Department of Computer Science
and Engineering
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(803)-777-8103
BA (Magna cum Laude) in
Applied Mathematics, Radcliffe College, 1968
MS in Computer Science,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974
Ph.D. in Computer Science,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1977
Program Director, Information
Science Program, Division of Information Science and Technology, National
Science Foundation, 1984-1985.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Florida State University,
1977-1982.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University,
1982-1984.
Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University,
1984-1985 (on leave 1984-1985).
Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science, University of South Carolina, 1986-1991.
Professor, Department of
Computer Science, University of South Carolina, 1991-
Director of Undergraduate
Studies, Department of Computer Science, University of South Carolina, 1999-
Caroline M. Eastman, "Optimal
bucket size for nearest neighbor searching in k-d trees," Information Processing Letters, Vol. 12,
No. 4, August 1981, pp. 165-167.
Caroline M. Eastman and
Stephen F. Weiss, "Tree structures for high dimensionality nearest
neighbor searching," Information
Systems, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1982, pp. 115-122.
Caroline M. Eastman, "A
comment on English neologisms and programming language keywords," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 25, No.
12, December 1982, pp. 938-940.
Caroline M. Eastman and Marie
Zemankova, "Partially specified nearest neighbor searches using k-d
trees," Information Processing
Letters, Vol. 15, No. 2, September 1982, pp. 53-56.
Caroline M. Eastman and
Douglas Scott McLean, "On the need for parsing ill-formed input," American Journal of Computational
Linguistics, Vol. 7, No. 4, October-December 1981, p. 257.
Caroline M. Eastman, "A
lexical analysis of keywords in high level programming languages," International Journal of Man-Machine Studies,
Vol. 19, December 1983, pp. 595-607.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Optimal bucket size for multiattribute retrieval in partitioned
files," Information Systems,
Vol. 12, No. 4, 1987, pp. 375-383.
Caroline M. Eastman, "An
approach to the evaluation of catalog selection systems,"
Information Processing and Management, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1988,
pp. 23-30.
Elizabeth McClelland, Robert
Trueblood, and Caroline M. Eastman, "Two approximate operators for a
database query language: sounds-like and close-to," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 18, No. 6,
1988, pp. 873-884.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Handling incrementally specified Boolean queries: a comparison of
inverted and signature file organizations," Information Processing and Management, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1989, pp.
27-38.
Don Potter, Robert Trueblood, and
Caroline M. Eastman, "Hyper-semantic data modeling," Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 4,
1989, pp. 69-90.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Research productivity and breadth of interest revisited," Journal of the American Society for
Information Science, Vol. 40, No. 5, September 1989, pp. 359-360.
Ziad Nakkouzi and Caroline M.
Eastman, "Query formulation for handling negation in information retrieval
systems," Journal of the American
Society for Information Science, Vol. 41, No. 3, April 1990, pp. 171-182.
William F. Storer and Caroline
M. Eastman, "Some experiments in the use of clustering for data
validation," Information Systems,
Vol. 15, No. 5, 1990, pp. 537-542.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Formatted and unformatted character data types," Journal of the American Society for
Information Science, Vol. 42, No. 2, March 1991, pp. 110-111.
Charlene W. Young, Robert L.
Oakman, and Caroline M. Eastman, "An analysis of ill-formed input in
natural language queries to document retrieval systems," Information Processing and Management,
Vol. 27, No. 6, 1991, pp. 615-622.
Caroline M. Eastman and Robert
P. Trueblood, "Occupancy models for the estimation of block
accesses," The Computer Journal,
Vol. 35, No. 6, December 1992, pp.
654-658.
Yuk Fung Chang and Caroline M.
Eastman, "An information retrieval system for reusable software," Information Processing and Management,
Vol. 29, No. 5,1993, pp. 601-614.
John R. Rose and Caroline M.
Eastman, "Hierarchical classification as an aid to browsing," Informatica, Vol. 21, 1997, pp. 49-57.
Douglas Hutchison, Caroline M.
Eastman, and Terry Tirrito, "Designing user interfaces for older
adults," Educational Gerontology,
Vol. 23, 1997, pp. 497-513.
Robin M. Carter and Caroline
M. Eastman, "Sharp-tailed Sandpiper observed in Orangeburg County, South
Carolina: First sight record for South
Carolina," The Chat, Vol.62, No.
