Prof. Daniel N. Coore | The Department of Computing

Daniel N.
Coore

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Biography

Prof. Daniel Coore is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computing at the UWI, Mona. His primary research interests are in amorphous computing, robotics and automation, and computer science education. He teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, spanning a broad range of areas including algorithms, theory of computation, computer architecture and cryptography. His teaching and research activities have exposed him to a broad cross-section of disciplines, particularly in Science, Engineering and Education, and he has a keen interest in the problems that exist at the boundaries between these disciplines. He is a co-inventor of the UWI Cardiac Surgery Simulator: a high-fidelity simulator that has had significant impact across the US in the training of cardiac surgeons. He is also a firm subscriber to the idea of using free and open source software wherever feasible.

Prof. Coore was born and raised in Jamaica, attending Mona Preparatory School, and Campion College. He attended UWI for one year, and then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained in 1994, both the S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering and the S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and in 1999 a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He is currently married with two children.

Research Interests

Interests:

Amorphous Computing, Robotics and Automation, Computer Science Education

Publications

Publications:

Books

Richard H. Feins, Harold M. Burkhart, John V. Conte, Daniel N. Coore, James I. Fann, George L. Hicks, Jonathan C. Nesbitt, Nahush A. Mokadam, Paul S. Ramphal, K. Robert Shen, Jennifer D. Walker. "Cardiac Surgery Simulation Curriculum: Simulation-based training in surgical skills and decision making.'' Thoracic Surgery Directors Association (TSDA). 2016.
Daniel Coore. ``The Growing Point Language: A DevelopmentalApproach to Generating Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer.'' (226 pages). LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany. ISBN 978-3-8383-5841-3. June, 2010 Book Chapters (Refereed):
Daniel Coore. ``Abstractions for Directing Self-organising Patterns''. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Unconventional Programming Paradigms, J.~P.~Banatre et al (Eds). UPP 2004, LNCS 3566, pp105--115. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. 2005.
Daniel Coore. ``Introduction to Amorphous Computing''. In {\em Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Unconventional Programming Paradigms}, J.~P.~Ban\^{a}tre et al (Eds). UPP 2004, LNCS 3566, pp94--104. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. 2005.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

