Professional Development

Papers Delivered at Conferences
Panel Member/Workshop Contributor
Professional Society Memberships and Recognition

Papers Delivered at Conferences:

    • "A Combinatorial Algorithm for Minimizing the Number of States of a Deterministic Finite-State Automaton," delivered at the ACM Computer Science Conference, Louisville, KY, February, 1989.
    • "An Object-Oriented Implementation of Local Area Networks," delivered at the Eleventh Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, October 21, 1995.
    • "An Object-Oriented Implementation of Graph Abstract Data Types," presented at New York Graph Theory Day XXXIV, November, 1996.
    • "An Implementation of the Big Integer ADT," presented at the Fourteenth Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 24, 1998
    • “Collecting Assessment Data,” (with John Beidler), presented at the 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 10-13, 1999.

Panel Member/Workshop Contributor:

I have served as a panelist/workshop contributor at a number of different professional society conferences. Notable among these are:

  • Eleventh Annual National Conference on Ada Technology, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and NASA, March 15-18, 1993, Williamsburg, VA. (Panelist)
  • Thirteenth Annual National Conference on Ada Technology, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and NASA, March 13-16, Valley Forge, PA. (Workshop Contributor)
  • Tri-Ada '93, sponsored by SIGADA (Special Interest Group on Ada of the Association for Computing Machinery), Seattle, WA, Sept. 19-23, 1993. (Panelist)
  • Tri-Ada '94, sponsored by SIGADA (Special Interest Group on Ada of the Association for Computing Machinery), Baltimore, MD, Nov. 6-11, 1994. (Workshop Contributor)
  • SIGCSE'94: The Use of Ada as a CS1 Language, Twenty-Fifth Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education of SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education of the Association of the Association for Computing Machinery), Phoenix, AZ, March 10-11, 1994. (Panelist)
  • Tri-Ada '95, sponsored by SIGADA (Special Interest Group on Ada of the Association for Computing Machinery), Anaheim, CA, Nov. 5-10, 1995. (Workshop Contributor)
  • Tri-Ada '96, sponsored by SIGADA (Special Interest Group on Ada of the Association for Computing Machinery), Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 5-10, 1996. (Workshop Contributor)
  • Tri-Ada ’97, sponsored by SIGADA (Special Interest Group on Ada of the Association for Computing Machinery), St. Louis, MO (Workshop Contributor).
  • Tri-Ada ’98, sponsored by SIGADA (Special Interest Group on Ada of the Association for Computing Machinery), Washington, DC (Workshop Contributor).

Professional Society Memberships and Recognition:

  • Member of Sigma Xi, Who's Who in the World, Pi Mu Epsilon, The Association for Computing Machinery, Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineering (IEEE), Dictionary of International Biography and American Men and Women of Science.
  • My 1993 Ada text was used as part of the text materials for a post-session intensive course on the Ada programming language for college- and university-level computer science educators at the Twenty-Sixth Technical Symposium of Computer Science Education of SIGCSE, Nashville, TN, March 2-4, 1995.
  • Served as Session Chair on Object-Oriented Design at the Twenty-Seventh Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education of SIGCSE, Philadelphia, PA, February 14-17, 1996.
  • Served as Session Chair at the Seventeenth Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, October 24, 2001.
  • My 2002 C++ text was translated into Chinese for use in courses on Object-Oriented Design in mainland China and in the Far East, 2003.
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