Professor of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180

Office: 127 Amos Eaton Hall
E-mail: glinert@cs.rpi.edu
Phone: (518) 276 2657
Fax: (518) 276 4033

Professional Activities
This page last modified February 10, 2002

Editorial Positions:

1.

1988-present: Associate Editor, J. of Visual Languages and Computing (Academic Press Ltd., London).

2.

May, 1992: Guest Co-Editor, Communications of the ACM 35(5), special issue devoted to computers and people with disabilities (with Bryant W. York).

3.

June, 1992: Guest Co-Editor, J. Visual Languages and Computing 3(2), special issue devoted to visualization and parallel computing (with P. David Stotts).

4.

March, 1996: Guest Editor, J. Visual Languages and Computing 7(1), special issue devoted to innovative interface technologies.

5.

Winter 1996: Guest Co-Editor, IEEE Multimedia, special issue devoted to integrated multi-modal interfaces (with Meera M. Blattner).

6.

December 2000: Guest Co-Editor, Computers and Graphics 24(6), special issue devoted to calligraphic interfaces (with J.A.P. Jorge); Pergamon Press.

Offices in Professional Societies:

1.

1987-1991: Vice-Chair, ACM Special Interest Group for Computers and the Physically Handicapped (SIGCAPH).

2.

1991-2001: Chair, ACM Special Interest Group for Computers and the Physically Handicapped (SIGCAPH).

3.

1992-1993: Member of the Executive Committee, IEEE CS Task Force on Multimedia Computing.

4.

1994-1995: Member, ACM Committee on Disability Issues (Arthur Karshmer, Chair).

5.

1996-1997: Member, ACM's Computing Classification System Update Committee (Neal S. Coulter, Chair).

Conferences, Workshops and Panels Organized:

1.

32nd IEEE Computer Society Intl. Conf. (COMPCON'87), San Francisco, Feb. 23-26, 1987. Chair, Session on "Future Computing Environments."

2.

Third Workshop on Visual Languages (VL'87), Linkoping, Sweden, Aug. 19-21. Member, Program Committee.

3.

21st Annual Hawaii Intl. Conf. on System Sciences (HICSS-21), Kailua Kona, Hawaii, Jan. 5-8, 1988. Coordinator and Session Chair, Software Minitrack on "Alternative Programming Paradigms" (the Minitrack was a day long event that consisted of three paper sessions plus a panel).

4.

4th IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages (VL'88), Pittsburgh, Oct. 10-12. Member, Program Committee; Moderator, Panel on "Languages for All the Senses" (Panelists: M. Blattner, T. Ichikawa, D. Rubine and M.J. Tauber).

5.

1989 Boston University Workshop on Computer Aids for the Physically Handicapped, Boston, October 2-3. Invited Participant.

6.

5th IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages (VL'89), Rome (Italy), Oct. 4-6. Member, Program Committee.

7.

ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computers and the Quality of Life (CQL'90), Washington, DC, Sept. 13-16, 1990. Member, Program Committee.

8.

6th IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages (VL'90), Skokie, Oct. 4-6. Member, Program Committee. Chair, Session on "Program Visualization."

9.

7th IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages (VL'91), Kobe, Japan, Oct. 9-11. TUTORIALS CHAIR; Member, Program Committee.

10.

ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'92), Kansas City (MO), Mar. 1-3, 1992. Member, Program Committee.

11.

8th IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages (VL'92), Seattle, Sept. 15-18. Member, Program Committee.

12.

1993 USWest/UC "Future of Programming" Workshop, Boulder, June 6-8. Invited Participant.

13.

5th Intl. Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International '93), Orlando, Aug. 8-13, 1993. Member, Program Board.

14.

9th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'93), Bergen, Norway, Aug. 24-27. PROGRAM CO-CHAIR; Chair, Session on "Visualization."

15.

10th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'94), St. Louis, Oct. 4-7. GENERAL CHAIR; Moderator, Panel on "Visual Languages and Programming in the Year 2004" (Panelists: M.M. Blattner, S.-K. Chang, R. Cytron and D.J. Kurlander).

