Resume, Laurence Press

 

Contact Information

 

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Education

 

·        BS, Information Processing, UCLA, 1960

·        MBA, UCLA, 1964

·        Ph.D., UCLA (The School of Management and The Western Data Processing Center), Information Processing, 1967

·        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

 

·        IBM Corporation, 1961-4, Systems Engineer

 

Commercial data processing (1 year)

Technical marketing support at UCLA (1 year)

Programming research, operating systems (2 years)

 

·        California State University, Northridge, 1964-5, Assistant Professor

·        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)

·        University of Southern California, 1968-9 and 1971-4, Assistant Professor

·        California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1986-present, Full Professor, Department Chairman

·        Consulting, 1974-present (see following page)

 

Consulting

 

Clients have included:

 

Computer Usage Corporation

IBM Corporation

Beatrice Foods Corporation

NASA Goddard

Los Angeles City Schools

Los Angeles Library

Mount St. Mary's College

Rexon Business Machines

Perfect Data Corporation

IMS International

Texas Instruments

Santa Monica College

Philips, Austria

Sony Corporation

National Bureau of Standards

John Wiley and Sons

Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb

MicroPro International

Apple Computer

SoHaR, Inc.

Rome Air Development Center

Surpass Software Systems

SCOPUS Tecnologia

Van Nostrand Reinhold

Software Technology

Clancy Associates

EIES

Softel

California State University

RAND

UN Development Programme

Department of Defense

Toyota of America

Giga Information Services

Colson, Hicks, Edison, et al

Matrix.Net (was MIDS)

Int’l Telecommunication Union

Hyundai Motors of America

Lantronix

United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development

 

Sample consulting assignments:

 

·        Apple Computer:  evaluation Apple's LAN products and complementary and competitive systems

·        Sony and Philips:  functional specification, selection of bundled application software, and operating system porting for their personal computers

·        Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb:  Due diligence for IPO

·        SoHaR, Inc.:  implementation of expert systems for bid generation and sneak circuit analysis

·        EIES:  Organization of seminars for South American software companies

·        California State University:  Planning IT infrastructure and curriculum for the Monterey Bay campus

·        RAND:  Studies of Cuban telecommunications and internetworking, the global state of the Internet, and the Internet in Latin America.

·        Hyundai:  Strategic planning and implementation of all Web, intranet and extranet applications

·        ITU:  Studies of telecommunications and networking in Nepal and Singapore

 

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, 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 (VBscript) 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, data communication, and e-business.  I led the development of our undergraduate e-business concentration, developed a two-course sequence on networked applications and technology including electronic commerce and Web development, and have been Department Chairman.  I have received the following teaching awards:

 

·        Early tenure

·        Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise

·        Lyle Gibson Distinguished Teacher

·        University Outstanding Professor

·        Hyundai Outstanding Professor

 

Selected Invited Presentations

 

The Internet Society (5), UCLA Information Systems Seminar, 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.

 

Editorial

 

·        Editor, Interface Magazine and ACM SigPC/Small Notes

·        Contributing Editor to PC (first PC Labs Director), Business Computer Systems, PC World, Abacus (Springer Verlag) and the Communications of the ACM

·        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

·        Contributing Correspondent, Information Impacts

·        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)

·        Contributing Editor, OnTheInternet, the publication of the Internet Society (current)

·        Advisor, Innovations for Development portal, Institute for Government Innovation at Harvard University (current)

 

Professional Society Activity

 

·        Vice President and Director of the Southern California Computer Society

·        Twice member of the steering committee, AFIPS National Computer Conference (NCC)

·        Director of the Los Angeles Chapter of the ACM

·        Co-founder of the national ACM Special Interest Group for Personal Computing (SigPC).

·        Co-founder of the Personal Computing and Computer Human Interface special interest groups of the Los Angeles Chapter of the ACM

·        Editor of the newsletter of the Special Interest Group for Personal Computing of the ACM (SigPC/Small Notes)

·        Member of the Program Committee, ACM National Conference

·        Co-founder and chairman, First and Second East-West International Conferences on Human-Computer Interaction (in Moscow and Saint Petersburg)

·        Chairman, Section on Networking in Less Developed Nations, International Society for the Systems Sciences

·        Member, International Steering Committee, 3rd International Russian Forum on Electronic Communication Technology for the 90's

·        Chairman, 1994 Conference on Computing in Developing Nations, IFIP

·        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, and Internet Society conferences.

·        Publication Chairman and Instructor, Internet Society Developing Nations Workshop

·        Member, Working Group 9.4, International Federation of Information Processing Societies (IFIP), Association for Information Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, and the Internet Society.