CURRICULUM VITAE
Julian
M. Scher, Ph.D.
University
Address
Home Address
Dept.
of Computer & Information Science
65 Bartlett Avenue
New
Jersey Institute of Technology
Staten Island, New York 10312
University
Heights
Newark,
New Jersey 07102
(973)
596-3395 (W)
(718) 948-2060 (H)
(973)
596-5777 (W-FAX)
(877) 777-5115 (H-FAX)
Scher@adm.njit.edu
(University email)
JScher@yahoo.com (Personal email)
http://www.cis.njit.edu/~scher
(WWW portal page)
PROFESSIONAL/RESEARCH/TEACHING
INTERESTS:
Discrete
event computer simulation languages. Probabalistic and statistical methodologies
used in simulation. Applications of computer simulation to the study of
operational systems. Database Design - theory and software. Semantic Object
Database Modeling. Desktop Database Management Systems and Application Design.
Computer Science Education. Asynchronous Learning Networks. Decision Support
Systems. Productivity toolware. WWW Application Design. Web-Based Learning
Environments, Multimedia Software
CURRENT
POSITION:
*Associate
Professor, Department of Computer & Information Science, NJIT;
*Associate
Chairman for Undergraduate Studies in Information Systems, NJIT;
EDUCATION:
B.A.
(Mathematics), Brooklyn College (CUNY), 1965;
M.S.
(Operations Research - Computer Science), New York University, 1967;
Ph.D.
(Operations Research - Computer Science), New York University, 1971.
PROFESSIONAL
POSITIONS:
1965-1969:
Senior Graphics Programmer, NYU Systems Science Laboratory
1967-1969:
Senior Operations Research Consultant, Chemical Bank of New York
1969-1971:
Graduate Teaching Fellow in Computer Science, New York
University, College of Engineering
1971-1978:
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology
1974:
Adjunct Professor of Decision Sciences, Rutgers University
1978-Present:
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer & Information Science, New
Jersey Institute of Technology
1984-1986:
Acting Chairman, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of
Computer & Information Science
1987-2000:
Associate
Chairman for Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science and Information Systems,
NJIT
2000-present:
Associate Chairman for Undergraduate Studies in Information Systems, NJIT
COURSES
TAUGHT :
Undergraduate ( Current
& Recent ):
CIS101H (Honors Computers and Problem Solving)
CIS431 (Database System
Design and Management))
CIS461 (Systems Simulation)
CIS485 (Special
Topics: Advanced Database Design & Enriched Multimedia)
CIS491 (Senior Project in
Computer Science)
Graduate ( Current and Recent ):
CIS661 (Systems Simulation)
CIS662 (Model Analysis &
Simulation)
CIS700
(Master's Project)
CIS767 (Computer Based
Decision Systems)
CIS776
(Seminar in Information Systems)
CIS791
(Doctoral Seminar)
Previous
CIS101 (Computers
and Problem Solving)
CIS113 (Computer
Science I )
CIS202 (Computers
and Business Applications)
CIS231
(Machine and Assembly Language Programming)
CIS341 (Logic and
Automata Theory)
CIS421 (Numerical
Algorithms)
Computer Methodology (Undergraduate - NYU)
Computer Methodology (Graduate - NYU)
Advanced Computer Methodology (Graduate - NYU)
Operations Research (Undergraduate - NYU)
CURRICULUM/COURSE
DESIGN:
*First
CSAB Accreditation for NJIT's BSCS (1986);
(subsequently renewed twice)
*Designed
CIS Minors in Computer Science, Information Systems, Scientific Computing
*Designed
joint (with Rutgers-Newark) BA in Computer Science, and BA in Information
Systems (and subsequent curricula revisions)
*Conceived/Designed/Substantially
Redesigned the following courses:
-
CIS202 (Computers and Business Applications)
-
CIS390 (Requirements Analysis and Systems Design)
-
CIS431 (Database System Design and Management)
-
CIS461 (Systems Simulation)
-
CIS661 (Systems Simulation - Graduate)
-
CIS662 (Model Analysis and Simulation)
-
CIS767 (Decision Support Systems)
PUBLICATIONS:
*"Assembly
Line Balancing With Overlapping Work Stations," AIIE TRANSACTIONS, Vol. 7,
No. 3, September, 1975, pp.
