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Present	Associate Dean, James Madison University ‐ Honors College
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Present	Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies, James Madison University
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Higher Education

Best Practices in Two-Year to Four-Year Honors Transfers

Honors in Practice (2017)

Philip L Frana and Stacy Rice

James Madison University (JMU) and Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) teamed up in April 2014 to build a memorandum of ...

An Interview with Stephen A. Cook

Communications of the ACM (2012)

Stephen A. Cook, winner of the 1982 AM Turing Award, reflects on his career. nature of nP-complete class of problems ...

An Interview with Edsger W. Dijkstra

Communications of the ACM (2010)

Thomas J Misa and Philip L Frana

Implementing Wikis in Honors Courses

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council (2009)

Recently I have been thinking a lot about how to get from" me" and" you" to" we" in undergraduate honors ...

Medicine and the Family in the 1930s

Great Depression: People and Perspectives (2009)

America was already deep into the Great Depression when Herbert Hoover relinquished the presidency in March 1933. As he exited ...

Honors 2025: The Future of the Honors College

Honors in Practice -- Online Archive (2008)

Richard Ira Scott and Philip Frana

As we attempt to foresee the future, we recognize that the increase in the number of honors colleges over the ...

Battling Smallpox: State and Local Boards of Health

Iowa Heritage Illustrated (2007)

A Risk Perceived is a Risk Indeed: Assessing Risk in ...

Rutgers University Press (2004)

Before the web there was Gopher

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (2004)

The World Wide Web, universally well known today, was preceded by an efficient software tool that was fondly named Gopher. ...

Marion Dorset and Hog Cholera Research in the Biochemic Laboratory ...

Veterinary History (2004)

Oral History Interview with Laszlo A. Belady

Charles Babbage Institute (2002)

Belady discusses his early life and education in Hungary, escape to West Germany during the 1956 revolution, and work as ...

Oral History Interview with Stephen Cook

Charles Babbage Institute (2002)

Cook recounts his early interest in electronics and association with electronic cardiac pacemaker inventor Wilson Greatbatch, and his education at ...

Researching the History of Software: Mining Internet Resources in the ...

Iterations: A Journal of Software History (2002)

Juliet Burba and Philip L Frana

So wrote the great philosopher and poet Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana in his essay" The Elements and Function ...

Oral History Interview with Charles Antony Richard Hoare

Charles Babbage Institute (2002)

Sir Antony Hoare is Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England, and Research/Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford. ...

Oral History Interview with Peter Watson

Charles Babbage Institute (2002)

Peter Watson is founder of Berkeley Computer Services Limited (BCS), one of the oldest continuously operating software houses in Scotland. ...

Oral History Interview with Carl Machover

Charles Babbage Institute (2002)

Carl Machover is computer graphics pioneer and president of Machover Associates Corporation (MAC), a computer graphics consultancy founded in 1976. ...

Oral History Interview with Gary Durbin

Charles Babbage Institute (2002)

Gary Durbin is a software pioneer and entrepreneur with over thirty-five years of experience. He began his career specializing in ...

Oral History Interview with Lee Keet

Charles Babbage Institute (2002)

In this oral history software entrepreneur Ernest E.(Lee) Keet chronicles his education in programming and engineering at Cornell University, his ...

A well-intentioned query and the Halloween Problem

Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE (2002)

Philip L. Frana's description of the Halloween Problem demonstrates the role of cautionary tales in the history of computing. Laurie ...

Oral History Interview with Jim Gray

Charles Babbage Institute (2002)

Gray discusses his childhood in Rome and education at the University of California, Berkeley. He explains the influence of Sputnik, ...

Oral History Interview with William McGee

Charles Babbage Institute (2001)

William McGee is a retired senior programmer at the IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory. McGee received the AB degree in physics ...

Oral History Interview with Donald D. Chamberlin

Charles Babbage Institute (2001)

Don Chamberlin is a research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. In this oral history ...

Oral History Interview with Mark P. McCahill

Charles Babbage Institute (2001)

In this oral history Mark P. McCahill, Assistant Director of Academic and Distributed Computing Services at the University of Minnesota, ...

Oral History Interview with Glenn Henry

Charles Babbage Institute (2001)

Glenn Henry begins by briefly outlining his education and early work career prior to joining IBM. The majority of the ...

Oral History Interview with Dick Hedger

Charles Babbage Institute (2001)

Richard Hedger begins the interview describing his education in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota. Following graduation he accepted ...