Curriculum Vitae

Paul S. LaFollette, Jr.

Department of Computer and Information Sciences

College of Science & Technology

PERSONAL

Date of Birth: July 17, 1947

Place of Birth: Coshocton, Ohio

Citizenship: U.S.A.

EDUCATION

1969 B.S., Mathematics Duke University, Durham, N.C.

1974 M.D. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

EMPLOYMENT

1982 - present Assistant (Associate since 1987) Professor
Department Chairperson 2002-2005

Computer and Information Sciences Department

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1975 - 1977 NIH Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Biomedical Engineering Department

Drexel University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Non-Academic

1970 - 1974 Mathematics & Software Consultant

Radiology Research Department

Temple University School of Medicine

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Part-time

1974 - 1975 Intern

Chestnut Hill Hospital

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1976 - 1983 Emergency Department Physician

Chestnut Hill Hospital

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1976 - 1979 Family Medical Care Physician

City of Philadelphia

Health District No. 2

Part-time.

1977 - 1982 Mathematics and Software Consultant

Self-employed; part-time.

TEACHING

Courses taught in past 5 years:

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS

Proposal Funded:

Advanced Visual Automata System

Ben Franklin Partnership & MNEMONICS, INC.

$40,000.00

Principal Investigator

9/84 - 9/85

Advanced Visual Automata System II

Ben Franklin Partnership & MNEMONICS, INC.

$40,000.00

Principal Investigator

9/85 - 9/86

Physical Foundations for Artifact Production in Diagnostic Ultrasonography

NIH

$39,800.00 support for me, $237,500.00 total

Senior Investigator

(PI: M.C. Ziskin MD at Temple University School of Medicine)

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS

Articles in regularly-appearing refereed academic journals:

Kundel, H. L. and LaFollette, P.S.: "Visual Search Patterns and Experience with Radiological Images", Radiology, 103:523-528, June 1972.

Ziskin, M.C.; LaFollette, P.S. and Villafana, T.: "The Retro-Lental Afterglow: An Echo Enhancement Artifact", Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 5:385-389, 1986.

LaFollette, P.S. and Ziskin, M.C.: "Geometric and Intensity Distortion In Echography", Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 12:953-963, December, 1986.

Ziskin, MC; LaFollette, PS; Blathras, K; Abraham, V: "Effect of Scan Format on Refractive Artifacts', Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 1990.

Damian, RJ JR.; LaFollette, PS; Cox, JL; Lome, JE; Santamore, WP: "Significant Left Ventricular Contribution to Right Ventricular Systolic Functions" American Journal of Physiology, Nov. 1991

Webster, R. LaFollette, P.S. and Stafford, R. L.: "Isthmus Critical Points for Solving Jigsaw Puzzles", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Science, and Cybernetics, 1991.

Korsh, J; and LaFollette, P.S.: "Loopless Generation of Grey codes for k-ary Trees", Information Processing Letters, 52 (1999) 243-247

LaFollette, P.S.; Korsh, J.; Sangwan, R: "A Visual Interface for Effortless Animation of C/C++ Programs" Journal of Visual Languages and Programming 11, (Feb 2000) 27-48

Korsh, J; LaFollette, PS: "Multi-set Permutations and Loopless Generation of Ordered Trees with Specified Degree Sequence", Journal of Algorithms, 34, 309-336 (Feb. 2000).

LaFollette, PS and Korsh, J; "Towers, Beads, and Loopless Generation of Trees with Specified Degree Sequences" Congressus Numerantium 139 (Dec 1999) 157-266

LaFollette, PS and Korsh J;"A Loopless Algorithm for Generation of Basic Minimal Interval Orders", Order 17:271-285 (2000)

Korsh, J and LaFollette, PS: Loopless Generation of Trees with Specified Degrees. Comput J. 45(3):364-372 (2002)

Korsh, J and LaFollette, PS: Loopless Generation of Linear Extensions of a Poset.Order19(2): 115-126(2002)

Kors, J and LaFollette, PS: Loopless Generation of Schroeder Trees. Computer J.46(1):106-113 (2003)

Korsh, J; LaFollette, PS; Lipsshutz S: Loopless Algorithms and Schroeder Trees. Int. J. Comput. Math 80(6): 709-725 (2003)

Korsh, J and LaFollette, P: Loopless Array Generation of Multiset Permutations.Comput. J. 47(5):612-621 (2004)

Korsh J and LaFollette PS:Constant time generation of derangements. Inf. Process. Lett. 90(4):181-186 (2004)

Korsh J and LaFollette PS: A loopless ?Gray code for rooted trees. ACM Transactions on Algorithms 2(2):135-152 (2006)

Communications in regularly-appearing refereed academic journals:

Ziskin, M.C. and LaFollette, P.S.: "Sonographic vs. Intrinsic Echogenicity", Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 4:560, 1985.

Refereed conferences:

LaFollette, P.S. and Negin, M: "A Vein-Finding Algorithm for Breast Thermography", 1977 ACEMB, Los Angeles.

Negin, M.; McFadden, E.H.; and LaFollette, PS "Comparison of Algorithms for Extraction of Breast Thermographic Information", COMPSAC 79, Chicago, November 6-8, 1979.

Negin, M.; McFadden, E.H.; LaFollette, P.S.; Harp, J.; and Epp, R.L.: "Real-Time On-Line Monitoring of EEG During Surgery Using a Micro-Computer Based Two- Channel FFT Processor", Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Piscataway, 1981.

Negin, M.; Falk, D.; and LaFollette, P.S.: "A New Two-Dimensional Conditioned De-Convolution Method for Object Detection", Computer Science and Technology Conference, Newton, June 4-6, 1982.

LaFollette, P.S. and Ziskin, M.C.: "The Physical Basis for the Focus Artifact", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Supplement 1, Vol. 79:S45, 1986.

Ziskin, M.C.; LaFollette, P.S.; Radecki, P.D.; Friedman, A.C.; and Joseph, J: "A Physical Model for Refractive Sonographic Artifacts", Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, Las Vegas, Nevada, Sept. 1986.

Webster, R., LaFollette, P.S. and Stafford, R. L. : "A Computer Vision System for Assembling Jigsaw Puzzles", Proceedings of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 1990.

Korsh, J; LaFollette, PS; Sangwan, R. "A System for Program Visualization in the Classroom", Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Feb. 1998

Sangwan, R.; Korsh J; LaFollette, PS; "Animating Programs and Students in the LaboratoryASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Nov 1998

LaFollette, PS: "Aesthetics, Beauty, and Computer Science" Proceedings 1999 Bridges Conference, Winfield KS, July, 1999