Scott D. Dexter
Professor
Computer and Information Science
Location: 0113 Ingersoll Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x2048
Fax: 718.951.4842
Email:
Scott Dexter's research interests center on exploring the role of computing across a range of social and humanistic phenomena: While his formal training is in computer science, his scholarship is heavily influenced by the social sciences and humanities. In addition to an abiding interest in the philosophical implications of the free and open-source software phenomenon, he is currently working on projects concerning computer ethics and the education of computing/information professionals; the role of aesthetics and creativity in the software development process; and a book manuscript, tentatively titled Android Poetics: Bodies in Computation, which seeks to understand how the post-war rise of computation has inflected our understanding of the condition of being human.
http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~sdexter
Education:
Ph.D., University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - 1998 (Computer Science)
M.S., University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - 1996 (Computer Science and Engineering)
B.S., Denison University - 1993 (Mathematics and Computer Science)
Areas of Expertise:
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Books and Publications
Dexter, S. and A. Kozbelt. "Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) as a Model Domain for Answering Big Questions about Creativity." Mind & Society, June. DOI: 10.1007/s11299-013-0125-5. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013
"The Esthetics of the Hidden." Understanding Digital Humanities: The Computational Turn and New Technology. Ed. David M. Berry. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2012
Kozbelt, Aaron, Scott Dexter, Angelika Seidel and Melissa Dolese. "The Aesthetics of Software Code: A Quantitative Exploration." Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 6.1, February: 57-65. doi: 10.1037/a0025426 (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
Buchanan, E., J. Aycock, S. Dexter, D. Dittrich and E. Hvizdak. "Computer Science Security Research and Human Subjects: Emerging Considerations for Research Ethics Boards." Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, June. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2011
Dexter, Scott, Aaron Kozbelt, Melissa Dolese and Angelika Seidel. "On the Embodied Aesthetics of Code." Culture Machine. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Chopra, S. and S. Dexter. "Free Software and the Economics of Information Justice." Ethics and Information Technology. DOI: 10.1007/s10676-010-9226-6. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
Chopra, S. and S. Dexter. "Free Software, Economic 'Realities,' and Information Justice." ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 39.3, December. DOI: 10.1145/1713066.1713067. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
Chopra, S. and S. Dexter. "The Freedoms of Software and Its Ethical Uses. Ethics and Information Technology. DOI 10.1007/s10676-009-9191-0. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
Martin, W., et al. "Integrating Learning Theories and Application-Based Modules in Teaching Linear Algebra." Linear Algebra and Its Applications 2009.
DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2009.08.030. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
Tao, P., S. Dexter and Ahmet Eskicioglu. "Robust Digital Image Watermarking in Curvelet Domain." Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2008. San Jose, Calif. DOI 10.1117/12.765895. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
Chopra, S. and S. Dexter. "Free Software and the Political Philosophy of the Cyborg World. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 37.2, November. DOI 10.1145/1327325.1327328. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Chopra, S. and S. Dexter. "Free Software and the Political Philosophy of the Cyborg World." Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE 2007). San Diego, July. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Chopra, Samir and Scott Dexter. Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Book) 2007
Chopra, S. and S. Dexter. "The Political Economy of Open Source Software." The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society 1.7. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Chopra, S. and S. Dexter. "A Comparative Assessment of Free Software Licensing Schemes." Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE 2005). Enschede, The Netherlands. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
Ganic, E., S.D. Dexter and Ahmet Eskicioglu. "Embedding Multiple Watermarks in the DFT Domain Using Low and High Frequency Bands." Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2005. San Jose, Calif. DOI 10.1117/12.594697. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
Sverdlov, A., S.D. Dexter and A.M. Eskicioglu. "Robust DCT-SVD Domain Image Watermarking for Copyright Protection: Embedding Data in All Frequencies." Proceedings of the 13th Annual European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2005). Antalya, Turkey, September. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
Dexter, S., R. Belostotskiy and A.M. Eskicioglu. "Multi-Layer Multicast Key Management with Threshold Cryptography." Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2004. San Jose, Calif., January. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004
Xu, X., S. Dexter and A.M. Eskicioglu. "A Hybrid Scheme for Encryption and Watermarking." Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2004. San Jose, Calif., January. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004
Arnow, D., S. Dexter and G. Weiss. An Introduction to Programming Using Java: An Object-Oriented Approach, 2nd edition. Reading, Mass.: Addison Wesley. (Books and Publications: Book) 2003
Eskicioglu, A., S. Dexter and E. Delp. "Protection of Multicast Scalable Video by Secret Sharing: Simulation Results." Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2003. Santa Clara, Calif. DOI 10.1117/12.479731. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003
