This is my CV-Style summary of career accomplishments. For a more "portfolio-style" summary of efforts, visit my personal portfolio site www.dr-chuck.com.
Wrote the book Sakai: Free as in Freedom, published May 2011 on Amazon CreateSpace, Kindle, Nook, and Apple's iBookstore.
Wrote the book Python for Informatics: Exploring Information, First Edition, Published January 2010, University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing.
Re-published my O'Reilly High Performance Computing book as part of the Connexions project (www.cnx.org). I was able to get O'Reilly to release the book under Creative Commons Attribution to allow the book to be republished. November 2009. http://cnx.org/content/col11136/latest/
Wrote the book, Using Google App Engine Using Google App Engine - Building Web Applications , Published by O'Reilly and Associates, ISBN 10: 0-596-80069-X | ISBN 13: 9780596800697, May 2009.
Wrote the second edition of the O'Reilly book on High Performance Computing, July 1998.
IMS GLC Basic Learning Tools Interoperability v1.0, IMS Global Learning Consortium, C.Severance, May 2010. http://www.imsglobal.org/lti/.
Charles Severance, Ted Hanss, Joseph Hardin, IMS Learning Tools Interoperability: A Service-Oriented Approach To Teaching and Learning Tools Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning (journal). Volume 7, Number 3-4, 2010, pages 245-262. (Pre-print)
Charles Severance, Joseph Hardin, Anthony Whyte, The Coming Functionality Mashup in Personal Learning Environments, Interactive Learning Environments (Journal), Volume 16, Number 1, April 2008. (link)
Charles Severance, Joseph Hardin, Glenn Golden, Robert Crouchley, Adrian Fish, Tom Finholt, Beth Kirschner, Jim Eng, Rob Allan, Using the Sakai collaborative toolkit in e-Research applications Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 19, Issue 12, (p 1643-1652) (7 Jun 2007) (link)
Severance C, Enbody R, Petersen P, Managing the Overall Balance of Threads on a Multiprocessor using Automatic Self Allocating Threads (ASAT) - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 37, 106-112 (1996).
Preparing for the Long Tail of Teaching and Learning Tools, Charles Severance and Stephanie D. Teasley, 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences June 29 - July 2 2010. http://www.isls.org/icls2010/
Interoperability for LMS: The Missing Piece to Become the Common Place for Elearning Innovation Marc Alier Forment, Maria Jose Casan Guerrero, Miguel-Angel Conde Conzalez, Francisco Jose Garcia Penalvo, and Charles Severance. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009, Volume 5736/2009 Pages 286-295. (link)
13th World Congress on Earthquake Engineering - Using Collaborative Tools in NEESGrid - Vancouver, BC - August 6, 2004.
ED-MEDIA 2004--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications - From Your Course Syllabus to Earthquake Engineering Research: Collaboration using the CHEF Framework - Lugano, Switzerland - June 21, 2004.
Frontiers in Education - Workshop: Making and Using Web-Based Lectures - Presentation: Teaching VRML to K12 students - San Juan, Puerto Rico - October 10-13, 1999.
Severance C, Enbody R, "Comparing Dynamic Space Sharing to Gang Scheduling", International Parallel Processing Symposium Proceedings, Geneva April 1-5, 1997, IEEE Computer Society Press 1997, page 288.
Severance C, Enbody R, "Automatic Self Allocating Threads (ASAT) on an SGI Challenge", Proceedings 1996 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP96), August 1996, pages III-132 - III-139
Severance C, Enbody R, "A Possible Addition to HPF 3.0 - Real Valued Indexed (RVI) Arrays", High Performance Computing Symposium 96, Pages 248-253. April 8-11, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Severance C, Enbody R, Wallach S, Funkhouser B, "Automatic Self Allocating Threads (ASAT) on the Convex Exemplar" Proceedings 1995 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP95), August 1995, pages I-24 - I-31.
Severance C., Enbody E., Tomanek D., Bulgac A., "Real Valued Arrays - An Initial Look", Proc. 1992 SIAM conference of Parallel Processing, pages 979-982,
Severance C, Pramanik S, Wolberg P, "Distributed Linear Hashing and Parallel Projection in Main Memory Databases", Proceedings of the 10th VLDB Conference, 1990.
Severance C, Pramanik S, "Distributed Linear Hashing for Main Memory Databases", Proceedings of 1990 IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing.
Severance C, Pramanik S, Rosenau T, "A High Speed KDL-RAM File System for Parallel Computers", Proceedings PARBASE-90, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1990, pp 195-203. Also published as Naval Research Laboratory Report 9259, June 22, 1990, Naval Research Lab, Washington, D.C. 20375-5000.