1, 1998, pp. 38-40.
April R. McQuire and Caroline
M. Eastman, "The ambiguity of negation in natural language queries to
information retrieval systems," Journal
of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 49, No. 8, June 1998,
pp. 686-692.
Robin M. Carter and Caroline
M. Eastman, "White-winged Crossbill observed in Richland County: First record for South Carolina," The Chat, Vol. 62, No. 3, 1998, pp.
157-159.
Su Hee Kim and Caroline M.
Eastman, "An experiment on node size in a hypermedia system," Journal of the American Society for
Information Science, Vol. 50, No. 6, 1999, pp. 530-536.
Fiona Coutinho, Caroline M.
Eastman, Christopher B. Hare, and Robert F. Skinder, "Integrating digital
resources into a traditional university research library," Issues in Science and Technology Libraries,
Number 23, Summer 1999, http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-summer/article3.html
Caroline M. Eastman, "Sex
stereotyping of calculators for arithmetic drill," The Arithmetic Teacher, Vol. 28, No. 1, September 1980, p. 45.
Caroline M. Eastman and
Douglas Scott McLean, "On the need for studying ill-formed input," American Journal of Computational
Linguistics, Vol. 9, No. 2, April-June 1983, pp.92-93.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Paired comments on parallel querying," Computer, Vol. 21, No. 1, January 1988, pp. 8, 10.
Caroline M. Eastman, "Not
at all X-cited," Communications of
the ACM, Vol. 31, No. 9, August 1988, p. 946.
"Razorbill record for Huntington Beach State Park, S.C." The Chat, Vol. 56, No. 3, Summer 1992,
p. 62. Text by Don Seriff. Photograph by Caroline M. Eastman.
“Birding Interstate-95,”
Birding, Vol. 31, No. 4, August 1999, pp. 346-357. Article by Robin M.
Carter. Three photographs by Caroline
M. Eastman. Additional photographs by
others.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Database management systems," Annual
Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 20, Martha Williams,
ed., Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc., White Plains, NY, 1985, pp. 91-115.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Education for research in software engineering," Issues in Software Engineering Education,
Richard Fairley and Peter Freeman, editors, Springer Verlag, New York, NY,
1989, pp. 314-323.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Approximate retrieval: a
comparison of information retrieval and database management systems," Data Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 2, June
1989, pp. 41-45.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Accommodating diversity in computer science education," in Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender
Barrier in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering, Sue V. Rosser, ed.,
Teacher's College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New
York, 1995, pp. 160-168.
Caroline M. Eastman and
Stephen F. Weiss, "A tree algorithm for nearest neighbor searching in
document retrieval systems," SIGIR
Forum, Vol. 13, No. 1, Summer 1978, pp. 131-149, (Proceedings of SIGIR 1978:
International Conference on Information Storage and Retrieval, May
1978).
Caroline M. Eastman and Steven
L. Blumsack, "Repackaging the introductory course to separate the control
language," SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol.
11, No. 1, February 1979, pp. 155-157.
Marie Zemankova and Caroline
M. Eastman, "Comparative lexical analysis of FORTRAN code, code comments,
and English text," Proceedings of
the 18th Annual Southeast Regional ACM Conference, Tallahassee, Florida,
March 1980, pp. 193-197.
William F. Storer and Caroline
M. Eastman, "Experiments on the application of clustering techniques to
data validation," SIGIR Forum,
Vol. 16, No. 1, Summer 1981, pp. 88-89. (Proceedings
of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Information Storage and
Retrieval: Theoretical Issues in
Information Retrieval, Oakland, California, June 1981.)
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Lexical characteristics of keywords in high-level programming languages," Proceedings of COMPSAC 81: The Fifth International Computer Software
and Applications Conference, IEEE Computer Society, New
York, New York, November 1981, pp. 112-118.
Joan Francioni, Abraham
Kandel, and Caroline M. Eastman, "Imprecise decision tables and their
optimization," Approximate Reasoning
in Decision Analysis, M. M. Gupta and E. Sanchez (editors), North Holland,
1982, pp. 89-96.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Uncontrolled distribution," Computerworld,
July 19, 1982, p. 30.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Current practice in the evaluation of multikey search algorithms,"
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference,
Washington, D.C., June 1983, pp. 197-204.
