Vita

John Barr

Education

Ph.D. Dissertation: Restriction Map Comparison, advisor Dr. Webb Miller.

M.S. in Computer Information Systems, Boston University, September 1984

S.B. in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 1979

Papers

• Results from Using an Environment for Interpreter-based Projects for the Programming Languages Courses, Barbara M. Moskal, L. A. Smith King, and John Barr, 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference November 5-8, 2003, Boulder, CO.

• What Could Be More SLic? Projects for the Programming Languages Course, L.A. Smith King, John Barr, and Ben Coleman, 32nd Annual ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, February 21-25, 2001, Charlotte, NC.
  

• A Comparison of Operating System Courseware, John Barr, Tracy Camp, Michael Goldweber, John Grahm, and Steve Hartley, Panel presented at the 29th Annual ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, March 25-27, 1999, New Orleans, LA.
  

• Virtual Reality in Archeology, Michael Malpass and John Barr, Workshop presented at the SAA meeting, April, 1997
  

• Computer Science for the Artist , Laurie A. Smith King and John Barr, Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, February 27-March 1, 1997, San Jose, CA.
  

• Beyond Computer Literacy, John Barr, and Laurie A. Smith King, Northeastern Small College Computing Conference, April 19-20, 1996.
  

• Multiple Paradigms in CS I, Chuck Leska, John Barr, L.A. Smith King, Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, February 15-17, 1996, Philidelphia, PA.
  

• Teaching Programming Languages by Counter-Example, L.A. Smith King and John Barr, The Eleventh Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, Oct 20-21, 1995.
  

• MuLE User's Manual L.A Smith King and John Barr, Ithaca College Technical Report 95-001.
  

• Worlds: A Constructionist Project for Second Grade Students, John Barr, National Educational Computing Conference '95, Baltimore, Maryland, June 17-19, 1995.
  

• An Environment for Interpreter-based Programming Language Projects, John Barr and Laurie A. Smith King, Proceedings of the 26th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, 2-4 March 1995, Nashville, Tennessee.
  

• Interpreter-Based Projects for a Traditional Programming Languages Course, John Barr, Laurie A. Smith King, proceedings of the 10th annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, October 21-22, 1994, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York.
  

• Using Data Structures in CS 1, John Barr, Module in Lab manual from the Workshop on Object Oriented Programming, July 26 - 30, 1993, Colgate University. Available anonymous ftp at site ftpcs.colgate.edu (IP address 149.43.80.10) in directory /pub/oop.
  

• A New Perspective on Teaching Computer Literacy, Michael Goldweber, John Barr, and Chuck Leska, the 25th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, 6-12 March 1994, Phoenix, Arizona.
  

  Stuart Hirshfield, John Barr, et. al., Object Oriented Programming: How to "Scale Up" CS1, panel at the 25th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, 6-12 March 1994, Phoenix, Arizona.
  

• Multiple Paradigms in the Introductory Computer Science Sequence, John Barr, Michael Goldweber, and Chuck Leska, 27th annual Small College Computing Symposium, April 29, 1994, Winona, MN.
  

• Data Structures into the CS 1 Course, John Barr, presented at the Colgate Workshop on Object Oriented Programming, July 26 - 30, 1993, Colgate University.
  

• Scheme in the Computer Literacy Course, John Barr, Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, September 1993.
  

• An Alternative Approach to CS 1, Chuck Leska and John Barr, Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, September 1993.
  

• Object Oriented Programming in the Computer Literacy Course, John Barr, presented at a panel at the Conference on Object--Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, (OOPSLA) 1993.
  

• Improved algorithms for searching restriction maps, Webb Miller, John Barr and Kenneth E. Rudd. CABIOS, vol. 7., no. 3, 1991.
  

Consulting

• Arascope Corp, Cairo, Egypt. Multimedia programming, development of interactive animations.

Workshops

• Interpreter Based Assignments for a Standard Programming Languages Course , John Barr, L.A. Smith King and Ben Coleman workshop presented at the 32nd Annual ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, February 21-25, 2001, Charlotte, NC.
  

Other

• "An Environment for Interpreter-based projects for the Programming Language Course", NSF grant DUE-9952398 with Laurie King, the College of the Holy Cross.

Last updated on 13 Mar 2006 by John Barr