Stillwater, OK

I began my undergraduate work at OSU in June of 1973. Though qualified for an academic scholarship, I instead received a regency scholarship because all academic scholarships had been awarded by the time my application was processed. For my first year, I majored in Electrical Engineering. In 1974, I changed my major to Computer Science. My field of undergraduate research was artificial intelligence with an emphasis on expert systems. I implemented many of the concepts that I studied in a chess playing program that I developed and ported to multiple computer platforms. In December of 1977, I received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. During my last semester of undergraduate study, all but one of my classes were for graduate credit.

In undergraduate school, I supported myself by working as an electrician, carpenter and general maintenance man for a variety of clients.

My field of graduate research was development environments for embedded systems. For my thesis project, I built a 16 bit single board computer using a TMS 9900 microprocessor and developed a FORTRAN cross-compiler for that target machine. In May of 1979, I received the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science.

In graduate school, I worked for OSU as a Research Assistant. The project I worked on was a large scale economic model that was being developed by the Electrical Engineering department to forecast regional demand for electrical generation capacity and other utilities several years into the future. My responsibilities for this project were to develop several subsystems, coordinate all independently developed subsystems and organize presentations to the project sponsors.