Faculty

Dr. James Skon
skon@mvnu.edu
(740) 392-6868 Ext. 3224

Education:

• Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Computer and Information Science, 1997.
• The University of North Dakota, Linguistics, 1984-1987.
• M.S. The Ohio State University, Computer and Information Science, 1982.
• B.A. Mount Vernon Nazarene College, Computer Science, 1980.

Professional Experience:

• Professor in Computer Science, 1998 to present.
• Chairman, Department of Computer Science, 1998 to present.
• Associate Professor in Computer Science, 1995 to 1999.
• Assistant Professor in Computer Science, 1985 to 1995.
• Instructor of Computer Science, MVNC, 1983 to 1985.
• Part-time instructor, MVNC, 1982 to 1983. Promoted to Professor rank in 2000.
• Cognitive Science Summer Research Fellowship, The Ohio State University, June to September, 1992, 1993.
• Graduate Research Associate, The Ohio State University, Academic Computing Services, 1981 and 1982; July, 1992 to February, 1995.
• System Programmer II, The Ohio State University, The Instructional and Research Computing Center, 1982 to 1983.
• Graduate Assistant, The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 1980.
• Partner/Owner, Digitcomp Systems, contract software firm, 1978 to 1980.

Professional Organizations:

• Association of Computing Machinery
• Association of Computational Linguistics
• Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges

Awards and Recognition:

• The Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award, 1991.
• Outstanding Young Men of America, 1985 and 1986.

Published Works and Presentations:

• Skon, James, James T. Streib, Brenda Tuomi Litka, Curt M. White: Implementing Internship Programs In The Small College Environment. Panel session at the 1998 Midwest conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, September, 1998.
• Skon, James and John Noonan: Parallelization of the Twofish Symmetric Key Encryption Algorithm. Presentation at the Summer Mini-grant Symposium, MVNC, October, 1998.
• Skon, J. (1993). Guiding an HPSG Parser Using Semantic and Pragmatic Expectations, 1993 proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Skon, J. (1998, April). A Multi-user AP-NEWS System for Use in the Journalism and Communications Curriculum. Paper presented to the 21st Small College Computing Symposium at Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa.
• Skon, J. (1985, April). The Use and Control of Dial-up Information Systems When Used as a Class Resource. Paper presented to the 18th Small College Computing Symposium at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa.