Robert Kessler Curriculum Vitae

Professional Employment

• July 2010 to present, Executive Director, Entertainment Arts and Engineering: Master Games Studio
• July 2009 began phased retirement
• July 2006 to present, Associate Director School of Computing
• July 1997 to present, Professor of Computer Science (University of Utah)
• July 1997 to June 2000, Chairman of Computer Science
• November 1996 to December 2005, Member, Board of Directors, emWare Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah.
• December 1995 to June 1996, Acting Chairman of Computer Science
• July 1994 to August 1995, June 1996 to September 1996, Visiting Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Research Labs, Palo Alto, CA.
• July 1993 to June 1994, July 1995 to Dec 1995, Associate Chairman of Computer Science.
• July 1987 to June 1997, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Utah (received tenure beginning July 1990).
• July 1990 to September 1994, Director, Center for Software Science, University of Utah.
• July 1983 to June 1987, Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Utah.
• December 1991 to December 1994, Chairman of Board and Founder, Hippo Software Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• November 1982 to February 1996, Chairman of Board and Founder, Medical Software Systems, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• November 1982 to June 1983, Research Computer Scientist, University of Utah.
• November 1978 to November 1982, Director of Computer Services, Salt Lake Surgical Center.
• January 1975 to December 1980, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Utah.
• June 1974 to December 1974, Co-op Student Programmer, Burroughs Corp (Goleta, Ca).

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Utah, 1981
• M.S., Computer Science, University of Utah, 1977
• B.S., Computer Science, University of Utah, 1974 (Magna cum Laude)

Books

1. “Pair Programming Illuminated,” Addison-Wesley, July 2002, 300 pages (L. Williams and R. Kessler).
2. “LISP, Objects, and Symbolic Programming,” Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown, January 1988, 656 pages (R. Kessler)

Selected Articles

1. “Digital Visualization Tools Improve Teaching 3D Character Modeling,” SIGCSE 2010 (M. van Langeveld and R. Kessler)
2. “Educational Impact of Digital Visualization and Auditing Tools On a Digital Character Production Course,” ICFDG 2009 (M. van Langeveld and R. Kessler)
3. “Entertainment Arts and Engineering or How to Fast Track A New Interdisciplinary Program),” SIGCSE 2009 (R. Kessler, M. van Langeveld, and R. Altizer).
4. “Two in the Middle: Digital Character Production and Machinima Courses,” SIGCSE 2009 (M. van Langeveld and R. Kessler)
5. “A History of Computing Course with a Technical Focus,” SIGCSE 2009 (G. Draper, R. Kessler and R. Riesenfeld).
“Integrating Traditional and Agile Processes In the Classroom”, SIGCSE 2007 (R. Kessler and N. Dykman).

6. “Achieving the Promise of Reuse with Agent Components,” LNCS-Springer Special Volume on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 2603/2003, pp 139-147 (August 2003)  (M. Griss and R. Kessler).

