Robert Bruce

About

Mr. Bruce has taught undergraduate and graduate courses for over fifteen years within the realm of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Science at Sonoma State University, San Jose State University, Santa Clara University, and Dominican University. He has supervised the capstone or thesis projects for sixty-three students. Prior to academia, he worked in the Visual Effects industry as a systems programmer and digital artist with four feature film credits. He co-founded and served as CTO in numerous tech start-ups, one of which received seed funding. His research interests include Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, Distributed Computing, Information Retrieval, Robotics, and IoT.

Education

MLIS, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
B.S., Computer Science with minor in Mathematics, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California

Selected Publications & Presentations

R. Bruce, P. Papadopoulos, N. Solomon, R. Rosila, J. Rosila, S. Chawla, D. Prakash Kankalale, and M. Murbach. "Virtual Reality in Space: The Next Frontier for Space Exploration," presented at 2018 International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW), Boulder, CO, USA, Jun. 12, 2018.

R. Bruce. "Diverse Organizational Tagging Patterns in CiteULike," presented at 7th International Conference On Technology, Knowledge And Society, Bilbao, Spain, Mar. 26, 2011.

P. Cabrera, R. Bruce, and F. Howard. "Peer Mentors and Writing Center Tutors: What our collaborations taught us about serving the SJSU first-year students," presented at 27th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience, San Francisco, CA, USA, Feb. 18, 2008.

R. Bruce. "Descriptor and folksonomy concurrence in education related scholarly research," Webology, vol. 5, no. 3, 2008. Available at https://www.webology.org/2008/v5n3/a59.html R.

Bruce and B. Kowalczyk. "De-Puzzling Library Lingo: An Interactive Crossword Puzzle and Tutorial Suite for 21st Century Graduate Students of Library and Information Science," presented at 2006 Annual Conference of the American Library Association, New Orleans, LA, USA, Jun. 24, 2006.

S. Kajiwara and R. Bruce. "Guide to Chemical Research - A Software Program to Help Students Find Specific Chemical Data," presented at 40th Annual American Chemical Society (ACS) Western Regional Meeting. Anaheim, CA, USA, Jan. 23, 2006.