Curriculum Vita
Albert L. Crawford

Service at Illinois College

• Professional Activities
• Developed the course CSC160 in its present form
• Uses visual programming (Delphi) as the basic program design concept
• Lab materials are extensively developed and placed on the World Wide Web
• Received a Borland Curriculum Development grant for the work done on this course
• Made a presentation on this work to the faculty (Oct. 29, 1997)
• Made a presentation on this work at the 12th Annual Midwest Computing Conference, March 20, 1998
• Played a major role in the development of a revised Computer Science curriculum
• Played a major role in instituting and maintaining an Advanced Computer Science lab
• Sponsor of the Computer Science Club which is applying for membership in the ACM.
• Sponsored students in ACM regional programming contest, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999.
• Conducted practice sessions for ACM programming contest, Spring 1999.
• Committee Assignments
• Member of Admissions Committee, 1996-97
• Member of Publicity Committee, 1997-99
• Member of Technology Committee, 1999-2000
• Elected to Curriculum Review Committee, 1997
• Elected to Educational Policies Committee, 1997-1999

Courses Taught

CSC105 - Computing Concepts
CSC160 - Computer Programming I
CSC170 - Computer Programming II
CSC240 - Computer Networking
CSC260 - Data and File Structures
CSC242 - File Processing
CSC250 - WWW Programming
CSC342 - Theory of Database
CSC350 - Programming Language Design
CSC360 - Theory of Algorithms
CSC450 - Compiler Design
CSC460 - Theory of Database
CSC480 - Systems Analysis and Design
CSC490 - Special Topics: Computer Graphics
CSC498 - Special Topics: Applied Algorithms

MIS200 - Software for Business
MIS450 - Telecommunications for Managers
MIS420 - Systems Analysis, Design, and Development
MBA515 - Management Information Systems
CSC110 - Intro. To Computers and Programming
CSC150 - Computer Programming I
CSC220 - Program Design through Data Structures
CSC230 - Machine Instructions and Organization
CSC310 - Algorithm Analysis
CSC320 - Program Language Design
CSC330 - Operating Systems
CSC420 - Principles of Database
CSC430 - Compiler Theory and Design
CSC440 - Artificial Intelligence
CSC496 - Senior Seminar

CS 202 - Introduction to Programming
CS 212 - Introduction to Business Computing
CS 311 - Practice in Programming Languages
CS 411 - Programming Languages
CS 416 - Compiler Design
CS 435 - Program Design and Implementation
CS 511 - Formal Spec. of Programming Languages
CS 591 - Current Trends in Software Engineering

CPSC 120 - Programming II
CPSC 220 - Assembly Language Programming
CPSC 311 - Analysis of Algorithms
CPSC 320 - Artificial Intelligence
CPSC 321 - Computer Architecture
CPSC 432 - Programming Language Design
CPSC 434 - Compiler Design

Programming I and II
Introduction to Business Data Processing
Introduction to COBOL (File Processing)
Programming Language Design
Compiler Design
Many graduate and undergraduate mathematics courses

Professional Experience

1993 - 1996
Associate Professor
Division of Business and Computer Science
Quincy University
Quincy, Illinois

1987 - 1993
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois

1984 - 1987
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

1970 - 1986
Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Henderson State University
Arkadelphia, Arkansas

1967 - 1970
Graduate Assistant
Department of Mathematics
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Oklahoma

1962 - 1967
Mathematics Teacher
Public Schools of Kansas
St. George, Frankfort and Ottawa, Kansas

Teaching Interests and Specialties

Computer Connectivity
Software Engineering
The languages C++ and Ada.
The use of visual programming in teaching

Terry Tripanany -- "Using CASE tools in the Design of Parallel Software Systems" (1993)

Andrew Aken -- "CASE Tools: A Practical Approach for University Studies", (1992)

Lam Lee -- "Object Oriented Constructs in Various Programming Language Paradigms" (1991)

Wang Fang -- "Parallel Process Structures for Modula-2" (1990)

Claudo Zapeta -- "A study of the Analysis and Development Office at Central Hidroelectrica de Caldas S.A." (1990)

