: member of the SIGGRAPH

Education Committee: Curriculum Working Group; 1997, 1999-2010: SIGGRAPH member and

conference attendee; 2001: Education Committee paper reviewer, Educators Program Session Chair

Future Potential in Computing (FPC) : Co-organizer and host for event on Feb 10, 2007 at

Willamette University. FPC refers to a series of half-day high school outreach events to encourage

students to pursue education and careers in computer science and related fields. Also served on

organizing committee for FPC events at Pacific Lutheran University(12/06), Gonzaga University

(2/07), and University of Portland (5/07).

Microsoft Academic Days on Game Development in Computer Science Education: Orlando,

FL, Feb 22-25, 2007, invited participant.

National Science Foundation's Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement:

Adaptation and Implementation track. (CCLI-A&I): grant reviewer on Feb 4-7, 2004 (panel

member) and Jan 31-Feb 1, 2005 (panel chair), Washington, DC.

National Science Foundation: proposal reviewer, 2005.

Oregon School for the Deaf: 2002-2004 member of the Visual Communications Advisory Board.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks: paper reviewer.

Neural Information Processing Systems 9 Conference:

o 1996 Paper Reviewer and Workshop co-organizer with K. R. M ller, Conference post-

conference meeting. Tricks of the Trade: How to make algorithms really work.

Conference on Curricular Innovations to Promote Software Development Skills: Scholar in

residence and speaker coordinator for neural nets track at the conference, sponsored by Evergreen,

NSF, Washington, Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, July 7-11, 1996

Selected Grants

2011-2014: Consultant for: National Science Foundation (NSF) /BIO/ Advances in Biological

Informatics (ABI) Project: VISualization of Terrestrial-Aquatic Systems (VISTAS) The VISTAS

project, includes scientists at The Evergreen State College and Oregon State University

whose goal is to develop visual analytics software to enable scientists to better understand

and communicate about large and complex environmental problems that span spatial and

temporal scales.

2008-2012: National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate

Computing Education (CPATH): Building the Northwest Distributed Computer Science

August 2012

Department. $382K. PIs: Scott Wallace, Robert Bryant, and Genevieve Orr.

http://ai.vancouver.wsu.edu/~nwdcsd/wiki/

2004-2007: W.M. Keck Foundation, Music and Computer Graphics Program as the Core of an

Interdisciplinary Minor in Arts and Technology, $500K. This grant led to the creation of a new

interdisciplinary minor in Arts, Technology & Multimedia.

Books

G.B. Orr and K. R. M ller, eds., Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade, Lecture Notes in Computer

Science 1524, Springer-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 354*******.

Contributing Editor

The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges: Volume 23, Number 2, December 2007, Volume

22, Number 2, December 2006, Volume 21, Number 1, October 2005, Volume 19, Number 2,

Dec 2003.

Invited Talks

Orr, G. B., Music and Animation: Greater than the Sum of its Parts, invited speaker for The Real

and the Unreal: Computer Animation Approaches to Representation, PLATO Lecture Series on

Forest Animation, The Evergreen State College, Spring 2007.

1996 Invited talk on "Adaptive Batch Sizes and Stochastic Search", June 5, at GMD First

(Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik), Rudower Chaussee 5, 12489 Berlin, Germany

Position Papers

Orr, G. B., position paper submitted to Computer Graphics Education Workshop 2009: Teaching

Computer Graphics in Context", Munich, Germany, March 29-30, 2009.

Orr, G. B., Computer Graphics in the Curriculum: An Interdisciplinary Approach, initial position

paper submitted to Workshop on Computer Graphics Education 2006: "Defining an International

Curriculum in Computer Graphics", Vienna, Austria, September 9, 2006.

Orr. G., Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the National Science

Foundation Integrative Computing Education & Research (ICER): Preparing IT Graduates for 2010

and Beyond, Stanford University, January 27-28, 2006 http://www.evergreen.edu/icer/.

