Education

M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Thesis: Distributed Visibility Computing

M.S., Clark Atlanta University, Thesis: Parallel Computation for Dynamic Programming

B.S., Clark Atlanta University, Minor: Mathematics

Work Experience

IBM Almaden Research Center, Cambridge, MA, Technical Co-Op

AT&T Research Labs, Atlanta, GA, Summer Manager, Patent: Method for Three-Dimensional Inventory Link

Boston University, Metropolitan College, Boston, MA, Adjunct Professor,Principal Investigator, Classroom Commmunicator

MIT, Cambridge, MA, Teaching Assistant, 6.001 - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

MIT/Microsoft I-Campus, Cambridge, MA, Student Principal Investigator / Team Lead, Classroom Communicator

AT&T, New Jersey, Summer Internship

Boeing Aircraft Company, Seattle, WA, Summer Internship

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexingon, MA, Summer Internship

Clark Atlanta University, ViSiDeL Lab, Atlanta, GA, System Administrator

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Research Assistant

Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA, Summer Internship

Research Grants/Awards

Qualcomm Scholarship

MIT Graduate Student Office Grant for Educational Support Group 

Boston University Instructional Technology Grant 

First Place Nextel National Wireless Data Application 

Microsoft/MIT I-Campus Educational Technologies Grant 

Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship

Office of Naval Research Graduate Scholarship

Affiliations

Coalition to Diversity Computing, Former Webmaster and Member

Richard B. Tapia 2005 Conference, Former Webmaster and Committee member 

MIT Educational Technologies Group, Co-Founder & Past President

Graduate Student Representative of the MIT Committee of Educational Technology

IEEE and NSBE, Student Member

Selected Publications

Brittain, E., Bryant, R., Chandler, L., Chapman, R., Daily, S., Hampton, M., Mills-Henry, I., Walcott, A. The Academy of Courageous MinorityEngineers: A Model for Supporting Minority Graduate Students in the Completion of Science and Engineering Degrees. American Society for Engineering Education, 2007.

Engelmann, John, Eslambolchi, Hossein, Gaddamanugu, Bala; Rangavittal, Prakash; Stewart, Harold; Brittain, Eric. Method for Three-Dimensional Inventory Link. European Patent: EP1501036, 2005-01-26.

Brittain, E., Terman, C. and Ward, S. A Goal-Oriented Approach to Developing Courses, CSAIL Research Abstracts, 2005.

Eric Brittain. Distributed Visibility Servers. Master's Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.

Rebecca Xiong, Eric Brittain, LiveWeb: visualizing live user activities on the Web. Source International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques archive ACM SIGGRAPH 99 Conference abstracts and applications.

Van Hook, Daniel J., Eric A. Brittain, "An Implementation of a Data Consistency Mechanism," 95-13-097, Thirteenth Workshop on Standards for the Interoperability of Distributed Simulations, September 18-22, 1995.

Eric Brittain. Parallel Computation for Dynamic Programming. Master's Thesis, Clark Atlanta University, 1995.