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Caruth Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

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Present	Caruth Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Trinity University ‐ Department of Computer Science
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Physical Sciences and Mathematics and Computer Sciences

Constructivity in Computer Science

Springer-Verlag (1992)

J. Paul Myers and Michael J O'Donnell

Mathematicians have long recognized the distinction between an argument showing that an interesting object exists and a procedure for actually ...

Articles (13)

In the Push for Marketable Skills, Are We Forgetting the ...

The Conversation (2015)

Thousands of students are preparing to begin their job searches with newly earned STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees ...

The Cheat Sheet as Pedagogical Tool

Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2014)

Occasionally computing courses cover a wide range of "prose" material. Testing students' understanding of such material is commonplace in the ...

Taming the Diversity of Information Assurance & Security

Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2008)

J. Paul Myers and Sandra Riela

Contemporary presentations of Information Assurance & Security (IAS) are far broader than older notions of "computer security," "network security," "OS ...

A Web Emphasis in Software Engineering

Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2007)

As software engineering (SE) is becoming increasingly important as a discipline for computing professionals, so is it becoming an increasing ...

Software Engineering Throughout a Traditional Computer Science Curriculum

Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2001)

As software engineering (SE) is becoming increasingly important as a discipline for computing professionals, so is it becoming an increasing ...

The State of Academic Hiring in Computer Science: An Interim ...

SIGCSE Bulletin (1998)

J. Paul Myers and Henry M Walker

This article reports the results of several surveys, which examine current conditions for hiring computing (CS, CIS) faculty. Specifically, the ...

The Eight-Minute Halting Problem

SIGCSE Bulletin (1998)

After years of presumed emphasis of CS theory in the curriculum, it is currently in vogue to downplay, if not ...

A Common Core of Concepts for Informatics Majors

Informatics in Higher Education: Views on Informatics and Non-Informatics Curricula (1998)

D. Lidtke, J. Paul Myers, L. Cassel, G. Gupta, et al.

The core concepts of informatics can be located in the intersection of the core concepts of the constituting and amalgamating ...

Men Supporting Women Computer Science Students

SIGCSE Bulletin (1992)

It has become clear that, for a variety of reasons, women CS enrollments are declining at a disproportionate rate and ...

The Complexity of Software Testing

Software Engineering Journal (1992)

The futility of using a general-purpose metric to characterise 'the' complexity of a program has been argued to support the ...

The Type Structure of CAT

Constructivity in Computer Science (1992)

J. Paul Myers and Ronald E Prather

Computer science educators have long lamented the fact that so many students show a lack of basic understanding of the ...

The Central Role of Mathematical Logic in Computer Science

SIGCSE Bulletin (1990)

A fascinating and largely unheralded development accompanying the rise of computer science and computer technology has been the increasing applicability ...

The New Generation of Computer Literacy

SIGCSE Bulletin (1989)

A tremendous mismatch is developing between two of the most critical components of any computer literacy course: the textbooks and ...