Dudley Girard

Dudley Girard is professor and Director of the Morgan School of Engineering. His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence and Video Games.

Dr. Girard's more recent publications (Student Names in Italics):

• Girard, C. Dudley and Jamajama, Achraf. 2025. “Training a Neural Network to Kick a Ball in Rocket League”. 40th Annual Conference of PACISE, West Chester University, PA.
• Girard, C. Dudley. 2024. “How Position vs Direction Affects Learning to Pass a Ball”. 39th Annual Conference of PACISE, Kutztown University, PA.
• Lewis, Joshua and C. Dudley Girard. 2023. “Position Information with Neural Networks”. 38^th Annual Conference of PACISE, East Stroudsburg University, PA.

Games Published with Video Game Development Club:

• JLearner by Game Dev Club of Shippensburg University
• AsterRoll by Game Dev Club of Shippensburg University
• A Log Time Coming by Game Dev Club of Shippensburg University

Dr. Girard received his doctorate in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina.  Before coming to Shippensburg University Dr. Girard developed software and taught a course for the Sociology Department at the University of South Carolina.

Additional Publications

 (2019-2022)

• Forrester, Tyler and C. Dudley Girard. 2021. "Evolving a Bot to Speedrun". 36th Annual Conference of PACISE, Slippery Rock University – Virtual
• Rutter, Kevin and C. Dudley Girard. 2020. "Instrument Identification Using Convolutional Neural Networks". 35th Annual Conference of PACISE, West Chester, PA.
• Standke, Adam and C. Dudley Girard. 2020. "Does a News Article Exist Within a Web Page?". 35th Annual Conference of PACISE, West Chester, PA. (Presented at the 36th Conference due to Covid)
• Rummel, Nicholas and C. Dudley Girard. 2019. "Document Classification Problem: Does a Web Page Contain an Article?".  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of PACISE, Millersville, PA.

 (2016-2018)

• Misicko, Andrew and C. Dudley Girard. 2018. "Content Extraction: An Analysis of the LICE Algorithm".  Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of PACISE, Shippensburg, PA.
• Rose, Daniel and C. Dudley Girard. 2018. "Using an Ontology to help with Automatic Story Generation".  Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of PACISE, Shippensburg, PA.
• Abrams, David and C. Dudley Girard. 2017. "Creating and Implementing a Dynamic Social Network as the Quest Generation Engine in a MUD".  Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of PACISE, Edinboro, PA.
• Jones, David and C. Dudley Girard. 2016. "Automatic Story Generation". Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of PACISE, Kutztown, PA.

 (2010-2012)

• Girard, C. Dudley. 2012. "Beagle Board Based Compiler Course". Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of PACISE, Millersville, PA.
• Girard, C. Dudley. 2011. "TFE Interface Project - A Study of Gforge". Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of PACISE, Shippensburg, PA.

 (2006-2009)

• Borch, Casey and C. Dudley Girard. 2009. “Predicting Patterns of Exchange in Economic Exchange Networks”. Journal of Social Structure, Vol. 10.
• Briggs, Thomas and C. Dudley Girard. 2006. “Tools and Techniques for Test-Driven Learning in CS1”. CCSC: 22^nd Annual Eastern Conference, Fredricksburg, VA.
• Girard, C. Dudley and Carol Wellington. 2006. “A Test-First Approach to Teaching CS1”. 36^th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers In Education Conference, San Diego, CA.
• Wellington, Carol, Thomas Briggs, and C. Dudley Girard. 2006. “The Impact of Agility on a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science”. Agile 2006 International Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

 (2000-2005)

• Wellington, Carol A., Thomas Briggs, and C. Dudley Girard. 2005. “Comparison of Student Experiences with Plan-Driven and Agile Methodologies”.  35^th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis.
• Girard, C. Dudley. 2005. "A Project-Based Approach to Getting Students Interested in Language Design". Proceedings of the 20^th Annual Conference of PACISE, Bloomsburg, PA.
• Girard, Dudley and Casey Borch. 2003. "Optimal Seek Simplified". Current Research in Social Psychology.  Vol. 8, Number 16.
• van Assen, M.A.L.M., and Dudley Girard. 2001. "Bargaining in Exchange Networks". Essays on Actor Models in Exchange Networks and Social Dilemmas. M. A. L. M. van Assen editor, Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology, pp. 101-135.
• Rose, John and Dudley Girard. July 2000. " A Biologically-Motivated Approach to Direction Sensitive -Velocity-Tuned Motion Detectors". 4^th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando.

(1994-1999)

• Huntsberger, Terry L., Rose, John R., and Girard, Dudley. 1999. "Neural Systems for Motion Analysis: Single Neuron and Network Approaches".  Soft Computing for Image Processing.  Sankar K. Pal, Ashish Ghosh, and Malay K. Kundu editors, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg New York, pp 525-551.
• Girard, Dudley and David Willer. 1999. "Exnet III: A New Web-Based Resource for Experimental Research". Spring. Social Psychology.
• Girard, Charles D. 1999. "A Method of Automatic Training Sequence Generation for Recursive Neural Networks in the Area of Sensing Directional Motion".  Proceedings of the Twelfth International Florida AI Research Society Conference, Orlando.
• Presser, Cliff, Dudley Girard, Wayne Smith, and John R. Rose. 1999."A Distributed Agent Environment System for Simulating a Naïve Sensor/Emitter". 31^st Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Chicago.
• Willer, David, Lisa Rustrom, Linda B. Karr, Mamadi Corra, and Dudley Girard. 1999. "A Web-lab to enhance social science infrastructure: experiments, simulations and archiving". Journal of Knowledge Management. Vol. 3, Number 4.
• Girard, Charles D. 1998. "A Graphical User Interface for Running Network Exchange Theory Experiments". Proceedings of the 36^th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Marietta, GA.
• Girard, Charles D. 1994. "Color Edge Detection Using Differential Operators Based on the Human Vision System". Proceedings of the 32^nd Annual Southeast Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL.