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Powley, Curt Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Graduate:
Ph.D. from University of California at Los Angeles
M.S. from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Undergraduate:
U.S. Naval Academy
College of Business Administration
Office: 1188 Fort Street Mall, Suite 257 (MP)
Office Phone Number: (808) 544-9381
Voice Mail: (808) 544-9328
Fax: (808) 566-2403
E-mail: cpowley@hpu.edu
Dr. Curt Powley received his Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of California, Los Angeles. He has about twenty years
of experience in research, development, and management of complex
software systems, in both industry and academia.
Professional Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Division of Business
Administration, Hawaii Pacific University.
- Research Scientist and Developer, BigTribe Corporation, San
Francisco, California. BigTribe builds leading-edge applications
and enabling technology for mobile location services.
- Developer, LiveCapital, San Mateo, California. LiveCapital
provides technology and applications for enabling the processes
used by businesses to provide credit.
- Researcher, manager, developer, USC Information Sciences Institute
(ISI), Marina del Rey, California. ISI (http://www.isi.edu/) is
a leading research laboratory involved in a broad spectrum of
computer science R&D, and was a key developer of the Internet.
- Systems Developer, Transaction Solutions, Irvine, California,
for a high-performance 12-GByte client-server database system
that runs on a network of PCs.
- Developer, USAnimation, Hollywood, California, building computer
animation tools.
Teaching Interests:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Location-Based Mobile Computing Using Devices such as Cell
Phones
- Algorithms
- Programming
- Problem Solving for Business Applications Using Spreadsheets
and Databases
Intellectual Contributions:
- Curt’s Ph.D. dissertation advanced the state of the art in
the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and parallel processing
by showing how AI search algorithms can be effectively implemented
on massively-parallel computers (65,536 processors)
- Techniques for distributed electronic commerce
- Selected as NSF Principal Investigator for project "Adaptive
Personalization and Context Management for Location-Based Mobile
Devices (AdaptTribe)". This research seeks to dramatically
improve the usability of location-aware mobile internet devices
such as cell phones, while advancing knowledge in personalization
algorithms, location-based services, and context-awareness.
Selected Publications:
- "Parallel Heuristic Search: Two Approaches", book
chapter in: Parallel Algorithms for Machine Intelligence and Pattern
Recognition, P.S. Gopalakrishnan, L.N. Kanal, and V. Kumar, eds.
Springer, New York, 1990, pp. 42-65. (with C. Ferguson and R.E.
Korf).
- "Single-Agent Parallel Window Search", IEEE Transactions
on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 13(5) May, 1991,
pp. 466-477. (with R.E. Korf).
- "Depth-First Heuristic Search on a SIMD Machine",
Artificial Intelligence, 60(2), April, 1993, pp. 199-242. (with
C. Ferguson and R.E. Korf).
- "DASHER: A Prototype for Federated E-Commerce Services".
IEEE Internet Computing, 1(6), Nov./Dec. 1997, pp. 62-71. Reprinted
in Japanese in Nikkei Computer, March 2, 1998, pp. 231-240, and
in the book Software Kaihatsu No Saishin Gijutu (Recent Technology
of Software Development). (with D. Benjamin, D. Grossman, R. Neches,
P. Postel, E. Brodersohn, R. Fadia, Q. Zhu, and P. Will).
- Co-wrote and supervised submission of an NSF small business
proposal titled "GeoTribe: A Collaborative Geographic Knowledge
Manager."
University Service:
- Planning committee member
- Student Life committee member
- Library committee member
Personal Interests:
- Ocean swimming, dancing, hiking, biking.
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