CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
- Ph.D.,10/77, New
York University,
Major--Computer
Applications to Education. Thesis: An Interaction Study of Reasoning
Aptitudes,
Model Presence and Methods of Approach in the Learning of a Computer
Programming
Language.
- M.A., 1/67, The
University of Texas at
Austin, Major--Experimental Psychology. Thesis:
Meaningfulness,
Similarity
and Percent Occurrence of Response Member in a Paired Associates
Learning
Task.
- B.A., 8/65, Ohio
Wesleyan University,
Delaware, OH, Major -- Psychology. Honors thesis: Retention of Visual
and
Verbal Codes of the Same Stimuli
EMPLOYMENT
- Southwestern
University,
Georgetown, Texas
- St.
Edward's
University, Austin, Texas
- 1996 - 1999 Professor of Computer Science
- 1989 - 1996 Associate Professor of Computer
Science,
- 1988 - 1989 Adjunct faculty
- Uppsala
University, Department
of Computer Systems, Uppsala, SwedenGuest
Lecturer, Fall
1996
- Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY
- 1985 -1988 Tenured Professor in Computer Science
- 1982 - 1985 Associate Professor in Computer
Science
- 1978 - July 1979 Adjunct Faculty in Computer Science
- City University of New York (CUNY) Feb.
1979 - July 1979
Instructor in Computer Science, Day Top
Drug
Rehabilitation Center, Parksville, NY
- Peekskill High School, Peekskill, NY
October 1977 - June 1978 Substitute Teacher -- all subjects
- Brooklyn College City
University of New York
Sept. 1971 - Aug. 1977 Instructor in Computer Science
Sept. 1970 - Aug. 1971 Instructor in Psychology, graduate/undergraduate
- IBM Corporation, Systems Feb.
1967 - Aug. 1970
Research Staff Member, Systems and Procedures
Analyst, Computer Assisted Instruction
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Association
for
Computing Machinery (ACM) member since 1968
- Chair, Academic Advisory Board 2011
- Member Academic Advisory Board 2009-2010, 2012 -2015
Citizen's Ambassador's
Program,
Computer Science Educators
Representative--
Soviet Union and Bulgaria, Summer 1989.
HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
- ALMSTRUM, V. L., APPLIN, E. G., OWENS, B. B., ADAMS, E.,
BARKER,
L. J., IMPAGLIAZZO, J., JOSEPH, P. A., KAHLON, A., LAST, M. Z.,
LAWRENCE, A., AND YOUNG, A., "Computing Educators Oral History Project:
Seeking the trends" , bibl. SIGCSE Bull. 40, 4 (Nov. 2008), 122-141.
DOI= doi.acm.org/10.1145/1473195.1473238, (2008). Working Group Report
Published
- ALMSTRUM, V. L., BARKER, L. J., OWENS, B. B., ADAMS, E.,
ASPRAY,
W., DALE, N. B., DANN, W., LAWRENCE, A., AND SCHWARTZMAN, L., "Building
a Sense of History: Narratives and Pathways of Women Computing
Educators" , bibl. SIGCSE Bulletin 37, 4 (Dec. 2005), 173-189. DOI =
doi.acm.org/10.1145/1113847.1113895, (2005). Working Group Report
Published
- ALMSTRUM, V. L., AND OWENS, B.B., "Using Oral Histories in
Curricular Planning" , bibl. Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical
Symposium on Computer Science Education. Portland, OR, USA, March
12-15, 2008. ACM, New York, NY, 564.
portalparts.acm.org.ezproxy.lib.uts., (2008). birds-of-a-feather
Published
- BARKER, L.J. ALMSTRUM, V.L., AND OWENS, B.B., "Women in
Computing
Education Oral History Project" , bibl. Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE
Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Houston, TX. 3-5
March 2006. p. 576. Online: portalparts.acm.org.ezproxy.lib.
uts.edu.au/1130000/1, (2006). birds-of-a-feather Published
- GABBERT,P.OWENS, B.B., BAIR, B., STEPHENSON, C., COHOON,
J.M.,
AND TOWNSEND, G.C. ACM-W's new programs for recruiting and retaining
women in computing. March 2007. SIGCSE '07: Proceedings of the 38th
SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, v.
39,246-247. Special Session Published
- OWENS, B.B., "Computing Educators Oral History Project" ,
bibl.
NCWIT News & Events Blog, 24 April 2007. Online:
ncwit.org/news.blog.php?source=calendar&action=display&editorial_id=191&
year=2007&month=4, (2007). blog entry Published
- OWENS, B.B., "Abbreviated oral history interview training"
,
bibl. Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, 22(4), p. 220.
