LTC Scott D. Lathrop

Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York
scott.lathrop@usma.edu

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I am originally from Jackson, Michigan and received my commission from the United States Military Academy in 1990 as an Armor officer. Currently, I am serving as an Information Systems Management Officer.

Civilian Education

Professional Affiliations

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Special Interest Group for Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC)
  • Epsilon Pi Epsilon, Honor Society in the Computing Sciences
  • Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society

Previous Courses Taught

  • CS300/1 Computer Science Fundamentals
  • CS403 Object-Oriented Concepts
  • CS482 Information Assurance
  • CS484 Computer Networks (Guest Lecturer)
  • CS486 Artificial Intelligence
  • IS450 Distributed Applications Engineering
  • IT105/155 Introduction to Computing and Information Technology
  • IT305 Theory and Practice of Military Information Systems (Guest Lecturer)

Assignments

07/08 - present Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY.
06/09 - 07/09 Computer Science and Information Technology Mentor, National Military Academy of Afghanistan (NMAA), Command Support and Training Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A) Kabul, Afghanistan.
10/03 - 08/05 Chief, Data Support Division, United States Army Command and Control Support Agency, Army Operations Center, Pentagon, Washington D.C.
1/01 - 06/03 Assistant Professor / Senior Research Scientist, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Information Technology and Operations Center United States Military Academy, West Point, NY.
07/97 - 12/98 Company Commander, 1-32 Armor, Fort Lewis, WA.
03/96 - 07/97 Assistant Brigade Operations Officer--Plans, 3d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, WA.
07/94 - 03/96 Assistant Corps Personnel Officer, Plans and Operations, G-1, I Corps, Fort Lewis, WA.
12/93 - 06/94 Troop Executive Officer, Headquarters Troop 1/16th Cavalry Regiment, Fort Knox, KY.
12/92 - 12/93 Troop Executive Officer, L Troop, 3/11 Armored Cavalry Regiment, Bad Hersfeld, Germany.
03/91 - 12/92 Scout Platoon Leader, K Troop, 3/11 Armored Cavalry Regiment, Bad Hersfeld, Germany.

Education

2004 Contracting Officer Representative Course
2003 Command and General Staff College
1996 Combined Arms Staff and Service School
1994 Armor Officer Advance Course
1992 Maintenance Officer Course
1991 Airborne School
1991 Scout Platoon Leader Course
1990 Armor Officer Basic Course
1988 Air Assault School
  • I am currently interested in how to apply cognitive architectures to simulations and robotics (see Soar and my related publications).

  • My previous research efforts were in computer security, information assurance, and associated educational concepts (see my related publications).

Book / Book Chapters

S. D. Lathrop, G. J. Conti, and D. J. Ragsdale, "Information Warfare In The Trenches: Experiences from the Firing Range," Security Education and Critical Infrastructure, C. Irvine and H. Armstrong, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 2003, pp. 19-40, 2003.

G. Conti, J. M. D. Hill, S. Lathrop, K. Alford, and D. J. Ragsdale, "Towards A Comprehensive Undergraduate Information Assurance Program," Security Education and Critical Infrastructure, C. Irvine and H. Armstrong, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 2003, pp. 19-40, 2003.

Journal Articles

S. Lathrop, C. Gates, D. Massie, J. Hill, "Penetration Test of a Power Plant: Evaluating the Security of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System," ASHRAE Transactions,Volume 2006. Vol. 112, Pt. 2.

D. J. Ragsdale, S.D. Lathrop, and R. C. Dodge, "Enhancing Information Warfare Education Through the Use of Virtual and Isolated Networks," The Journal of Information Warfare, Volume 2, Issue 3, August 2003, pp. 47-59.

Refereed Conference and Workshop Proceedings

S.D. Lathrop and C.M. Korpela, "Towards a Distributed Robotic Architecture for Autonomous Heterogeneous Platforms," 2009 IEEE TePRA International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robotic Applications, Woburn, Massachusetts, November 2009.

M.I. Brownfield, S.D. Lathrop, S.A. Brownfield, and M. Bellili, "Networked Intelligent Munitions and Sensor Systems," The 2009 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2009.

S.D. Lathrop and J.E. Laird, "Extending Cognitive Architectures with Mental Imagery," Proceedings of the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, Arlington, Virgina, March 2009.

S. Wintermute and S.D. Lathrop, "AI and Mental Imagery," AAAI Fall Symposia on Natural Intelligence, Arlington, Virginia, November 7-9 2008.

S.D. Lathrop and J.E. Laird, "Towards Incorporating Visual Imagery into a Cognitive Architecture," Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, July 2007.

G. Conti, D. J. Ragsdale, S.D. Lathrop, and C. Gates, Implementation and Lessons Learned from an Undergraduate Special Interest Group in Information Assurance," 8th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), June 2004.

S. D. Lathrop, G. J. Conti, D. J. Ragsdale, "Information Warfare in the Trenches," Third World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE3), June 2003.

G.J. Conti, J Hill, S.D. Lathrop, K. Alford, and D.J. Ragsdale, "A Comprehensive Undergraduate Information Assurance Program," Third World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE3), June 2003.

D. J. Ragsdale, R. Dodge, and S. Lathrop, "A Virtual Environment for IA Education," Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE Information Assurance Workshop, June 2003, pp. 17-23.

J. Hill, J. Surdu, S. Lathrop, G. Conti, and C. Carver, "MAADNET: Toward a Web-Distributed Tool for Teaching Networks and Information Assurance," World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, June 2003.

S. Lathrop, J. Hill, J. Surdu, "Modeling Network Attacks and Defenses," Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS), May 2003.

D. Welch, S. Lathrop, "Wireless Security Threat Taxonomy," 4th Annual IEEE Information Assurance Workshop, June 2003.

Dissertation

S. D. Lathrop "Extending Cognitive Architectures with Spatial and Visual Imagery Mechanisms," University of Michigan, May 2008 (Advisor: John E. Laird).