Dr. James Skon
skon@mvnu.edu
(740) 392-6868 Ext. 3224

Education:
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Computer and Information Science, 1997.
The University of North Dakota, Linguistics, 1984-1987.
M.S. The Ohio State University, Computer and Information Science, 1982.
B.A. Mount Vernon Nazarene College, Computer Science, 1980.

Professional Experience:
Professor in Computer Science, 1998 to present. Chairman, Department of Computer Science, 1998 to present. Associate Professor in Computer Science, 1995 to 1999; Assistant Professor in Computer Science, 1985 to 1995. Instructor of Computer Science, MVNC, 1983 to 1985; part-time instructor, MVNC, 1982 to 1983. Promoted to Professor rank in 2000.
Cognitive Science Summer Research Fellowship, The Ohio State University, June to September, 1992, 1993.
Graduate Research Associate, The Ohio State University, Academic Computing Services, 1981 and 1982; July, 1992 to February, 1995.
System Programmer II, The Ohio State University, The Instructional and Research Computing Center, 1982 to 1983.
Graduate Assistant, The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 1980.
Partner/Owner, Digitcomp Systems, contract software firm, 1978 to 1980.

Professional Organizations:
Association of Computing Machinery
Association of Computational Linguistics
Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges

Awards and Recognition:
The Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award, 1991.
Outstanding Young Men of America, 1985 and 1986.

Published Works and Presentations:
Skon, James, James T. Streib, Brenda Tuomi Litka, Curt M. White: Implementing Internship Programs In The Small College Environment. Panel session at the 1998 Midwest conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, September, 1998.
Skon, James and John Noonan: Parallelization of the Twofish Symmetric Key Encryption Algorithm. Presentation at the Summer Mini-grant Symposium, MVNC, October, 1998.
Skon, J. (1993). Guiding an HPSG Parser Using Semantic and Pragmatic Expectations, 1993 proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Skon, J. (1998, April). A Multi-user AP-NEWS System for Use in the Journalism and Communications Curriculum. Paper presented to the 21st Small College Computing Symposium at Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa.
Skon, J. (1985, April). The Use and Control of Dial-up Information Systems When Used as a Class Resource. Paper presented to the 18th Small College Computing Symposium at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa.