Professor Roger W. Webster, Ph.D.

Address

Roger W. Webster, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science
D&E Communications Wing

Caputo Hall

Millersville University 
Millersville, PA USA 17551 

Office

R137 

Position

Professor 

Email

Roger.Webster@millersville.edu

Phone

(717) 872-3539 

Fax

(717) 872-3149

Vita

resume.pdf

Misc.Info 

misc info

Background 

Dr. Roger Webster has earned the Ph.D. (1988) and M.S. (1986) degrees in Computer Science from Temple University's School of Engineering, an M.S. in C.I.S. from Bentley College (1982), and a B.S. degree from the University of Maine (1978). He has spent sabbaticals at MIT's Center for Advanced Engineering Study (1990-91), and a visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Human Simulation and Computer Graphics Laboratory (1997) and the University of Pennsylvania's Computer Graphics and Game Technology (CGGT) Program (2004).  Prior to coming to Millersville University in 1983, Dr. Webster worked at the Hewlett-Packard Corporation's Medical Systems Division in Waltham, Massachusetts as a Software Engineer (1979-1983).

Dr. Webster has been awarded, directed, and participated in a number of National Science Foundation (NSF) projects and other externally funded research in: Video Game Development, Surgical Simulation, 3D Graphics/Virtual Reality, Haptic Programming Environments, Artificial Intelligence, Robot Vision, and Real-Time Systems Engineering. He has published 60 scientific articles in Computer Science, and has presented his work at professional conferences both nationally and internationally (see vita). Dr. Webster is the director of the Intelligent Machines Laboratory. He holds memberships in the IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the ACM Special Interest Group in Graphics (SIGGRAPH). Dr. Webster is also co-owner and Chief Software Officer of Verefi Technologies Incorporated; a high-tech start up corporation in Elizabethtown, PA, which develops and sells surgical simulators for medical training worldwide.

Research &

Teaching Areas
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• Game Development and Computer Animation
• Haptic Surgical Simulation Research
• Verefi Technologies Incorporated
• Intelligent Machines Laboratory
• Lancaster StreetCar Project with Lancaster Alliance
• Historical List of Undergraduate Student Research Projects
• CS475 Game Programming and Computer Animation class
• CS375 3D Graphics & Virtual Reality class
• CS406 Internet Programming with Java class
• CS380 Operating Systems class
• CS455 Robot Vision class
• CS161 Computer Science I class
• CS140 Discrete Mathematics class

Current

Schedule

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