W. Randolph Franklin

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ECSE Dept, 6026 JEC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
110 8th St,
Troy NY 12180
USA
+1 (518) 276-6077

Current position

Professor,
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Dept.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
also affiliated with Computer Science Department
Citizenship: USA
Home page: http://wrfranklin.org

Contents

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  1. 1. Education
  2. 2. Professional Career
  3. 3. Publications
  4. 4. Presentations
  5. 5. Synergistic Activities and Service
  6. 6. Grad Students
  7. 7. Teaching or Course Development
  8. 8. Hardware Used
  9. 9. Professional Memberships
  10. 10. Major Research Grants

1.  Education

  1. Passed first two Canadian Institute of Actuaries exams, scores: 10/10, 1973
  2. B.Sc. (Computer Science), University of Toronto, 1973
  3. A.M. (Applied Mathematics), Harvard University, 1975
  4. Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Harvard University, 1978, advisor: Harry R. Lewis, thesis: Combinatorics of Hidden Surface Algorithms
  5. 3 short courses from the Governmental Affairs Institute at Georgetown University, 2001-2.

2.  Professional Career

1978-nowFaculty member in the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Dept, RPI. Current rank: Professor.
2000-2002Director, Numeric, Symbolic, and Geometric Computation Program, NSF/CISE/C-CR. Since renamed to the Graphics, Symbolic, and Geometric Computing Program, and then merged in the CISE reorg. Additional responsibility for some IGERT and ITR panels. Organized, with Ben Mann, MPS/DMS, two joint solicitations with DARPA/DSO (POC: Doug Cochran), called Computational Algorithms and Representations for Geometric Objects (CARGO), NSF 01-111 and NSF 02-155.
Sabbatical, 1992-1993June-July 1993Visiting scientist at the Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore.
"April-June 1993Visit to the Division of Information Technology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia.
"Jan-Mar 1993Visit to the Dept. de Science Géodésique, Université de Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
"Oct-Dec 1992Visit to the Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Genova, Italy.
Aug 1991 and Aug 1992Artificial Intelligence Division, US Army Topographic Engineering Center.
1986-nowJoint appointment in the Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
1985-1986Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Division, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley.
1973-1978Research Asst, Lab for Computer Graphics and Analysis, Graduate School of Design, Harvard.
Summer 1973Research Assistant in the Geography Department, Simon Fraser University (Canada).
Summers 1968-1972Research Asst, Application Group, Computer Centre, U Ottawa (Canada).

