Publications

 

“Checklists for an ‘all-or-nothing’ S-L project,” Ken Vollmar and Pete Sanderson, in Quick Hits for Service-Learning:  Successful Strategies from Award Winning Educators, Ange Cooksey, Senior Editor. Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching, Indiana University Press, late 2008.

“An Assembly Language I.D.E. To Engage Students Of All Levels,” tutorial on MARS. Pete Sanderson and Ken Vollmar. Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, Central Plains Conference (CCSC-CP) 2007, Springfield, MO.

“The Good Intentions of IEEE Standard 1180, may it rest in peace.” Kenneth R. Vollmar. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Region 5 Technical Conference, San Antonio, TX.

“MARS: An Education-oriented MIPS Assembly Language Simulator.” Kenneth Vollmar and Pete Sanderson. Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, TX. 2006. pp. 239 – 243.

“A MIPS assembly language simulator designed for education,” Kenneth Vollmar, Pete Sanderson, 2005. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges,  Volume 21, Issue 1. CCSC:MW, Decatur, IL Sept. 23-24, 2005.

“MARS:  An IDE for MIPS Assembly Language Programming.” 2005 SIGCSE Faculty Poster. Kenneth R. Vollmar.

“Wall posters for Computer Science!” 2005 SIGCSE Faculty Poster. Kenneth R. Vollmar with Dr. Pete Sanderson, Otterbein College, Westerville, OH.

“Hardware Simulation Tools for Computer Design.” Kenneth R. Vollmar, Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Vol. 17, No. 3, Feb. 2002, pp. 223-231. Presented at the Consortium for Computing for Small Colleges, Central Plains Conference, April 6-7, 2001, College of the Ozarks, Branson, MO.

“Toward Increased Public Confidence in Software,” Kenneth R. Vollmar, Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 5 (2001) pp. 70-78.

“Small-Scale Robotic Platforms.” Kenneth R. Vollmar, Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 18-22. Paper presented Apr. 7, 2000 at Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, Central Plains Conference, at Longview Community College, Lee’s Summit, MO.

“Small-Scale Robotic Platforms.” Kenneth R. Vollmar, Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 25-26. Tutorial session Apr. 7, 2000 at Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, Central Plains Conference, at Longview Community College, Lee’s Summit, MO.

“A Primer for Applying Service Learning to Computer Science,” Pete Sanderson and Ken Vollmar. Presented by Pete Sanderson at SIGCSE ’00. 31st SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Vol. 32, No. 1. March 2000. pp. 222-226.

“Analyzing IEEE 754 Floating-point Values in C/C++.” Kenneth R. Vollmar, Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 308-317. Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, Central Plains Conference, Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, MO, April 9-10,1999.

ABSTRACT: Results of floating-point operations can confuse beginning computer science students because the true behavior and value of floating-point numbers are not apparent when using the default options for precision and output formats. This paper demonstrates a simple technique in C/C++ to isolate the bit fields of floating-point data formats, aiding in the analysis of a floating-point number. Several demonstrations are made using this analysis technique to explain program behavior with floating-point data types.

"Analyzing IEEE 754 Floating-point Values in C/C++." (Microsoft Word file)

Accompanying program to analyze the bits of an IEEE 754 32-bit floating point data type is GNU C++ code which is NOT in HTML format.

 

“The IEEE 1180 IDCT standard.” Kenneth R. Vollmar, Presentation Jan. 24-26, 1998 to the G-2.1.6 Video Compression Measurements Subcommittee of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society. The G-2.1.6 meeting was held at the Advanced Television Technology Center, 1330 Braddock Place, Suite 200, Alexandria, VA 22314. 

“On the Enumeration of Steiner Tree Topologies for the points on a circle,” 1993, Kenneth R. Vollmar, Yanjun Zhang. SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 329-333.

 

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