W. Richards (Rick) Adrion
Professor of Computer Science
310 Computer Science Bldg.
140 Governor's Drive
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-4610
Phone: (413) 545-2475
Fax: (413) 545-3729
Rick's Assistant:
Wendy Cooper
Phone: (413) 545-2492
Biography:
Rick Adrion is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Co-Director of RIPPLES, Co-Director
of the Commonwealth Information Technology
Initiative (CITI), and Director of CRICCS. He served as Division
Director for Experimental and Integrated Activities in the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
(CISE) from January 2000 through August 2002 and as a part-time Senior Advisor
in CISE until September 2003. Adrion was chair of the CS Department from
1986-1994. He founded and, from 1988-2000, served as president and chair of the
board of the Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts --- a
corporation designed to transfer technology developed at the University of
Massachusetts. Previously, he held full-time positions with The University of Texas, Austin, Oregon State University, the National Science Foundation, and the National Bureau of Standards, and he held
adjunct or sabbatical positions at American
University, Georgetown University,
the University of California, Berkeley
and the Universite' de Paris-Sud Laboratoire de
Recherche en Informatique. Adrion was the founder and served as Editor in
Chief of ACM Transactions on Software
Engineering and Methodology and is a fellow of the ACM and of the AAAS.
Research:
Adrion's current research
is in three areas: the impact of instructional technology on teaching and
learning; the analysis and verification of concurrent, real-time computing systems;
and applications and models for technology transfer and diffusion.
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy, 1971, The University of Texas at
Austin
Master of Engineering (Electrical), 1967, Cornell University
Bachelor of Science, 1966, Cornell University
Recent Publications (some may be downloaded here):
Esha Ray, W. Richards Adrion and Ken Watts, Extending
Record and Playback Technologies to Support Cooperative Learning, In Proceedings
of the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE2004), Savannah, GA, October 2004
Rick Adrion, Glenn Caffery and William L. Israel, Information
Technology Across the Curriculum, presented at the 2004
Computing Research Association Snowbird Conference
W. Richards Adrion, James Kurose, Edward Riseman and Zhigang
Zhu, A Multimedia Virtual Classroom, in Proceedings of the International Conference on
Information Communications Technologies in Education (ICICTE-04), Samos Island, Greece, July 2004.
W. R. Adrion, Wayne Burleson, Wendy Cooper, William L.
Israel, James Kurose, and Kenneth Watts, EXCITE: Enabling X-- Campus
Information Technology Education, in Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, November 2003
W. R. Adrion, New Initiatives in Learning Technologies, World Conference on Computers
in Education,
Copenhagen, July 2001
W. R. Adrion, Developing and Deploying Software Engineering Courseware in an Adaptable Curriculum Framework, Proceedings of ICSE-2000, Limerick, Ireland, June 2000