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About Frank McCown, Ph.D.

Dr. McCown has taught in the CS department for more than 20 years. During his career, Dr. McCown has worked as a researcher or software developer at several organizations including Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Flatirons Solutions, and Faithlife. He has published dozens of research papers in the areas of digital preservation and web archiving. Most recently, Dr. McCown has authored or co-authored textbooks on Web Programming, Mobile Application Development, and Database Management Systems. Dr. McCown has won the university's Distinguished Teaching Award twice. 

Positions

2023 - Present Professor, Harding University Department of Computer Science
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2020 - Present Senior Content Developer, Wiley Publishing ‐ zyBooks
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2013 - 2023 Associate Professor, Harding University Department of Computer Science
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2019 - 2020 Content Developer, zyBooks ‐ Content Team
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2007 - 2013 Assistant Professor, Harding University Department of Computer Science
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1997 - 2007 Instructor, Harding University Department of Computer Science
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1996 - 1997 Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin
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Curriculum Vitae


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Grants

2010 - 2014 Collaborative Research: Web Archive Cooperative
NSF
Colleague(s): H. Garcia-Molina (PI) and M. L. Nelson
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2008 Member, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
1997 Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Honors and Awards

  • Distinguished Teaching Award - 2011 and 2019

Courses

  • Game Development
  • Programming I and II
  • Game Programming
  • Android App Development
  • Graphical User Interface Programming
  • Web Development

Education

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2004 - 2007 Ph.D. in Computer Science, Old Dominion University
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1998 - 2002 M.S. in Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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1992 - 1996 B.S. in Computer Science, Harding University
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Research Works (9)

Books (5)