In preparation
Thomas Way and Vijay Gehlot. NSF CCLI grant for development of SOA course, May 2008.
Thomas Way and Richard Kheir. "Design of a Speech Recognition System to Assist Hearing Impaired Students in the Classroom." Under revision for resubmission to Assistive Technology, May 2008.
Thomas Way, Tao Tao and Bryan Wagner. "Compiling Mechanical Nanocomputer Components." Under revision for submission, May 2008.
Submitted
Principal Investigator, "Development of a Nanocompiler Research Framework." National Science Foundation Emerging Models & Technologies program, Nanotechnology for Computing and Communication research area (EMT/NANO) grant proposal. Submitted March 12, 2008, $444,661.
Co-Principal Investigator, "Distributed Expertise in Enhancing Computing Education with Connection to the Arts." National Science Foundation, CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) program grant proposal. Submitted March 11, 2008, $359,296.
To appear
Shashank Kaushik and Thomas Way. "Design of an Automatic Password Protection Mechanism for Digital Documents." To appear, The International Conference on Security and Management (SAM 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 14-17, 2008.
Thomas Way, Rushikesh Katikar, and Purushotham Ch. "Nanocompilation for the Cell Matrix Architecture." To appear, The International Conference on Computer Design (CDES 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 14-17, 2008.
Michael Mason, Amber Pomponio, Thomas Way, Michael Cuningham, Patricia Zelenak, and Suet Lim. "A Retrospective Chart Review of Adolescent Mental Health in Urban Primary Care." To appear, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Section on Public Health, poster session on public health issues, May 6, 2008.
Published
Thomas Way, Richard Kheir and Louis Bevilacqua. "Achieving Acceptable Accuracy in a Low-Cost, Assistive Note-Taking, Speech Transcription System." The IASTED International Conference on Telehealth and Assistive Technologies (Telehealth/AT 2008), Baltimore, Maryland, April 16-18, 2008. (pdf 79KB)
Elliot Sloane, Vijay Gehlot, Tom Way and Robert Beck. "System of Systems Issues for the 2008 US National Healthcare Information Network Remote Patient Monitoring Requirements." The 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference (IEEE SysCon 2008), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 7-10, 2008. (pdf 198KB)
Melissa Corning, Thomas Way, Mary-Angela Papalaskari and Najib Nadi. "Computer Science Workshops from the Villanova Magic School Science Camp." Poster presentation, SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2008), March 2008. (proposal pdf 28KB)
Tom Way. "Using Magic to Teach Computer Science." Workshop tutorial, SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2008), March 2008.
Karen L. Hess, Mary-Angela Papalaskari, Randy Weinstein, Robert Styer, Thomas Way and Anthony Lagalante. "Special Session: Creation of the Milwaukee School of Magic." 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 10-13, 2007. (pdf 167KB)
Mary-Angela Papalaskari, Karen L. Hess, Anthony Lagalante, Najib Nadi, Robert Styer, Thomas Way and Randy Weinstein. "Work in Progress: Engineering the Magic School - Creativity and Innovation in Context." 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 10-13, 2007. (pdf 149KB)
Thomas P Way and Tao Tao. "Compiling a Mechanical Nanocomputer Adder." International Conference on Computer Design (CDES 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, pages 1-7, electronic proceedings, June 26-28, 2007. (pdf 237KB)
Richard Kheir and Thomas Way. "Improving Access to Computer Science Education with Speech Recognition." 12th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2007), Dundee, Scotland, pages 261-265, June 25-27, 2007. (pdf 210KB)
Joseph Distasio and Thomas P. Way. "Inclusive Computer Science Education Using a Ready-made Computer Game Framework." 12th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2007), Dundee, Scotland, pages 116-120, June 25-27, 2007. (pdf 208KB)
Elliot Sloane, Thomas Way, Vijay Gehlot, Anany Levitin and Robert Beck. "SoSE Modeling and Simulation Approaches to Evaluate Security and Performance Limitations of a Next Generation National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN-2)." IEEE System of Systems Conference, San Antonio, Texas, pages 1-6, electronic proceedings, April 16-18, 2007. (pdf 238KB)
Elliot Sloane, Thomas Way, Vijay Gehlot, and Robert Beck. "Using Hybrid SoSE Approaches for Modeling and Validating Large Scale Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) System of Systems as Next-Generation Global Military Informatics Platforms with Colored Petri Nets (CPN) and Extend/MESA" IEEE System of Systems Conference, San Antonio, Texas, pages 1-6, electronic proceedings, April 16-18, 2007. (pdf 517KB)
Elliot Sloane, Vijay Gehlot, Robert Beck and Thomas Way. "Conceptual SoS Model and Simulation Systems for a Next Generation National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN-2): Creating a Net-Centric, Extensible, Context Aware, Dynamic Discovery Framework for Robust, Secure, Flexible, Safe, and Reliable Healthcare." 2007 1st Annual IEEE Systems Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, pages 129-134, April 9-12, 2007. (pdf 130KB)
Elliot Sloane, Thomas Way, Vijay Gehlot, Robert Beck, James Solderitsch and Elzbieta Dziembowski. "A Hybrid Approach to Modeling and Validating a Large Scale SOA Systems of Systems Using CPN and MESA/Extend." 2007 1st Annual IEEE Systems Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, pages 326-332, April 9-12, 2007. (pdf 313KB)
Tom Way. Book chapter on critical thinking, technology literacy and psychic debunking, in "South Park and Philosophy," Edited by Richard Hanley, Open Court Publishing Company, Popular Culture and Philosophy Series, Vol. 26, March 2007.
Thomas Way, Kallie Nordengren, Mary-Angela Papalaskari, Sue Metzger, Najib Nadi, Robert Styer, Melissa Corning and Adam Stepe. "A Novel Multidisciplinary Service Learning Program with a Computer Science Foundation." Poster presentation, SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2007), March 2007. (proposal pdf 28KB) (poster pdf 1.7MB) (photos: one, two)
Thomas Way. "Using Magic to Teach Computer Science." Workshop tutorial, SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2007), March 2007. (pdf 11KB)
Vijay Gehlot, Thomas Way, Robert Beck and Peter DePasquale. "Model Driven Development of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Using Colored Petri Nets."First Workshop on Quality in Modeling, ACM/IEEE 9th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, pages 63-77, October, 2006. (pdf 145KB)
Joseph Distasio and Thomas P. Way. "Exploring Computer Science Concepts with a Ready-made Computer Game Framework." Technical Report, http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.LG/0609070, 2006.
M.A. Papalaskari, Karen Hess, Debra Kossman, Sue Metzger, Alain Phares, Robert Styer, Connie Titone, Thomas Way, Randy Weinstein, Francis Wunderlich. "PIVOTS: Service Learning at the Science, Theatre & Magic Boundary." 36th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, pages 18-23, October 28-31, 2006. (pdf 76KB)
Thomas P. Way and Lori L. Pollock. "Demand-driven Inlining in a Region-based Optimizer for ILP Architectures." Technical Report, http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DC/0604043, 2006.
Thomas P. Way. "Compilation for Future Nanocomputer Architectues." 2006 International Conference on Computing in Nanotechnology (CNAN'06), Las Vegas, Nevada, pages 251-257, June 2006. (pdf 190KB)
Bryan W. Wagner and Thomas P. Way. "MolML: An Abstract Scripting Language for Assembly of Mechanical Nanocomputer Architectures." 2006 International Conference on Computing in Nanotechnology (CNAN'06), Las Vegas, Nevada, pages 258-264, June 2006. (pdf 200KB)
Richard Kheir and Thomas Way. "Improving Speech Recognition to Assist Real-time Classroom Note Taking." Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2006) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, pages 1-4, electronic proceedings, June 2006. (pdf 24KB)
Timothy M. White and Thomas P. Way. "jFAST: A Java Finite Automata Simulator." SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2006), pages 384-388, March 2006. (pdf 318KB)
Sebastian Niezgoda and Thomas P. Way. "SNITCH: a Software Tool for Detecting Cut and Paste Plagiarism." SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2006), pages 51-55, March 2006. (pdf 197KB) (poster pdf 1.3MB)
Thomas P. Way. "A Virtual Laboratory Model for Encouraging Undergraduate Research." SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2006), pages 203-207, March 2006. (pdf 235KB)
Nicholas DPasquale, Vijay Gehlot and Thomas Way. "Comparative Survey of Approaches to Automatic Parallelization." Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems (MASPLAS), 6 pages, Newark, Delaware, 2005. (pdf 35KB)
Thomas Way. "A Company-Based Framework for a Software Engineering Course." SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2005), St. Louis, Missouri, pages 132-136, February 2005. (pdf 215KB)
Tom Way and Lori Pollock. "Evaluation of a Region-based Partial Inlining Algorithm for an ILP Optimizing Compiler." IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2002), pages 705-710, Cambridge, Mass., November 2002. (pdf 69KB)
Thomas Way, Ben Breech, Wei Du, and Lori Pollock. "A Region-based Partial Inlining Algorithm for an ILP Optimizing Compiler." International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, (PDPTA'02), pages 552-556, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2002. (pdf 167KB)
Thomas Way. "Procedure Restructuring for Ambitious Optimization." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 201 pages, May 2002. (pdf 1.4MB)
Thomas Way, Ben Breech, Wei Du, and Lori Pollock. "Demand-driven Inlining Heuristics in a Region-based Optimizing Compiler for ILP Architectures." IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and systems (PDCS), pages 90-95, Anaheim, CA, August 2001. (pdf 64KB)