3.  Publications

  1.   2012 . Salles V. G. Magalh\~aes, Marcus V. A. Andrade, W. Randolph Franklin and Guilherme C. Pena. In AGILE'2012 15th AGILE international conference on geographic information science, Avignon, 24--27 April 2012. to appear. (URL)
  2.   2011 . Tsz-Yam Lau, You Li and W. Randolph Franklin. In 21st Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, City College, New York City, USA, 4--5 Nov 2011. (paper).
  3. . Christopher Stuetzle, Barbara Cutler, Zhongxian Chen, W. Randolph Franklin, Mehrad Kamalzare and Thomas Zimmie. In 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011), Chicago USA, 1--4 Nov 2011. (paper, poster).
  4. . Salles V. G. Magalh{\~a}es, Marcus V. A. Andrade and W. Randolph Franklin. International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management (IJCISIM), 3, 2011. (URL) (paper).
  5. . Tsz-Yam Lau and W. Randolph Franklin. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 38(2):162-174, apr 2011. (paper).
  6. . Mehrad Kamalzare, Zhongxian Chen, Christopher Stuetzle , Barbara Cutler, W. Randolph Franklin and Thomas F. Zimmie. In 2011 Pam-Am CGS Geotechnical Conference: 14th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Toronto, 2--6 Oct 2011. (URL) (paper).
  7. . W. Randolph Franklin. In 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, 3--8 July 2011. (paper, talk).
  8. . Zhongxian Chen, Christopher S. Stuetzle, Barbara M. Cutler, Jared A. Gross, W. Randolph Franklin and Thomas F. Zimmie. In Geo-Frontiers 2011: Advances in geotechnical engineering, Dallas TX, 13--16 March 2011. (URL) (paper).
  9. 2010 . W. Randolph Franklin, Zhongyi Xie, Eddie Lau and You Li. In ICA Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Algorithms for Topographic and Thematic Mapping, Orlando, Florida. The International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery, 19 Nov 2010. (paper, talk).
  10. . You Li and W. Randolph Franklin. In Geospatial Data and Geovisualization: Environment, Security, and Society, a special joint symposium of ISPRS Technical Commission IV \& AutoCarto 2010, Orlando, Florida, 15--18 Nov 2010. (paper, talk).
  11. . Tsz-Yam Lau and W. Randolph Franklin. In Geospatial Data and Geovisualization: Environment, Security, and Society, a special joint symposium of ISPRS Technical Commission IV \& AutoCarto 2010, Orlando, Florida, 15--18 Nov 2010. (paper, talk).
  12. . Jared A. Gross, Christopher S. Stuetzle, Zhongxian Chen andBarbara Cutler, W. Randolph Franklin and Thomas F. Zimmie. In ICSE-5 5th international conference on scour and erosion, San Francisco, 7--10 Nov 2010. (paper, talk).
  13. . Zhongyi Xie, W. Randolph Franklin and Dan Tracy. In 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010), San Jose, CA, USA, 2--5 Nov 2010. (PhD Dissertation Showcase). (paper, poster).
  14. . You Li, Tsz-Yam Lau, Chris Stuetzle, Peter Fox and W. Randolph Franklin. In 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010), San Jose, CA, USA, 2--5 Nov 2010. (PhD Dissertation showcase). (paper, talk).
  15. . Zhongxian Chen, Christopher Stuetzle, Barbara Cutler, Jared Gross, W. Randolph Franklin and Thomas Zimmie. In 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010), San Jose, CA, USA, 2--5 Nov 2010. (poster). (paper, poster).
  16. . Tsz-Yam Lau and W. Randolph Franklin. In 20th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry (FWCG 2010), Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA, 29--30 Oct 2010. (extended abstract and talk). (abstract, talk).
  17. . W. Randolph Franklin. In 20th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry (FWCG 2010), Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA, 29--30 Oct 2010. (extended abstract and talk). (abstract, talk).
  18. . Salles V. G. Magalh\~aes, Marcus V. A. Andrade and W. Randolph Franklin. In 10th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2010), Atlanta USA, 23--25 Aug 2010. (URL) (paper).
  19. . W. Randolph Franklin and Barb Cutler. In DARPA GRID2 workshop, 18--19 Aug 2010. (talk).
  20. . Christopher S. Stuetzle, Zhongxian Chen, Barbara Cutler, W. Randolph Franklin, Jared Gross, Katrina Perez and Thomas Zimmie. In 7th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2010), Zurich, 20--24 Jun 2010. (paper, talk).
  21. 2009 . Christopher S. Stuetzle, Zhongxian Chen, Katrina Perez, Jared Gross, Barbara Cutler, W. Randolph Franklin and Thomas Zimmie. In 19th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry (FWCG 2009), Tufts University, Medford MA USA, 13--14 Nov 2009. (extended abstract and talk). (abstract, talk).
  22. . Tsz-Yam Lau, You Li, Zhongyi Xie and W. Randolph Franklin. In 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009), Seattle WA USA, 4--6 Nov 2009. (paper, video, talk: pptx, pdf, poster: pptx, pdf).
  23. . Marcus V. A. Andrade, Salles V. G. Magalh{\~a}es, Mirella A. Magalh{\~a}es, W. Randolph Franklin and Barbara M. Cutler. Geoinformatica, 2010. (online 26 Nov 2009). (URL) (paper).