Workshops, Panels, Tutorials, Talks

Orr, G., 2012. Tutorial: A Recursive Ray Tracer Assignment. J. Computing Sciences in Colleges.

(in press).

Bailey, M., Lewis, R. R., Weiss, R., Wolff, D. A., Orr, G. 2010. Panel: The Impact of OpenGL 3.X

and 4.0 on the Teaching of Computer Graphics. J. Computing Sciences in Colleges.

Wallace, S. A., Bryant, R., and Orr, G. 2009. The Northwest Distributed Computer Science

Department. J. Computing Sciences in Colleges. 25, 1 (Oct. 2009), 143-148.

Cushing, J., Stevenson-Molnar, N., Weiss, R., Zeman, L., Lewis, R. R., Orr, G., and Wolff,

D. A. 2009. Topics in digital terrain modeling. J. Computing Sciences in Colleges. 25, 1 (Oct),

130-132.

Orr, G., Bryant, R., and Weiss, R. 2009. Algorithmic art. J. Computing Sciences in Colleges.

25, 1 (Oct), 172-172.

Orr, G. 2009. Computational thinking through programming and algorithmic art. In

SIGGRAPH 2009: Talks (New Orleans, Louisiana, August 03 - 07, 2009). SIGGRAPH '09.

ACM, New York, NY, 1-1.

August 2012

Dake, P., Bryant, R. Khoja, S., and Orr, G. 2008. Workshop: Designing a Collaborative Cross-

Campus Airport (or Other Transit) Simulation Project. J. Computing Sciences in Colleges, 24, 2.

Wolff, D., Sung, K., Orr, G., and Wilson, B. 2008. Panel: The Content and Role of the Computer

Graphics Course in the Liberal Arts. J. Computing Sciences in Colleges, 24, 2.

Rosenberg, J., Smith, T., Steiner, S., Wallace, S., and Orr, G. (organizer). 2007. Panel: Game

Development Courses in the Computer Science Curriculum. J. Computing Sciences in Colleges, 23,

2, 65-66.

Orr, G. and Bryant R., 2007. Workshop: Designing a Cross-Campus Collaborative Project. J.

Sciences in Colleges, 23, 2, 7-8.

Bryant R., Letchner, J., Rosenberg, J., and Orr, G. 2007. Workshop: Improving Introduction to

Computing Courses at both High School and Post Secondary Levels, 23, 2, 69-70.

Orr, G. and Bryant R., 2007. Workshop: CPATH Workshop Preparing for the next Proposal. This

was a 2007 CCSC-NW post conference workshop.

Drake, P., Orr, G., and Cushing, J. B. 2006. Panel: Games in the Computer Science Classroom. J.

Sciences in Colleges. 22, 2, 97-98.

Orr, G. B. 2006. Tutorial: How to Produce a 3D Computer Animated Short in One Semester. J.

Sciences in Colleges 22, 2, 74-74.

Cushing, J., Bryant, R., Orr, G., Spengler, S., Tuttle, S., and Yasuhara, K. 2006. Panel: NSF'S

Integrative Computing Education and Research (ICER) initiative: whither the northwest. Sciences in

Colleges. 22, 2, 49-51

Nord, M. and Orr, G. 2005. Willamette Faculty Colloquium Presentation, A New Model for

Interdisciplinary Teaching and Collaboration in Multimedia, Feb 11.

Nord, M. and Orr, G. 2003. Willamette Faculty Colloquium: Transitions: A Professional

Development Model for Collaborative Multimedia Creation. April 11.

Orr, G. 2000. An introduction to Java3D (tutorial presentation). In Proceedings of the Second Annual

CCSC on Computing in Small Colleges Northwestern Conference (Oregon Graduate Institute,

Beaverton, Oregon). Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges. Consortium for Computing

Sciences in Colleges, 6.

Orr, G. B. and Leen, T.K. 1995. "Dynamics and Algorithms for Stochastic Learning", oral presentation

at Machines that Learn, Snowbird, Utah.