7. “SmartAgent: Extending the JADE Agent Behavior Model,” Proceedings of SEMAS, Orlando, Florida, July 2002, (to appear). [also available as HPL Technical Report HPL-2002-18, January 2002.] (M. Griss, S. Fonseca, R. Kessler and D. Cowan).
8. “Managing Agent Platforms with AgentSNMP,” accepted for the First International Workshop on “Challenges in Open Agent Systems,” held in conjunction with AAMAS’02, Bologna, Italy, July 2002 (B. Remick and R. Kessler).
9. “A Robust Environment for Agent Deployment,” accepted for the First International Workshop on “Challenges in Open Agent Systems,” held in conjunction with AAMAS’02, Bologna, Italy, July 2002 (D. Cowan, B. Burg, M. Griss, R. Kessler and B. Remick).
10. “Using UML Statemachine Models for More Precise and Flexible JADE Agent Behaviors,” accepted for the Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE-2002), held in conjunction with AAMAS’02, Bologna, Italy, July 2002 (M. Griss, R. Kessler, S. Fonseca, and D. Cowan).
11. “Introducing Pair-Learning into Computer Science Education,” December 2000 Journal on Computer Science Education (L. Williams and R. Kessler).
12. “Strengthening the Case for Pair-Programming,” IEEE Software, July/August 2000, pages 19-25 (L. Williams, R. Kessler, W. Cunningham, and R. Jeffries), 
13. “All I Really Need to Know about Pair Programming I Learned in Kindergarten,” May 2000, Communications of the ACM (L. Williams and R. Kessler). 
14. “Nine Suggestions for Extending UML Extensibility,” UML 99 (October 1999) (N. Dykman, R. Kessler, and M. Griss).
15. “ If This Is What It’s Really Like, Maybe I Better Major in English: Integrating Realism into a Sophomore Software Engineering Course,” Foundations in Education Conference 1999, (R. Kessler and L. Williams).
16. “Sensor Fusion,” in “ Control Problems in Robotics and Automation,” Edited by Bruno Siciliano and Kimon Valavanis, Springer-Verlag, London, Volume in the Series of Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science, Series Editor: Prof. M. Thoma, 1998, pp. 193-207 (Thomas C. Henderson, Mohamed Dekhil, Robert Kessler, and Martin Griss)
17. “Building Object-Oriented Instrument Kits,” Object Magazine, April 1996 (with M. L. Griss).
18. “Persistent Immutable Shared Abstractions,” in “Parallel Symbolic Computing: Languages, Systems, and Applications” (US/Japan Workshop Proceedings), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 748, November 1993 (with B. Yih and M. Swanson).
19. “Compiling Distributed C++,” the Fifth IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, Texas, December 1993, (with H. Carr and M. Swanson), pp 496-503.
20. “Allocation of Parallel Programs with Time Variant Resource Requirements,” 1993 International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 1993, (with J. Evans).
21. “The Design of the Schizophrenic Workstation System”, Proceedings of the 1993 Usenix Mach Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 1993, pp 291-306, (with M. Swanson, L. Stoller, and T. Critchlow).
22. “Implementing Concurrent Scheme for the Mayfly Distributed Parallel Processing System,” International Journal on Lisp and Symbolic Computation, Vol 5:1/2, January 1992, (with H. Carr, L. Stoller, M. Swanson).
23. “DPOS: A Metalanguage and Programming Environment for Parallel Processors,” International Journal on Lisp and Symbolic Computation, Vol 5:1/2, January 1992, (with J. Evans).
24. “A Logical Approach to Program Analysis,” International Journal on Lisp and Symbolic Computation, January 1991, pages 5--28, (with J. Krohnfeldt).
25. “Concurrent Scheme” in “Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems” Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 441, Springer-Verlag, pp 200-234, 1990, R. Halstead Jr. and T. Ito, Editors (with M. Swanson).
26. “TICL -- A Type Inference System for Common Lisp”, Software Practice and Experience, June 1990, Vol 20, No. 6, pp 593--623, Submitted December 1988, Accepted November 1989, (with K. Ma).
27. “Implementing and Optimizing Lisp for the Cray,” IEEE Software, July 1987, pp 74-83 (with J. Anderson; W. Galway; H. Melenk; and W. Neun).