Caroline M. Eastman, "The
use of logic programming in information retrieval experimentation," Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of
the American Society for Information Science, Washington, D.C., October
1983, pp. 58-59.
David L. Wells and Caroline M.
Eastman, "A preliminary study of traffic analysis in encrypted databases," Eighteenth Annual Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, 1985, pp. 373-382.
Caroline M. Eastman, "The
first international conference on expert database systems: a summary," SIGIR Forum, Vol. 21, Nos. 1-2,
Fall/Winter 1987, pp. 6-10.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Approaches to approximate retrieval in database management systems,"
NAFIPS 1987: Proceedings of the North
American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Workshop, West Lafayette,
Indiana, May 5-7, 1987, pp. 140-147.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"File organizations and incrementally specified queries,"
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New
Orleans, Louisiana, June 3-5, 1987, pp. 217-222.
Ziad Nakkouzi and Caroline M.
Eastman, "Negation in queries: global and local contexts," Proceedings of The 50th Annual Meeting of
the American Society
for Information Science, Boston, Massachusetts,
October 4-8, 1987, pp. 63-65.
Don Potter, Robert P.
Trueblood, Manton M. Matthews, and Caroline M. Eastman, "KDL: a
hyper-semantic data model specification language," Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Methodologies for
Intelligent Systems: Colloquia Program,
Charlotte, North Carolina,
October 14-18, 1987, pp. 203-213.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"File organizations to support incrementally specified queries in
information systems," Proceedings of
the 26th Annual Southeast Region ACM Conference, Mobile, Alabama, April
21-22, 1988, pp. 331-333.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Overlaps in postings to thesaurus terms:
a preliminary study,"
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of The American Society for
Information Science, Atlanta, Georgia, October 23-27, 1988, pp.
181-184.
Deepak Chawla and Caroline M.
Eastman, "An approach to approximate retrieval in databases," Proceedings of the Fourth
International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems: Poster
Session Program, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 12-14, 1989, pp. 69-74.
Charlene W. Young, Robert L.
Oakman, and Caroline M. Eastman, "An analysis of ill-formed input in
natural language queries (extended abstract)," Proceedings of the 20th Annual Southeast Regional ACM Conference,
Greenville, South Carolina, April 19-20, 1990, p. 200.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Basic taxonomic structures and levels of abstraction," Proceedings of the 1st ASIS SIG/CR
Classification Research Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, November 4, 1990, pp.
59-70.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Letter to the editor," SIGPLAN
Notices, Vol. 25, No. 11, November 1990, p. 16.
Caroline M. Eastman and Robert
P. Trueblood, "Occupancy models for the estimation of block
accesses," Proceedings of the
Twenty-first Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, May
3-4, 1990, pp. 1891-1894.
Daniel G. Pruitt and Caroline
M. Eastman, "An analysis of student programs using software metrics,"
Proceedings of the 29th ACM Southeast
Regional Conference, Auburn, Alabama, April 10-12, 1991, pp. 243-246.
Sony Gala, Deepak Chawla, and
Caroline M. Eastman, "Combining fuzzy and nonfuzzy approximate retrieval
in a database management system," Proceedings
of NAFIPS-91: The North American Fuzzy
Information Processing Society Workshop,
Columbia, Missouri, May 15-17,
1991, pp. 57-61.
Anamika Saxena, Su Hee Kim,
and Caroline M. Eastman, "Node conversion in hypermedia systems," Proceedings of the 30th ACM Southeast
Regional Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, April 8-10, 1992, pp.
442-444.
Daniel Pruitt, Swandip Dutt,
and Caroline M. Eastman, "Software metrics for student programs," Proceedings of the Third Software
Engineering Research Forum, Orlando, Florida, November 11-12, 1993, pp.
173-176.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"Metrics for database systems," Proceedings
of the Third Software Engineering Research Forum, Orlando, Florida,
November 11-12, 1993, pp. 313-314.
Suresh Ramaswamy and Caroline
M. Eastman, "Approximate retrieval in databases containing incomplete
information," Proceedings of the
32nd Annual ACM Southeast Conference, March 17-18, 1994, Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, pp. 257-262.
