Hunkins, Dalton R.

Name:

Dalton Hunkins
Dalton R. Hunkins, Ph.D.

Academic School:

School of Arts and Sciences

Academic Department:

Computer Science

Titles/Responsibilities:

Professor, Computer Science

Contact Information:

Phone: (716) 375-2003
E-mail: hunkins@cs.sbu.edu 

Office Location/Hours:

Walsh Science Center G14

Courses Taught:


Academic Degrees:

  • Ph.D., Drexel University
  • M.A., Trenton State College
  • B.S., Ursinus College

Accomplishments:

Books

  • Programming from Design in Modula-2, Franklin, Beedle & Associates, May, 1992
  • Applied Finite Mathematics, 2nd ed., with Larry Mugridge,  Prindle, Weber & Schmidt Publishing Co., March, 1985
  • Applied Finite Mathematics, with Larry Mugridge,  Prindle, Weber & Schmidt Publishing Co., February, 1981
  • Mathematics: Tools and Models, with Thomas Pirnot, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., February, 1977

Papers

  • “A Unifying Introduction to the Field of Computer Graphics,” with David Levine. Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH 2003 Educators Program, available on CD or through the ACM Digital Library, July 2003, ACM.
  • “Additional  Rich Resources for Computer Graphics Educators,” with David Levine, Computer and Graphics, Vol 26, No. 4, pp. 609-614.
  • “Rich Resources for Computer Graphics Educators,” with David Levine, Conference Abstracts and Applications, SIGGRAPH 2001 Los Angeles, June 2001, pp. 45-48.
  • “Laboratory Exercises in Support of a Top-Down Computer Organization Course,” Journal of Computing in Small Colleges (Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Rocky Mountain Small College Computing Conference), vol 12, no. 2, November, 1996.
  • “A Microarchitecture Simulator: Its Design and Implementation,” Journal of Computing in Small Colleges (Proceedings of the Third Annual Rocky Mountain Small College Computing Conference), vol 10, no. 5, March, 1995.
  • "Using Computer Graphics Algorithms for Laboratory Exercises and Motivation in Programming Courses," with S. Andrianoff and R. Nerheim-Wolfe, Journal of Computing in Small Colleges (Proceedings of the Second Annual Rocky Mountain Small College Computing Conference), vol 9, no. 2, October, 1993.
  • "Object-Oriented Programming: A Comparison of Turbo Pascal to C++," Proceedings of the  Eighth Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, vol.8, no. 2, November, 1992.
  • "A GKS Implementation Supporting Modification," Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, vol.7, no.2, November 1991.
  • "A Software Engineering Design Method in CS1 and CS2," with Steven Andrianoff, Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, vol.7, no.2, November 1991.
  • "Cubatures of Precision 2k and 2k+1 for Hyperrectangles," Mathematics of Computation, October, 1975.
  • "Product-Type Multiple Integration Formulas," BIT, December, 1973.
    Competitive Grant Awards
  • Principle Investigator: National Science Foundation ILS Grant, “The Science of Images,” grant period 1995-97; a grant to fund a laboratory and a course in computer graphics for non-science majors

Honors

  • Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2009
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, United States Air Force Academy, 1998-99 academic year
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, United States Air Force Academy, 1994-95 academic year

Other Interests/Community Involvement:

  • Member of Professional Ski Instructors of America, Level II and Master Teacher certifications