R.H. Feins, P.W. Stewart, H.M. Burkhart, J.V. Conte, D.N. Coore, J.I. Fann, G.L. Hicks, J.C. Nesbitt, N.A. Mokadam, P.S. Ramphal, S.E. Schiro, K.R. Shen, A.V.M.V.T Sridhar, J.D. Walker. ``Simulation-based training in cardiac surgery for improved patient safety''. (Accepted). {\em Annals of Thoracic Surgery}. 2016.
N.A. Mokadam, J.I. Fann, G.L. Hicks, J.C. Nesbitt, H.M. Burkhart, J.V. Conte, D.N. Coore, P.S. Ramphal, K.R. Shen, J.D. Walker, R.H. Feins. ``Experience with the Cardiac Surgery Simulation Curriculum: Results of the resident and faculty survey''. (Accepted). {\em Annals of Thoracic Surgery}. 2016/530030. 2016
D. T. Fokum, D. N. Coore, and C. Busby-Earle, ``Learner Autonomy as a Means to Improve Pass Rates among First Year Computing Students'', submitted to {\em UWI Quality Education Forum}. Vol 21. 2016
D. T. Fokum, D. N. Coore, and Y. E. Lewis-Fokum, ``The Performance of Female Computer Science Students across Three Caribbean Islands'', to appear in Proc. 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE '16), Mar. 02-05, 2016, Memphis, TN, USA.
Paul Gaynor, Daniel Coore. ``Distributed face recognition using collaborative judgement aggregation in a swarm of tiny wireless sensor nodes''. Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2015. Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA. April 2015.
Paul Gaynor, Daniel Coore. ``Towards Distributed Wilderness Search using a Reliable Distributed Storage Device built from a Swarm of Miniature UAVs''. Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'2014). Orlando, FL. May 27 - 30, 2014
Jason Murphy, Daniel Coore. ``Towards an extensible calculus for spatial computation.''. Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2014. Lexington, KY, USA. March 2014.
Alyssa Morgan, Daniel Coore. ``Extending the Growing Point Language to Self-Organise Patterns in Three Dimensions''. Proceedings of 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013). pp109--110. Amsterdam, May 2013.
Alyssa Morgan, Daniel Coore. ``Modeling Inertia in an Amorphous Computing Medium''. Spatial Computing Workshop (SCW) 2013. Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2013. pp35--40. May 2013.
Paul Gaynor, Daniel Coore. ``Towards Distributed Face Recognition on Self-organised storage built from wireless sensor nodes''. Wireless Technology Symposium (WTS 2013). Phoenix, Arizona. April 17--19, 2013.
Rohan Smith, Daniel Coore. ``X10ABOT: The Extensible, Scalable and Modular Robotics Kit Architecture''. Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2013. Jacksonville, FL, USA. April 2013.
Matthew Budram, Daniel Coore. ``Automating fluid flow in a cardiac surgery simulator.'' Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2012. DOI: 10.1109/SECon.2012.6196961. Orlando, FL, USA. March, 2012.
Paul Gaynor, Daniel Coore. ``A reliable, energy efficient memory repository built from an unreliable distributed sensor network.'' Proceedings of Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS) pp1--5. April, 2011.
Paul Gaynor, Daniel Coore. ``A scheme for reduced latency in wireless sensor networks using self organized mirrors.'' Proceedings of IEEE SouthEastcon 2010 pp64--67. ISBN 978-1-4244-5854-7. DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2010.5453918. Concord, NC, USA. March, 2010.
Paul Gaynor, Daniel Coore. ``A Strategy for Increased Data Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks That Utilise Local Addressing.'' In Ezra K. Mugisa (Editor) - Proceedings of the 1st Caribbean Conference on Information and Communications Technology (CCICT 2009), March 16-17, 2009, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica. pp 14—18, Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS), 2009.
Paul Gaynor, Daniel Coore. ``Towards a reliable memory repository built on an unreliable distributed sensor network.'' In {\em Proc. IEEE WHNC}. \\(URL: {\small http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=4629479\&isYear=2008}). Aug 2008.
Orrett Gayle, Daniel Coore. ``Self-organising text in an amorphous computing environment.'' {\em Unifying Themes in Complex Systems,Volume V and VI: Proceedings on the Sixth International Conference on Complex Systems} pp495--502. 2008. (A revised version of original article presented at ICCS2006, and published in {\em InterJournal}).
Orrett Gayle, Daniel Coore. ``Self-organising text in an amorphous computing environment.'' {\em InterJournal Complex Systems}, 1832. {\small http://www.interjournal.org}. 2006.
Ramphal PS, Coore DN, Craven MP, Forbes NF, Newman SM, Coye AA, Little SG, Silvera BC. ``A high fidelity tissue-based cardiac surgical simulator.'' {\em Eur J Cardiothorac Surg}; 27(5):910-916. 2005.
Daniel Coore. ``Towards a Universal Programming Language for Amorphous Computing''. {\em InterJournal Complex Systems}, 1004. ({\small http://www.interjournal.org}). ISSN 1081-0625. 2004.
Michael Craven, Somara Newman, Maurice Fletcher, Brian Silvera, Daniel Coore, Neil Forbes, Paul Ramphal. ``Cardiac training simulator using pump with electronic pressure sensor to trigger ventricular fibrillation''. {\em Proc. IEEE SoutheastCon 2003} pp 12--17. April 4--6, 2003. ISBN 0-7803-7856-3, IEEE Catalog No.03CH37452.
H. Abelson, D. Allen, D. Coore, C. Hanson, G. Homsy, T. Knight, R. Nagpal, E. Rauch, G. Sussman, R. Weiss. ``Amorphous Computing''. {\em Communications of the ACM} 43(5):74--82. ISSN 0001-0782. 2000. {\small http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/332833.332842}
Radhika Nagpal and Daniel Coore. ``An Algorithm for Group Formation in an Amorphous Computer''. In {\em Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems}. 1998.

Awards

Honours and Awards:

2013 - Present: Listed in Marquis' Who's Who in the World

2012: Principal's Award for Innovation (UWI, Mona) for the invention of the Cardiac Surgery Simulator

2008: (Jamaica) Innovation Awards in Science and Techonology. Category Winner for ICT and Electronics and overall First Runner-up.

1994: Morris Joseph Levin Award for best Master's thesis presentation at MIT EECS Master Works Oral Presentations.

1989: The Jamaica Scholarship for best overall performance in A-level exams.

Additional Roles

Additional Roles:

Currently

Mona Geoinformatics Institute, Board of Directors
Mona Geoinformatics Institute, Fellow

Formerly:

Departmental Roles

Head of Department, Undergraduate Coordinator, Graduate Coordinator, Book Coordinator, B.Ed. Subject Coordinator.
Extra-Departmental Roles:
Mona ICT Steering Committee
QAU co-evaluator for internal review of Physics Dept.
University Senate: Mona Academic Board Rep.
Mona Campus Council: Academic Board Rep.
University CIO Appointment committee
University IT Auditor Appointment Committee
University IT Audit Committee (Mona representative)
Mona Campus CIO appointment/interview committee
Mona Strategy committee
EdTech committee
ID card committee
Mona IT strategy committee
B.Ed. programme planning committee

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