T. F. HIGGINBOTHAM,
PH. D.
Southeastern
higginbotham@selu.edu
Office: (985)
549‑5315
Home: (985) 345‑2697
Fax: (985)
549-5532
EDUCATION: 18 graduate hours in Computer Science in
1992 - 1993
taken
at Southern University and
Ph.D., 1973 ‑
Major ‑
Psychology; Minor
‑ Quantitative Methods.
Dissertation: "On the Significance of the Difference
Between Correlated
Correlations."
(Simulation of violations of the assumptions underlying
Hotelling's,
William's, and Olkin's tests, and a simulation of a new test
developed
by William D. Spears – written in IBM 360 BAL
M. Ed., 1967 ‑
Major ‑
Education; Minor
‑ Mathematics (27 graduate hours)
B.S., 1961 ‑
Major ‑ Physics; Minor ‑
Mathematics
RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT:
Position: Professor of Computer Science
Southeastern
Period: January, 1982 to present
Duties: Instruction in FORTRAN, COBOL, Assembly
Language,
Pascal, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Artificial Intelligence, Information
Systems, Operating Systems, Robotics, Automata and
Formal Languages,
Simulation, Teleprocessing, Real‑time
Systems, Graphics, Web Publishing, Visual Basic, Data Structures, Algorithms,
Position: Lecturer in Computing Science
The
Period: March, 1981 to December, 1981 (Academic
Year)
Duties: Instruction in Operating Systems, and Assembly
Languages for
the
Perkin‑Elmer 3220, tutor for first‑year
students of Pascal, manager of a
senior
project (data base) dealing with the largest blood bank in
Position: Technical Consultant for Software
Apartado
61664
Period:
Duties: Software consultant working mostly with
interactive systems.
The largest of these
systems was an on‑ line inventory control system in
PL/1 for the IBM
SERIES/1 under RPS for Linea
Aeropostal Venezolana,
which
is
Position:
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Period: September, 1973 to June, 1979
Position: Instructor of Industrial Engineering
Period: January,
1973 to August, 1973
Position: Instructor of Industrial Engineering
Period: June, 1969 to December, 1973 ‑ half
time
Duties: Instruction in FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/1, IBM System/370
Assembly Language,
Compilers, Operating Systems, SIMSCRIPT, Systems
Analysis, Teleprocessing,
Information Retrieval, Security I was involved
with
the graduate program at the master's level.
Position: Instructor of Mathematics
Eastern
Period: September, 1967 to June, 1969
Duties: Instruction in Undergraduate Mathematics
Position: Instruction of Mathematics and Physics
Period: September, 1962 to June, 1966
Duties: Instruction in Mathematics (including
Calculus)
and
Physics
Position: Statistical Analyst
Wilbur Smith and Associates
Period: August, 1961 to May, 1962
Duties: Developed statistics for traffic analysis
Position: Research and Development Engineer
Glassrock
Products, Inc.
Period: July, 1959 to May, 1960
Duties: Quality Control, Research and Development
concerning ceramic
fused
silica.
Position: Timekeeper ‑ material checker, etc.
Higginbotham Construction
Company
Period: About two years
Duties: Anything to make myself useful.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Association for Computing
Machinery
American Statistical
Association
American Psychological
Association
HONORS:
Upsilon Pi Epsilon
Psi
Chi
Alpha Pi Mu
Fulbright Scholar,
Fulbright Scholar,
Summer Faculty Fellow at the
Jet Propulsion
of
the California Institute of Technology
for
1986, 1987, and 1989
Summer Faculty Fellowship the
Naval Surface
Fulbright Senior
Specialist (First of 5 year term)
Microsoft guest for 2
weeks at
courses.,
Summer 2002.
Faculty Senate -- 13 years
HOBBIES AND RECREATION:
Radio ‑ N5EVM, chess,
fencing, judo, sailing,
travel,
river drifting via kayak (longest trip
was
from
PHYSICAL DEFECTS:
Nearsighted ‑ I do not
drive; I walk, use public
transportation,
and ride a bicycle.
DATE AND PLACE OF
BIRTH:
MARITAL STATUS:
Married, wife Kathleen and
daughter Amie
DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE:
Distributed via
Simtel.net
I have written a simple program in
Turbo Pascal to generate all of the prime number <= to a number that is
input by the user. This program differs
from other programs in the following ways:
1.0 The sieve is
placed as a random access file on a ram
disk, hence the problem of the 64K limit for an array for the sieve is eliminated ‑‑ no array!
2.0 The sieve, the resulting prime
numbers, and the timing information are placed on
separate files.
3.0 One does not
need any special program to get around the 640k limitations.
PUBLICATIONS and
PRESENTATIONS
Higginbotham, T. F., Speach-to-Text
is in Your Future!
