Caroline M. Eastman

 

Address

 

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208

(803)-777-8103

mailto:eastman@cse.sc.edu

 

Education

 

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

 

Non-Academic Experience

 

Program Director, Information Science Program, Division of Information Science and Technology, National Science Foundation, 1984-1985.

 

Academic Professional Experience

 

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-

Publications in Refereed Journals

 

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

 

 

Letters to the Editor

 

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.

 

Photographs

 

"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.

 

Invited Papers Published in Conference Proceedings/Books

 

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.

 

Contributed Papers Published in Conference Proceedings/Books

 

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 Edited

 

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.

 

Research Grants

 

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.

 

Book Reviews

 

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.

 

Invited Talks

 

"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).

 

Invited Panel Participation

 

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.

 

Contributed Talks at Professional Meetings

 

"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).

 

Conference Participation

 

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).

 

Professional Societies

 

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)

 

Professional Activities

 

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.

 

Courses Taught At the University of North Carolina

 

 Introductory Programming using PL/I

Data Processing Techniques

Numerical Analysis (Grader)

 

Courses Taught At Florida State University

 

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

 

Courses Taught At Southern Methodist University

 

Assembly Language Programming (MACRO-11)

Compiler Construction

Information Storage and Retrieval

Database Management Systems

 

Courses Taught at the University of South Carolina

 

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

 

Awards

 

Doctoral Forum, American Society for Information Science, 1977

ACM Computing Reviews, Reviewer Excellence, 1986

Certificate of Appreciation, American Society for Information Science, 1990

 

Honorary Societies

 

Sigma Xi

Phi Beta Kappa