Robin M. Carter and Caroline
M. Eastman, "Anthropological perspectives on classification systems," Proceedings of the 5th ASIS SIG/CR
Classification Research Workshop, October 16, 1994, Alexandria, Virginia,
pp. 69-7.
John R. Rose and Caroline M. Eastman,
"Hierarchical classification as an aid to browsing (extended
abstract)," Proceedings of the 5th
ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, October 16, 1994, Alexandria,
Virginia, pp. 237-239.
April McQuire and Caroline M.
Eastman, "Ambiguity of negation in natural language queries
(abstract)," Proceedings of the 18th
Annual Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,
July 9-13, 1995, Seattle, Washington, p. 373.
Caroline M. Eastman and John
R. Rose, "Hierarchical support for browsing," Proceedings of the 17th National Online Meeting, May 14-16, 1996,
New York, New York, pp. 91-100.
Fiona C. Coutinho, Caroline M.
Eastman, Christopher B. Hare, and Robert F. Skinder, "Integrating digital
resources into a traditional university research library (abstract)," Proceedings of the IEEE Forum on Research
and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, May 19-21, 1999, Baltimore,
MD, p. 88.
Caroline M. Eastman,
"30,000 hits may be better than 300: Precision anomalies in Internet
searches (extended abstract)," Proceedings
of SIGIR '99: 22nd International Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval, Berkeley, CA, August 15-19, 1999 pp. 313-314.
Caroline M. Eastman and Su Hee
Kim, "Customizable Information Components," Customized Information Delivery Workshop, A workshop presented in
conjunction with the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
on Information Retrieval, Berkeley, California, August 19, 1999, pp. 1-5. http://www.ted.cmis.csiro.au/sigir99/
Caroline M. Eastman, “Using
Blackboard for Computer Science Courses (poster presentation),” The 32nd
Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Charlotte, North Carolina,
February 21-25. 2001.
Csilla Farkas, Tyrone S.
Toland, and Caroline M. Eastman, “The inference problem and updates in
relational databases,” Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual IFIP WG 11.3
Working Conference on Database and Applications Security, Niagara on the
Lake, Ontario, Canada, July 15-18, 2001, pp. 171-186.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Southeast Regional ACM Conference,
Tallahassee, Florida, March 1980.
Proceedings of the First Annual National Conference of the Association
for Women in Computing, Houston, Texas, June 1982 (co-editor with
Virginia C. Walker).
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual University of South Carolina Computer
Science Symposium: Language and Data in Systems,
Columbia, South Carolina, April 8, 1987.
NASA-ASEE Summer Aeronautics
and Space Research Program at the Johnson Space Flight Center, Houston, Texas,
1979.
USAF-SCEEE Summer Faculty
Research Program at Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss AFB, New York, 1980.
NSF, Division of Information
Science and Technology, "Models of the performance of multikey tree search
algorithms," September 1980 - February 1982.
AFOSR, "Search
alternatives in artificial intelligence systems based on logic programming with
LOGLISP," March 1981 - February 1982.
NSF, Division of Information
Science and Technology, "Performance of multikey information search
algorithms," IST-82-14611, September 1982 - February 1984.
USC, Research and Productive
Scholarship, "Negation in queries," January 1987 - December 1987.
US Army Research Office,
Summer Faculty Research and Engineering Program, USAE Waterways Experiment
Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1992.
Lilly Teaching Fellows
Program, University of South Carolina, 1993-94, Senior Fellow with Marco
Valtorta.
USC, Instructional Innovation
Grant, "Instructional Materials for Computer Ethics," 1996-97 (with
Michael L. Hilton).
USC, BellSouth Instructional
Innovation Grant, "Automated Collection and Exploitation of Internet-Based
Biological Databases," 1998-2000 (PI Robert F. Skinder).
NSF, “Information Systems
Security Education at the University of South Carolina,” (PI Csilla Farkas,
co-PI’s Duncan Buell, Caroline Eastman, Stephen Fenner, and Joseph Johnson),
September 2001—August 2003.
V. Stibic, Personal Documentation for Professionals:
Means and Methods, North Holland Publishing Company, 1980.
Review published in Journal of Information Science, Vol. 3,
1981, pp. 149-150.
James C. French, IDAM File Organizations, UMI Research Press,
1985.
Review published in Computing Reviews, Vol. 27, No. 8,
August 1986, pp. 387-388.
