Biography
Warren R. Carithers is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer Science at RIT. His interest include operating systems,
systems software, computer organization and architecture, computer
graphics, and programming languages. Professor Carithers earned his
Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from the University
of Kansas in 1978 and 1981, and began teaching at RIT in 1981; since
that time, he has taught courses at all levels of the curriculum. He
was the first faculty member in the CS department to receive RIT's
prestigious Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching.
Professor Carithers has had a continuing interest in the development of
the CS curriculum as well as the lab facilities to support it. He was
one of five faculty members responsible for redeveloping the entire set
of lower-division courses in the CS curriculum core (developing a set
of seven courses which replaced the department's traditional,
procedural-language-based curriculum with one of the first "objects
first" undergraduate curricula in the nation), and is currently a
member of the faculty committee which is in the process of again
revamping the CS core curriculum to meet the needs of a changing
field.
In terms of facilities to support the curriculum, Professor Carithers
was a co-investigator on the NSF ILI grant which brought the first
color graphics workstations into the department, and was the principal
investigator on a second NSF grant which funded the acquisition of
workstations to support a complete revision of the lower-division
courses in the undergraduate curriculum. He also acquired the computer
systems currently in use in the department's Distributed Systems Lab
and Security Lab, and continues to configure and administer those
systems to date.
Although his primary and ongoing interest is in Computer Science
education, Professor Carithers has twice served the department in the
position of System Administrator for the department's network of
computer systems, and has also served as the department's Coordinator
of Undergraduate Programs.
Warren R. Carithers
Associate Professor
Research Areas
CS Education