Thomas Way, Ben Breech, Wei Du, Ves Stoyanov and Lori Pollock. "Using Path-spectra-based Cloning in Region-based Optimization for Instruction-Level Parallelism." ISCA 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, (ISCA PDCS), pages 83-90, Richardson, Texas, August 2001. (pdf 237KB)
Thomas Way, Ben Breech and Lori Pollock. "Region Formation Analysis with Demand-driven Inlining for Region-based Optimization." International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), pages 24-33, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2000. (pdf 152KB)
Tom Way, Ben Breech, Wei Du, Matt Bridges, Ves Stoyanov and Lori Pollock. "The DIRECT Project The Delaware Interprocedural REgion-based Compiler Toolset Project." Poster. Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems (MASPLAS), Newark, Delaware, 2000. (pdf 155KB)
Matt Bridges, Tom Way and Lori Pollock. "The VIPeR Tool for Visualizing InterProcedural Regions in Compiler Research." Poster. Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems (MASPLAS), Newark, Delaware, 2000.
Thomas Way and Lori Pollock. "Using Path Spectra to Direct Function Cloning." In Workshop on Profile and Feedback Directed Compilation at International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, pages 40-47, Paris, France, 1998. (pdf 64KB)
Thomas Way, Cheer-Sun Yang and Lori Pollock. "Potential Performance Enhancements of MIL-STD 188-220A Through Parallelism." 2nd Annual FedLab Symposium, ARL/ATIRP Consortium, pages 301-305, College Park, Maryland, 1998. (pdf 155KB)
Thomas Way and Lori Pollock. "Towards Identifying and Monitoring Optimization Impacts." Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems (MASPLAS), 11 pages, New Paltz, New York, 1997. (pdf 188KB)
Thomas Way and Kenneth Barner. "TACTICS: a Tactile Image Creation System." Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pages 1-3, electronic proceedings, 1997. (pdf 159KB)
Thomas Way and Kenneth Barner. "Automatic Visual to Tactile Translation, Part I: Human Factors, Access Methods and Image Manipulation." IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, pages 81-94, March 1997. (pdf 568KB)
Thomas Way and Kenneth Barner. "Automatic Visual to Tactile Translation, Part II: Evaluation of the TACTile Image Creation System." IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, pages 95-105, March 1997. (pdf 286KB)
Thomas Way. "Automatic Generation of Tactile Graphics." Master’s Thesis, University of Delaware, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 133 pages, January, 1997. (pdf 1.2MB)
Thomas Way and Kenneth Barner. "Towards Automatic Generation of Tactile Graphics." Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA), pages 161-163, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1996. (pdf 37KB)
Jason Fritz, Thomas Way and Kenneth Barner. "Haptic Representation of Scientific Data for Visually Impaired or Blind Persons." 11th Annual CSUN Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, pages 1-5, electronic proceedings, Northridge, California, 1996. (pdf 32KB)
Grants
Principal Investigator, "Plagiarism Detection and Research Writing Validation." Grant proposal, SIGCSE Special Projects grant program. Awarded August 2007, $4,000.
Principal Investigator, with Dr. Vijay Gehlot, "A Course on Service-Oriented Architecture Design and Analysis." Villanova Institute for Teaching and Learning (VITAL), Minigrant program. Awarded May 2007, $8,000.
Principal Investigator, "Applied Research in Computing Enterprise Services (ARCES) Project," for the Center for Excellence in Enterprise Technology (CEET), in cooperation with Gestalt, LLC, U.S. Airforce GCCS-AF, PE 33150F. Awarded 2004, received 2005, $6.3 million three-year contract, $4.3 funded to date.
Equipment. Received grant of Viper-Lite embedded programming development kit from Joseph Gmitter (Villanova MS 2007), May 2007, value $845.
Equipment. Received grants of Field Programmable Gate Array equipment and software licenses, from Altera Corporation and Xilinx Inc. June 2005, total value $7,279.
last updated: 04/23/08
