As Bill Toll has agreed to fill the Dean of the School of Natural and Applied Sciences next year, I have accepted the role of CSE department chair.  I want to continue the good leadership that Bill has provided in the past, and look forward to starting some innovative initiatives in the excellent new . . . » Read More

In addition to our multi-touch monitor, we have recently received a 3D monitor (for viewing 3D created in the Animation course) and the first Kinect (for use in Computer Vision class).  What a fun part of the job – playing with technology!

Taylor has been ranked #1 Midwest Regional College by US News and World Report for the 5th consecutive year.  What an honor and what a privilege to work here.  I must say, however, that based on my colleagues, our students, and the campus ethos, I believe the recognition to be well deserved.

We have converted our department servers to a new virtual architecture with SAN (Storage Area Network) data storage.  Web, mail, moodle, DNS, DHCP, and all those other acronyms are now running on a set of 3 vmware ESX machines.  We also have moved file space, database, etc to a Drobo system with a second . . . » Read More

Despite the construction and warm temperatures in the dungeon, we have 5 faculty and 7 students working.

2 faculty and 2 students are working on sponsored research for the advanced tech lab of a well-known corporation (which has a very tight non-disclosure agreement) 1 student with faculty supervision doing a modification and re-write of . . . » Read More