311 - 318 (jointly with R. Nanda)
*"Nonparallelability
Constraints in Assembly Lines With Overlapping Work Stations," AIIE
TRANSACTIONS, Vol. 8, No. 3,
September, 1976, pp. 343 - 349 (jointly with R. Nanda).
*"A
Least Squares Approach for the Simulation of the Poisson Process in GPSS,"
MODELING AND SIMULATION, Vol. VI, 1975, ISA - U. of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 541 -
546.
*"Structural
and Performance Comparisons Between SIMSCRIPT II.5 and GPSSV," MODELING AND
SIMULATION, Vol. IX, 1978, ISA - U. of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 1267 - 1275.
*"Computerized
Conferencing and Its Impact on Engineering Management," PROCEEDINGS 23rd
ANNUAL JOINT ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
CONFERENCE, Oct. 1975, pp. 59 - 70
(jointly with M. Turoff).
"Computer
Simulation Experiments for the Comprehension of Probabalistic and Statistical
Concepts," PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ANNUAL NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE ON USE OF
COMPUTERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION, March 1975, NJECN, pp. 151-159.
"Large-Scale
Combinatorial Problems and Heuristic Programming - Their Introduction Into the
'First' Computer Science Course," PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW
JERSEY CONFERENCE ON USE OF COMPUTERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION, March 1976, NJECN.
*"Computerized
Conferencing and the Simulation Study of Human Communication Processes,"
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1976 SUMMER COMPUTER SIMULATION CONFERENCE, ACM, pp. 861 - 867.
*"Computerized
Conferencing : A Methodological Tool for
the Implementation Phase of Simulation-Games," PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS, August 1976, IEEE, pp. 230 -235.
*"The
Microcomputer as a Conferee in the Computerized Conferencing Implementation of
Interpretive Structural Modeling," PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON CYBERNETICS AND SOCIETY, IEEE, 1977, pp. 315 -319 (jointly with M.
Baltrush).
*"On
the Precision of Probabalistic Process Generation Methodologies in GPSS,"
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1977 WINTER COMPUTER SIMULATION CONFERENCE, edited by
Highland, Sargent and Schmidt, ACM, pp. 340 - 347.
*"Computer
Based Human Communication Systems, chapter in book THROUGH THE 80'S : THINKING
GLOBALLY, ACTING LOCALLY, edited by F. Feather, World Future Society, 1980, pp.
317-321.
"Computerized
Conferencing for Engineering Management," PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER, December
1975 (jointly with M. Turoff).
"How
Groups Can Make Decisions and Solve Problems Through Computerized
Conferencing," BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE,
Vol. 4, No. 5, June 1978, pp. 15 - 17 (jointly with P. and T. Johnson-Lenz).
*"CAI/CMI
+ CBHCS = Computer Based Educational Support Systems," PROCEEDINGS OF THE
1981 CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTER BASED
INSTRUCTION SYSTEMS, ADCIS, 1981, pp. 22 - 27.
*
"Distributed Decision Support Systems for Management
and Organizations," PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, edited by P. Keen and D. Young, 1981,
EXECUCOM, pp. 130 - 140.
*"The
Impact of Computer Based Human Communication Systems and Decision Support
Systems on Simulation and
Modeling," PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10th INTERNATIONAL IMACS WORLD CONGRESS ON
SYSTEMS SIMULATION AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION, Vol. 2, 1982, International
Association for the Application of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. pp.
125 - 128.
"Computerized
Conferencing in Problem Solving and Decision Making," PROCEEDINGS OF THE
1978 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, Vol. 15,
ASIS, pp. 159 - 161 (jointly with M. Turoff and S.R. Hiltz).
"Today's
External Degree College, Tomorrow's Electronic University," PROCEEDINGS OF
THE NJIT CONFERENCE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND HIGHER EDUCATION, 1982, NJIT, pp.
40 - 45.
"Reworked
GPSS/H Is A Strong Standard," (invited book review of 'An Introduction
to Simulation Using GPSS/H' by
T. Schriber), IEEE SOFTWARE, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1991, IEEE, pp. 105-106.
"Balancing
Discrete Event Simulations With Implementation Issues," ( invited book
review of 'Modern Statistical,
Systems and GPSS Simulation,' by Z. Karian and E. Dudewicz), IEEE Software,
Vol. 9, No. 3, 1992, IEEE, p. 115.
