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Abigail
Lee Miller,
PhD
is an Associate Professor in Management
Information Systems. She earned
her undergraduate degree from
Smith College in physics. She
earned a masters in computer science
education from Beaver College,
now Acadia University, and a masters
and doctorate in computer science
from Temple University. Dr. Miller
has been teaching at Philadelphia
University for almost 20 years.
Her prior work experience included
teaching math and science and
several years working as a computer
programmer for IBM in California.
Her primary research interests
include artificial intelligence
and intelligent tutoring systems.
Her teaching interests include
computer networks and databases.
She was the Director of the Honors
Program for eight years.
John Sanford,
DEE, BS, MS, and EDD, Yale University is a Full Professor of
Management Information Systems. Active duty as Lieutenant in the
US Navy. 1954-56; Eight years of industrial experience as lead
engineer in advanced analysis at Autonetics (Now part of North
American Rockwell), and Systems Engineer and manager of Systems
Test and Operations at General Electric Reentry Systems
Division. Professor of Management and Information Systems at
Philadelphia University since 1971. Past director of the
educational computing, past director of the MBA program, and
past dean of the School of Business Administration; Current
faculty advisor to Delta Mu Delta Honor Society. Areas of
expertise COBOL, Visual Basic, Active Server Pages and VB
script, systems analysis, operations, business analysis.
Les
Sztandera,
Dr. Les M. Sztandera is an Associate
Professor of Computer Information
Systems
at Philadelphia University. He
has been involved in information
systems teaching and research
since 1987. Dr. Sztandera has
12 years of full time university
teaching experience, and is a
recipient of a Teaching Excellence
Award. He developed a sequence
of information systems courses
coupled with laboratory assignments
in which students work with real
life problems, such as detecting
an industrial pollutant, predicting
strength and density of materials,
designing a medical expert system,
simulating protective systems
in complex power generating units,
detecting carcinogenic dyes, or
designing new drugs.
Complementary with his teaching
effort, Dr. Sztandera has been
involved in a variety of research
activities. That has resulted
in numerous research grants from
the Department of Commerce, National
Textile Center, National Science
Foundation, Ohio Supercomputer
Center, Pittsburgh Supercomputer
Center, and American Heart Association.
Over $1,000,000 in research funding
has been experienced. Those research
activities also resulted in 30
journal publications and 50 conference
presentations.
Dr. Sztandera received his Ph.D.
degree from the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, University of Toledo,
Ohio, U.S.A., with a dissertation
on Fuzzy Sets in Self-Generating
Neural Network Architectures.
He earned his M.Sc. degree from
the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering, University of
Missouri, Missouri, U.S.A., with
a thesis on Spatial Relations
Among Fuzzy Subsets of an Image,
and a Diploma in English from
University of Cambridge, Cambridge,
England.
Dr. Sztandera is a member of professional
organizations in the U.S. and
Canada: the North American Fuzzy
Information Processing Society,
Association for Computing Machinery,
and Canadian Society for Fuzzy
Information and Neural Systems.
His scientific and scholarly research
contributions to the fuzzy set
theory are internationally recognized.
He proposed, designed, and implemented
fuzzy neural trees. For this and
other contributions to the fuzzy
sets and systems theory, he was
included in the Encyclopedia of
Computer Science and Technology,
1999 Edition. Dr. Sztandera is
also listed in the Marquis Who’s
Who in the World, Who’s
Who in Science and Engineering,
Who’s Who in America, and
Who’s Who in the East.
Prof. Sztandera has been named
Distinguished Fulbright FLAD Chair
in Information Systems at the
Technical University of Lisbon,
Portugal, for the 2002-2003 academic
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