  24. 2008 . Jared Stookey, Zhongyi Xie, Barbara Cutler, W. Randolph Franklin, Daniel M. Tracy and Marcus V.A. Andrade. In Walid G. Aref and others, editor, 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), Irvine CA, 5--7 Nov 2008. (URL) (paper, talk: ppt, pdf, poster: ppt, pdf).
  25. . Daniel M. Tracy, W. Randolph Franklin, Barbara Cutler , Franklin T. Luk, Marcus Andrade and Jared Stookey. In Walid G. Aref and others, editor, 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), Irvine CA, 5--7 Nov 2008. (poster and fast forward presentation). (URL) (paper, talk: ppt, pdf, poster: ppt, pdf).
  26. . Christopher Stuetzle, W. Randolph Franklin, Barbara Cutler, Jonathan Muckell, Marcus Andrade , Jared Stookey, Metin Inanc and Zhongyi Xie. In Walid G. Aref and others, editor, 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), Irvine CA, 5--7 Nov 2008. (PhD student poster and fast forward presentation). (URL) (talk, poster).
  27. . Daniel M. Tracy, W Randolph Franklin, Barb Cutler, Franklin Luk, Marcus Andrade and Jared Stookey. In 18th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry (FWCG 2008), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY USA, 31 Oct -- 1 Nov 2008. (extended abstract, talk and poster). (abstract, talk, poster).
  28. . W. Randolph Franklin. In 18th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, 31 Oct -- 1 Nov 2008. (extended abstract and talk). (abstract, talk).
  29. . Zhongyi Xie, Marcus A. Andrade, W Randolph Franklin , Barbara Cutler, Metin Inanc, Jonathan Muckell and Daniel M. Tracy. In CLEI 2008 Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática, Santa Fe, Argentina, 8--12 Sep 2008. (URL) (paper).
  30. . W. Randolph Franklin, Daniel M. Tracy , Marcus Andrade, Jonathan Muckell, Metin Inanc, Zhongyi Xie and Barbara Cutler. In Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Montpellier FR, Jun 2008. (paper).
  31. 2007 . Zhongyi Xie, Marcus A. Andrade, W. Randolph Franklin, Barbara Cutler, Metin Inanc, Daniel M. Tracy and Jonathan Muckell. In 17th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne NY, 2--3 Nov 2007. (poster session, no formal proceedings). (abstract, poster).
  32. . Jonathan Muckell, Marcus Andrade, W. Randolph Franklin, Barbara Cutler, Metin Inanc, Zhongyi Xie and Daniel M. Tracy. In 17th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne NY, 2--3 Nov 2007. poster session, no formal proceedings. (abstract, poster).
  33. . W Randolph Franklin, Metin Inanc, Zhongyi Xie, Daniel M. Tracy, Barbara Cutler, Marcus V A Andrade and Franklin Luk. In 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2007), Seattle, WA, USA, Nov 2007. (paper, talk).
  34. . Daniel M. Tracy, W. Randolph Franklin, Barbara Cutler , Marcus A Andrade, Franklin T Luk, Metin Inanc and Zhongyi Xie. In Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6697 Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations XVII, San Diego CA. International Society for Optical Engineering, 27 August 2007. paper 6697-16. (paper).
  35. . Zhongyi Xie, W. Randolph Franklin, Barbara Cutler , Marcus A Andrade, Metin Inanc and Daniel M. Tracy. In Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6697 Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations XVII, San Diego CA. International Society for Optical Engineering, 27 August 2007. paper 6697-15. (paper).
  36. 2006 . W. Randolph Franklin and Christian Vogt. In Progress in Spatial Data Handling: 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, pages 845-861.Springer, , 2006. ISBN 978-3-540-35588-5. (paper, talk).
  37. . W. Randolph Franklin, Metin Inanc and Zhongyi Xie. In Autocarto 2006, Vancouver Washington. Cartography and Geographic Information Society, 25-28 June 2006. (paper).
  38. . W. Randolph Franklin and Eric Landis. In 16th Fall Workshop in Computational Geometry, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 10-11 Nov 2006. (extended abstract). (abstract, talk).
  39. . Eric N. Landis, Tong Zhang, Edwin N. Nagy, George Nagy and W. Randolph Franklin. Materials and Structures, online date: 13 July 2006. (URL) (paper).
  40. . Metin Inanc and W Randolph Franklin. In 16th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, Smith College, Northampton MA, 10-11 Nov 2006. (abstract, poster).
  41. . Daniel M. Tracy, W Randolph Franklin and Franklin Luk. In 16th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, Smith College, Northampton MA, 10-11 Nov 2006. (abstract, poster).
  42. . W. Randolph Franklin and Metin Inanc. In Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6313 Advanced Architectures, and Implementations XVI, San Diego CA. International Society for Optical Engineering, 15-16 August 2006. 6313-17, Session 4. (paper).
  43. 2005 . Michael B. Gousie and Wm. Randolph Franklin. Photogrammetric Engineering \& Remote Sensing, 71(1):69-79, 2005. (paper). ]
  44. . W. Randolph Franklin. In Proceedings of the 17th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG'05), pages 239-242, Windsor, Ontario, {10-12 August} 2005. (paper (current version), paper, talk).
