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Telematics is the discipline concerned with the convergence of computer and communications technologies.
The Center for Telematics at Monmouth University is designed to foster research activities in technological areas within Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Software Engineering, Communications Technologies, and Simulation and Modeling applications; and to provide linkages for technology transfers between academic institutions and industry. In addition to performing research activities, the Center is designed to enhance and foster growth in the associated educational programs through faculty and student involvement in its programs.
The Center is a self-supporting and sustaining organization. It derives its support from sponsored applied research activities, tuition gained from enrollments in special training courses intended to transition knowledge gained from research activities back into the local telematics community, general purpose grants, and regular industrial subscriptions for institutional membership to the Center.
In addition to sponsored research activities and short course, the Center conducts seminars and lecture series, both at the Center and at corporate locations, on topics relating to the research activities of the Center. A series of technical papers that contain reports and preprints of papers submitted for publication as a result of research sponsored by the Center are published on a regular basis.
As a service to the local community and based upon the philosophy that supporting and strengthening one element in the local telematics industry strengthens all, the Center provides a resource of equipment and materials along with expertise to assist new and emerging telematics industries in the local areas--the incubator concept. These activities take the form of temporary computer accounts, access to Internet, use of printing capabilities at cost, use of high tech conference rooms at nominal cost, and participation in relevant meetings; as well as the traditional advice and counsel.
An advisory board of academic and industrial members oversees the operations of the Center and the activities of the researchers.
The Center currently employs seven full-time people, eight part-time faculty, ten part-time students, and two consultants. The annual gross income from grants, contracts, and special courses is approximately $1 Million.
Larry U. Dworkin, Director
Dr. Dworkin received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He held a variety of research and management positions at CECOM, Ft Monmouth, NJ from 1973 to 1988. He was appointed Visiting Professor in the Software Engineering Program at Monmouth University in 1989. His research interests include C3I systems, fiber optics, and radio digital communications. Dr. Dworkin is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Albert A. Fredericks, Principal Research Engineer in Computer Science
Dr. Fredericks received his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of New York University. He was with AT&T Bell Laboratories for 30 years working in areas of performance analysis of computer communications, operations and production systems. He was appointed chair of the Computer Science Department of Monmouth University in 1990. He is currently the director of the College's Simulation and Modeling Laboratory (SIMLAB) funded under a grant from the Army Research Office. Dr. Fredericks other research activities include the performance analysis of communications networks including BISDN networks using ATM, reconfigurable satellite networks and applications of neural network techniques for network control.
Harris Drucker, Principal Research Engineer in Electronic Engineering
Dr. Drucker received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined Monmouth University in 1968 and was appointed Chair of the Electronic Engineering Department in 1985. He has consulted extensively to both Government and industry. From 1990-1991 he was a full-time resident visitor at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel. His current research activities include Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Speech Processing.
G. Boyd Swartz, Principal Research Engineer in Telematic Systems
Dr. Swartz received his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of New York University. Prior to joining the faculty of Monmouth College, he was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel for five years. He is currently Chair of the Mathematics Department of Mathematics at Monmouth University. He has had extensive consulting experience in Government and industry. His current research activities include Object Oriented Design and Programming, System Simulation applied to commercial and Department of Defense Telecommunications Systems, and Network Design.
Gary D. Boyd, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Boyd's research experience spans the evolution of laser and photonic technology and most recently involves photonic switching devices. He started optical Gaussian beam theory and invented the confocal resonator, and pioneered in nonlinear optics, solid state lasers, liquid crystal displays and acoustic wave devices. Dr. Boyd recently retired from a 35-year career at Bell Laboratories and is currently a visiting research professor at the University's Center for Telematics.
Edward Collett, Ph.D., Physics, Catholic University of America
Dr. Collett is a visiting research professor in the Center for Telematics. His areas of expertise involves optics, polarized light, and electronic warfare. He has more than 25 publications in the open literature on polarized light, fluorescence polarization, refractometry, polarimetry, optical coherence and wave propagation in turbulent and scattering media.
Richard Conn, M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois
Professor Conn leads the Ada Software Repository and Development Laboratory at Monmouth University. His interests include software metrics analysis, development of an Ada-oriented system dependency analyzer tool and several Ada-related programs in support of the Ada Joint Programming Office. He also is employed by the MITRE Corporation.
Richard J. D'Accardi, Ph.D., Operations Research and Systems Analysis, New York University
Dr. D'Accardi is a visiting research professor in the Center for Telematics. His interests include command, control, communication and intelligence doctrine and systems. He is currently employed at Fort Monmouth as a cost analyst and has worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bellcore.
Gabriel J. Di Masi, Ed.D., Educational Administration, M.S., Chemical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology
Dr. Di Masi is a visiting research professor in the Center for Telematics. His interests include developing a management of technology curriculum, satellite communications and global positioning systems. He worked at Fort Monmouth for several years. He has taught courses in Software Engineering project management and prepared curriculum in management of technology.
Wlodek Dobosiewicz, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Warsaw
Dr. Dobosiewicz is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department of Monmouth University. His areas of research interest include networks, protocols, mobile area networks (MAN), mobile communications.
Nick I. Kamenoff, Ph.D., Computer Science, Dresden Technical University, Dresden, Germany
Dr. Kamenoff, is a member of the Software Engineering faculty at Monmouth University. His current research interests are in the areas of Real-Time and Distributed Operating Systems including design, scheduling, and benchmarking, Parallel Computing, Computer Networking, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, and Computers in Education.
Raman Kannan, Ph.D., Physics, West Virginia University, M.S., Computer Science, West Virginia University
Dr. Kannan, a member of the Software Engineering faculty, leads the Distributed Networked Agents (DNA) Laboratory at Monmouth University. His interests include the development of collaborative environments, multimedia, and distributed computing. He has consulted to several banking firms in the area of distributed computing and networks.
Michiko Kosaka, Ph.D., Linguistics, New York University
Dr. Kosaka's principal research interests include natural language machine translation with applications to Japanese and English. She is also the principal investigator, Inter-University Machine Translation Study Group funded by the National Science Foundation.
Wen New, Ph.D., Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware
Dr. New is employed as a research professor in the Center for Telematics, Simulation and Modeling Laboratory. Her interests include computer networks, protocols, modeling, and performance of broadband and narrowband networks. She was formerly affiliated with the University of Delaware