Selected Past Research Grants as Principle Investigator or Co-PI

• Principal Investigator, “EAE Summer Camp”, State ASTEC, $7,500. July 2007-2008.
• Co-Principal Investigator (with R. Altizer, Fine Arts), “Integrating XNA into the Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program”, 10,000 cash, $10,000 equipment (XBox 360 consoles), July 2007.
• Principal Investigator, “Hardware for Team-Based Software Engineering Class”, HP, November 2004, $20,000 (approximate) equipment gift.
• Principal Investigator, “Team-Based Software Engineering in the PDA Domain”, Microsoft, October 2004, $70,000 cash gift.
• Principal Investigator, “Personal Online Personae”, Microsoft, October 2003, $15,000 cash gift.
• Principal Investigator, “ FIPA agents meet .NET,” Microsoft, February 2002, $70,000 cash gift, plus $4,000 equipment gift.
• Principal Investigator, “Agents,“ Hewlett-Packard, 1/99, 9/99, 2/00, 3/00, 9/00, 2/01 $140,000 cash gift.
• Principal Investigator, “Software Lab Upgrade,” College BEEF funding, $66K in cash, January 2000 (includes a match of $300K, retail value, in software from Microsoft).
• Principal Investigator, “NT Teaching Laboratory,” College BEEF funding, $66K in cash, January 1999, Microsoft Corp, February 1998, $35,000 cash gift, $110,000 in software, $66K in cash.
• Principal Investigator, “Distributed Measurement,” Hewlett-Packard, February 1998, $106,000 cash gift plus $36,673 equipment gift (Tom Henderson co-PI).
• ARPA/AASERT grant “Object Management for Engineering and Manufacturing,” $86,184, September 1, 1993 to August 31, 1996 (one graduate fellowship).
• ONR/AASERT grant “Object Management for Engineering and Manufacturing,&rdquo1; $86,184, July 1, 1994 to June 30, 1997 (one graduate fellowship).
• “Mach Shared Objects,” (Jul 1991 -- Jun 1994), ($1,632,031 for entire period), with Gary Lindstrom.
• Hewlett-Packard Company, “Mayfly Development Gifts,” November 1990 and January 1992 ($592,000).
• IBM, “Print Project Preproposal,” $105,000, August 1990 -- March 1991.
• Utah Center's of Excellence Program -- July 90 -- June 94, -- “Center for Software Science,” ($500,123).
• University of Utah Research Committee (with G. Lindstrom), New Parallel Processor, June 1990, $83,000.
• Hewlett-Packard Company, “Hyper Instrumentation for the College of Engineering,“ ($1,200,000 Matching Funds to our $300,000), (Dec 1988 -- Oct 1990).
• Hewlett-Packard Company, “System and Application Software for the Parallel Precision Architecture,” ($730,695), (July 1988 -- Oct 1990).
• Principal Investigator for Hewlett-Packard Company Equipment Contribution, “HP AI Workstation” (Jun 1985 - Jun 1988). (Equipment Value Approximately $5,000,000 over the 3 years).

Conference Responsibilities

• Program Committee Member - 1997 Symposium on Software Reuse, May 1997.
• Treasurer -- 1996 International Conference on Functional Programming, May, 1996, Philadelphia, Penn.
• General Chairman -- 1994 Lisp and Functional Programming Conference, Orlando, Florida.
• Program Committee Member -- 1990 Lisp and Functional Programming Conference, Nice, France.
• Local Arrangements Chairman -- 1988 Lisp and Functional Programming Conference, Snowbird Utah.
• Program Committee Member -- 1988 Rocky Mountain AI Conference.

Editorial Responsibility

• Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Lisp and Symbolic Computation, October 1991 -- December 1998.
• Member of the editorial board of the International Journal on Lisp and Symbolic Computation, October 1989 -- October 1991.

Professional Service

• Vice Chairman, SIGPLAN, ACM, July 1997 to July 1999.
• Member-at-large, SIGPLAN, ACM, 1996-June 1997.

Honors

• Our paper, “Strengthening the Case for Pair Programming” was chosen as one of the top 30 papers out of over 1000 papers submitted to IEEE Software over the past 25 years.  This was described in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue of IEEE Software.
• Recipient of the University Distinguished Teaching Award, 2001.
• Recipient of the College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, 2000.
• Nominated for University Distinguished Teaching Award, 1999, 2000.

Graduated Students Since 2000

• Nathan Dykman (Ph.D., 2010) “UTMF: An Agile Approach To Domain Specific Modeling Languages”
Nicole Anderson (Ph.D., 2007) “Context Aware Web Search Using Dynamically Weighted Information Fusion”
• Mark van Langeveld (Ph.D., 2009) “Educational Impact of Digital Visualization Tools on Digital Character Production Computer Science Courses”
• Jeremy Asbill (Ph.D., 2007) “Automatic Scenario Generation from a Multidimensional Model”
• Andrew Perkins (Expected 2006) “Using Games to Teach AI”.  Converted to MS non-thesis and graduated.
• Brian Remick (M.S., May 2002) “Managing Agent Platforms with the Simple Network Management Protocol,” now at Microsoft.
• Christian Mueller-Plantiz (Ph.D., 2000) “The CWave 2000 Visual Agent Workbench".
• Laurie Williams (Ph.D., 2000) “Collaborative Software Process,” now at North Caroline State University
• Joe Longson (M.S., 2000) "JBus, A Platform Independent Publish/Subscribe Bus for CWave 2000," now at Disney.

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