[Eighteenth Annual CCSC South Central Conference, Midwestern State
University, April 27-28, 2007, Wichita Falls, TX.] Online:, (2007).
Tutorial presentation Published
- OWENS, B.B., "Pathways and Journeys: Interviews with
Computing
Educators Spanning Continents, Generations and Gender" , bibl.
SET4W/NACI Symposium: Changing perceptions of Women in SET. Pretoria,
South Africa, 25 June 2008, (2008). Keynote presentation Available only
on protected website
- OWENS, B.B., "Pathways and Journeys: Interviews with
Computing
Educators Spanning Continents, Generations and Gender" , bibl. NACCQ
2008, The 21st Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on
Computing Qualifications. Auckland, New Zealand. 4-7 July 2008.,
(2008). Keynote presentation Only available on the conference website
- OWENS, B.B., "Computing Educators Oral History Project" ,
bibl.
Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, (2008). Math/CS Departmental
Seminar Department internal
- OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., AND BARKER, L.J., "Women in
Computing Education Oral History Project: Oral History Interview
Training" , bibl. Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on
Computer Science Education. Houston, TX. 3-5 March 2006. p. 566.
Online: portalparts.acm.org.ezproxy.lib. uts.edu.au/1130000/1, (2006).
Book Published
- OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., AND BARKER, L.J., "Making
Waves:
Computing Educators Oral History Project" , bibl. Grace Hopper
Celebration of Women in Computing. San Diego, CA. 4-7 October 2006,
(2006). Poster Published
- OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., AND BARKER, L.J., "CEOHP:
Computing
Educators Oral History Project" , bibl. The 38th SIGCSE Technical
Symposium on Computer Science Education. Covington, KY, 7-10 March
2007. Online: www.cs.virginia.edu/~asb/nsfcclishowcase/2007/, (2007).
NSF Showcase / poster Published
- OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., AND BARKER, L.J., "The
Computing
Educators Oral History Project: Planning for the future" , bibl. In
Proceedings of the 12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on innovation and
Technology in Computer Science Education. Dundee, Scotland. 25-27 June
2007. ITiCSE '07. ACM, New York, NY, 39, (2007). Poster Published
- OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., BARKER, L.J., AND APPLIN,
E.A.G.,
"Describing the Past to Build for the Future: The Stories of CEOHP" ,
bibl. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Orlando, FL.
17-20 October 2007, (2007). Poster Published
- OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., BARKER, L.J., AND APPLIN,
E.A.G.,
"Storytelling as Role Modeling: Collecting Oral Histories" , bibl.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Orlando, FL. 17-20
October 2007, (2007). Workshop Published
- OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., BARKER, L.J., AND APPLIN,
E.A.G.,
"CEOHP: The Computing Educators Oral History Project" , bibl.
Conference and workshop on History | Gender | Computing. Charles
Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. 30-31 May 2008, (2008).
Poster Published
- OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., BARKER, L.J., AND APPLIN,
E.A.G.,
"Bringing Stories to the World: The Technical Challenges of CEOHP" ,
bibl. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Keystone, CO. 1-4
October 2008, (2008). Poster Published
- OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., BARKER, L.J., AND APPLIN,
E.A.G.,
"Using Oral Histories in Computing Education" , bibl. Grace Hopper
Celebration of Women in Computing. Keystone, CO. 1-4 October 2008,
(2008). birds-of-a-feather Published
- OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., APPLIN, E.A.G., AND BARKER,
L.J.,
"Computing Educators Oral History Project: Using Digital Media to
Recruit, Retain, and Inform" , bibl. Conference of the Oral History
Association. Pittsburgh, PA. 15-19 October 2008, (2008). Paper
Published
- YOUNG, A., ALMSTRUM, V.L., AND OWENS, B.B., "Women in
Computing
Education Oral History Project" , bibl. Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE
Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Covington, KY. 3-5
March 2006. p. 576. Online: portalparts.acm.org.ezproxy.lib.
uts.edu.au/1230000, (2006). birds-of-a-feather Published
RECENT PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- “The
first programming course: ideas to end the
enrollment decline,” with Bergin, J., McNally, M., and
Lister, R., ACM
SIGCSE Bulletin , Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on
Innovation and technology in computer science education ITICSE '06,Volume 38 Issue 3, June
2006.
- Alice
Programming, All-day invited
presentation at
UnitecNZ, Auckland,
New Zealand.
26 January 2006.
- .“Student Performance
Studying Ethics in the
Context
of Internet Use”, The
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 20, No.5, 285-294.
Third prize
paper for CCSC:Northeastern Conference April 2005.
- “Teaching
Ethics of
Internet Use”, Research Roundtable presented at National
Educational Computing Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2004.
