Judith Bayard Cushing

Senior Member of the Faculty, Computer Science (since 1982)

The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 98505

Ms. Cushing’s research addresses issues of scientific data management and inter-operability of data and programs in heterogeneous computing environments. Her pedagogical work lay in teaching computer science and other science students to work together in large scale projects of significant technical challenge. She started, and continues to direct, Evergreen’s well respected software engineering program. In addition to teaching computer science at all undergraduate levels, Ms. Cushing has organized numerous colloquia and conferences, and served on a number of committees within the college, including serving as chair of the Hiring Committee (1988) and member of the Faculty Senate (1986). She is a member of Sigma Xi, CPSR, ACM, ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society.

Personal Information

Date and Place of Birth: June 1, 1946; Baltimore, Maryland (MD), USA

Contact Information (Address, Phone, and Fax):

Professional: Lab I, The Evergreen State College 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW Olympia, WA 98505-0002 Phone (360) 867-6600 Fax (360) 360-867-5430	Temporary (Oct. 15, 2000-Jan. 29, 2001) 6-6-632 Maiko-Dai, Tarumi-ku Kobe 655-0046 JAPAN Phone (78) 7834755 Fax: c/o John Cushing (78)794-6166	Personal: 3605 Overhulse Rd. NW Olympia, WA 98502 Phone: 360-866-4905
Pam Udovich at the above Professional Phone Number, will be able to contact me, if you cannot reach me in Japan.

Education

· April 1995. Ph.D. Modeling Scientific Applications in Object Databases. Computer Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Portland, OR.

· June 1970. M.A. Philosophy, Brown University, Providence, R.I.

· June 1968. B.A. Philosophy and Mathematics, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

Professional Experience

· 1982-present. Member of the Faculty (Computer Science), The Evergreen State College, Olympia.

· February-July, 2001. Visiting Researcher, Caravel Group, Institute Nationale de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA – Rocquencourt), France.

· March-September, 1989. Visiting Faculty, Kobe University of Commerce, Kobe, Japan.

· 1977-82. Computer Center Director, Systems Analyst, Programmer, Public Health Automated Medical Information System (PHAMIS), Seattle, WA.

· September 1976-June 1977. Post Graduate Studies in Medical Computer Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center (Southwestern Medical School), Dallas, TX. Coursework in biomathematics, biostatistics and medical information systems.

· March-June 1976. Programmer-Analyst, Design Automation, Texas Instruments (TI), Dallas, TX.

· 1974-76. Systems Analyst, Office of Computer Services, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

· 1971-74. Systems Engineer , Centre de Calcul, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Bordeaux III, Talence, France.

· 1970--71. Programmer-Analyst Compagnie Internationale de Télécommunications, Paris, France.

· 1969--70. Systems Programmer, Diagnostic Engineering Department, Systems Development Division, IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY.

Selected Research Publications and Presentations.

· What Trees Teach About Ecological Databases – Spatial is Special, Invited Seminars, Microsoft Research (September 2000) and Institute Nationale de Research en Informatique (INRIA) April 2000.

· with John Schnase, “Research Challenges in Biodiversity Informatics”, VLDB, Cairo Egypt, September 2000.

· The Canopy Database Project – Building a Community-wide Database, Long Term Ecological (NSF) Research Sites Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America, August 2000, and the Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility Annual Scientists Meeting June 2000.

· “Collaborative [data integration] Visions for Canopy Science”, Joint ESF/NSF Meeting for Forest Canopy International, Long Term Research Planning, Oxford England, November 1999.

· Collaborative Ecological Research – The Role of the Internet for Canopy Science Databases, Invited Seminar, Stanford University, April 1999.

· with T. Hunkapiller, E. Kutter, J. Laird, D. Yee and F. Zucker, “Beyond Interoperability—Tracking and Managing the results of Comutational Applications”, in Pattern Discovery in Molecular Biology Data, J.T.L. Wang, B. A. Shapiro and D. Shasha (eds), Oxford University Press, 1998.

· Databases (and beyond): Support for Ridge Scientist Collaborations, at the National All Scientists Meeting of NSF Geologic Ridge Projects (Summer 1998).

· With S. Knackstadt and N. Nadkarni, Packaging Ecological Data in a Meaningful Context : A Metadata Database Management System, NW Science, 1998.

· With N. Nadkarni, D. Maier, Database Support for Forest Canopy Researchers—Metadata as a byproduct of the research process, CODATA, 1997-1998.

· with D. Maier, T. Keller and T. Marr. Proxies in Practice: Object Architectures for Distributed Computational Workbenches, Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, 3-1, November 1996.

· with G. Spycher, S. Stafford, D. Henshaw and N. Nadkarni, Opportunities for Solving Problems for Federation and Migration of Ecological Databases, EcoInforma, 1996.

with D. Maier, D. Feller, M. Rao, D. Abel and M. DeVaney. Computational Proxies: Modeling Scientific Applications in Object Databases, Seventh International Working Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, September, 1994.

· with D. Maier, D. Hansen and C. Pu. Connecting Scientific Programs and Data Using Object Databases, Data Engineering (Special Issue on Scientific Databases), Y. Ioannidis (ed.), 1993.

· with D. Maier. Treating Programs as Objects: The Computational Proxy Experience, Invited Paper, Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases Conference, 1993.