Faculty Conference on Teaching, Research
& Creativity
Southeastern
Higginbotham, T. F., Vulnerability of
Online Testing, an Analysis and
Recommendations, Academy of Educational
Leadership, April 14 - 16,
Higginbotham, T. F., The Internet Through
The Eyes of a Visually Impaired Person, The 2005 nternational
Conference on Computers for People
with Special Needs,
June 20 - 23,
Higginbotham, T. F., Security Issues and Solutions for
Small Businesses
in the Event of a
Katrina, ACM Midsouth,
Higginbotham, T. F., Knowledge of Results
on a Timely Basis, Academy of Educational Leadership,
New Orleans, Louisiana, April 7 - 10, 2004.
Higginbotham, T. F., SO YOU WANT TO BE THE BOSS?,
ACM Midsouth,
Higginbotham, T. F., A Distance Learning OOPs Course, The Seventh
Java & the Internet in the Computing Curriculum Conference,
January 22,
Higginbotham, T. F., Problems Encountered
in Distance learning in
Computer Science, Southeast Conference of
the ACM, 397-398, 2003
Higginbotham, T. F., A
Simulation Course for Advanced Computer Science Students, ACM MidSouth,
November 21-22 of 2003, Gatlinburg
ACM MidSouth,
November 21-22 of 2003,
Higginbotham, T. F., Introducing CS2 Students to Simulation
Via Simply
Simply Stated But Difficult Problems, Winter
Simulation Conference Poster
Session,
Higginbotham, T. F., Converting Experienced
C++ Programmers to Java
Sixth Java in the Curriculum,
Higginbotham, T. F., Some Hints for
Teaching Via Distance Learning,
Mid-South Conference of the ACM, 2002, page
22
Higginbotham, T. F., The
Requirements for a User-Friendly Java IDE,
Fifth Java in the Curriculum,
Higginbotham, T. F., Reminiscences of Forty
Years in Computing,
Southeast Conference of the ACM, 2001
Higginbotham, T. F., "Teaching and
Working Abroad:
Higginbotham, T. F., "Competing with
Students or Having Fun while Making
an Idiot of
Yourself", Mid-South Conference of the ACM, 1995.
Higginbotham, T. F., The Wireless Revolution is Here!, .
Mid-South Conference of the ACM, 1995
Higginbotham, T. F., "The
Special Interest Group on Computer Science
Education, Volume 25,
number 4, December
1993, pages 41 - 45.
Higginbotham, T. F., "Software
Protection of Microcomputer Software",
winter conference
of the ACM, 1987.
Higginbotham, T. F., "The Changing
Role of the University Computer
Center", winter
conference of the ACM, 1987.
Higginbotham, T. F., "A Role for
Artificial Intelligence in the
Testing and Integration of Systems",
Higginbotham, T. F. et al., "Improved
Technology for Space Flight
Operations", NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
D 3560, August, 1986.
Higginbotham, T. F., "The Use of
Computers in Biological Research,"
The
Higginbotham, T. F., "Special Purpose
Languages", The University
of
Higginbotham, T. F., "Applications of
Artificial Intelligence to
Problems in Agriculture", Estacos Agronomica
Nacioonal, Oeiras,
Higginbotham, T. F., "An Overview of
Current Research in Artifi
cial
Intelligence", Technical University of
Higginbotham, T. F., "Expert
Systems", The
of
Higginbotham, T. F., "Artificial
Intelligence", Prospective,
Gulbenkian Institute,
Higginbotham, T. F., "Academic
Department Survey Results in the
South Central
Region", Mid
Higginbotham, T. F., "A Walk into the
Past: The Scene in
Mid South fall conference
of the ACM, 1985.
Haas, Higginbotham., "A Toolkit for the Development of
On Line
Simulation Systems", Mid
Gorrell,
Higginbotham, et al., "Interactive Simulation of Classroom
Behavior for Educational Psychology",
Mid
Higginbotham, T.F.,
"Students Aiding Students", SIGCSE, vol. 2,
no. 2, pages
24-26, June, 1984.
Higginbotham, T. F., "The Place of the
University Computer
Center", Mid South Association for
Educational Data System, 1984
Higginbotham, T. F., "An Evaluation of
for the Honeywell DPS 8/52C, running under CP 6", Mid
Hille, R. F., and
Higginbotham, T. F., "A System for Visible
Execution of Pascal Programs", The Australian Computer Journal,
Vol. 15, No. 2, pg.
76-77, 1983.
Higginbotham, T. F., "A Human Factors
Analysis of CP 6 for the
Honeywell DPS,
winter conference of the ACM, 1983
Higginbotham, T. F., "Assembly
Language Instruction (GMAP 6 and
BMAP) for the
Honeywell DPS 8 Processor Running Under CP 6",
winter conference
of the ACM, 1983.
Higginbotham, T. F., "Assembly
Language Instruction (GMAP 6 and
BMAP) for the
Honeywell DPS 8 Processor Running Under CP 6",
winter conference
of the ACM, 1983.
Garrick, Lisa S.
and Higginbotham, T. F., "A Simple Optimizing
Technique for Cobol Program",
Garrick, Lisa S.
and Higginbotham, T. F., "A Preliminary System
for Pollution
Prediction in the