James W. McGuffee, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science & Dean, School of Sciences*

office: Cooper-Wilson Center for Life Sciences 103
phone: (901) 321-3482
email: [email protected]

*Note:
This is my page to give information about my scholarship and work as a computer science professor.
If you are looking for information about the School of Sciences or my role as Dean, please go to www.cbu.edu/sciences

Christian Brothers University
Academic Overview: Current Vitae (pdf file)

Ongoing Research Work & Academic Interests

AHOCHI - The project to build a geographically constrained social services locator based on the needs of a human client who needs specific services within specific geographic boundaries. AHOCHI is envisioned as a humanitarian opensource project, aka HFOSS.

GITHUB repository: https://github.com/AHOCHI
faculty collaborator: Dr. Jessica Taylor, Dept. of Social Work at Northern Kentucky University (NKU)
previous student collaborators:
Spring 2016: Gaurav Aryal, Matt Beck, Cory Bridewell, Sowmya Gottumukkala, Tanushri Mishra
UR-STEM Summer 2015 student researchers: Austin Elkins and Nicholas Gilman
Spring 2014 student researcher: Daniel Myers
Work on investigating the impact of labor laws and overtime for computer programmers.
collaborator: Karen Dulaney Smith (KDS Consulting, Austin, Texas)
SciPy.org - a Python-based ecosytem for mathematics, science, and engineering.
I am interested in the study of the use of rhetoric in the mathematical and computing sciences. For example, Hello World: An Instance of Rhetoric in Computer Science.

Published Research and Scholarship (titles link to ACM Digital Library or Conference Site)

Frank, Charles, McGuffee, James, & Thomas, Cynthia "Early Undergradaute Cybersecurity Research", The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 32, Number 1, October 2016.
McGuffee, James, Palmer, E. Kent, and Guzman, Indira R. "Assessing the Tier 1 Learning Outcomes of CS2013", Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 485-489. (DOI: 10.1145/2839509.2844613)
Myers, Daniel and McGuffee, James W. "Choosing Scrapy", The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 31, Number 1, October 2015.
Smith, Justin W. and McGuffee, James W. "Data and Content Management: A Master's Level Course", The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 31, Number 1, October 2015.
Sabin M., Impagliazzo J, Alrumaih H., Byers B., Guodoniene D., Hamilton M., Kotlyarov V., Lunt B., McGuffee J., Peltsverger S., Tang C., Viola B., and Zhang M. "Multinational Perspectives on Information Technology from Academia and Industry", Proceedings of the 2015 ITiCSE on Working Group Reports (ITICSE-WGR '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 149-171. (DOI: 10.1145/2858796.2858802)
McGuffee, James W. “Non-Profit Geographically Constrained Locator”, ACM SIGCAS Symposium on Computing for the Social Good: Educational Practices, March 4, 2015.
McGuffee, James, Li, Qi, and Rubleske, Joe "A Transdisciplinarity Approach to an Undergraduate Degree in Data Science", Big Data & Analytics EDCON 2014, October 25, 2014. (DOI: 10.13140/2.1.2189.5363)
McGuffee, James W. and Hanebutte, Nadine “Google Hacking as a General Education Tool”, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 28, Number 4, April 2013.

McGuffee, James W. , Bhagyavati, B. , Nandigam, Jagadeesh , and Schilling, Walter Jr. “The Security Assessment Teaching Case Module” , The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 27, Number 4, April 2012.

McGuffee, James W. “Programming Languages and the Biological Sciences”, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 22, Number 4, April 2007.

McGuffee, James W. and Cabezas, R. Andrew “Starvation-Proof Priority Round-Robin Queues for Time-Sharing Systems”, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 21, Number 4, April 2006.

McGuffee, James W. “Drama in the Computer Science Classroom”, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 19, Number 4, April 2004.

McGuffee, James W. "The Discrete Mathematics Enhancement Project", The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 17, Number 5, April 2002.

McGuffee, James W. "Defining Computer Science", SIGCSE Bulletin -inroads, Volume 32, Number 2, June 2000.

McGuffee, James W. and Albright III, James A. "Computer Science Using an Interactive Video Classroom", The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 15, Number 3, March 2000.

McGuffee, James W. "The Question of Professional Certification", The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 14, Number 3, March 1999.

Recent Student Work Supervised

Nicholas Gilman and Austin Elkins "Integrating Pygoogle and Scrapy to Facilitate Geographically Constrained Searches", Poster presentation at the Heather Bullen Summer Research Celebration at Northern Kentucky University, August 26, 2015 and poster presentation at the Consortium for Computing Sciences Midwest Conference at the University of Evansville, October 2, 2015 (this poster won 2nd place in the student showcase - application track).
Aubrey Franzen, Katie Schwegman, and Deborah Burgess “Priority Queueing Simulation”, Poster presentation at the Celebration of Student Research and Creativity at Northern Kentucky University, April 15, 2015 and poster presentation at the Consortium for Computing Sciences Midwest Conference at the University of Evansville, October 2, 2015.
Kirby Owens, Alex Pineda, Lucas Raley, and Kirsten Smithson “Privacy Implications of the Facebook API”, Poster presentation at the Heather Bullen Summer Research Celebration at Northern Kentucky University, August 27, 2014 and poster presentation at the Consortium for Computing Sciences Midwest Conference at Olivet Nazarene University, September 19, 2014 (this poster won 3rd place in the student research poster competition). I was a co-advisor on this project with Professor Charles Frank.

Daniel Myers “Tools for Geographically Constrained Data Scraping”, Poster presentation at the Celebration of Student Research and Creativity at Northern Kentucky University, April 15, 2014.

Mailing Address:

Dr. James McGuffee
School of Sciences
Christian Brothers University
650 East Parkway South
Memphis, TN 38104