Professor Vic Fay-Wolfe

Education

Teaching Appointment

Other Experience

• Founder and Director of URI’s Digital Forensics Program.
• Co-Lead the Distributed Real-Time Research lab, the largest Computer Science research lab at the University of Rhode Island.
• President, Real-Time Research, West Kingston, RI 1995-Present
• Chief Technical Officer, WebMachines, Inc. North Kingstown, RI. 1998-2001.
• Computational Design Engineer, General Electric, Inc. Phila, PA. 1983-86.

Awards

• Graduated Magna Cum Laud
• URI Golden Key Teaching Award 1999
• Finalist URI Staff Excellence Teaching Award 2001
• URI Honors Faculty: 1997-Present.

Selected Grants and Funding- Past 10 years

• "Capacity Building: Computer and Network Forensics" for $300,000 from NSF, 7/1/04-6/30/07.
• "Real-Time Data Distribution in Asynchronous Network Communications (Real-Time Data DANCE)" for $600,000 from NSF, 9/1/2004-8/30/2007 Co-PI with Lisa DiPippo and Timothy Henry.
• "Distributed Real-Time Data Replication in C2 and Combat Systems" for $950,000 from Office of Naval Research, 10/1/2002-9/30/2005; Co-PI with Lisa DiPippo.
• "Distributed Scheduling Aspects for Time-Critical Targeting" for $482,562 from DARPA (subcontracted through Washington University), 10/1/2002-9/30/2004; Co-PI with Lisa DiPippo , C. Gill (Washington University), L. Welch (Ohio University), D. Niehaus (University of Kansas).
• "Providing End-to-End Predictability through Prioritized Network Traffic" for $155,000 from ONR, 10/1/2002-9/30/2005; Co-PI with Lisa DiPippo.
• "Distributed Real-Time Collaborative Services" for $200,000 from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), 10/1/99-9/30/02, Lisa DiPippo.
• "VbN Backbone High Speed Internet Connection" for $350,000 from the National Science Foundation. Co-PI with Paul Gandel and others. 1998-2001
• "Distributed Real-Time Combat Systems" for $300,000 from ONR, 10/1/98-9/30/01; Co-PI with Lisa DiPippo.
• Real-Time Object-Oriented Databases for Distributed Environments�Efor $505,000 from ONR, 2/1/96-9/30/99; Co-PI with Victor Fay-Wolfe.

Research Areas

Real-Time Distributed Object Computing

Sensor Networks

Computer Forensics

Selected Publications

• "Real-Time CORBA"; with Lisa DiPippo, et. al. invited paper, Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v. 11, no. 10, Oct. 2000, pp.1073-1089.
• ``Real-Time Object-Oriented Systems for Military Command and Control''; with Bhavani Thurasingham, et. al. IEEE Computer Feb 2000.
• "The Affected Set Priority Ceiling Protocols for Concurrency Control in Real-Time Object-Oriented Systems"; with Michael Squadrito, et. al.; The International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering; vol. 14, no. 4., July 1999.
• "Expressing and Enforcing Timing Constraints in a Dynamic Real-Time CORBA System"; with Lisa DiPippo, et. al.; Real-Time Systems, 16, 253-280 (1999) Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Object-Based Semantic Real-Time Concurrency Control with Bounded Imprecision.; with Lisa DiPippo; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Vol. 9, no. 1, Jan-Feb. 1997. Pages 135-147.
• ``RTSQL: Extending the SQL Standard to Support Real-time Databases'',with Paul Fortier and JJ Prichard, Computer Standards and Interfaces, 16, January 1997