Richard E. Ladner Boeing Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Box 352350, Seattle, WA 98195, USA e-mail: ladner@cs.washington.edu phone: (206) 543-9347 FAX: (206) 543-2969 Office: Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering, Room 632

Personal

• Short Biography

Research

• Publications
• Current Research Projects
  • Cache Performance of Algorithms
  • Algorithms for Media-on-Demand Systems
  • Tactile Graphics Project
  • WebInSight
  • MobileASL
  • Deaf and Hard of Hearing Cyber-Community in STEM
• Research Groups
  • Data Compression
  • DUB
  • Theory Group
• Ph.D. Students
• Undergraduate Research Students

Recent Teaching

• ASL 305: Introduction to Deaf Studies (Spring Quarter 2008)
• CSE 326: Data Structures (Winter Quarter 2008)
• CSEP 590A: Data Compression (Autumn Quarter 2007)
• CSEP 590B: Computability and Complexity Theory (Spring Quarter 2006)
• CSE 497: Undergraduate Research Seminar (Spring Quarter 2006)
• CSE 490G: Introduction to Data Compression (Winter Quarter 2006)
• CSEP 521: Applied Algorithms (Spring Quarter 2005)
• CSE 431: Introduction to Theory of Computation (Spring Quarter 2004)
• CSE 322: Introduction to Formal Models in Computer Science (Autumn Quarter 2003)
• CSE 521: Design and Analysis of Algorithms 1 (Spring Quarter 2003)
• CSE 373: Data Structures and Algorithms (Autumn Quarter 2002)
• CSE 531: Automata, Computability, and Complexity (Autumn Quarter 2000)
• CSE 461: Introduction to Computer Communication Networks (Autumn Quarter 1997)

Outreach

• AccessComputing Alliance
• Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing
  Summer Academy 2007 Video (2 MB, Open Captioned)
• Instant Messaging Chatbots at National Federation of the Blind Youth Slam, July, 2007
• Why American Sign Language is Important to the University of Washington Linguistics Colloquim, November, 2007, captioned video.
• Broader Impacts: What, Why, and How from SIGACT News, December, 2006
• Vertical Mentoring Workshop for the Blind in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, July, 2006
• Talk on Undergraduate Research Mentoring at the University of Washington
• Cellular Automata: The Game of Life or a New Kind of Science, Simulator and Math Day talk, March 2003
• Honey I Shrunk the Data, Math Day talk, March 2004

Current Service

• ACM SIGACT Chair
• NSF Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) Member
• NSF CISE Advisory Committee Member
• ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing Associate Editor
• Journal of Computer and System Sciences Associate Editor
• Theory of Computing Systems Editorial Board