Education

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 1984-1985
  
  M.S., Computer Science

  OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, 1971-1978
  

  Ph.D., Dissertation: "The Genus of Certain Graphs"
  

  Advisors: Henry H. Glover, John P. Huneke

  PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1967-1969
  

  M.A., Major areas: number theory, algebra

  DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, 1963-1967
  

  A.B., Major: mathematics

Employment

• Professor, Department of Computer Science,
  
  Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1997-
  Chair, 2001-

  Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
  

  Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1989-97

  Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
  

  Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1985-1989

  Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
  

  Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, 1978-1985

  Mathematics-Statistics Assistant,
  

  U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, MD, 1969-1971

Research, Selected Publications

• programming.java (with S. Hirshfield), PWS, 1998
• The Analytical Engine Online: A Survey of Computer Science using the Internet (with S. Hirshfield), PWS, 1997
• Working Classes: Data Structures and Algorithms in C++ (with S. Hirshfield), PWS, 1995
• The Object Concept: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (with S. Hirshfield), PWS, 1994, 1995
• Pascal's Triangle, (with S. Hirshfield), Wadsworth, 1992
• The Analytical Engine (with S. Hirshfield), Wadsworth, 1990, 1992, 1994
  [Educom/NCRIPTAL Award for Best Curricular Innovation, Sciences, 1990, Project Kaliedoscope Award: "Programs That Work," 1995].
• Data Structures, Prentice Hall, 1989
• Getting Down to BASICs, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1982
  
  
• DISCUSS, courseware authoring programs, in perpetual beta test
  
  
• "Teaching and Learning C++ for the Pascal Generation," workshop, Twenty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Nashville, TN (March 1995)
• "The Top 10 Reasons Why Object-Oriented Programming Can't be Taught in CS1," (with S. Hirshfield) SIGCSE Bulletin 26(1) (March 1994)
• "Top-Down Teaching: Object-Oriented Programming in CS 1," (with S. Hirshfield) SIGCSE Bulletin 25(1) (March 1993)
• "The Case for CS 0," Syllabus 24 (Spring 1992)
• "A Survey Course in Computer Science Using HyperCard," (with S. Hirshfield) SIGCSE Bulletin 22(1) (February 1990)
• "Computer-Assisted Instruction in the Liberal Arts Using a Simple Authoring System," Journal of Computing in Higher Education 1(1) (Spring 1989), 21-38
• "Computing the Genus of the 2-amalgamation of Graphs," Combinatorica 5 (4) (1985), 271-282
• "The Genus of 2-amalgamations of Graphs," Journal of Graph Theory 5 (1981), 95-102
  
  
• "Object Orientation: Estamos Perdidos en un Callejon Sin Salida?" XXIII International Symposium on Computer Science, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, MX, February 25, 1998
• "Computer Science as a Contact Sport," Spring meeting of the EPADEL section of the MAA, Millersville University, Millersville, PA, April, 1996
• "DISCUSS: a Computer-Based Reading Laboratory," Sigma Xi Lecture Series, Hamilton College, October, 1987, and Rome-Utica ACM meeting, May, 1988
• "A Liberal Arts Curriculum in Computer Science," NYSMATYC conference, Onondaga Community College, November, 1986

Teaching Experience

• Christian Johnson Teaching Fellow, Hamilton College, 1998
• Faculty Teaching Award, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1984.
• Mellon Foundation seminar on teaching, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1979.
• Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, Ohio State University. Nominee, 1973, award 1976.
• Distinguished Teaching Associate Award, College of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Ohio State University, 1973, 1974, 1976.

Grant Participation

• "Integrating Object-Oriented Programming and Formal Methods into the CS Curriculum," CISE EI Program, National Science Foundation 1993-1996, $612,503
• "Teaching and Learning Object-Oriented Programming," Pew Science Program, New York Cluster, 1992, $9,000
• Educational Infrastructure Grant, Keck Foundation, 1986, $250,000
• "Technology in the Service of the Liberal Arts," The Liberal Arts Enrichment Program, Pew Memorial Trust, 1985-1990, $500,000
• Symposium, "Thinking Computers," Mellon Foundation, 1983, $18,000
• Workshop, Faculty Seminar on Computers, 1982-1983, $7,230.
• "Teaching Calculus Using Programmable Calculators," CAUSE, National Science Foundation, 1976-1981, $760,000

Professional Affiliations

• ACM (SIGCSE, SIGACT)
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Sigma Xi