  45. . Wm. Randolph Franklin. In Geometric and Algorithmic Aspects of Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, {DIMACS} Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, pages 329-345.American Mathematical Society, , 2005. (paper, talk).
  46. 2004 . W. Randolph Franklin and Christian Vogt. In GIScience 2004: Third International Conference on Geographic Information Science, U Maryland College Park, 20--23 Oct 2004. (paper, talk).
  47. . W. Randolph Franklin. In 14th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, MIT, 20 {Nov} 2004. (paper, talk).
  48. . W. Randolph Franklin. In Geometric Modeling and Computing: Seattle 2003, pages 189-202.Nashboro Press, Brentwood TN, , 2004. (paper).
  49. . W. Randolph Franklin and Christian Vogt. In XXth Congress, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Istanbul, 12-23 July 2004. (paper, poster).
  50. 2003 . Michael Gousie and W. Randolph Franklin. In Erik Hoel and Phillippe Rigaux, editor, GIS 2003: Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, pages 71-77, New Orleans, 2003. (paper).
  51. . Edwin Nagy, Tong Zhang, Wm Randolph Franklin, George Nagy and E Landis. In 16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, U Washington, Seattle, 16-18 July 2003. electronic proceedings. (paper).
  52. 2002 . W. Randolph Franklin. In Dianne Richardson and Peter van Oosterom, editor, Advances in Spatial Data Handling: 10th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, pages 109-120, 2002. (paper).
  53. 2001 . H\'elio Pedrini, William Robson Schwartz and W. R. Franklin. In 2001 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2001), pages 732-735, Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-10 October 2001. (URL)
  54. . G Nagy, T Zhang, WR Franklin, E Landis, E Nagy and D Keane. In Visual Form 2001: 4th International Workshop on Visual Form {IWVF4}Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, , 28-30 May 2001. (paper, poster).
  55. 2000 . W. Randolph Franklin. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 27(3):225-237, 2000. (paper).
  56. . W. Randolph Franklin. In Handbook of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics, pages 867-888.{CRC} Press, , 2000.
  57. . Harold Moellering, Keith Clarke, Robert Cromley, Wm Randolph Franklin, Alan Saalfeld, Jon Kimerling and Marc Armstrong. UCGIS Emerging Research Themes in GIScience (white paper), Dec 2000. (UCGIS = University Consortium for Geographic Information Science).
  58. . W. Randolph Franklin. In GIScience 2000, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 30 Oct 2000. (paper).
  59. 1999 . W. Randolph Franklin and Michael Gousie. In International Cartographic Association Proceedings, Ottawa, Aug 1999. (URL) (paper).
  60. 1998 . Michael Gousie and W. Randolph Franklin. In Eighth International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, pages 647-656, Vancouver BC Canada, Jul 1998. (paper, talk).
  61. 1996 . W. Randolph Franklin and Amir Said. In Seventh International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Delft, Aug 1996. (paper).
  62. 1995 . W. Randolph Franklin. In Fourth International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases --- SSD '95, 6--9 Aug 1995. (paper).
  63. . Mohan Kankanhalli and Wm Randolph Franklin. J. Parallel Distrib. Comput., 27:107-117, 1995.
  64. 1994 . Wm Randolph Franklin and Clark Ray. In Thomas C. Waugh and Richard G. Healey, editor, Advances in GIS Research: Sixth International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, pages 751-770, Edinburgh, 5--9 Sept 1994. (paper).
  65. . W. Randolph Franklin. In comp.graphics.algorithms Frequently Asked Questions ({FAQ})\url{http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/graphics/algorithms-faq/faq.html}, , 1994.
  66. . Wm Randolph Franklin, Venkateshkumar Sivaswami, David Sun, Mohan Kankanhalli and Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Apr 1994. (paper).
  67. 1993 . Wm Randolph Franklin and Mohan S. Kankanhalli. In Advances in Spatial Databases: Third Intl. Symp., SSD'93, pages 477-489.Springer-Verlag, , Jun 1993. (paper).
  68. ''. UCGIA Steering Committee. In Proceedings, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping / American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing '93, New Orleans, 1993.
  69. 1992 . Wm Randolph Franklin. In David H. Douglas, editor, Proceedings, SORSA'92 Symposium and Workshop, pages 200-203, July 28--August 2 1992. (paper).
  70. . Wm Randolph Franklin. In David H. Douglas, editor, Proceedings, SORSA'92 Symposium and Workshop, July 28--August 2 1992. (paper).
  71. . Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami and Wm Randolph Franklin. In Proceedings of the 1992 International Conference on Parallel Processing, Aug 1992. (paper).
  72. . Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami and Wm Randolph Franklin. Information Processing Letters, 41(5):257-262, 3 April 1992. (paper).
  73. 1991 . Wm Randolph Franklin. In GIS: Principles and Practice, pages 215-225.Longman Higher Education and Reference, , 1991. (paper).
  74. . Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami and Wm Randolph Franklin. In Proc. Symposium on Solid Modeling Foundations and CAD/CAM Applications, pages 279-288.ACM/SIGGRAPH, , 5--7 June 1991. (paper).
  75. . W. Randolph Franklin, Rahul Bansal and Elissa Gilbert. In Validating and Verifying Knowledge-Based Systems, pages 347-355.IEEE Computer Society Press, , 1991. (paper).
  76. . Varol Akman, A. Arslan, W. Randolph Franklin and P. J. W. ten Hagen. In Proc. 13th IMACS World Congress on Computation and Applied Maths, Dublin, 1991.
  77. 1990 . Wm Randolph Franklin. In 4th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, pages 151-160, Z\"urich, 23-27 July 1990. (paper).
  78. . Wm Randolph Franklin, Narayanaswami Chandrasekhar, Mohan Kankanhalli, Varol Akman and Peter YF Wu. In Geometric Modeling for Product Engineering, pages 485-498.Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland), , 1990. (paper).
  79. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Mohan Kankanhalli. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'90, pages 87-94, Aug 1990. (paper).
  80. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Venkatesh Sivaswami. In Second National Conference on Geographic Information Systems, pages 1646-1654, Ottawa, 5-8 March 1990. (paper).
  81. . Peter YF Wu and Wm Randolph Franklin. Canadian Computational Intelligence Journal, 6(2):61-70, 1990. (paper).
  82. . Varol Akman, D. Ede, W. Randolph Franklin and P. J. W. ten Hagen. In Okyay Kaynak, editor, Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Motion Control, pages 153-158, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 20-22 August 1990.
  83. 1989 . Varol Akman and Wm Randolph Franklin. Computers and Graphics, 13(3):373-379, 1989. (paper).
  84. . Varol Akman and Wm Randolph Franklin. Pattern Recognition Letters, Nov 1989. (paper).
  85. . Varol Akman, Wm Randolph Franklin, Mohan Kankanhalli and Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami. Computer Aided Design, 21(7):410-420, 1989. (paper).
  86. . Wm Randolph Franklin, Mohan Kankanhalli, Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami and Varol Akman. In International Cartographic Association 14th World Conference, pages A-62 - A-63, Budapest, Aug 1989. (paper).
  87. . Wm Randolph Franklin, Mohan Kankanhalli and Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami. In Proceedings National Conference Challenge for the 1990s GIS Geographic Information Systems, pages 1247-1256, Ottawa. Canadian Institute of Surveying and Mapping, 27 February - 3 March 1989. (paper).
  88. . Wm Randolph Franklin, Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Mohan Kankanhalli, David Sun, Meng-Chu Zhou and Peter YF Wu. In Proceedings of Auto Carto 9: Ninth International Symposium on Computer-Assisted Cartography, pages 100-109, Baltimore, Maryland, 2-7 April 1989. (paper).
  89. . W. Randolph Franklin, Narayanaswami Chandrasekhar and Mohan Kankanhalli. In Final Program, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, page A17, 6--10 Nov 1989. (abstract only).
  90. . Varol Akman, W. Randolph Franklin and B. Veth. In PJW ten Hagen and P. Veerkamp, editor, Proceedings of the Third Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent CAD Systems: Practical Experience and Evaluation, pages 317-322, Texel, the Netherlands, 3-7 Apr 1989.
  91. 1988 . Wm Randolph Franklin. In Tutorial: Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis, pages 218-224., 1988.
  92. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Varol Akman. Computer Journal, 31(1):56-60, Feb 1988. (paper).
  93. . Wm Randolph Franklin , Narayanaswami Chandrasekhar., Mohan Kankanhalli, Manoj Seshan and Varol Akman. In New Trends in Computer Graphics (Proc. Computer Graphics International'88), pages 288-297.Springer-Verlag, , 1988. (paper).
  94. . W. Randolph Franklin, Rahul Bansal, Elissa Gilbert and Gautam Shroff. In Benn R. Konsynski, editor, Proceeding of the 21st International Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pages 159-167, Kona, Hawaii, Jan 1988. (paper).
  95. 1987 . Wm Randolph Franklin. In Proc. 3rd Annu. ACM Sympos. Comput. Geom., pages 110-118, 1987. (paper).
  96. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Varol Akman. Computer Graphics Forum, 6(2):103-109, May 1987. (paper).
  97. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Peter YF Wu. In Autocarto 8: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Computer-Assisted Cartography, pages 97-106, Baltimore, Maryland, 29 March -- 3 April 1987. (paper).
  98. . Wm Randolph Franklin and V. Akman. In Proc. 1st Internat. Conf. Indust. Applied Math., pages 1-38, Paris, France, 1987. (paper).
  99. 1986 . Varol Akman and Wm Randolph Franklin. EATCS Bulletin, Feb 1986. (paper).
  100. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Varol Akman. BIT, 26:430-441, 1986. (paper).
  101. . Wm Randolph Franklin, Margaret Nichols, Sumitro Samaddar and Peter YF Wu. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface'86, Vision Interface'86, pages 26-31, Vancouver, BC, 26--30 May 1986.
  102. . Wm Randolph Franklin, Peter Y.F. Wu, Sumitro Samaddar and Margaret Nichols. In Tosiyasu Kunii, editor, Advanced Computer Graphics, Proceedings of Computer Graphics Tokyo 86, pages 71-78, Apr 1986. (paper).
  103. . Wm Randolph Franklin, Peter Y.F. Wu, Sumitro Samaddar and Margaret Nichols. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Nov 1986. (paper).
  104. . Varol Akman and W. Randolph Franklin. In IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYSROCO'85), 1986. (paper).
  105. 1985 . Wm Randolph Franklin. In Data Structures for Raster Graphics, proceedings of a Workshop held at Steensel, The Netherlands, June 24--28, 1985Springer-Verlag EurographicSeminars, , 1986. (paper).
  106. . Wm Randolph Franklin. In Proceedings of the {NATO} Advanced Study Institute on Fundamental Algorithms for Computer Graphics, pages 737-749.Springer-Verlag, , 30 March -- 12 April 1985. (paper).
  107. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Varol Akman. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 5(10):58-64, oct 1985. (paper).
  108. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Varol Akman. In Computer Generated Images, State of the ArtSpringer-Verlag, , 1985. (paper).
  109. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Varol Akman. In Proceedings of the {NATO} Advanced Study Institute on Fundamental Algorithms for Computer Graphics, pages 895-917.Springer-Verlag, , 30 March -- 12 April 1985. (paper).
  110. . Wm Randolph Franklin, Varol Akman and Colin Verrilli. Visual Comput., 1(2):133-150, oct 1985. (paper).
  111. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Varol Akman. In Graphics Interface, 1985. (paper).
  112. . Varol Akman and W. Randolph Franklin. In Proceedings of ROBEXS'85, the First Annual Workshop on Robotics and Expert Systems, NASA/Johnson Space Center, 27--28 June 1985. (paper).
  113. 1984 . Wm Randolph Franklin. Cartographica, 21(2--3):161-167, Summer -- Autumn 1984. monograph 32--33. (paper).
  114. . Wm Randolph Franklin. In Proc. International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, pages 190-208, Z\"urich, 20--24 August 1984. (paper).
  115. . W. Randolph Franklin. SIGPLAN Notices, 19(8):87-88, Aug 1984. (paper).
  116. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Varol Akman. In 22nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, Illinois, USA, 3--5 October 1984. (paper).
  117. 1983 . Wm Randolph Franklin. IEEE Trans. Comput., C-32(11):1064-1067, Nov 1983. (paper).
  118. . Wm Randolph Franklin. Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 22:327-338, 1983. (paper).
  119. . Wm Randolph Franklin. In Harvard Computer Graphics Conference, Cambridge, Mass, USA, 31 July -- 4 August 1983. (paper).
  120. . W. Randolph Franklin. Computers and Graphics, 7(1), 1983. (invited paper). (paper).
  121. . Wm Randolph Franklin. In Proc. Sixth International Symposium on Automated Cartography (Auto-Carto Six), pages 230-239, Ottawa, 1983.
  122. . W. Randolph Franklin. Computers and Graphics, 7(1), 1983. (invited paper). (paper).
  123. 1982 . Wm Randolph Franklin. In Proc. Graphics Interface, pages 73-80, Toronto, 1982. (paper).
  124. . W. Randolph Franklin. Comm. ACM, 25(5):336-337, May 1982. (paper).
  125. . G. Wazzan, W. Randolph Franklin, W. R. Spillers, A. Greenwood, T. F. Gantry and H. Chu. Computers and Graphics, 6(1):7-14, 1982. (paper).
  126. . W. Randolph Franklin. IEEE Computer and Applications, 2(5):front cover and p. 4, July 1982. (invited).
  127. . W. Randolph Franklin. In IEEE Computer Society Workshop Report: VLSI and Software Engineering Workshop, pages 86-89., 4--6 October 1982. (paper).
  128. 1981 . Wm Randolph Franklin. In Proceedings of the 7th Canadian Man-Computer Conference, pages 173-180, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 10--12 June 1981. (paper).
  129. . Wm Randolph Franklin. Comput. Graph. Image Process., 15:364-379, 1981. (paper).
  130. . W. Randolph Franklin and Alan H. Barr. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 1(3):41-47, Jul 1981. (paper).
  131. 1980 . Wm Randolph Franklin. Comput. Graph., 14(3):117-123, 1980. (paper).
  132. 1979 . Wm Randolph Franklin. Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 11(4):377-397, Dec 1979.
  133. . W. Randolph Franklin. Information Processing Letters, 9(4):161-166, Nov 1979. (paper).
  134. . W. Randolph Franklin. In Mapping Software and Cartographic Data Bases, pages 75-79., 1979.
  135. 1978 . Wm Randolph Franklin. PhD thesis, Center for Research in Computing Technology, Harvard Univ., Jun 1978. (parts: 1, 2, 3, 4).
  136. . Wm Randolph Franklin and Harry R. Lewis. In Proc. SIGGRAPH'78, pages 70-75, Aug 1978. (paper).
  137. . William G. Nisen and W. Randolph Franklin. ICP Interface Manufacturing and Engineering, 3(4):5-11, 1978. (paper).

4.  Presentations

(This sample demonstrates where I've lectured.)

  1. "The Geo* project at RPI", Dept of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 5 July 2010.
  2. "Computer simulations and physical modelling of erosion", 7th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2010), 22 June 2010, Zurich.
  3. "A Personal View of Research", Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brasil, 2 August 2009, https://phpsistemas.cpd.ufv.br/ccs_noticias/scripts/exibeNoticia.php?codNot=9445&link=portal.
  4. "The Geo* project at RPI", Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brasil, July 2009.
  5. "Operating on large geometric datasets", Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brasil, July 2009.
  6. "The Geo* project at RPI", Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brasil, July 2009.
  7. "Smugglers and border guards - the RPI Geo* project", IMPA - Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 13 July 2009, http://seminarios.impa.br/cgi-bin/SEMINAR_browse.cgi?sigla_area_corrente=-1&mes_corrente=7&ano_corrente=2009&language=engl
  8. "Operating on large geometric datasets", 18th Fall Workshop in Computational Geometry, RPI, Oct 31 2008.
  9. "GeoStar at RPI", DARPA Geo* program review meeting, Arlington VA, Aug 11 2008.
  10. "Smugglers and border guards - Geo* at RPI", DARPA Geo* program review meeting, Arlington VA, Oct 2007.
  11. "Smugglers and border guards - Geo* at RPI", National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Geo* Industry Day, Arlington VA, Oct 2007.
  12. "Compact visibility and path preserving terrain representations", ''DARPA Geo* program review meeting'', Coeur d'Alene, April 4 2007.
  13. Invited speaker at the last annual seminar in the UniGIS online program, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC, May 2006.
  14. "Geometric operations on millions of objects", Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, 27 July 2004.
  15. "Geometric operations on millions of objects", Bilkent University, Ankara, 26 July 2004,
  16. "Geometric operations on millions of objects", Sabanci University, Istanbul, 20 July 2004,
  17. "Geometric operations on millions of objects", Koc University, Istanbul, 16 July 2004,
  18. "Siting observers on terrain", US Army Topographic Engineering Center, 28 Jan 2004.
  19. "Computational and geometric cartography", Boston University, 30 Apr 2003.
  20. "Computational and geometric cartography", Siena College, 22 April 2003.
  21. "Mass properties of the union of many squares (Geometric operations on hundreds of millions of objects)", DIMACS Workshop on Implementation of Geometric Algorithms, 4-6 Dec 2002, Rutgers University.
  22. "Observations in support of automation with GPR, (invited talk)" The Use of Ground Penetrating Radar in Assessing the Condition of Transportation Infrastructure (Workshop) CenSSIS, RPI, 29-30 Oct, 2002.
  23. "Computational and geometric cartography", GIScience 2002, Boulder, Colorado, 26 Sept 2002 (keynote talk).
  24. "Elevation data operations", DARPA Defense Science Office, June 1999.
  25. "Elevation data operations", Florida Atlantic University, June 1999.
  26. "Computational cartography elevation data operations", Bell Labs, Murray Hill, January 30, 1998.
  27. "Lossy compression of gridded elevation data", IBM TJ Watson Research Center, November 10, 1995.
  28. Panel speaker on Computational Geometry and Applications, Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, Quebec City, August 1995.
  29. Panel speaker on the future of GIS, Fourth International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases - SSD '95, August 6-9, 1995, Portland, Maine, USA.
  30. "Higher isn't much better", Fourth MSI Workshop on Computational Geometry, Cornell University, October 15, 1994.
  31. "Higher isn't much better", Dept. de Science Géodésique, Université Laval, Quebec, January 13, 1994.
  32. "Calculating map overlay polygons' areas", Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, August 2, 1993.
  33. "Higher isn't (much) better", University of Tasmania, June 1993.
  34. "Parallel geometry implementations", the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, April 13, 1993.
  35. "Calculating map overlay polygons' areas", University of Auckland, New Zealand, April 6, 1993.
  36. "Parallel geometry implementations", Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 31, 1993.
  37. "Computational geometry - why?" Dept. de Science Géodésique, Universite Laval, Quebec, February 1, 1993.
  38. "Parallel geometry implementations", Karlsruhe, November 1992.
  39. "Higher isn't (much) better - visibility experiments and algorithms for terrain databases", University of Milan, November 15, 1992.
  40. "Parallel geometry implementations", National Research Council, Pisa, Italy, November 13, 1992.
  41. "Local topological properties of polyhedra", Universita La Sapienza, Rome, November 11, 1992.
  42. "Differences between 2D and 3D in geometry", Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Universita di Genova, October 28, 1992.
  43. "Efficient polygon overlay", US Geologic Survey, August 1991.
  44. "Efficient geometric operations for computer aided design", McGill University, April 6, 1990.
  45. "Efficient geometric operations for computer aided design", Worcester Polytechnic Institute, February 1, 1990.
  46. "Efficient intersection calculation in large databases", CAIP Center, Rutgers University, November 1989.
  47. "Efficient intersection calculation in large databases", GE CR\&D, November 1989.
  48. "Efficient intersection calculation in large databases", University of New Brunswick, Computer Science Dept., October 1989.
  49. "Efficient intersection calculation in large databases", National Center for Cartographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine at Orono, October 1989.
  50. "Polygon properties calculated from the vertex neighborhoods", Eindhoven University, the Netherlands, July 1, 1987.
  51. "Polygon properties calculated from the vertex neighborhoods", Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, July 1, 1987.
  52. "Polygon properties calculated from the vertex neighborhoods", University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 29, 1987.
  53. "Polygon properties calculated from the vertex neighborhoods", Istituto per la Mathematica Applicata, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricercha, Genova, Italy, June 22, 1987.
  54. "Polygon properties calculated from the vertex neighborhoods", University of Maryland, April 1987.
  55. "Computational geometry in prolog", IBM Japan Scientific Institute, April 1986.
  56. "Computational geometry in prolog", Lawrence Livermore National Labs, March 1986.
  57. "Linear time object space hidden surface algorithm", University of California, Berkeley, October 1985.

5.  Synergistic Activities and Service

  1. Software is freely available on my website. Still receive, and respond to, questions about PNPOLY, which I wrote around 1970.
  2. Helped develop courses from freshman to graduate, in both the traditional lecture, and the newer studio, formats. A significant contributor to the National Electrical Engineering Department Heads Association (NEEDHA) Innovative Program Award to RPI's ECSE Dept.
  3. Five ABET/CAC site visits and two NY State Science & Tech Foundation site visits.
  4. Member of the Union College (Schenectady) Computer Engineering Program Advisory Committee.
  5. An incorporator of, and board member of, the Institute for Infrastructure Asset Management, Sept 1998-present. This is a nonprofit NYS corporation to provide research, development, consulting, and educational services to maximize the efficient utilization of infrastructure investments.
  6. Have applied specialized expertise in short-term work for US Army Topographic Engineering Center, NY State Dept of Health & Dept of Motor Vehicles, Chemical Bank, Bearing Sciences, Lockheed-Martin, et al.
  7. Public lectures to RPI Women's Club about the internet.
  8. Two Army SBIRs, A07-126 Optimal Intervisibility Site Selection and A07-123 Novel Representations of Elevation Data appear to be based on my work (one cites me four times).
  9. External reader for doctoral theses at U. Tasmania, National University of Singapore, SUNY Buffalo,
  10. External visiting member of doctoral thesis at Eindhoven.
  11. Proposal reviewing for NSF, ARO, Dutch NWO.
  12. Paper reviewing and/or program committeeïng for IJGIS, Geoinformatica, Geographical Analysis, SIGGRAPH, SDH, IEEE, PE&RS, GIScience, etc.
  13. Inside RPI: several terms on each of Faculty Council, Faculty Senate, Planning and Resources Committee, Provost's Computer Committee, President's and Provost's Panel on Strategic Initiatives, Registrar's BANNER Implementation Committee, Y2K Planning Committee, Residence Life Opening Doors program.

6.  Grad Students

Graduated: 68 masters students and 14 PhD students. PhD students:

  1. Varol Akman, Shortest paths avoiding polyhedral obstacles in 3-dimensional Euclidean space, 1985.
  2. William S. Yerazunis,DIS - An Architecture for fast Lisp execution, 1987.
  3. Peter Yick-Fai Wu, Polygon overlay in Prolog 1987.
  4. Ernesto Guerrieri, A Methodology for software transportability, 1989.
  5. Mohan Kankanhalli, Techniques for parallel geometric computations, 1990.
  6. Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Parallel processing for geometric applications, 1991.
  7. Clark K. Ray, Representing visibility for siting problems, 1994.
  8. Victor Skowronski, Synthesizing tolerances for optimal design using the Taguchi quality loss function, 1996.
  9. Michael Gousie, Contours to digital elevation models: grid-based surface reconstruction methods, 1998.
  10. Helio Pedrini, An Adaptive method for terrain surface approximation based on triangular meshes, 2000.
  11. Linda Lim, Haptic and multi-modal interaction for teaching and designing basic controls, 2004.
  12. Metin Inanc, Compressing terrain elevation datasets, 2008.
  13. Dan Tracy, Path Planning and Slope Representation on Compressed Terrain, 2009.
  14. You Li, CUDA-accelerated HD-ODETLAP: a high dimensional geospatial data compression framework, 2011.

7.  Teaching or Course Development

Computing Fundamentals for Engineers (freshmen), Computer Organization and Logic Design (sophomore), Computer Components and Operations (sophomore studio), Engineering Probability (junior), Computer Graphics (senior), Data Structures (senior), Programming Languages (senior/grad), Interactive Computer Aided Design (senior), Computational Geometry (grad), Advanced Computer Graphics (grad), Software Engineering (grad).

8.  Hardware Used

DEC PDP 1, 8, 10, 11, Vax 11/780, IBM 1620, 7094, 360, 370, 5100, Prime, Lisp Machine, Sun Sparc, Motorola 6811, 68000, 68010, 68020, Sequent Balance, Thinking Machines CM-2, Intel 8051, 8086, Pentium, Xeon, AMD Opteron. Wordlengths (bits): 8, 12, 16, 32, 36.

9.  Professional Memberships

ACM, IEEE, SIAM, ACSM, Computer Graphics Pioneers.

10.  Major Research Grants

  1. Rapid: Flood and Erosion Reconnaissance: Hurricanes Irene and Lee, Upstate New York and Western New England, Tom Zimmie, Barb Cutler and me, NSF CMMI-1158899, 2011-2012, $30,123.
  2. CGV: Small: Towards a Mathematics of Terrain, (sole PI), NSF/CISE IIS-1117277, 2011-2014 (expected), $500,000 (expected).
  3. CDI-Type I: Fundamental Terrain Representations and Operations, Barb Cutler, Tom Zimmie and me, NSF/ENG/CDI, 2008-2011, $670,000.
  4. Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry 2008, Barb Cutler and me, NSF/CISE/NSG, 2008, $12,335.
  5. Geospatial Representation and Analysis (Geo*): Geologically Correct Terrain Data Structures & Radar Siting, DARPA/DSO, Phase I and Phase II, sole PI, $1.3M, 2005-2008.
  6. CMG Research: Adaptation of Microlocal and Time-reversal Techniques to Tomographic Analysis of Locally Recorded Earthquake Seismograms, Steve Roecker, Margaret Cheney, me, and Joyce McLaughlin, NSF, 2003-2006, $582,965.
  7. Simulation and Analysis of Large Scale Complex Systems, Malik Magdon-Ismail, me, Selmer Bringsjord, Mark Goldberg, Boleslaw Szymanski, NSF, 2003, $155,969.
  8. CG Techniques for Terrain Representation, NSF/CISE/C-CR/GSG, 2003-2006, $192,000 including REU supplements.
  9. RPI Research Revitalization award, 2002, $50,000.
  10. Parallel Computational Geometry Algorithms and Implementations, NSF/CCF, 1992, $99,993.
  11. Logic Programming for Computational Geometry and Computer Aided Design Algorithms, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1984-1989, $500,000 including cost-sharing from IBM, Schlumberger-Doll and Sun Microsystems.
  12. Efficient Computer Aided Design Algorithms, 1981 - 1983, $69,000.
  13. Fundamentals of Hidden Surface Algorithms, NSF/ENG, 1979 - 1981, $32,000.