My undergraduate degree is a BS in Chemistry which I received from the College of William and Mary in 1959. After a year of graduate study in Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, I decided that I didn't enjoy that subject enough to make it my life's work so I returned to William and Mary and took four math courses in one semester giving me the equivalent coursework of a math major. I received my masters in Mathematics from William and Mary in 1963, and doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1971.
In the early sixties, I worked in the Computer Section of the Engineering Research Department at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia which was (and stll is) the largest privately owned shipyard in the country. Computers were just becoming popular in industry. My first programming experience was in machine language on the IBM 650 which had 2,000 memory locations. We've sure come a long way since then.
I have been at the University of Richmond since 1970 and, over the years, have taught most of our math curriculum. My particular interest is in differential equations and math education. In the mid-1980s, I participated in IFRICS (Institute for Retraining in Computer Science), an intensive program over two summers designed to give experienced teachers a thorough background in computer science. As a result, I have also taught four or five computer science courses.
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