Contact Information for Brian Rague

Email: brague@weber.edu
Office: TE-206B
Phone: (801) 626-7377
Web Page: http://faculty.weber.edu/brague

Personal Biography

Position: Assistant Professor

Degree: 1984- B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1987- Masters degree in Aeronautics/Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institue of Technology.

Current Field of Study: Software Engineering, parallel computing and programming languages. Opportunities for creative software engineering in the fields of education, biomedicine, and physics interesting me in my current field of study.

Publications:

Rague, B. "Teaching Parallel Thinking to the Next Generation of Programmers." Proceedings 6th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA.  Orlando, FL (2008).

Rague, B., Armstrong, J., "Using Parallel Computing in the Classroom", Conference on Information Technology, Salt Lake City, 2008

McMaster, K.,  Rague, B., Hadfield, S., “Two Mathematical Gestalts for Computer Theory”, SIGCSE 2009

McMaster, K.,  Rague, B., Hadfield, S., “Two Frameworks for Discrete Mathematics”, ISECON 2008

McMaster, K., Rague, B., McMaster, T., and Blake, A.  "Two Gestalts for Mathematics: Logical vs. Computational." Information Systems Education Journal, 6 (20). http://isedj.org/6/20/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (Meritorious Paper - 2008)

Armstrong, J., Hernandez, M., Palen, S., and Rague, B. "Weber State University's Scientific Analysis and Visualization Initiative: An Inter-College Faculty Collaboration." Physics Research and Education Conference, Gordon Research Conference, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI (June, 2008)

McMaster, K., Anderson, N., and Rague, B (2007). "Discrete Math with Programming: Better Together." ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 39, Issue 1.

McMaster, K, McMaster, T., and Rague B. (2005). "Discrete Math as a Programming Course." Presented ACM SIGSCE Conference

Nimbus-7 SMMR Pathfinder Brightness Temperatures
National Snow & Ice Center Data Center, September, 1996
http://nsidc.org/data/docs/daac/nsidc0036_smmr_pathfinder_tbs.gd.html

Rague, B.W. & Oman, C.M. "Use of a microcomputer system for running spectral analysis of EGGs to predict the onset of motion sickness," Proceedings of 9th Annual Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, Boston, Vol. 1 (of 4): 0087-0090, 1987.

Oman, C.M., B.W. Rague and O. U. Rege. "Standard definitions for scoring acute motion sickness using the Pensacola Diagnostic Index Method." Appendix B , Symptom Scoring Definitions: 120-128

Biggest Accomplishment in CS: Using late 80’s technology (IBM AT) to build a biological monitoring system that performed real-time Fast Fourier Transform analysis. The information was displayed in a waterfall two-color format.

Something Interesting: I used to act in college productions at MIT and Caltech. My “big break” occurred when I made a guest appearance on “People’s Court” (Wapner version) because my car was broadsided on a California highway.