Honors and Activities

SIGCSE Symposium Co-Chair, 2009

SIGCSE Symposium Program Co-Chair, 2008

Guest editor, Computer Science Education, 2005.

Program Committee, Australasian Computing Education Conference (2004, 2005).

Program committee, Operating Systems and Network Security Symposium, St. Cloud State University, April 23, 2004.

Co-chair, SIGCSE Doctoral Consortium, 2003, 2004.

Anoka-Ramsey Community College Advisory Board, 2004.

North Hennepin Community College Computer Science Advisory Committee, 2003.

Panelist, Open Forum sponsored by the Metro State Student Analyst Club, April 8, 2002.

Moderator, papers session on "Operating Systems", SIGCSE 2002 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Cincinnati, OH, February 28, 2002.

Discussant, 2002 SIGCSE Doctoral Consortium.

Planning committee, "The Future of CRM: Customer Relationship Management: How to Make It Work For You," Metropolitan State University and the Minnesota Information Professional Society, November 7, 2001.

Member, program committee, local chapter of the Minnesota Information Professional Society, 2000-2001.

International planning session for Computing Curriculum 2001, June 2-4, 2000; represented Pedagogy Focus Group 4: Professional Practices Report.

Organized a workshop on the new international curriculum standards for computing (CC2001) for metropolitan area and outstate university, community college and technical college faculty, June 5, 2001. National speakers led the workshop.

Invited to review NSF Course, Curriculum and Lab Implementation Program grant proposals, FY99.

North Hennepin Community College Advisory Board, 1998-present.

Mayor's High Technology Council, St. Paul, MN, 1998.

Panels Coordinator, 1998 SIGCSE Technical Symposium.

President-Elect, President, Immediate Past-President, Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, 1994 - 1997.

Program Chair, Communication Networks Modeling and Simulation Conference, 1996.

Steering committee, Central Plains Small College Computing Conference, 1994, 1995, 1996.

Speaker, Career Day for Girls, St. Theresa's Academy, 1996.

Chairman, First Annual Rockhurst Computer Fair, 1994-1995.

Coordinator, Girl Scout Day Camp, computer badge activities, 1994.

Paper referee for Communications of the ACM, Computers and Education, International Journal in Computer Simulation, Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Symposium on Applied Computing, SIGSCE Technical Symposium.

Board Member at Large, Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, 1992-1994.

Program chairman, South Central Small College Computer Conference, 1989-1993.

Produced science division promotional video, 1993.

Scientist penpal, Science-By-Mail, 1991-1992.

Reader, Low Vision Library, Kansas City Council for the Blind, 1990.

Volunteer, Kansas City Committee for UNICEF (1990).

Moderator, Community Roundtable on High Technology, St. Edward's University, 1988.

Group Programs Chairman, Austin Council for UNICEF, 1988 (fundraising).

Speaker, National Computer Graphics Conference, 1983.