Employment
Years of university teaching: 35 (1978 - present)
Schools taught at: DePaul University (1998 - present), Dominican University (1995-1998),
Purdue University - Fort Wayne (1988-1995), Illinois State University (1980-1988), Wayne State University (1978-1980)
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electrical Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, 1986.
Master of Science in Computer Science, Wayne State University, 1978.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Wayne State University, 1976.
Editor of the column SIGCSE Spotlight, which occurs every quarter in ACM's Inroads magazine.
My textbook "Data Communications and Computer Networks: A Business User's Approach" is currently in the 8th edition and was Course Technology's Product of the Year for 2001.
Built an Altair 8800b as a graduate student in 1977. The Altair is considered the FIRST microcomputer. I then interfaced it to a Teletype machine for input and output. (Got an A in the class.)
President, Consortium for Computer Science Colleges, 2002-2003.
Symposium Chair, ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, San Jose, CA, March 1997. The first SIGCSE conference that split away from the ACM Conference.
Conference Chair, First Annual Midwest Small College Computing Conference, Fort Wayne, IN, Fall 1994.
Program Chair, ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, March 1992.
High school record in 100 yards backstroke lasted 23 years (1:02.4) (they had really bad swim teams!).
Can play clarinet, sax and flute, but not well.
Can install Sheetrock, hardwood floors and ceramic tile; can wire a house; can do my own plumbing.
Blue belt, Tae Kwon Do.
Own a 1957 T-Bird and perform my own maintenance.
Eagle Scout