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Dr. Barry Levine is a very
well known name in java field. Barry is one of the Java champions. He is a Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Computer Science
Department at San Francisco State University, San Francisco. He is also a
Director of the Computer & Information Science Program at the American
University of Armenia and a part timer Java consultant.
Barry is much interested in java field e.g. Object-oriented Programming,
Programming language Design, Asynchronous Distance Learning, Compiler
Construction, Functional Programming.
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If we take a look on the
academic qualification of Barry, he completed his B.Sc. in Math and Computer
Science from university of Illinois in 1970 after that he has done M.S. in
Computer Science (Analysis of Algorithms) from California State University in
July 1974. Barry also completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science (Theory of
Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Switching Theory) from Oregon State
University in June 1979.
As
far as the work experience of Barry is concerned, from August 1987 to August 1988 he
was working as a lecturer in Hunan University. After that he spend some time for
International Development (USAID) Egerton Project to Set up Computer Teaching
Laboratory, he also designed Computer Science curriculum for Egerton University,
Njoro,
Kenya. From July 1994 to June 1995 he was a Visiting Professor at Nairobi
University and for some time Co-coordinator Kenyan Ministry of Health Systems
Project and mean while he was selected as a member of Kenyan National Council of
Science and Technology.
Apart
from all of this Barry's academic experience was as under:
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Acting
Department Chair (2002-2003) Computer Science Department, San Francisco
State University
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Graduate
Coordinator - graduate student advisor, head of graduate program committee
(curriculum planning, etc.)
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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
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Masters
Thesis Chair
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PC-based
stereo vision system
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Web
conferencing system for support of online courses
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Intermediate
language design
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Structure
editor builder
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Instrument
code optimizer
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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.
After
consulting all about his education and experiences there are some of his
consulting projects, which are important to discuss are as under:
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Evaluation
of System Architecture for Java-based E-commerce Solution Provider
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Volunteer
Executive, International Executive Service Corps Amman, Jordan
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Project
for Jordan - U.S. Business Partnership; Program accreditation evaluation for
the Computer Science Program at Princess Sumaya University College for
Technology
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Volunteer
Executive, International Executive Service Corps Yerevan, Armenia
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e-commerce
solution consultant; develop/deliver Computer Science seminars at the
American University of Armenia
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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)
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C
compiler development
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Year
2000 Problem
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Data Base Language Translator
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Internet
Service Provider development
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