Dr. Barry Levine Professor and Graduate Coordinator Computer Science Department San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 Professor and Director, Computer & Information Science Program American University of Armenia 40 Baghramian Ave. Yerevan, Armenia 375019

Office Phone: (415)338-1661
Dept. Phone: (415)338-1008
FAX: (415)338-6826
Email address: levine@sfsu.edu
Office: Thornton Hall 949

INTERESTS

Object-Oriented Programming, Programming Language Design, Compiler
Construction, Functional Programming, Asynchronous Distance Learning,
Virtual Science Library

COURSES

OnLine Courses

Object-Oriented Programming with C++ - Offered through The College of Extended Learning, San Francisco State University
An Introduction to Java - Offered through The College of Extended Learning, San Francisco State University
Programming Language Design (Junior/Senior level course based on the Scheme Programming language)

Undergraduate

Software Development (Object-Oriented Programming principles; introduction to Java; programming-in-the-large;
software development tools - debuggers, programming environments, etc.)
Programming Language Design (Junior/Senior level course based on the Scheme Programming language)

Graduate

Object-Oriented Programming (Software engineering techniques, C++, Java, Smalltalk)
Advanced Object-Oriented Programming (Design Patterns, Frameworks - MFC, the Java API, Visual Smalltalk)
Compiler Design
Advanced Compiler Design (Optimization techniques)
Functional Programming

WORKSHOPS DEVELOPED/PRESENTED FOR VARIOUS COMPANIES

Java, C++, C, Ada, Pascal

CONSULTING BACKGROUND

• Evaluation of System Architecture for Java-based E-commerce Solution Provider
• Volunteer Executive,  International Executive Service Corps Amman, Jordan
  Project for Jordan - U.S. Business Partnership; Program accreditation evaluation for the Computer Science Program at Princess Sumaya University College for Technology
• Volunteer Executive,  International Executive Service Corps Yerevan, Armenia
  e-commerce solution consultant; develop/deliver Computer Science seminars at the American University of Armenia
• World Bank,  African Virtual University Project (Develop the Computer Science curriculum; assist with the development of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering curricula; Development of the University catalog, Campus Operations Manual and Student Handbook)
• C compiler development
• Year 2000 Problem
• Data Base Language Translator
• Internet Service Provider development

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Acting Department Chair (2002-2003) Computer Science Department, San Francisco State University
• Graduate Coordinator - graduate student advisor, head of graduate program committee (curriculum planning, etc.)
• Professor and Director, Computer & Information Science Program, American University of Armenia
  Responsible for creating and running the program - designing the curriculum, hiring faculty, admitting graduate students and other associated duties
• Masters Thesis Chair
• PC-based stereo vision system
• Web conferencing system for support of online courses
• Intermediate language design
• Structure editor builder
• Instrument code optimizer
• Developed WWW online courses:
• Object-Oriented Programming and C++
• An Introduction to Java
• Faculty coordinator, NeighborNet Project - received grant to work with Taraval district (San Francisco) neighborhood groups to design/setup websites for informational resources regarding community activities, alerts, etc.

SABBATICALS

• Visiting Professor at Nairobi University, Nairobi, Kenya
• Member, Kenyan National Council of Science and Technology
• Co-coordinator Kenyan Ministry of Health Systems Project

• Invited lecturer to Hunan University, Changsha, Peoples Republic of China
• US Agency for International Development(USAID) Egerton Project
Set up Computer Teaching Laboratory, design Computer Science curriculum,
Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya

REFEREE, REVIEWER

IEEE Trans PAMI, Informatica and various Computer Science publishing companies

EDUCATION - DEGREES

• University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois
June, 1970
B.Sc. Math and Computer Science

• California State University
Chico, California
July 1974
M.S. Computer Science - Analysis of Algorithms

• Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
June, 1979
Ph.D. Computer Science - Theory of Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Switching Theory

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

• "Web Engineering with the Visual Software Circuit Board" by Hovhannes Avoyan, American University of Armenia
  and Barry Levine, San Francisco State University; poster paper, ACM 13th World Wide Web Conference
  New York City, 17-22 May 2004
• "The Automated Inference of Tree Systems", Technical Report, Computer Science Department,
  Oregon State University, October 1979
• "Tree Derivatives", Technical Report, Computer Science Department,
  University of Oregon, January 1980
• "Tree Derivatives and the Inference of Tree Automata", paper presented at the
  Computer Science Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, February 1980
• "Derivatives of Tree Sets with Applications to Grammatical Inference",
  IEEE Trans. PAMI, May 1981
• "The Use of Tree Derivatives and a Sample Support Parameter for Inferring Tree Systems",
  IEEE Trans. PAMI, January 1982
• "The Inference of Tree Systems Using Tree Derivatives and a Sample Strength Parameter",
  presented as a long paper at 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition,
  Dec. 1-4,1980, Miami, Florida

MEMBER

Association for Computing Machinery, SIGPLAN, SIGADA, Sigma
Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Upsilon Pi Upsilon