Interests
This page contains links to websites related to my interests. It begins with an outline of website categories. Click on the outline items to jump to that section.
Affiliations
Departments, Laboratories, and Universities, Scholarship Programs.
Accessibility Technology
Conferences and Associations, Accessibility Journals, Other Accessibility Research Resources, General Accessibility Technology, Research Centers, Legal Issues.
American Sign Language
Sign Language Linguistics, Learning Sign Language.
Computational Linguistics
Conferences and Associations, Sign Language Natural Language Processing.
Issues in Higher Education
Diversity in Computer Science, Computer Science Associations, Higher Education Websites.
Literacy and The Digital Divide
Literacy in Developing Communities, Interfaces for Low-Literacy Users .
This is the end of the outline of website categories. The links to websites appear below.
DEPARTMENTS, LABORATORIES, and UNIVERSITIES:
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The Rochester Institute of Technology - Golisano College of Computer and Information Sciences - Department of Information Sciences and Technologies - PhD Program in Computing and Information Sciences - Center for Accessibility and Inclusion Research (CAIR) - Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory (LATLab).
The City University of New York - Queens College - Department of Computer Science. - This is my former university, where I was a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics.
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University of Pennsylvania - School of Engineering and Applied Science - Department of Computer and Information Science - Advised by Mitch Marcus and Martha Palmer - Where I studied for my PhD from 2002 to 2006.
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University College Dublin - Department of Computer Science - Media Lab Europe - Fred Cummin's Research Group – Where studied in Ireland during the 2001-2002 academic year.
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University of Delaware - Department of Computer and Information Science - Kathy McCoy's Research Group – Where I studied for my B.S. and M.S. from fall 1997 until spring 2001.
Here is a listing of some scholarship programs to which I’m really grateful…
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National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship – Full scholarship and stipend for doctoral study in engineering and the sciences.
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George Mitchell Scholarship – Full scholarship and stipend for 12 American students to spend a year abroad at a university in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. The scholarship is organized by the US-Ireland Alliance.
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Eugene duPont Memorial Scholarship – Full scholarship to University of Delaware.
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USA Today All-Star First Team – A scholarship for graduating college seniors.
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American Association of University Professors Undergraduate Student Award – A scholarship for graduating college seniors who are pursuing a career in academia.
ACCESSIBILITY CONFERENCES and ASSOCIATIONS:
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SIGACCESS, Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing.
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SIG-SLPAT, Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technology.
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ASSETS, ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.
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HCI International: Co-located event: UAHCI: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction
Other Accessibility Research Resources
GENERAL ACCESSIBILITY TECHNOLOGY:
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Microsoft ENABLE – A general accessibility website from Microsoft.
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IBM ABLE – An accessibility website from IBM.
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AccessIT – National Center Accessible Information Technology in Education at the University of Washington.
ACCESSIBILITY RESEARCH CENTERS:
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Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories – A research center at the duPont Hospital for Children and the University of Delaware.
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TRACE Center – An accessibility and usability research center at University of Maryland.
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ADA Website – The Federal government website for the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Section 508 – A website about Section 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act which requires federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities.
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Section 255 – A website from the Federal Communications Commissions about Section 255 of the Federal Communications Act, which requires telecommunications manufacturers and service providers to make their products and services accessible to people with disabilities.
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ASLLRP, American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project at Boston University.
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Linguistics Department, Gallaudet University.
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Sign Language, Wikipedia Entry.
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DawnSignPress Books.
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ASL Browser - Learn some signs online.
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ASL Classes in your area.
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS CONFERENCES and ASSOCIATIONS:
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ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics.
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NAACL, North American Chapter of the ACL.
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COLING, International Conference on Computational Linguistics.
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See links on my lab's webpage: LATLab: Linguistic and Assistive Technology Laboratory.
DIVERSITY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE:
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DO-IT Program: Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology
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AccessComputing - A program for promoting higher education and careers in computing for people with disabilities.
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Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering.
COMPUTER SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS:
LITERACY IN DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES:
INTERFACES FOR LOW-LITERACY USERS:
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My work on this topic: Master's Thesis, Workshop Paper.
Other papers: Google Result.