| Cynthia Brown |
| o Emeritus Professor , Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Michigan |
| o | Contact Information: | |
| Office: | FAB 115-13 | |
| Office Hours: | By Appointment | |
| Phone: | 503-725-8251 | |
| Web page: | http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~cbrown/ | |
| Email: | cbrown at cs.pdx.edu |
| o | Bio: |
| Dr. Brown received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1977. She was on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Indiana University until 1982, and a member of the technical staff at GTE laboratories in Waltham, MA from 1982 until 1984. She joined the faculty of the College of Computer Science at Northeastern University in 1984, serving as Dean of the College from 1989 until 1993. During this period her professional interests included analysis of algorithms, particularly those involved in backtrack searching, and compiler front end design. In 1993 she moved to Portland, OR, where she worked on computerized commodities trading systems and wrote a newsletter about financial futures. She joined the faculty of Portland State University as Associate Chair of the Computer Science department in 1997, and was appointed department chair starting July 1, 1998. Dr. Brown stepped down as department chair in 2007 and returned to the faculty. She is currently working on curriculum for teaching beginning programming online using Excel and VBA. Her retirement date is December 31, 2011. |