“
Application of Bloom’s Cognitive Domain Taxonomy to Database Design,’ (with
M. Mohtoshami), PROCEEDINGS OF THE FALL, 2000 INFORMATION SYSTEMS EDUCATION
CONFERENCE, Philadelphia (to appear).
WORK
IN PROGRESS:
Software
Tools for Optimized Instruction in an Asynchronous Distance Learning Environment
(in preparation)
An
Implementation of GPSS/H for the Windows Environment (in preparation).
REVIEW
ACTIVITIES: Reviewer of books, papers, proposals
for:
ACM
Computing Reviews
National
Science Foundation
IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
IEEE
Software
Journal
of Technological Forecasting
Management
Science
National
Computer Conference
Prentice-Hall,
Inc.
Addison-Wesley,
Inc.
GRANT
ACTIVITIES (PREVIOUS AND CURRENT):
*Associate
Principal Investigator - "Developments and Experiments in Computer
Conferencing," National Science Foundation, 1976-1979 (multi-million dollar
grant).
*Participant/Consultant
- "Teaching Faculty at Small Colleges Through Computer Conferencing,"
FIPSE grant awarded to NJIT, 1983.
*Associate
Investigator - "Video Plus Virtual Classroom: Educational Excellence
Through Self-Paced Learning," Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1993 - 1996.
*Associate
Investigator - "Asynchronous Learning Networks," Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, 1997 - 1999
Co-Principal
Investigator - “Enhancements to Database System Design and Management
Through (Media-Rich) Web-Based and Classroom Authoring Tools,
Instructor-Generated Movies to Illustrate Complex DBMS Interactions
and Concepts,
and Student-Generated Database 'Movie' Projects Residing in Web
'Villages" Supporting An ALN Environment,” Provost's Challenge Grant for Using Technology in Teaching and
Learning, NJIT, April, 1999 ($8,500).
NJIT
COMMITTEE SERVICE:
1.
Current Academic Year Service
Co-Chairman - CIS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Chairman
(alternating years) - Rutgers-NJIT Joint BA Degrees Curricula Committee
Chairman - CIS Excellence in Teaching Committee
Member - Honors Advisory Council
Member - Institute
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
2.
Previous Service (sample)
Member - PhD in Management Admissions Committee
Member - PhD in Management Executive Committee
Member - NJIT Task Force on Undergraduate Education
Chairman - Committee on Learning Resources
Member - Ph.D. in Computer Science Administration Committee
Member - Dean's Day
Committee, Octobertech Committee
Member - CIS Faculty Recruitment Committee
Chairman - CIS P&T Committee (while Acting Chairman)
Dept. Representative - Faculty Council
Member - Institute Computer Advisory Committee
Chairman - Talented Student Recruitment Committee
Member
- Executive Committee (while Acting Chairman)
CONSULTING:
Chemical
Bank New York, Inc. (consulting in decision support system design/application)
Wall
Data, Inc. ( database processing)
Prentice-Hall,
Inc. (evaluation and decision making on text book selection and revision)
Addison
Wesley, Inc. ( multimedia textbook design)
MISCELLANEOUS:
Member
(invited) - External Computer Science Curricula Recommendations Panel, College
of Staten Island (CUNY), 1987
Department
of Computer and Information Science, Excellence in Teaching Upper Division
Undergraduate Courses Award, for academic years 1993-1994, 1994-1995, 1995-1996.
Department
of Computer & Information Science, Outstanding Professional Development in
Teaching Award, for academic years 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999.
Supervised
over 180 Bachelor's Projects, Master's Projects and Ph.D. Dissertations dealing
primarily with the design and application of simulation studies for strategic
and operational management decision-making, languages and methodology in
discrete event simulation, database application design, decision support
systems, management information systems, applied operations research.
PH.D.
DISSERTATIONS (recent):
"A
Simulated Interactive Systems
Safety Training Environment, " by George W. Olsen, 1998 (Committee Chair).
"Effects
of Computer-Mediated Communication Systems on Learning, Performance and
Satisfaction," by Raquel
Benbunan, 1997, (Committee Member).
"
The Design of a Generalized Analysis and Simulation Model for Stochastic
Assembly Line Balancing" by
Chul Ho Lee, 1993, (Committee Chair).