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| | Jeanine Meyer started teaching at Purchase College/State University of New York in 2001. She now is semi-retired, holding the title of Professor Emerita. She was coordinator for the mathematics/computer science program, which serves the major, general education, and other disciplines, including new media, economics, and other sciences. She taught standard courses in the curriculum, including Computer Science I, Data Structures, and Computability and Advanced Topics in Computing. She designed and taught new upper-level courses: Creating Databases for the Web, Scripting for the Web, and Robotics. Jeanine developed a general education course in which students study news stories involving quantitative information and another general education course focusing on origami. Before her academic career, Jeanine worked at IBM as a research staff member in the robotics group after several jobs as a programmer and systems analyst and while finishing her dissertation. She went on to become a manager and middle manager, and worked on the Corporate Manufacturing Staff. She later was a research consultant for education grants, working with schools, colleges and universities. Her first academic position was at Pace University, in 1993, teaching in the information systems departments in New York City and Westchester County. Jeanine is co-author (with Palmer Agnew and Anne Kellerman) of Multimedia in the Classroom (1996); (with Cathy Dwyer) of Programming Games Using Visual Basic (2001); and (with Marty Lewinter) of Elementary Number Theory with Programming (2015). She is the sole author of Creating Web Databases Using PHP and ASP (2003), Beginning Scripting through Game Creation (2008), The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to Learn HTML5 and JavaScript (2010, second edition planned for 2018), HTML5 and JavaScript Projects (2011, 2nd ed. 2018), and Programming 101 (2018). Jeanine received an SB in mathematics from the University of Chicago; an MA in mathematics from Columbia University; and a PhD in computer science from New York University. She lives in Westchester with her daughter, and is an active volunteer for progressive causes. Her hobbies include walking, knitting and crocheting, origami, and piano. Doing reviews provides motivation to study technical literature when she would rather read novels. Bio updated Aug. 14, 2018 |
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Blockchains from a distributed computing perspective
Herlihy M. Communications of the ACM 62(2): 78-85, 2019. Type: Article, Reviews: (1 of 2)
This article is an excellent explanation of cybercurrencies, “a tutorial on the basic notions and mechanisms underlying blockchains,” referencing “variations on familiar algorithms and techniques from clas...
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Mar 14 2019 |
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 Application of augmented reality for multi-scale interactions in emergency vehicles
Paravantes G., Leehane H., Premarathna D., Chung C., Kappen D. AutomotiveUI 2018 (Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Toronto, ON, Canada, Sep 23-25, 2018) 221-224, 2018. Type: Proceedings
The paper describes research in its early stages. It presents a concept for using augmented reality (AR) to assist emergency medical technicians (EMTs) rushing to respond to emergency calls....
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Oct 23 2018 |
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When simpler data does not imply less information: a study of user profiling scenarios with constrained view of mobile HTTP(S) traffic
Park S., Matic A., Garg K., Oliver N. ACM Transactions on the Web 12(2): 1-23, 2018. Type: Article
This well-written paper reports on a study revealing the power of limited datasets to characterize mobile device users. This excellent work deserves attention both for the results and for the general explanations of technologies and us...
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Aug 29 2018 |
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Web programming with PHP and MySQL: a practical guide
Bramer M., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2015. 388 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319226-58-3)
Web programming with PHP and MySQL fulfills the promise of its subtitle: a practical guide. The writing is friendly and clear, with the author indicating when every alternative to a command is not given and making suggest...
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Jun 21 2016 |
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The effectiveness of marketing strategies in social media: evidence from promotional events
Adamopoulos P., Todri V. KDD 2015 (Proceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Aug 10-13, 2015) 1641-1650, 2015. Type: Proceedings
This paper describes in meticulous detail a study on a specific marketing strategy pursued by American Express and many other companies. American Express makes a promotional offer using Twitter. A consumer accepts and later confirms th...
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Sep 29 2015 |
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Using R for statistics
Stowell S., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2014. 244 pp. Type: Book (978-1-484201-40-4)
The stated objective of this book is to get readers “up and running quickly” using R as an alternative to point-and-click packages; it accomplishes this objective. It also accurately states that it supplies reminder...
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Oct 28 2014 |
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Physics for JavaScript games, animation, and simulations: with HTML5 Canvas
Ramtal D., Dobre A., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2014. 508 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430263-37-1)
This book delivers on the promise of the blurb on the front cover: “Build real physics into your HTML5 projects.” The authors instruct the reader on the physics concepts necessary for modeling a wide variety of real...
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Aug 27 2014 |
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MOOCs: so many learners, so much potential ..
Kay J., Reimann P., Diebold E., Kummerfeld B. IEEE Intelligent Systems 28(3): 70-77, 2013. Type: Article
Kay et al. present an essentially optimistic view of massive open online courses (MOOCs). However, as they suggest with the ellipsis (…) in the title, the situation is complex. The intention is to be analytical and put the new phenomen...
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Feb 4 2014 |
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Using eye-tracking to test and improve website design
Prisacari A., Holme T. DUXU 2013 (Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, Las Vegas, NV, Jul 21-26, 2013) 389-398, 2013. Type: Proceedings
This paper describes a study on the usability of an academic website, http://www.explainingclimatechange.ca, and starts with a discussion of the literature on usability and eye-tracking, appropriately noting that a challenge for academ...
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Visual appeal of websites: the durability of initial impressions
Pengnate S., Sarathy R. HICSS 2013 (Proceedings of the 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Grand Wailea, Maui, HI, Jan 7-10, 2013) 480-489, 2013. Type: Proceedings
An experiment in which college students examined a set of websites representing an online home decoration and furniture store is described in this paper. Four versions of the site were produced, varying across what the authors term web...
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