Eileen M. Peluso

Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Voice: (570) 321-4135
Fax: (570) 321-4371
Email: pelusoem@lycoming.edu
Office: Academic Center D325
Fall 2008 Office Hours:  Monday 3-4, Wednesday 2-3, Friday 2-3, and by appointment

Lycoming Scholars Spring 2006 Presentation: Computers and the Dawn of the Digital Age

Education

PhD: Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1996, Thesis: A Hierarchical Structure of Interacting Automata for Modeling Battlefield Dynamics:  Controllability and Formal Specification
Masters Degree: Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1993,  Master's Paper:  Nested Transactions: an Implementation in a Federated Database
Bachelor of Science: Mathematics - Secondary Education, Bloomsburg University, 1973

Mailing Address

Eileen M. Peluso, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Mathematical Sciences
700 College Place
Lycoming College
Williamsport, PA 17701

Affiliations

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Computer Science Teachers Association
• IEEE Computer Society
• Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Kappa Mu Epsilon
• Institute of Women and Technology and Systers

Courses

• CPTR 125 Introduction to Computer Science
• CPTR 246 Principles of Advanced Programming
• CPTR 247 Data Structures
• CPTR 248 Programming Language Design
• CPTR 324 Automata, Formal Languages, and Computability
• CPTR 345 Introduction to Computer Graphics
• CPTR 346 Computer Organization and Machine Language
• CPTR 349 Database Systems
• CPTR 441 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• CPTR 445 Operating Systems
• CPTR 448 Advanced Design and Development
• MATH 106 Combinatorics
• MATH 216 Discrete Mathematics
   

Research Interests (List of Papers)

• Gender Equity Issues in Computing
  • Outreach Programs
        Computer Programming through Animation with Alice at Bloomsburg University's 2008 Summer Experience
        Storytelling using Computer Animation with Alice at Bloomsburg University's 2007 Summer Experience for Young Women
  • 2003 survey of technology education in Pennsylvania's schools
  • Xyline Robinson's 2002 Independent Study (using Alice and DrScheme)
  • Bibliography
• Formal Language and Automata Theory
• Process Modeling and Formal Specification
• Command and Control of Distributed Autonomous Systems
• Dynamic, Multi-layered Mission Planning
• Autonomous Undersea Vehicle Networks
• Systems of Collaborating Autonomous Robots

Web Sites of Interest

• Necessary reading if you are interested in grad school
• Advice about virtually everything academically related
• The Grace Hooper Celebration of Women in Computing
• The clock

Personal Stuff

• Kayaking on the Delmarva Peninsula (Summer '99)
• Whitewater rafting at Lehigh Gorge State Park (Spring '00)
• Summer 2001
• Tony's "mid-life reward"
• Summer 2002
• White Christmas 2002
• Mother and my great niece Brianna
• Mother's 80th Birthday 2006
• Mother's Day 2008
• Family Portrait Tree - A Picture Album
• One person's philosophy on housework