William Woods -- "A CASE Tool for Project Size Estimation" (1989)

Ismail Khalifullah -- "An Interactive Unix Tutorial for DOS Users" (1989)

Swee Lim -- "Evaluation of Parallel Algorithms Using Ada" (1989)

Martha Sue Wells (at Texas A&M) -- "Porting a Large Software System from Pascal to Ada: A Case Study" (1987)

Education

1981 & 1983 Texas A&M University
Graduate Courses in Computer Science

1970 Oklahoma State University
EdD -- Mathematics
Dissertation Title: Hereditarily Indecomposable Continua
Published: Proceedings of the Am. Mathematical Society

1967 Emporia State University
MA -- Mathematics
Thesis Title: Lie Rings

1962 Emporia State University
BSE -- Mathematics and Social Science

Professional Service

Evaluation of Manuscripts

Kelley, Al and Pohl, Ira.
C by Dissection, second edition, Benjamin/Cummings 1990.

Koffman, Elliot and Friedman, Frank.
Problem Solving and Structured Programming in FORTRAN 77, Addison-Wesley 1987

Koffman, Elliot
Problem Solving and Structured Programming in Modula-2, Addison-Wesley 1988

King, K. N.
Modula-2: A Complete Guide, D.C. Heath and Co. 1988

Other proposals and manuscripts for McGraw-Hill, Prentice-Hall, Addison-Wesley and D. C. Heath, from 1984 to 1987.

 Memberships in Professional Associations

SigPlan
SigAda, former Vice-Chairman, Austin Chapter
SigCSE

Papers and Presentations

Albert L. Crawford.  "Experiences Using Visual Programming in CS1", 12th Annual Midwest Computing Conference, March 20, 1998.  Presentation Link.

Albert L. Crawford. "Incorporating Ada into a Traditional Software Engineering Course", ASEET Symposium, June 15, 1989.

David D. Riley, Walter Savitch, Richard Pattis, Albert L. Crawford, and Kulbir Arora. "Topics and Language Selection for CS-I", Panel, SigCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February 26, 1988.

Albert L. Crawford. "Functional Programming for Freshman Computer Science Majors", SigCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February 18, l987.

Albert L. Crawford. "Ada in Higher Education," Austin Chapter, SigAda, August 28, l986.

Albert L. Crawford. "On Hereditarily Indecomposable Continua," Arkansas/Oklahoma Region of the Mathematical Association of America. March 23, 1970.

Publications

Albert L. Crawford. "Experiences Using Visual Programming in CS1", Proceedings of the 12th Annual Midwest Computing Conference, March 20, 1998, www.calumet.purdue.edu/mcc98. Local Link.

Albert L. Crawford. "Structured Control of Module Environments in Ada and Modula-2, "Journal of Pascal, Ada, and Modula-2. Vol. 9, No. 1, January/February 1990.

Albert L. Crawford. "Incorporating Ada Into a Traditional Software Engineering Course," Proceedings of the Fourth Annual ASEET Symposium. Vol. 4, No. 1, June 1989.

Albert L. Crawford. "An Extension to Modula-2 for Generic Types," Journal of Pascal, Ada, and Modula-2. Vol. 6, No. 6, November/December 1987, pp. 11-16.

Homer Carlisle, Albert L. Crawford, and Sallie Sheppard. "Ada Multitasking and the Single Source Shortest Path Problem," Parallel Computing. No. 4, April 1987, pp. 75-91.

Albert L. Crawford. "Functional Programming for Freshman Computer Science Majors," Papers of the Eighteenth SigSCE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Vol. 19, No. 1, February 1987, pp. 165-169.

Albert L. Crawford . "Message Based Synchronization in Modula-2" Journal of Pascal, Ada and Modula-2. Vol. 5, No. 4, July/August l986, pp. 13-20.

Albert L. Crawford. "High Level Input/Output in Modula-2", SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 20, No. 12, December 1985, pp. 18-24.

Albert L. Crawford and John Jobe, "A Characterization of Hereditarily Indecomposable Continua," Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. Vol. 27, No. 1, Jan. 1971, pp. 205-208.