David L. Parker
VITA August 2018
ADDRESS:
Henson Science 132C
Mathematics and Computer Science
Department
Salisbury University
1101 Camden Avenue
Salisbury, Maryland 21801
Phone: (410) 543-6142
FAX: (410) 548-5559
E-MAIL:
dlparker@salisbury.edu
EDUCATION:
M.A. in Computer
Science May 1993
from
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Fall 1986 - Spring 1993
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Ph.D. in
Mathematics December 1973
from
Indiana University
A.M. in
Mathematics June 1969
from
Indiana University
Fall 1967 - Fall 1973
Indiana University
B.S. in
Mathematics June 1967
from
Kansas State University
Fall 1965 - Spring 1967
Kansas State University
Fall 1964 - Summer 1965
Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
(One of six
exchange students from Kansas State University)
Fall 1962 - Spring 1964
Kansas State University
COMPUTER SCIENCE MASTER'S
PAPER:
Advisor: Dr. William Chapin
Title: Creating Multi-Year
Student Schedules Using Artificial Intelligence,
presented and published
June, 1993, (below)
Major Fields: Artificial Intelligence,
Programming Languages, Structured Programming
MATHEMATICS PH.D.
DISSERTATION:
Advisor: Dr. Jan Jaworowski, Indiana
University
Title: Stable Cohomotopy- and General
Homotopy- Groups
in the Borsuk Shape
Category.
Major Field: Algebraic Topology
Minor Fields: Probability Theory, Real
and Complex Analysis
POSITIONS HELD
at Salisbury State University:
July 2003 - Present: Professor of
Mathematics and Computer Science
July 2002 - June 2003: Professor and
Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science
July 2000 - June 2002: Professor
or Mathematics and Computer Science, and
Computer Science Program Director
July 1999 - June 2000: Professor
of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Associate Chair
of Mathematics and Computer Science, and
Coordinator of Computer Science Program
August 1997 - June 1999: Professor
and Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science
Promoted to Full Professor of Mathematics and Computer
Science in 1997
July 1996 - August 1997: Associate Professor and Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science
August 1991 - June 1996: Associate
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
April 1989 - August 1991: Associate
Professor of Computer Science
August 1987 - April 1989: Associate
Professor and Chair of Computer Science
August 1986 - August 1987: Sabbatical
leave studying Computer Science
Promoted to Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences
in 1981
August 1980 - August 1986: Associate
Vice President for Academic Affairs
August 1974 - August 1980: Assistant
Professor of Mathematical Sciences
SERVICE ON THE COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FACULTY (CUSF)
CUSF is the official faculty body advising the Chancellor and the Board of Regensts of the University System of Maryland concerning matters of concern by or affecting faculty in the System. Members are elected from their instutitions. I've been an active member of CUSF since 1991 through the Spring semester 2018. I was elected by CUSF to one-year terms: once as an at-large member of the executive committe, once as Vice-Chairman, and twice as Chairman.
WICOMICO COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Elected by Wicomico County Registered Republicans during gubernatorial primary elections:
2006 - 2010. Elected Vice-Chair of the Committee
2010 - 2014. Elected Chair of the Committee
2014 - November of 2018. Serving as Past Chair of the Committee
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
2002
through 2017: Served as a referee for articles submitted for presentation
and publication
at the Special Interest
Group on Computer Science Education of the Association
of Computing Machinery
national annual meeting.
October,
2002: Presentation and publication, “Machine ‘Learning’ at all Course Levels,”
Eastern Conference of the
Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges,
Bloomsburg, PA.
March, 2001: Served as a referee for
articles submitted for presentation and publication
at the Special Interest
Group on Computer Science Education of the Association
of Computing Machinery
national annual meeting.
March, 2000: Served as a referee for
articles submitted for presentation and publication
at the Special Interest
Group on Computer Science Education of the Association
of Computing Machinery
national annual meeting.
January, 2000: Participated in the
on-campus, department-sponsored Microsoft Course
#279: Programming with
Microsoft Visual C++.
March, 1999: Served as a referee for
articles submitted for presentation and publication
at the Special Interest
Group on Computer Science Education of the Association
of Computing Machinery
national annual meeting.
March, 1998: Served as a referee for
articles submitted for presentation and publication
at the Special Interest
Group on Computer Science Education of the Association
of Computing Machinery
national annual meeting.
May, 1997: An hour-long workshop
entitled "Integrating Sciences and Mathematics" at
the Conference on
Innovation in Teaching: New Ideas/Successful Practices at
Raritan Valley Community
College, Somerville, New Jersey.
