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Ron Coleman
Professor of Computer Science
Bio
I completed my BS in Computer Science in 1983 (summa cum laude, class valedictorian) at The City College of New York, School of Engineering (CCNY) and my doctoral degree in Computer Science in 1990 (summa cum laude) at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering Polytechnic Institute (formerly Polytechnic University). I worked at AT&T Bell Labs as a software developer from 1984 to 1989 and an Advisory Engineer for IBM in the Supercomputing Systems Lab from 1989 to 1993, where I was part of a team that built a version of the supercomputer that would become Deep Blue, the chess machine. I went to work for Citigroup in 1993 as a software developer, analyst, and vice president in risk management technology and co-founded Informeta, LLC, a high-tech startup, in 2001. I joined Marist College in 2002.
Education
BS, Computer Science, 1983
PhD, Computer Science, 1990
Research Interests/Areas of Focus
Software development, parallel computing, games
Selected Publications
Coleman, R., “Beauty and Maintainability of Code,” Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, Software Engineering, CSCI'18: December 13-15, 2018, Las Vegas, USA, IEEE Computer Society; paper acceptance rate: 19%; 2018 (to appear)
Coleman, R., “Aesthetics Versus Readability of Source Code,” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol 9. No. 9, DOI 10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090902, 2018
Coleman, R., Rahtelli, M., “A Fractal Geometry Approach to Quantifying Aesthetic Values in Scientific Codes,” Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, Software Engineering, CSCI'17: December 14-16, 2017, Las Vegas, USA, IEEE Computer Society, Editors: Hamid R. Arabnia, Leonidas Deligiannidis, Fernando G. Tinetti, Q-N. Tran, M. Qu Yang, ISBN-13: 978-1-5386-2652-8; BMS Part # CFP1771X-USB; DOI: 10.1109/CSCI.2017.313; paper acceptance rate: 21%; 2017
Coleman, R., Boldt, B., “Aesthetics Versus Entropy in Source Code,” Proceeding of the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering,” 17-20 Jul, 2017, Las Vegas, NV, CSREA Press, 2017 [PDF]
Berger, D., Coleman, R., Fiore, J., Hoffmann, M, and Norton, R., "A Freshman Year Experience Self-Management Course," Proceedings of National Conference on Students in Transition. New Orleans, LA, October 15-17, 2016
Coleman, R., Gandhi, P., “Fractal Beauty of Programming Style,” Proceeding of the 14th International Conference on Software Engineering,” 25-28 Jul, 2016, Las Vegas, NV, CSREA Press, 2016
Coleman, R., Fiore, J., Berger, D., Hoffmann, M.A., Norton, R., "Outcomes and Lessons from S-STEM Program," Proceedings of 8th annual Enterprise Computing Community Conference, Marist College, 12-14 June, 2016
Coleman, R., Gandhi, P., “Fractal Analysis of Good Programming Style,” Proceedings Second International Conference on Computer Science & Engineering (CSEN-2015), 28-29 August 2015, Dubai, UAE
Coleman, R., Johnson, M.,”A Study of Scala Repositories on Github”, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science Applications, Volume5, Issue 7, August 2014; DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050721
Coleman, R., Johnson, M., “Power-Laws and Structure in Functional Programs,” Proceedings of 2014 International Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, 10 – 13 Mar, 2014, IEEE Computer Society
Coleman, R., Ghattamaneni, U., “Parallel Collections: A Free Lunch?,” Journal of Computer Science and Engineering, Volume 17, Issue 2, February 2013
Coleman, R., Ghattamaneni, U., Logan, M., “Bond Portfolio Analysis with Parallel Collections in Scala”, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science Applications, Volume 3, Number 7, August 2012; DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2012.030701
Coleman, R., Ghattamaneni, U., Logan, M., Labouseur, A., “Computational Finance with Map-Reduce in Scala”, PDPTA'12 -- The 2012 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, NV, 16 – 19 Jul, 2012
Coleman, R., Bass, J., Pryslopski, C., Johnson, J., Fraser, D., Moore, M., “The Digital Pathfinder: A Plug-and-Play Approach to Local History Instruction in the Field,” Third International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 6 – 9 May, 2011
Coleman, R, “Long-Memory of Pathfinding Aesthetics,” International Journal of Computer Games Technology, Volume 2009, Article ID 318505
Coleman, R., “Fractal Analysis of Stealthy Pathfinding,” International Journal of Computer Games Technology, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games, Volume 2009, Article ID 670459.
Coleman, R., “A Self-Healing Plug-in Parser for NMEA Streams,” Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations”, April 7 – 9, 2008, Las Vegas, NV, IEEE Computer Society, 2008
Coleman, R., “Fractal Analysis of Pathfinding Aesthetics,” International Journal of Simulation Modeling, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2008.
Coleman, R., “Operationally Aesthetic Pathfinding,” Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, N.V., CSREA Press, 2007
Coleman, R., “Adaptive Pattern Movement for Mobile Games,” Fourth International Conference on Information Technology, IEEE Press, 2007
Coleman, R., “Boosting Blackjack Returns with Machine-Learned Betting Criteria,” Proceedings of Information Technology New Generations, IEEE Press, 2006
Coleman, R., “Single-Parameter Blackjack Betting Systems Inspired by Scatter Search,” Proceedings of Information Technology Coding and Compression, IEEE Press, 2005
Coleman, R., et al, “A Game Design and Programming Concentration within the Computer Science Curriculum,” Proceedings of the SIGCSE, 2005
Coleman, R., Grayson, L., Roebke, S., “GEDI: A Game Engine for Teaching Videogame Design and Programming,” The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 21, no. 3, 2005
Coleman, R., Johnson, M., “Genetically Inspired Blackjack Strategies Disturbed by Additive Spectral Noise,” Proc. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, June 2004
Coleman, R., Johnson, M., “Genetic Algorithm-Induced Optimal Blackjack Strategies in Noisy Settings,” Proc. Seventeenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, London, Ontario, May 2004
Coleman, R., Bhardwaj, A., Delucca, A., Sofia, A., Finke, G., Jutt, M., Batra, S., “MicroSpaces: A Compact JavaSpaces Alternative for Teaching Net-Centric Computing in Java”, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 19, no. 5, April 2004 (Best paper award)
Coleman, R., Johnson, M., “Risk Neutral Decision Trees,” Proc. Machine Learning, Technologies, and Algorithms, Las Vegas, NV, 2003
Coleman, R., “Risk Neutral Calibration of Classifier Systems,” Proceedings of the Sixteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2003
Coleman, R., Post, M., Waksman, A., “Hypercomputers: Design and Architecture, Second Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1989
Coleman, R., Post, M., Waksman, A., “A Uniform and Reconfigurable Framework for the Multidimensional Fourier Transform,” Second Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1989
Awards and Honors
- 2010 Board of Trustees Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching, my address of which is here
- 2010-2011 Faculty Recognition Award for the School of Computer Science and Mathematics
- 2010 Office of the Academic Vice President's Award for outstanding service achievement
- 2012 IBM Faculty Innovation Award, the proposal of which is here
- 2008 IBM Faculty Innovation Award, 2008
- 2007 Jones, W., Dharbriya, A., Coleman, R., “Calypso,” Scintilla Forum, Mid-Hudson Technology Council (First place)