Arnold Kaufmann and Madan M.
Gupta, Introduction to Fuzzy Arithmetic:
Theory and Applications, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985.
Review published in International Journal of Approximate
Reasoning, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1987, pp. 141 - 143.
Richard A. Buckingham, Rudy A.
Hirschheim, Frank F. Land, and Colin J. Tuly,
Information Systems Education: Recommendations and Implementation,
Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, 1986.
Review published in Computing Reviews, Vol. 29, No. 7, July
1988, pp. 362-363.
Jon William Toigo, Disaster Recovery Planning: Managing Risk
and Catastrophe in Information Systems, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs,
NJ, 1989.
Review published in Computing Reviews, Vol. 30, No. 10,
October 1990, pp. 524-525.
"NSF Program for
Increasing Access to Supercomputers", Workshop on Applications of
Supercomputers to Information Science, Key Biscayne, Florida, December 5-7, 1984.
"Education for research
in software engineering," Software Engineering Institute Conference on
Software Engineering Education, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 29 - May 1,
1987.
Keynote speech: "State of
the art of expert systems" Library and Information Technology Association
Preconference on Expert Systems Tools and Techniques, Atlanta, Georgia, June
27-28, 1991.
Lead Speech: "State of
the art of expert systems," Expert Systems with the Experts: A Hands on
Workshop, 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science,
Washington, DC, October 27-31, 1991, (Cosponsored by Library and Information
Technology Association).
Panelist, "Workshop on
research directions and opportunities I: current programs," Second
Symposium on Empirical Foundations of Information and Software Science,
Atlanta, Georgia, October 3-5, 1984.
Panelist, "Future
requirements for knowledge base management systems," Islamorada Workshop
on Large Scale Knowledge Base and Reasoning Systems, Islamorada, Florida,
February 25-27, 1985.
Panelist, "Beyond
academe: opportunities for information science educators," 49th
Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Chicago,
Illinois, September 28 - October 2, 1986.
Panelist, "Future
directions in automatic information retrieval," 50th Annual Meeting of The
American Society for Information Science, Boston, Massachusetts, October 4-8,
1987.
Panelist, "Cognitive
aspects of classification," 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society
for Information Science, Washington, DC, October 27-31, 1991.
"Sex stereotyping of
calculators for arithmetic drill,"
The Tallahassee Regional Minisection of the Mathematical Association of
America, Tallahassee, Florida, November 1978.
"A model for the behavior
of branch and bound algorithms for m-nearest neighbor search," 1979
Computer Science Conference, Dayton, Ohio, February 1979.
"Lexical characteristics
of keywords in COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL, and PL/I," 17th Annual Southeast
Regional ACM Conference, Orlando, Florida, April 9-11, 1979.
"How a computer program
can solve word problems," The
Tallahassee Regional Minisection of the Mathematical Association of America,
Tallahassee, Florida, November 1979.
"Clustering analysis in
the automatic auditing of records," 1981 Computer Science Conference, St.
Louis, Missouri, February 1981 (with William F. Storer).
"A framework for multikey
searching algorithms, 18th Annual Southeast Regional ACM Conference, Atlanta,
Georgia, March 1981.
"Searching for partially
specified best matches," 1982 Computer Science Conference, Indianapolis,
Indiana, February 1982 (with Marie Zemankova).
"Existing database
machines: some unsolved problems,"
1983 Syracuse University Workshop on Database Machines, Blue Mountain Lake, New
York, July 1983 (with Heinz-Gerd Steiner).
"Human autobiographical
memory emulation" 1987 Computer Science Conference, Atlanta, Georgia,
February 23-25, 1987 (with Irene Yang).
"Levels in taxonomic
knowledge structures," Sixth Annual USC-CS Symposium, March 23, 1990 (with
Marta Fernandez).
"A comparison of
taxonomic knowledge structures" The First ASIS SIG/CR Classification
Research Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, November 4, 1990 (with Marta Fernandez).
"Hierarchical
classification as an aid to browsing," Second International Symposium on
Knowledge Acquisition,
Representation and Processing (KARP-95), September 27-30, 1995, Auburn, Alabama
(with John R. Rose).
Session Chair, 18th Annual
Southeast Regional ACM Conference, Tallahassee, Florida, March 1980.
Paper Discussant, Second
International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach, Washington, D.C.,
October 1981.
Panel Moderator, First Annual
National Conference of the Association for Women in Computing, Houston, Texas,
June 1982.
Session Chair, 1982 Syracuse
University Workshop on Data Base Machines, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, August
1982.
Discussion Leader, "The
two career couple: sharing priorities," Southern Methodist University's
18th Annual Women's Symposium, Dallas, Texas, March 2-3, 1983.
Panel Organizer,
"Advancing in academe," Second Annual National Conference of the
Association for Women in Computing, Anaheim, California, May 1983.
Session Chair, 1985 Conference
on Principles of Programming Languages, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 1985.
Session Chair, ICCH87, Eighth
International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, Columbia, South
Carolina, April 9-11, 1987.
Session Organizer and
Moderator, "The Textbook of the Future," AAAS 1996, Baltimore
Maryland, February 1996. (with Robert L. Oakman).
Session Organizer,
"Artificial Life In Cyberspace," AAAS 1996, Baltimore, Maryland,
February 1996 (with Maureen C. Kelly).
Session Organizer and
Moderator, "Mobile Computing," AAAS 1997, Seattle, Washington,
February 1997 (with Suresh Singh).
Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM)
ACM Special Interest Groups on
Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Management of Data (SIGMOD), Programming Languages
(SIGPLAN), Artificial Intelligence (SIGART), Software Engineering (SIGSOFT),
and Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
American Society for
Information Science (ASIS)
Computer Society of the
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
American Association for
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Association for Women in
Science (AWIS)
American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Association of
University Professors (AAUP)
South Carolina Academy of
Science (SCAS)
Vice President, Northwest
Florida Chapter of the ACM, 1978-1979.
Attended ACM Regional Chapter
Workshop, Tampa, Florida, October 1978.
Steering Committee for the
1980 Southeast Regional ACM Conference.
At-large Board Member,
Association for Women in Computing, 1979-1983.
Scholarship Committee, Women
in Computing, 1982-1984.
Program Chair, Third Annual
National Conference of the Association
for Women in Computing, Las
Vegas, Nevada, July 1984.
Treasurer, Twelfth Annual ACM
SIGACT/SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, New Orleans,
Louisiana, January 1985.
Nominating Committee, Section
T (Information, Computing, and Communication), American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1987-1990.
Nominated for Member-at-Large,
Section T (Information, Computing, and Communication), American Association for
the Advancement of Science, 1989.
Doctoral Forum Jury, American
Society for Information Science, 1990.
ISI Doctoral Dissertation
Scholarship Jury, American Society for Information Science, 1990.
Science Fair Judge, Region II
Science Fair, Columbia, South Carolina, 1993, 1994, 1996-1999 (Coordinator for
Association for Women in Science Awards, 1997-2001).
Member-at-Large, Section
T (Information, Computing, and Communication),
American Association for the Advancement of Science,1993-1997.
Executive Council, University
of South Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1993-94.
President, South Carolina
Chapter of the Association for Women in Science, 1996-97.
Chair-Elect, Section T
(Information, Computing and Communication), American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1997-98.
Chair, Section T (Information,
Computing and Communication), American Association for the Advancement of
Science, 1998-1999.
Retiring Chair, Section T
(Information, Computing, and Communication), American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1999-2000.
Introductory Programming using PL/I
Data Processing Techniques
Numerical Analysis (Grader)
Introductory Programming using
FORTRAN
Introduction to Computer Use
Assembly Language Programming
(CYBER COMPASS)
Systematic Programming using
PASCAL
Data Structures
Introduction to Database
Management Systems
Operating Systems
Software Engineering
Natural Language Processing
Formal Languages
Software Project
Assembly Language Programming
(MACRO-11)
Compiler Construction
Information Storage and
Retrieval
Database Management Systems
Analysis of Algorithms
Compiler Construction
Computer Organization
Computer Organization and
Assembler Language Programming
Data Base Management System
Theory
Data Base System Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Information Management Systems
Information Retrieval: Models
and Algorithms
Operating Systems
Software Engineering
Text Processing
Doctoral Forum, American
Society for Information Science, 1977
ACM Computing Reviews,
Reviewer Excellence, 1986
Certificate of Appreciation,
American Society for Information Science, 1990
Sigma Xi
Phi Beta Kappa