April, 1997: An hour-long demonstration
entitled " Student Thinking: Deducing Facts
from Patterns/Deducing
Patterns from Facts" at the 27th Annual Mathematics
Symposium, Frostburg State
University, Frostburg, Maryland.
March, 1997: Served as a referee for
articles submitted for presentation and publication
at the Special Interest
Group on Computer Science Education of the Association
of Computing Machinery
national annual meeting.
February, 1997: "Getting Students to
Think and Learn: It Can Be Done!", reprinted from
Dec. 1996 Academically
Speaking, appeared in Thinking, a newsletter from the
Eastern Shore Institute for
the Advancement of Thinking, Volume 1 No. 5.
January, 1997: Co-presented (with Dr.
Donald Cathcart) an hour-long workshop entitled
"Using Calculator- and
Microcomputer-Based Lab Activities to Link Mathematics
and Science" at the National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics Southern
Regional Conference, New
Orleans, Louisiana.
January, 1997: Maryland Collaborative
for Teacher Preparation state-wide mid-year
meeting/workshop.
Dec., 1996: "Getting Students to Think
and Learn: It Can Be Done!", appeared
in Academically Speaking,
December 1996.
Summer,
1996: Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation state-wide meetings
and month-long activities.
March, 1996: Chaired session on
"Instructional Software" and served as a referee for
articles submitted for
presentation and publication at the Special Interest Group
on Computer Science
Education of the Association of Computing Machinery
national annual meeting in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
January, 1996: Maryland Collaborative
for Teacher Preparation state-wide mid-year
meeting/workshop.
Nov., 1995: "Maybe Computers Can't Think
(Yet) -- But They Can Learn!," presented as
part of the Faculty Seminar
Series for the Henson School of Science and
Technology.
Summer, 1995: Maryland Collaborative for
Teacher Preparation state-wide meetings
and month-long activities.
May, 1995: NSF Chautauqua Course,
"Changing Science Courses to Promote Critical
Thinking," in Dayton, Ohio.
Three and one-half days.
March, 1995: "Structured Design for
CS1," refereed paper presented at the Special
Interest Group on Computer
Science Education of the Association of Computing
Machinery annual meeting in
Nashville, Tennessee, published in the SIGCSE
Bulletin,
(1995), Volume 27, Number 1. Also chaired session on "Computer
Science Education" and
served as a referee for articles submitted for
presentation and
publication at this meeting.
January,
1995: Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation state-wide mid-year
meeting/workshop.
Summer, 1994: Maryland Collaborative for
Teacher Preparation state-wide meetings
and month-long activities.
June, 1994: Five-day NSF Workshop,
"Artificial Intelligence in the Undergraduate
Curriculum," at Temple
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; subsequent
reunion days for
participants the following November and April. Selected from
among national applicants.
June, 1993: "Creating Multi-Year Student
Schedules Using Artificial Intelligence,"
refereed paper presented at
the National Educational Computing Conference in
Orlando, Florida and
published in the proceedings of the conference.
1991-1993 Completing research for
Master's Degree in Computer Science.
Fall, 1992: S.S.U. Faculty Global
Seminar concerning the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Fourteen meetings, once per
week.
July, 1991: Five-day NSF Workshop,
"Algorithm Visualization, at Lawrence University,
Appleton, Wisconsin.
Selected from among national applicants.
1987-1991 Doing research for Master's
Degree in Computer Science.
1986-1987 Full-time graduate student in
Computer Science at U.M.E.S.
1980-1986 Serving in the administration
of S.S.U.
March, 1978 "Determining Expected
Duration of Development under Conditions of
Alternating Temperatures,"
Journal of Theoretical Biology (1979),
Volume 81, pp. 599-607, with
Dr. Robert Keen (refereed).
August, 1976: "A Model for Estimating
Population Sex Ratios in Field Sparrows through
Wing Length Measurements,"
refereed paper presented at the American
Ornithologists' Union's
national meetings in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
Fall, 1974: "The Much-Maligned Divergent
Series," talk presented to the Mathematical
Association of America
sectional meetings at Rockville, Maryland.
ACADEMIC HONOR SOCIETY
MEMBERSHIPS:
Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Eta Sigma (Freshmen Honorary)
Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics)
Sigma Xi (Science)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS:
Association for Computing
Machinery:
Special Interest Group: Computer Science Education (ACM/SIGCSE)
and
Special Interest Group: Artificial Intelligence (ACM/SIGART)