Resume,
Laurence Press
Contact
http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/
Education
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BS, Information Processing, UCLA,
1960
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MBA, UCLA, 1964
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Ph.D., UCLA (The
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Ford Foundation Fellow (1965-7)
My dissertation was applied, inductive
AI. I developed and evaluated a
nonlinear, interactive system for multivariate data analysis. This work would fall within the area of
"data mining" today.
Full-time
Positions
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IBM Corporation, 1960-4, Systems
Engineer
Commercial data
processing (1 year)
Technical
marketing support at UCLA (1 year)
Programming
research (multicomputer operating systems) (2 years)
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· System Development
Corporation Research Directorate, 1966-7 full time, 1968-9, part time, member
of the research staff
· Swedish Institute for
Administrative Research and University of Lund, Sweden, 1969-71, Docent
(research professor)
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· Consulting, 1974-present
(see following page)
Consulting
Clients have included:
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Computer Usage Corporation |
IBM Corporation |
Beatrice Foods Corporation |
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NASA Goddard |
Los Angeles City Schools |
Los
Angeles Library |
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Mount St. Mary's College |
Rexon Business Machines |
Perfect Data Corporation |
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IMS International |
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Sony Corporation |
National Bureau of Standards |
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John Wiley and Sons |
Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb |
MicroPro International |
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Apple Computer |
SoHaR, Inc. |
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Surpass Software Systems |
SCOPUS
Tecnologia |
Van
Nostrand Reinhold |
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Software Technology |
Clancy Associates |
EIES |
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Softel |
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UN Development Programme |
Department of Defense |
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Giga Information Services |
Colson, Hicks, |
Matrix.Net (was MIDS) |
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Int’l Telecommunication |
Hyundai Motors of |
Lantronix |
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UNCTAD |
USAID |
California State University |
Sample consulting assignments:
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Apple Computer: evaluation Apple's LAN products and
complementary and competitive systems
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Sony and Philips: functional specification, selection of
bundled application software, and operating system porting for their personal
computers
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Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb: Due diligence for IPO
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SoHaR, Inc.: implementation of expert systems for bid
generation and sneak circuit analysis
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EIES: Organization of seminars for South American
software companies
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RAND, USAID, ITU, UNCTAD, UNDP: Studies of Cuban telecommunications and
internetworking, the global state of the Internet, and the Internet in Latin
America.
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Hyundai: Strategic planning and implementation of Web,
intranet and extranet applications
Areas
in which I have worked include:
Commercial data processing,
multi-processor operating systems, simulation, decision table translation,
simulation of concept acquisition, multivariate data analysis, pattern
recognition (discriminant analysis), study of problem solving behavior in
executives, computer applications in education, computer art, teleconferencing,
office automation, the history of computing, product management, local area
networks, expert systems, computer-human interfaces, software import/export,
networks in developing nations, study of the global diffusion of the Internet, municipal
networking, telecommunication policy, computer support of cooperative work, and
intranet, extranet and Internet strategy and implementation.
Programming
I have taught, used, or am familiar with
various assembly and high-level languages, simulation languages, and expert
system shells. I have worked on large
system programs and applications as well as small programs. Most recently, I have been teaching and
building applications using ASP and Java script for three-tiered
database-enabled applications.
Teaching
I have taught a variety of MBA and
undergraduate courses, including statistics, expert systems, human-computer
interaction, programming and data communication. As department chairman, I led the revision of
our undergraduate CIS curriculum and developed a two-course sequence on Internet
applications, implications and technology. I’ve created online courseware for
the two Internet courses and an introductory programming course. I have
received the following teaching awards:
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Early tenure
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Meritorious Performance and
Professional Promise
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Lyle Gibson Distinguished Teacher
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University Outstanding Professor
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Hyundai Outstanding Professor
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Merlot/Sloan information technology
courseware award
Editorial
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Editor, Interface Magazine and ACM
SigPC/Small Notes
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Contributing Editor to PC (first PC
Labs Director), Business Computer Systems, PC World, Abacus (Springer Verlag), the
Communications of the ACM and IT Conversations
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Series Editor for personal
computing books (15 books) with John Wiley and Sons
· Consulting Editor in
Computer Science and Communication, Van Nostrand Reinhold
· Editorial Board Member,
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Nature
Publishing
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Contributing Correspondent,
Information Impacts
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Editorial board member of the
Journal for Information Technology in Tourism, the Electronic Journal for Information
Technology in Development, and the Journal of Information Technology for
Development (current)
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Contributing Editor, OnTheInternet,
the publication of the Internet Society (current)
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Advisor, Innovations for
Development portal, Institute for Government Innovation at
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Peer review panel member,
International Journal of Education and Development using ICT (current).
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Chapter author and editor, the Globaltext Project
Professional Society
Activity
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Vice President and Director of the
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Twice member of the steering
committee, AFIPS National Computer Conference (NCC)
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Director of the
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Co-founder of the national ACM
Special Interest Group for Personal Computing (SigPC).
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Co-founder of the Personal
Computing and Computer Human Interface special interest groups of the Los
Angeles Chapter of the ACM
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Editor of the newsletter of the
Special Interest Group for Personal Computing of the ACM (SigPC/Small Notes)
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Member of the Program Committee,
ACM National Conference
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Co-founder and chairman, First and
Second East-West International Conferences on Human-Computer Interaction (in
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Chairman, Section on Networking in
Less Developed Nations, International Society for the Systems Sciences
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Member, International Steering
Committee, 3rd International Russian Forum on Electronic Communication
Technology for the 90's
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Chairman, 1994 Conference on
Computing in Developing Nations, IFIP
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Session Chairman at NCC, AFIPS
Office Automation, Expo-80, ACM SIG, International Information/Word Processing
Association, EMCE, Computer Faire, IEEE Microprocessor, International Society
for the Systems Sciences, Internet Society and AMCIS conferences.
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Publication Chairman and Instructor,
Internet Society Developing Nations Workshop
Selected
Invited Presentations
The Internet Society (5), UCLA (2),
Claremont Graduate School Seminar, Informatica
Conference, Vietnam, Informatica Conference, Cuba
(3), University of Montreal, Latin American and Caribbean Networking Forum (2),
Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies (2), Association for
the Study of the Cuban Economy, National Research Council, USC Information
Sciences Institute (2), University of Arizona, George Mason University
(virtual), New School for Social Research, The Central University of Venezuela,
The City University of London, US State Department Cuban Interest Section, RAND
Corporation (2), New Jersey Institute of Technology, United Nations Commission
on Science and Technology for Development, and various conferences and
workshops.
Blogs
The
Cuban Internet (370,000 page views)
Internet
applications, implications and technology (755,000
page views)
Modular
course E-text (117,000 page views)
Publications
and social media