Marcus Brown, University of Alabama Computer Science Department

<body> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Dr. Marcus E. Brown, U of A Computer Science Dept.</title> </head> <body background="../../../images/back1.gif" link="#AF0000" vlink="#3E3E3E" alink="#AF0000"> <p> <table border="0" width="407"> <tr> <td width="399"> <p align="left"><img src="Marcus-new.jpg" alt="Dr. Marcus Brown" align="left" border="2" WIDTH="161" HEIGHT="200"></p> <h2>Dr. Marcus Brown</h2> <p>Associate Professor<br> Department of Computer Science<br> The University of Alabama<br> Phone: (205) 348-6363<br> Fax: (205) 348-0219<br> Email: <a href="mailto:mbrown@cs.ua.edu">mbrown@cs.ua.edu</a> </p> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <h3>EDUCATION</h3> <ul> <li><b>Ph.D.</b> Computer Science, <a href="/cgi-bin/leaving?http://www.cs.tamu.edu/" target="_top">Texas A&M University</a>, 1988 </li> <li><b>M.Div.</b> Religion, <a href="/cgi-bin/leaving?http://www.acu.edu/" target="_top">Abilene Christian University</a>, 1975 </li> <li><b>B.A.</b> Chemistry, <a href="/cgi-bin/leaving?http://www.acu.edu/" target="_top">Abilene Christian University</a>, 1972 </li> </ul> <hr> <h3>EXPERIENCE</h3> <ul> <li><b>Associate Professor</b>, The University of Alabama, 1994-present </li> <li><b>Assistant Professor</b>, The University of Alabama, 1988-1994 </li> <li><b>Graduate Assistant</b>, Texas A&M, 1984-1988 </li> <li><b>Programmer/Analyst</b>, Abilene Christian University, 1981-1984 </li> <li><b>Campus Minister</b>, University Church of Christ, Monroe, LA, 1979-1981 </li> <li><b>Campus Minister</b>, University Church of Christ, Tahlequah, OK, 1975-1979 </li> </ul> <hr> <h3>INTERESTS</h3> <ul> <li>Human Computer Interfaces </li> <li>Computers & Ethics</li> <li>Literate Programming </li> <li>Multimedia </li> <li>Hypertext </li> <li>Virtual Reality </li> <li><a href="http://cs.ua.edu/faculty/mbrown/3fold.html">Three-Fold approach to Computer Science</a> </li> </ul> <hr> <h3>Current Classes</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://cs.ua.edu/faculty/mbrown/202/202.html">CS 202: Surfing the Net </a></li> <li><a href="http://cs.ua.edu/faculty/mbrown/412/412.html">CS 412/512: C and UNIX</a></li> <li><a href="http://cs.ua.edu/faculty/mbrown/607.html">CS 607: Advanced Human Computer Interface</a></li> </ul> <h3>Recent Classes</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://cs.ua.edu/faculty/mbrown/440.html">CS 440: Ethical and Societal Issues in Computer Science</a> </li> </ul> <hr> <h3>RESEARCH REVIEW</h3> <p>Dr. Brown's research has centered in the human-computer interface, seeking to make computer tools better suited to help humans complete their tasks. His Literate Programming Environment was designed to make program development and maintenance simpler for the literate programmer. During two summers as a Summer Faculty Fellow at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, he researched navigation of very large information spaces and training applications of virtual environments. This research led to his invited participation in two conferences to set future research agendas in the area of virtual reality for NASA and NSF. Recently he has made discoveries in the area of user authentication using typing characteristics, with significant implications for computer security.</p> <p>Dr. Brown has recently been engaged in building a HTML version of two instruction module for the Alabama Department of Transportation. The prototype of the first is <a href="http://cs.ua.edu/faculty/mbrown/aldot/Module1.html">here.</a> </p> <h4>Dr. Brown serves as the Secretary to the University of Alabama <a href="http://cs.ua.edu/FacultySenate/senate.html"><b>Faculty Senate</b></a>.</h4> <h4>Dr. Brown also serves as the Faculty Advisor to the UA student chapter of the <a href="http://www.eng.ua.edu/college/orgs/acm/"><b>Association for Computing Machinery</b></a> and the UA chapter of <a href="http://www.eng.ua.edu/college/orgs/upe/upehome.html"><b>Upsilon Pi Epsilon</b></a></h4> <hr> <h3>PUBLICATIONS</h3> <ul> <li>Yeager, D.P., Brown, M.E. and Stanley, D.A., "An Object-Oriented Software Library for Minerals Beneficiation and Separation Processes." Fluid/Particle Separation Journal 7, 2:65-69, 1994. </li> <li>Brown, M. and Rogers, S. "User identification via keystroke characteristics of typed names using neural networks," International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 39, 999-1014, 1993. </li> <li>Bishop, G., Bricken, W., Brooks, F. P., Brown, M., et.al., "Research in Virtual Environments: Report of an NSF Workshop," Computer Graphics 26, 3:153-177, 1992. </li> <li>Cordes, D. and Brown, M., "The Literate-Programming Paradigm," Computer 24, 6: 52-61, 1991. </li> <li>Brown, M. and Cordes, D., "Literate Programming Applied to Conventional Software Design," Structured Programming 11:85-90, 1990. </li> <li>Brown, M. and Childs, S.B., "An Interactive Environment for Literate Programming," Structured Progamming 11:11-15, 1990. </li> <li>Brown, M. and Czejdo, B., "A Hypertext for Literate Programming," Chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 468: Advances in Computing and Information - ICCI'90, S.G. Akl, F. Fiala, and W. W. 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