I retired in May, 2016 after teaching at Centre for 27 years and at Georgetown College for 17. I taught both mathematics and computer science courses and in any given semester I was probably teaching in both fields.

Although my dissertation in mathematics was very theoretical, dealing with the space of continuous functions, C(X), my interests were in the applications of mathematics. Computer science gave me ample opportunity to apply my knowledge of mathematics to very interesting problems.

I am a strong advocate for interdisciplinary learning. My summer research projects with students involved creating an evolutionary algorithm for assigning first year students to the Centre term seminars and writing programs to be used in studying attention deficit for the Behaviorial Neuralscience Department. In my last year I worked with a student as she completed a John C. Young project in brain-machine interfaces (BMI). Writing in the publication, Liberal Education,  I tried to make a strong case for the importance of computer science in a liberal arts institution like Centre. In the twenty first century almost all students can benefit from at least one or two solid computer science courses and certainly computer science majors have a great deal to gain from pursuing their major in a liberal arts setting.

You can find references to my publications and student research projects elsewhere on this site.

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