- “Approaches to Self-Assessment of Computer
Science Departments and
Programs”
with Abunawass, A., Baker, L., Damodaran, M., Whitfield, D. and Bailie,
F., panel presented at Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges:
South
Central Conference, Austin, TX, April 2004,The Journal of Computing
Sciences
in Colleges, Vol. 20, No.5, 297.
- “Ethics and the Internet: A Novel Approach to
Computer Literacy,”The
Journal
of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 18, No. 4, April 2003, pp. 4-10.
- "Challenges of Teaching in a Small Computing Department",
panel
organizer
and presenter Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges: South Central
Conference,The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 18, No.
4, April, 2003, p. 93.
- Review: SAMS teach yourself Java 2 in 21 days by
Cadenhead. Peer
reviewed book review published in www.reviews.com, August 2002. In
print
in ACM Computing Reviews 2002, Vol 43, No.11, pp. 381-382.
- "Challenges
of
Teaching in a Small Computing Department",
panel
organizer
and presenter, (Barbara Boucher Owens, Southwestern
University,
Bhagyavati, Columbus State University, Barbara Plaut, Maryville
College,
Kris Powers, Berry College, Robin Snyder, Winthrop University and
Ernest
McDuffie, NSF). CCSC: Southeastern Conference, Furman University,
Greenville,
SC, November 8, 2002,The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges,
Vol.
18, No. 2, p.198.
- "Ethics
and
the
Internet: An Approach to Computer Literacy," paper presented
at
Texas
Association of Computer Educators, Corpus Christi, TX,
September
27, 2002.
- "Java
IDE's:
Why and How We Use What We Do", panel organizer and
presenter,
(Barbara Boucher Owens, Delia Marx, Don Slater, Jack
Rehder,
Dean Sanders), ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Proceedings of
the 33rd
SIGCSE
Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education February 2002, Volume
34 Issue 1. p.213. Full text on line from CTSC.org.
- The
University Perspective: Awarding Credit for Advanced Placement (AP) in
Computer Science", panel organizer, and presenter,ACM SIGCSE
2001: The 32nd Technical Symposium on Computer Science
Education,
Charlotte,
NC, February 23, 2001.
- Javascript
for Educators
and Students, Invited presentation,
Consortium for
Computing
in Small Colleges,
Southeastern
Conference, Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia, November 4,
2000.
- Javascript
for Educators and Students, Tutorial presentation, ACM
SIGCSE-SIGCUE
Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education (ITiCSE
2000), Helsinki, Finland, July 2000
- Interactive
Web Programming Ideas for a Non-Majors Course ,
with Philip
Owens,
Workshop Presentation, Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges,
South
Central Small Conference, Austin, TX, April 16, 1999.
- "C++ Subset for the
AP Exam: Why, What and
When?",
Society Session, NECC'97,
July, 1997.
- "Introduction to C++ and a Subset of C++ for use in
introductory
courses",
Tutorial presentation, ACM SIGCSE-SIGCUE Conference on Integrating
Technology
into Computer Science Education (ITiCSE '97), Uppsala, Sweden, June,
1997.
- "Changing computer science curricula: planning for the
future", Panel
Presentation,
ACM SIGCSE-SIGCUE Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer
Science
Education (ITiCSE '97), Uppsala, Sweden, June, 1997, pp. 139-140.
- "AP Computer Science Test - C++", Panel presentation, Texas
Computer
Educators
Conference (TCEA), February, 1997.
- "A Study of the Relationship Between Performance in
Propositional Logic
and Computer Science", with Jonathan Seiler, Proceedings of the Seventh
Annual South Central Small College Computing Conference, The Journal of
Computing in Small Colleges, Vol. 11, No. 7, May 1996, pp. 90-93.
- "The Non-Traditional Student in Computing: Characteristics,
Needs and
Experiences",
Panel presentation, ACM SIGCSE Symposium, Nashville,TN, March 1995.
- "New Models for the CS1 Course -- What are They and Are
They Leading to
the Same Place?", Panel presentation, ACM SIGCSE Symposium, Phoenix,
AZ,
March 1994.
- "A Comparison of the DPMA & IEEE/ACM Model
Curricula", invited
presentation,
Association for Computer Educators in Texas 1993 Fall Conference, San
Antonio,
TX, September 1993.
- "Ethics Curricula -- Issues and Suggestions: A Panel
Discussion", the
National
Educational Computing Conference, Orlando, FL, June 1993.
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Vicki
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Anne G. Applin,
Barbara
Boucher Owens,
Elizabeth
Adams,
Lecia
J. Barker,
John
Impagliazzo,
Patricia
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Amardeep
Kahlon,
Mary
Z. Last,
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