Listed below are my published papers. Those articles for which I hold the copyright are provided for you to download, if you wish, as Microsoft word files. Conference panels that I have been a member of are listed below the publication list.
Publications:
“A Discovery-based Capstone Experience", Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual CCSC (Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges) Central Plains Conference, Volume 23, #4, April 2008.
"An Effective Nonlinear Rewards-Based Ranking System", Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports: Berkeley Electronic Press (BEP), Volume 3, Issue 2, Article 3, 2007. (Downloadable PDF file after free on-line registration with BEP here.) (Web page cited at the end of the paper, listing yearly generated results of this system.)
"Optimal Table Lookup for Reserved Words in Ada", Ada Letters, Volume 26, #1, April 2006 (a publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Ada). (PDF version, MS Word file)
"Searching for a
Shortest K-Element Sidon Set in Parallel”,
Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), June 2005 (with Andrew J. Bays
– undergraduate coauthor).
“Can You Beat the Odds(makers)?”, Math Horizons (published by the Mathematical
Association of America), April 2005.
“Applying the Overtake & Feedback Algorithm", Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer (#357), February, 2004. (The article "Overtake and Feedback Follow-up" appeared in the May 2004 issue.)
"An Extended Programming
Assignment (Using Java)”, Proceedings of 2001 PDPTA, June 2001.
"Arithmetical Croquet”, Proceedings of the Sixth
Annual CCSC (Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges) Northeastern
Conference, Volume 16, #4, April 2001.
“March
Mathness: An Analysis of a Nonstandard Basketball
Pool”, Math Horizons, February, 2001 (with Aaron Archer, Richard Cleary, and
Robin Lock).
“Comments
on ‘Tagged Semaphores’”, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Operating
Systems Review, Volume 34, #4, October 2000.
“Further Comments on ‘A Correct and Unrestrictive
Implementation of General Semaphores’”, ACM Operating Systems Review, Volume
34, #3, July 2000 (with William E. Taylor – undergraduate coauthor).
“A
Quantitative Examination of Computer Architecture Evolution”, Proceedings of
the Fourth Annual CCSC (Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges) Northeastern
Conference, Volume 14, #4, May 1999.
"A
Comparison of Three Strategies for Computing Letter Oriented, Minimal Perfect
Hashing Functions",
ACM SIGPLAN (Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)
Notices, Volume 30, #4, April 1995.
"Taxman
Revisited", ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
(SIGCSE) Bulletin, Volume 26, #4, December 1994.
"A
New Exercise in Concurrency", ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 26, #3,
September 1994.
"An Undergraduate Project to Compute Minimal
Perfect Hashing Functions", ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 24, #3, September
1992.
"Average
Case Analysis When Merging Two Ordered Lists of Different Length", ACM
SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 23, #3, September 1991.
"A
Deterministic Prediction Model for the American Game of Football", ACM Simuletter, Volume 19, #1, March 1988.
"NSCS
H/MI Implementation Considerations", Bell Laboratories Technical
Memorandum 82-59473-11,
"Performance
Evaluation of NSCS (1NS1)",
Conference Panels:
"Multi-phase
Homework Assignments", Nineteenth Annual CCSC (Consortium for Computing in
Small Colleges) Eastern Conference, hosted by Montclair State University (Upper
Montclair, NJ), October 17-18, 2003.
“Experience with IDEs and Java Teaching: What Works and What Doesn't”, 8th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), hosted by the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece), June 30-July 2, 2003.
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