· with D. Maier and others. Object Data Models for Shared Molecular Structures, in Computerized Chemical Data Standards: Databases, Data Interchange, and Information Systems, R. Lysakowski (ed). STP 1214, ASTM, May 1993.

Other Publications and Presentations

· Evergreen’s Virtual Forest Project, Invited Presentations to Virtual Worlds Research Group, Microsoft, Spring and Summer 2000.

· The role of entrepreneurship and projects in Software Engineering Education, National Collegiate Invetors and Innovators Alliance, Annual Conference, Spring 2000.

· Integrating Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum, SIGCSE Panel, February 1998.

· Curricular Innovations Panel, The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Annual Conference, Washington DC, March 1997.

· with John Aikin Cushing and Andrew Buchman. Computer Science and the Arts, in Computing and Social Responsibility: A Collection of Course Syllabi, ed. T. Winograd and B. Friedman, pub. Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, 1991.

· with Yoshio Kimura and John Aikin Cushing. Computer Graphics with LOGO, in Basic Mathematics, vol. 22, no. 11, November, 1989 (in Japanese).

· Software Engineering Education at Evergreen, Proceedings of the ACM Computer Science Education Symposium, February 1987.

· with D. Maier, D. Hansen and C. Pu. Connecting Scientific Programs and Data Using Object Databases, Data Engineering (Special Issue on Scientific Databases) Y. Ioannidis (ed.), 1993.

· with D. Maier. Computatioanl Proxies, Invited Paper, Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases Conference, 1993.

· with D. Maier, D. Feller, M. Rao, D. Abel and M. DeVaney. Computational Proxies: An Infrastructure for Computatinal Science, Seventh International Working Conference on Statistical and Scientific Database Management, September, 1994.

· with D. Maier, D. Feller, M. DeVaney and M. Rao.Object-Oriented Database Support for Computational Chemistry, Sixth International Working Conference on Statistical and Scientific Database Management, June, 1992.

· with D. Maier and others. Object Data Models for Shared Molecular Structures, in Computerized Chemical Data Standards: Databases, Data Interchange, and Information Systems, ASTM, May 1993.

Other Publications and Presentations

· with John Aikin Cushing and Andrew Buchman. Computer Science and the Arts, In Computing and Social Responsibility: A Collection of Course Syllabi, ed. Winograd, T. and Friedman B., pub. Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), 1991.

· with Yoshio Kimura and John Aikin Cushing. Computer Graphics with LOGO, In Basic Mathematics , Vol. 22, No. 11 (November 1989). In Japanese.

· Software Engineering Education at Evergreen. Proceedings of the ACM Computer Science Education Symposium, February 1987.

· Modeling Scientific Processes in Object Databases, NSF Organized Session on Advances in Data Management for the Scientist and Engineer, AAAS Annual Meeting, February 14-16, 1993.

· Scientific Data Management ‘92, Department of Energy Workshop on Metadata for Environmental Science Databases, Salt Lake City, November 2-4, 1992.

Collaborators and Advisor(s)

Collaborators: Sherri Shulman (Computer Science), Elizabeth Kutter (Biological Physics) and Nalini Nadkarni (Environmental Science): The Evergreen State College. David Maier and Lois Delcambre: Oregon Graduate Institute. David Feller and Michael DeVaney: Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland WA.

Ph.D. Committee: David Maier (chair), Jonathan Walpole and Steve Otto, Oregon Graduate Institute. David Feller: Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories.

Selected Invited Presentations and Working Groups

· Interfacing Legacy Applications to Scientific Databases, Workshop on Applications of Smalltalk in Scientific and Engineering Computation, OOPSLA, Vancouver, B.S., October 1992.

· Intellectual Autobiography, Invited presentation, Annual Conference of the Society for Values in Higher Education, 1987.

· Software Reliability and Expert Systems. Invited tutorial, Structured Systems Conference, Chicago IL, 1987.

· with Duke Kuehn and Lucia Harrison, Software Engineering Education at Evergreen, Annual Meeting of the Society for Liberal and General Studies, 1988.

· Panel: Why aren’t there more women undergraduate majors in computer science? ACM Computer Science Education Symposium, 1987.

Selected Awards, Grants and Contracts

· 1994. with C. Barlow, J. Kelly and E. Kutter. NSF ILI Equipment Grant, matched by the Murdock Charitable Trust. Visualization in Molecular Sciences. ($40,000 each)

· January 1994. PI, NSF CISE Educational Infrastructure Grant. Integrating Recent Computer Science Research Results into an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Curriculum. ($296,000)

· August 1993. PI with E. Kutter. NSF CISE IRI Grant, Computational Proxies for T4.

· March 1991. Fellowships and Research Grants with David Maier, from Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories and Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS), Oregon Graduate Institute, and Boeing (approx. $300,000).

· 1986. with John Aikin. NSF ILI grant to establish an undergraduate computing laboratory, ($50,000), matched by $50,000 each from The Evergreen State College and Control Data PLATO Royalty Fund.

· 1986 and 1987. with colleagues. AT&T equipment grants to support computing in the physical and computer sciences. (approx. $800,000).

· 1985-87. Software and education grants from Evergreen, Boeing, The Wang Institute, Arity and Data General to support the undergraduate Software Engineering curriculum. (approx. $15,000).