Professional Activities (Joel Adams)

External Awards and Grants

• Geneva College Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award, 2005.
• Fulbright Senior Scholar, Technical University of Iceland (now the School of Engineering, Reykjavik University), Reykjavik, Iceland, 2005.
• Aquisition and Analysis of a Multidisciplinary Beowulf Cluster, National Science Foundation- Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, Grant #0079739, Sept 2001 - August 2003.
• Fulbright Senior Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius, 1998-99.

Presentations

• "OOP and the Janus Principle", 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, TX, March 2006.
• "A Performance/Price Analysis of Three Beowulf Cluster Topologies", National Computational Science Institute Parallel/Cluster Computing Workshop, Oklahoma University, August 2005; Oberlin Conference on Computation and Modeling, Oberlin College, October 2005.
• "Object-Oriented High Performance Computing", National Computational Science Institute Parallel/Cluster Computing Workshop, Oklahoma University, August 2005.
• "Teaching Programming with Alice, a 3D Virtual Reality Tool", University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland, May 2005.
• "How To Build Your Own Supercomputer: Beowulf-class Supercomputing", University of Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland, April 2005; University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland, May 2005.
• "Alice: Software for Building 3D Virtual Worlds", University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, February 2005.
• "The Imaginary Worlds Camps: Using Story-Telling in Alice to Introduce Middle-Schoolers to Programming", Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2004.
• "Building 3D Virtual Worlds with Alice", Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA, November 2004.
• "Build Your Own Cost-Effective Supercomputer", Hope College, Holland, MI, April 2004.
• "Computing Technology: Created, Fallen, in Need of Redemption?", Handong Global University, Pohang, South Korea, October 2003, Calvin College Sept 2001.
• "Dynamic Beowulf Topology: Realtime Supercomputer Network Reconfiguration" (Kevin DeGraaf), Michigan Academy, Holland MI, March 2003.
• "How To Build A Supercomputer", Geneva College, March 2003.
• "An Expanding Pipeline: Gender in Mauritius", 34th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Reno NV, February 2003.
• "Small College Supercomputing: Building a Beowulf Cluster at a Comprehensive College", (with D. Vos), 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington KY, February 2002.
• "Beowulf Clusters: Cost Effective Supercomputing", Computer Science Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, May, 2001.
• "Java: Why All The Excitement?", Osman Peermamode, Mauritius Computer Society, June 1999.
• "Electronic Commerce: Challenges and Opportunites in a Global Economic Environment", Vimala Appaya, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius, June 1999.
• "Computer Security: Risks and Threats", Kemraz Mohee, National Computer Board of Mauritius, November 1998.
• "Information Engineering: New Frontier", Osman Peermamode, Mauritius Computer Society, November 1998.
• "Chance-It: An Object-Oriented Capstone Project for CS-1", 29th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Atlanta GA, February 1998.
• "Object-Centered Design: A Five-Phase Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in CS1-2", 28th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Philadelphia PA, February 1996.
• "Implications of STL for CS2", Future Directions in Data Structures, NSF Workshop, Owen Astrachan, Duke University, March 1997.
• "Use of C++ for CS1 and CS2", SIGCSE/CSC Panel Discussion, Joel Adams, Alan Apt, Owen Astrachan, Mike Clancy, Bill Ford. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1996.
• "C++ and OOP in CS1 and CS2", NSF Workshop, Chris Nevison and Stuart Hirschfield, Colgate University, June 1995.
• "The Design and Implementation of a UNIX Classroom", 24th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 1993.
• "Distributed Diagnosis of Byzantine Processors and Links" (with K. Ramarao), 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Newport Beach, California, June 1989.
• "On the Diagnosis of Byzantine Faults" (with K. Ramarao), 7th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Columbus, Ohio, October 1988.

Workshops for Continuing Education

• Bioinformatics Education Dissemination: Reaching Out, Connecting, and Knitting Together, John Jungck, NSF/Chautauqua Workshop, Grand Rapids, MI, August 2006.
• Parallel and Cluster Computing Workshop, Henry Neeman, National Computational Science Institute, NSF/Shodor Foundation Workshop, Oklahoma U., July 2005.
• Cisco Professor Professional Security Development Bootcamp, R.J. Du Charme, Calvin College, June 2004.
• Using the NSF Digital Library to Enhance Your Teaching, M. A. Perez-Quinones, L. Cassel, E. Fox, J. Impagliazzo, J.A.N. Lee, C. L. Giles, 35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium, March 2004.
• Using LEGO Mindstorms Across the Computer Science Curriculum, F. Klassner and S. Anderson, 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium, March 2002.
• Vocation and the Professions of Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty Development Seminar and Workshop, Baylor University School of Engineering and Computer Science, Laity Lodge, Kerrville, Texas,, May 2002.
• Faculty Workshop on Network Administration, NSF Workshop, John Cigas, Rockhurst University, July 2001.
• Java Security SIGCSE Workshop, Barry Burd, Austin Texas, March 2000.
• Parallel Computing For Undergraduate Faculty, NSF Workshop, Chris Nevison, Colgate University, July 1997.
• Multimedia Laboratory and Classroon Simulations, Chautauqua Workshop, John Blank, University of Dayton, June 1997.
• Parallel Processing Using Public Domain Software, SIGCSE Workshop, Janet Hartman, Dean Sanders and John Reynolds, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1996.
• Inexpensive Interfacing of Undergraduate Laboratory Experiments, Chautauqua Workshop, Rex Berney, University of Dayton, May 1995.
• Successful Proposal Writing for NSF Proposals, SIGCSE Workshop, Ted Sjoerdsma and Margaret Reek, Nashville, Tennessee, March 1995.
• How to Write a Good NIH Grant Application, University of North Carolina Workshop, Liane Reif-Lehrer, UNC-Greensboro, March 1995.
• Designing Closed Laboratories for Computer Science, SIGCSE Workshop, Debra Burton, Phoenix, Arizona, March 1994.
• The Linda Parallel Programming Paradigm, SIGCSE Workshop, Chris McDonald, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1993.

Memberships

• American Scientific Affiliation (ASA).
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education (ACM-SIGCSE).
• Fulbright Association
• Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium (LACS)
• Scientific Research Society (Sigma Xi).

Other Activities

• Session Chair, 34th SIGCSE Technical Symposium, February, 2003.
• National Science Foundation Reviewer (ISE, 2003); Panelist (MRI, 2002).
• Session Chair, Information Security Mauritius `99, April 1999.
• Session Chair, 28th SIGCSE Technical Symposium, February 1997.
• Referee, 17th International Conference On Parallel Processing, August 1988.