Industry Experience:

I have around 5 years of industry experience, starting from 1997 when I graduated with my bachelor degree. As a developer I have been a C++ OpenGL developer, a C++ COM developer, a client-side and server-side Java...

Industry Experience:

I have around 5 years of industry experience, starting from 1997 when I graduated with my bachelor degree. As a developer I have been a C++ OpenGL developer, a C++ COM developer, a client-side and server-side Java web developer, as well as a C# ASP.NET web developer. I have run my own technical consulting firm, with several developers under my control.

Teaching:

I have been teaching at the University of Windsor since 1999. I particularly enjoy teaching courses related to my experience, since it is in these areas where much of my interest lies.

Research:

My research interests presently lie in artificial intelligence. I am currently investigating natural language query processors. I am also interested in game development, particularly game AI and network collaboration. My intension is to eventually combine these areas in some meaningful way, likely using games as an application for distributed AI/autonomous agents research.

While pursing my Master of Science (Computer Science), I researched distributed systems. My thesis was about a scalable world distribution protocol for distributed virtual environments. This allowed large virtual geographies with tens of thousands of participants to efficiently exchange participant state data across a network. Such large-scale virtual environments are used in military training. For my doctoral research (in progress), I am researching natural language systems, including interfaces to the WWW and database systems.

source: http://cs.uwindsor.ca/~rfortier/