Harry Yeh, Charles Severance, "Report on Oregon State Experiment Based Deployment: Synchronized Video" - NEESGrid Technical Report TR2003-17, 09-11-2003
Carl Kesselman, Randy Butler, Ian Foster, Joe Futrelle, Doru Marcusiu, Sridhar Gulipalli, Laura Pearlman, Chuck Severance, "NEESgrid System Architecture", 05-13-2003
Charles Severance, "Video Support in NEESgrid: Telepresence and Data-Quality Video" - NEESgrid technical report TR-2003-02, 01-12-2003
Charles Severance, "Integrating Grid Capabilities into the CHEF Collaborative Portal Framework" - NEESgrid Technical Report TR-2003-01, 01-08-2003
Brehob M, Doom T, Enbody R, Moore W, Moore S, Sass R, Severance C, "Beyond RISC - The Post RISC Architecture", Technical Report MSU CPS-96-11 November 1996.
I have a well-read blog at www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog where I write articles about technology directions, open source, teaching and learning with technology. Between May 2009 and April 2010, I wrote 112 blog posts and received 29,983 visits.
Sample Articles
I am currently the multimedia editor for IEEE Computer Magazine and the column editor for the "Computing Conversations" column.
I was the editor for the Standards column in IEEE Computer magazine between 1995 and 1999. I wrote 3-5 columns per year. Here are some sample columns:
Columns in 1996: "The Importance of IEEE Computer Standards", May 96, p. 102. "Case Study of a Commercial Standard", Nov 96, p. 92. "IP Next Generation", Dec 96, p 112.
You can see my complete list of talks and many of the slides from my talks at Travel and Presentations page.
IDEA 2011 - Melbourne AU. December 1-3, 2011. Invited Workshop: IMS Learning Tools Interoperability.
European Sakai User's Meeting - Amsterdam, NL. September 26-28, 2011. Invited Talk: Disruptive Innovation
Sakai Japanese User Group - Osaka, Japan. March 14-20, 2011. Invited Talk: IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability: Free as in Freedom
IMS Korea - Seoul, South Korea. October 19-22, 2010. Invited Talk: Functionality Mash Up – Evolving to the Next Generation of Learning Management Systems
April 7, 2011 - UNC Wilmington - Keynote Speech - Wilmington Technology exchange - 'IT Trends for 2011: Things Might Be Very Different Today'
March 17, 2011 - Sakai Japan Conference - Keynote Speech - 'IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability: Free as in Freedom'
February 3, 2011 - University of Massachusetts Online - Speaker Series - 'IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability'
October 22, 2010 - Korea - Keynote at the IMS Korea Meeting - 'Functionality Mash Up – Evolving to the Next Generation of Learning Management Systems'
June 8, 2010 - Open University (Milton Keynes, UK) - Fellows Series - 'Adding IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability to Cohere'
May 26, 2010 - Penn State University - Plone East Developers Conference - Keynote Speech - 'The University as a Cloud: Openness in Education'
Next Generation Teaching and Learning Symposium - Berkeley, CA - April 17, 2009. Invited Panelist: Tools and Technological Models. http://ngtl.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2010symposium/
JISC Developer Days - London, UK - February 24-27, 2010. Invited Workshop: Google App Engine and Cloud Computing. (conference)
Pearson Education Technology Summit - Denver, CO - November 11, 2009. Invited Talk: Evolving Teaching and Learning: Beyond the LMS (slides)
CIC CIO TechForum 2009 - East Lansing, MI - October 6, 2009. Invited Presentation: Clouds on the Horizon: Evolving Teaching, Learning and Technology in Higher Education (conference, slides)
Apple Academix Conference - Duke University - Raleigh, NC - May 28, 2009 - Invited Keynote: Beyond the Learning Management System - (conference, slides)
Apple Academix Conference - Indiana University - Indianapolis, IN - May 7, 2009 - Invited Keynote: Beyond the Learning Management System - (conference, slides)
Etudes User Summit - Los Angeles, CA - April 23-24, 2009 - Invited Talk: Celebraring the Magic of Teachers (slides)
Apple Academix Conference - MIT - Boston, MA - March 26, 2009 - Invited Keynote: Beyond the Learning Management System - (slides)
Invited Talk: Open Source Learning Management Systems: Much More Than Free Source Code, LaSalle University, Barcelona, Spain, April 8, 2008 (slides).
Invited talk: Breaking Down Barriers between Learning Management Systems, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK December 14, 2007 (slides).
Invited Talk: Sakai as a Virtual Research Environment - Digital Libraries a la Carte 2007 - Tilburg University, August 30, 2007 (slides)
Invited Talk: Pushing the Boundaries of Open Source - the Sakai Project, Merit Member Conference, Ann Arbor, MI - June 19, 2007 (slides).
Invited Talk: The Coming Functionality Mashup - Edinburgh, Scotland - May 25, 2007. (slides)
Educause Australasia - Melbourne, AU - May 2, 2007. Invited Talk: Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation through Community Source (slides)
Open Source Summit - Phoenix, AZ - December 1-3, 2004 - Invited Talk: Software to fit Teaching and Learning Practices (slides)
National E-Science Workshop, Edinburgh Scotland - February 23, 2004 Keynote Presentation: From Your Course Syllabus to Earthquake Engineering: Collaboration using the CHEF Framework
Thomas, Gannon, et al., Collaborative Proposal: Middleware for Grid Portals, National Science Foundation, $720,000, September 2003.
McGroarty E, VanDusen G, et. al., "MSU - MDAMP Initiative: The John Scholars Program", $210,000, November 1997.
Merit Network, Davidsen, S, et. al., "Building A Community Network Tool Kit", $177,200 1997. This project developed a book, training materials, video materials, software, and web site to support public libraries in their efforts to provide on-line community information. (link)
Fisher P, Fairwether J, VanDusen G, Matsen S, Severance C, "Reforming the Early Undergraduate Learning Experience", $750,000, GE Educational Fund, September 1997.
Enbody, R.J., and Severance C, Sun Microsystems, $210,000, One Year, "Dynamic Load Balancing on Scalable Shared Memory Parallel Processing System", 1997. This system is still in production and has been used by a number of computer science students and faculty to study high performance computing and computer architecture.
Greenberg L, Severance C, Moore R, et al., $2,000,000, "Proposal to Network K-12 schools and Intermediate School Districts (South Central Network Consortium)". Ameritech rate payer funds through the Michigan Public Service Commission. Awarded January 1995. This project installed 100 internet connections and UNIX serves at school districts around southeastern lower Michigan.
Severance, C, - Convex Corporation - One year joint development project to study distributed file systems on Convex supercomputers. February 1993. The results of this project were used by Convex to deploy AFS on their supercomputers.
CDI Type II: Learning About Learning Through Large-Scale Data Investigations, Roschelle J, Severance C, Songer, Nancy B, National Science Foundation, $2,062,288, December 8, 2008.
Severance C, Hardin J, SDCI Data Improvement: Sakai Research Edition - Human Communications as Part of the Scientific Record, National Science Foundation, January 2007. (link)
Newman H., et al., "ITR: A Global Grid-Enabled Collaboratory for Scientific Research", National Science Foundation, $1,474,340, September 2003.
Enbody R, Severance C, Using Asynchronous, Web-based, Video to Humanize Distance Education, Submitted to NSF/EHR/DUE CCLI-EMD Educational Materials Development November 1998. (link)
Enbody R, Severance C, Two Years, $118,679, NSF, "Dynamic Space Sharing for Symmetric Multiprocessing Systems", 1997.
Severance C, Miller J, Pijanowski B, Environmental Protection Agency, Three years $2,859,426, "Exploring Human Dimensions of Environmental Change and Building the Foundation of the Michigan Educational Network", 1997.
Crane M, Greenberg L, Jizba L, Wiggins R, Severance C, National Science Foundation - "Proposal for Digitization of and Internet Access to Materials from the Vincent Voice Library" January 1993.
Nordlander P, Eguiluz A, Enbody R, Langreth D, Scuseria G, Severance C, Tomanek D - National Science Foundation - "Multidisciplinary Computational Approach to Carbon Nano structures". October 1993.
Severance C, Enbody R, Punch W, "Computational Aspects of Modeling of Cluster Aggregation using Massively Parallel Computers". August 1992.
I developed a tool called Sync-O-Matic 3000 which automates the production of web-lectures using RealNetworks media and HTML. This product is in use at a number of sites around the world and is downloaded several times each week. The best example of its use is the CERN Web lecture repository http://webcast.cern.ch/Projects/WebLectureArchive/.
To address some of the usability problems in Sync-O-Matic, I developed a tool called ClipBoard-2000 which also produces web-based lectures using Quicktime. ClipBoard-2000 is very easy to use and it allows the instructor to annotate their slides with text and drawing. ClipBoard also allows the instructors to use a document camera to show objects in their lectures. ClipBoard is early in the development process but has generated significant interest from both commercial and educational institutions.
Between 2004 and 2007, I was the chief architect of the Mellon-funded Sakai Project and later the executive director of the non-profit Sakai Foundation. I was a principle designer and developer for the Sakai 1.x and 2.x products. Sakai is in use at over 200 schools with well over a million users who use Sakai daily for teaching, learning, and collaboration.