Charles M. SNOW
Position:	Research Assistant Professor
Address:	School of Information Technology and Engineering George Mason University MS 4B5 4400 University Drive Fairfax, Virginia 22030 U.S.A.
Email:	csnow@cs.gmu.edu, csnow@netlab.gmu.edu
Phone:	703 993 1705
Fax:	703 993 3692

Research Interests & Teaching

My main interest is the area of pervasive computing, particularly intelligent and automated ways of acquiring, processing, delivering and presenting information to users. This has application to many areas, including medicine, travel industry, education and consumer products. At present, I am focusing on education as a target, working at George Mason University’s Network and Simulation Laboratory on a system for distance learning, Network Education Ware.

I teach courses in GMU’ School of Information Technology and Engineering, in the Computer Science and Information Technology programs. In the last year, I have taught undergraduate networks (CS455 and IT441) and graduate OS (CS571) courses.

Education History

Ph. D.	McGill University School of Computer Science, 1998 Thesis title: “Improving Continuous Speech Recognition with Automatic Multiple Pronunciation Support”
M. Sc. (Applied)	McGill University School of Computer Science, 1987
B. Sc.	McGill University: major Neurobiology, minor Computer Science, 1980

The Past

Selected ‘highlights’ from my past experience:

Teaching:	I have taught graduate and undergraduate computer science courses since 1980s, focusing on system architecture, operating systems and computer networks; class sizes have varied from 20 to 220. I have also done teaching/training sessions in industry, in both French and English, in Canada, the U. S. and the U. K.
Selected Major Projects:	Undergraduate Program Creation: I coordinated effort to create and implement a pair of new undergraduate programs in software engineering, joint offerings between the faculties of Engineering and Science. Building: Part of implementing the abovementioned new undergraduate programs involved planning a new ($20M) building, where I participated in planning the characteristics of the building, and the design and budget reviews leading to construction Diploma Program Creation: I created and implemented a diploma (30 credit) program for McGill University’s Center for Continuing Education
Industry:	I was Director of Educational Software Products for Bunyip Information Systems (now defunct, but known for being home of the world’s first Internet search engine, Archie). The focus of work was to develop intelligent Internet-based teaching tools, largely for distance and self-paced learning.

Publications

Snow, C., “Improving Continuous Speech Recognition with Automatic Multiple Pronunciation Support,” Ph. D. Thesis, McGill University, July 1998, 138pp

Snow, C., “Multiple Pronunciation in Multilingual Speech Recognition,” Proceedings of the 3rd CRIM-FORWISS Workshop, Montreal, Canada, 1996, pp 66-74

De Mori, R., M. Galler, C. Snow and R. Kuhn, “Speech Recognition and Understanding,” in Approaches to Telecommunications and Network Management, J. Liebowitz, ed., IOS Press, 1994 pp 125 - 162