COL Eugene K. Ressler Head, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Computer Science and Professor, United States Military Academy   Professional Address: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Thayer Hall Bldg 601, Rm. 1105 United States Military Academy West Point, NY 10996 Phone: (845)938-5582 FAX: (845)938-5956 E-mail: ressler@usma.edu   Education M.S. Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1998 (National Resource Strategy) Ph.D. Cornell University, 1993 (Computer Science) M.S. University of California at Berkeley, 1985 (Computer Science) B.S. United States Military Academy, 1978   Recent Positions : 2000-2007: Deputy Head, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 1995-1998 and 1999-2000: Associate Dean, Information and Educational Technology and Division Director 1998-1999: West Point Fellow, Industrial College of the Armed Forces 1993-1995: Associate Professor of Computer Science   Synopsis: Colonel Eugene Ressler is a Professor of Computer Science and currently serves as Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the U. S. Military Academy. He received a B.S. degree from the USMA in 1978, a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1993. As an officer in the U. S. Army Engineers, he served in Germany as platoon leader, executive officer, and staff officer, and he commanded B Company, 79th Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy), 18th Engineer Brigade at Grafenwoehr, with intervening short assignments in Turkey and Algeria. While later assigned in Korea, he was responsible for the U.S. 8th Army’s facilities minor construction, maintenance, and repair programs. He has been a member of the USMA faculty for a total of seventeen years in two tours, creating and teaching courses in information technology, theory of computation, operating systems, database systems, algorithms, digital logic, compiler design, and computer graphics, and advising individual research. He also served as USMA’s Associate Dean for Information and Educational Technology from 1995 to 2000, where he led the development of the USMA’s educational technology infrastructure. His academic interests include neural networks for signal and image processing, simulation, computer languages, and compiler technology. He is 1998 distinguished graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, where he also served as a USMA Fellow, and a recipient of the 2002 AAES Norman Augustine Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communications.