16.

Second ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA'94), San Francisco, Oct. 17-20. TUTORIALS CHAIR.

17.

First ACM SIGCAPH Intl. Conf. on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS'94), Marina del Rey, Oct. 31-Nov. 1. PROGRAM CHAIR.

18.

Japanese Technology Evaluation Center (JTEC) Panel on Human-Computer Interaction Technologies (J.D. Foley, Chair), 1994-95. Invited panelist. The panel was organized under the auspices of ARPA, NSF and ONR, and the other members were J.D. Hollan from UNM, R. Kraut from CMU, T. Sheridan from MIT, and T. Skelly from Microsoft.

19.

Workshop #15 on "Developing AI Applications for Persons with Disabilities" at the 1995 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'95), Montreal, August 19-25. Member of the organizing committee (J.M. Aronis, Chair).

20.

18th Annual RESNA Conference (RESNA'95), Vancouver (Canada), June 9-14, 1995. Invited to chair the session on "Low Vision and Alternative Formats."

21.

11th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'95), Darmstadt (Germany), Sept. 5-9. Member, Program Committee.

22.

Third ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA'95), San Francisco, Nov. 5-9. WORKSHOPS CHAIR.

23.

Workshop #5 on "Adaptive Multimedia Technologies for People with Disabilities" at the Third ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA'95), San Francisco, Nov. 5-9. Co-Chair (with S.-K. Chang).

24.

First ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries (DL'96), Bethesda, March 20-23. Member, Program Committee.

25.

Second ACM SIGCAPH Intl. Conf. on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS'96), Vancouver (Canada), April 11-12. GENERAL CHAIR.

26.

ACM Workshop on Strategic Directions in Computing Research, Cambridge, June 14-15, 1996. Invited participant in the Working Group on Human Computer Interaction (Isabel Cruz and Brad Myers, Co-Chairs).

27.

1996 European Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies (ECDVRAT'96), Reading (England), July 3-5. Member, Program Committee.

28.

12th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'96), Boulder, Sept. 3-6. Member, Program Committee.

29.

Sun Microsystems Workshop on Java API Requirements for Accessibility, Palo Alto, Feb. 7-9, 1997. Invited participant.

30.

University of Delaware/NSF Workshop on Interactive Computing, Baltimore, May 21-23, 1997. Invited participant.

31.

7th Intl. Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International '97), San Francisco, Aug. 24-30. Member, Program Board.

32.

ACM Supercomputing '97, San Jose, Nov. 12-19. Member, Education Program Committee.

33.

13th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'97), Capri (Italy), Sept. 23-26. Member, Program Committee.

34.

5th ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA'97), Nov. 9-14, Seattle. GENERAL CO-CHAIR.

35.

4th National University of Singapore Intl. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'97), Nov. 17-20, Singapore. Member, Program Committee.

36.

14th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'98), Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada), Sept. 1-4. Member, Program Committee.

37.

8th Intl. Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International '99), Munich (Germany), Aug. 22-27, 1999. Member, Program Board.

38.

6th Intl. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'99), Oct. 4-6, Ottawa (Canada). Member, Program Committee.

39.

16th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'00), Seattle, Sept. 10-14. Member, Steering Committee.

40.

3td Intl. Conf. on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies (ICDVRAT'00), Alghero (Sardinia), Sept. 23-25. Member, Program Committee.

41.

7th Intl. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'00), Nov. 13-15, Nagano (Japan). Member, Program Committee.

42.

4th ACM SIGCAPH Intl. Conf. on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS'00), Arlington, November 11-13. GENERAL CO-CHAIR.

43.

9th Intl. Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International '01), New Orleans, August 5-10. Member, Program Board.

44.

First IEEE Symposium on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'01), Stresa (Italy), Sept. 5-7. Member, Steering Committee.

45.

Second IEEE Symposium on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02), to be held Sept. 2-6 in Arlington, VA. GENERAL CHAIR and Member, Steering Committee.

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