Education
PhD of CS, University of California at Davis
MS of CS, University of California at Davis
BS of CS, California State University
Background
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Website: http://homepage.wne.edu/~hjackson
Dr. Jackson is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at Western New England University. Before joining Western New England University in 2004, he earned an MS and a PhD in computer science from UC Davis. Before that, he earned a BS in computer science from CSU Bakersfield.
Dr. Jackson has research interests in the areas of software engineering, web systems, and computing education. In software engineering and web systems, he has been interested in technologies that make software development and maintenance easier for programmers. In his dissertation, he developed an efficient algorithm for pretty printing a window of code, as it would appear in its original larger context, without pretty printing that larger context.
In computing education, Dr. Jackson is interested in teaching strategies that provide students with motivating and interesting learning experiences. Most recently, he has been experimenting with POGIL and the "Flipped Classroom," as well as using Humanitarian Free and Open-Source Software projects to enhance the student learning experience.
Dr. Jackson has participated in CCSC-NE since 2010 and has served on its board since 2012. He has been an ACM member since 2005 (earlier if you count his student membership).
For a list of publications, please visit the ACM author pages for "Stoney Jackson" and "Herman Jackson" below:
Interests
- Computing Education
- Web Systems
- Software Engineering
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Information Visualization
Courses Taught
- CS 220 Software Development
- IT 350 Web Systems
- IT 450 Advanced Web Systems
- CS 492 CS Capstone
- IT 320 Human-Computer Interaction
- IT 230 Operating Systems and Script Development
- IT 240 Foundations of Web Systems
- CS 171 Programming for Mathematics
- CS 413 Parallel Computing
- CS/IT 102 Introduction to Programming
- CS 131 Computing for A&S