Dexter, S. and C. Gurwitz. "Virtual Education: A View from the Trenches." Proceedings of the 2002 Consortium for Computing at Small Colleges Northeast Regional Conference. Worcester, Mass., April. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002
"On Automated Checking of Java Applets." Proceedings of the 2000 Consortium for Computing at Small Colleges Northeast Regional Conference. Mahwah, N.J., April. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
"Teaching Applet Programming to Non-Majors Virtually." Proceedings of the 30th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. Kansas City, Mo., October. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
Dexter, S. and G. Theoharis. "Democracy at a Distance?: The Political Realities of Distance Learning." Proceedings of the 2000/2001 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Studies Association Conference. Albuquerque, N.M., February. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
Dexter, S., P. Doyle and Y. Gurevich. Gurevich Abstract State Machines and Schönhage Storage Modification Machines. Journal of Universal Computer Science 3.4, April. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1997
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Wolfe Fellowship. (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
2012-13 Tow Professor. (Awards and Honors) 2012
NSF-EESE, for "Collaborative Research: Understanding and Preparing Future Computer Professionals for the Ethical Complexities of a Diverse World." Principal investigator. $399,082 ($92,822 to Brooklyn College); 2011-13. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
National Science Foundation, for "Collaborative Research: Linear Algebra in New Environments (LINE)." Scott Dexter (principal investigator) and L. Cooley (co-principal investigator). $193,232 ($72,613 to Brooklyn College). (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
National Science Foundation, for "Dynamic Cognitive Analyses of Creativity and Aesthetics in Open-Source Software Development." Scott Dexter (co-principal investigator) and A. Kozbelt (principal investigator). $698,992. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Buchanan, E. and S. Dexter. "From Text to Classroom: A Discussion by and for Educators on Ethics, ICT, and Teaching and Learning" panel moderators. Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE). Lisbon, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Buchanan, E., K. Dins and S. Dexter. "Ethics: What, How, and When Is It Taught in Computer Science and Information Communication Technology Graduate Programs." Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE). Lisbon, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Dexter, S. and A. Kozbelt. "Closing the Gaps: Toward Unifying and Deepening the Study of Creativity." Creativity and Cognition 2013. Sydney, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Dexter, S., E. Buchanan, K. Fleischmann and K. Dins. "Characterizing the Need for Graduate Ethics Education." SIGCSE 2013 (ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education). Denver, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Kozbelt, Aaron, Scott Dexter, Frieda Fayena-Tawil, Daniel Meredith, Melissa Dolese and Angelika Seidel. "Regressive Imagery in Verbal Protocols of Artists and Computer Programmers." 22nd Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. Taipei, Taiwan, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Retrieving the Human." Conference on Constituting the Human. Hosted by Macaulay Honors College of CUNY. April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
Dexter, S., J. Aycock and D. Dittrich. "Human Subjects Agents, or Bots: Current Issues in Ethics and Computer Security Research" panel. 2nd Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security Research. St. Lucia, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
S. Dexter, J. Soraker, A. Hoffmann and N. Enright. "New Directions for Information Ethics Scholarship" panel. Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry. Milwaukee, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Toward a Poetics of Code." Workshop on The Computational Turn, Swansea University. Wales, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Kozbelt, A., S. Dexter, M.J. Dolese and A. Seidel. "Beautiful Software: Characterizing Aesthetic Judgment Criteria of Code Among Expert and Novice Computer Crogrammers." Proceedings of the Twenty-First Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (CD-ROM). Ed. R. Weber. Presentation given at the 2010 biannual meeting of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Dresden, Germany, Aug. 26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Chopra, S. and S. Dexter. "Free Software, Economic 'Realities,' and Information Justice." Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE 2009). Corfu, Greece. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
Chopra, S. and S. Dexter. "The Freedom Zero Problem: Free Software and the Ethical Use of Software." North American Computer and Philosophy 2007. Chicago, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Dexter, S. and J. Shuler. "The Digital Divide in New York City's Public Schools," International Research Foundation for Development's World Forum on the Information Society (in conjunction with the United Nations World Summit on Information Society), Geneva, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
Compton, K. and S. Dexter. "Proof Techniques for Cryptographic Protocols." 26th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP). Prague, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1999
Professional Leadership
Chairman, Brooklyn College Chapter of the Professional Staff Congress, 2008-11. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010
Director, Core Curriculum, Brooklyn College, 2008-11. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010
Elected to the board of the International Society for Ethics & Information Technology. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010
