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ANDRUID KERNE

Associate Professor

Email: andruid@cs.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/862-3217  Fax: 979/847-8578
Office: HRBB 402A
http://ecologylab.cs.tamu.edu/people/andruid | http://ecologylab.cs.tamu.edu/courses

Ph.D. Computer Science, New York University, 2001
M.S. Music Composition, Wesleyan University, 1993
B.A. Applied Mathematics (Electronic Media), Harvard University, 1982

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Recombinant knowledge spaces, interface ecosystems, augmentation of creative process, wearable affective computing.

Semiotics, time-based media, social interactivity, public installation, ambient media, sensor networks, cultural databases.

Information visualization, human computer interaction, visual hypertext, distributed and embedded real-time and Internet architectures, machine learning.

EXHIBITIONS | AWARDS | RESIDENCIES

NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2008

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WebLab Crossover (Florida) 2/2002. Banff NMI (Canada), 8/2001. SIGGRAPH Gallery/N-Space (LA), 8/2001. Guggenheim Museum (NYC) Works and Process, 6/2001. Electronic Literature Organization Awards (NYC), 5/2001. Digital Arts and Culture Conference (Providence), 4/2001. Digital Salon (NYC, Spain, London, Beijing), 9/2000 - 2/2001. Milia New Media Talent Competition (Cannes) France, Feb 2000.

Coded Messages: CHAINS [A.Kerne, F. Kofi, M. Lang]
Digital Salon (NYC), 10-12/1997. Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction (Linz, Austria), 4/1996. Springtij Festival (Amsterdam) 1995. PANAFEST - Pan African Theater Festival (Ghana: Cape Coast, Accra, and Anyako), 1994.

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2008 - present
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2002 - 2008
Visiting Professor, Department of EECS, Tufts University, 2000-2001
Director, Creating Media. Develop web commerce and branding strategies, systems and information architectures, navigation, tools, systems. Clients: Modem Media, AT&T, Procter & Gamble, Mitsui, Ru4, Discovery Channel, Darwin Digital, 1994 - present
Senior Software Engineer, Toshiba Medical Imaging. Develop real-time embedded systems and fft dsp architectures and implementation for MRI, 1993
Senior Software Engineer, Litton IA for Boeing. Lead human computer interface architect, developer for REDARS database of 7x7 commercial airplane schematic images for all assembly and maintenance, 1989-1991
Senior Software Engineer, NASA-JPL. Develop object-oriented real- time embedded system to perform video filtering as part of computer vision for the Mars Pathfinder Mission, 1988-1989

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kerne, A., Koh, E., "Representing Collections as Compositions to Support Distributed Creative Cognition and Situated Creative Learning," New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM), 13(2) December 2007.

Toups, Z., Kerne, A., "Implicit Coordination in Firefighting Practice: Design Implications for Teaching Fire Emergency Responders," ACM CHI 2007, pp. 707-716.

Kerne, A., Koh, E., Smith, S.M., Choi, H., Graeber, R., Webb., A., "Promoting Emergence in Information Discovery by Representing Collections with Composition," ACM Creativity & Cognition 2007, pp. 117-126.

Kerne, A., Koh, E., Dworaczyk, B., Mistrot, J., Choi, H., Smith, S., Graeber, R., Caruso, D., Webb, A., Hill, R., Albea, J., "CombinFormation: A Mixed-Initiative System for Representing Collections as Compositions of Image and Text Surrogates," ACM/ IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 11-20, 2006.



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