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Profile

  • Title:
    Interim Computer Science Program Coordinator, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
  • Department:
    Computer Science

David Pitts, Ph.D.

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Background

Dr. David Pitts conducted his doctoral research on reliable distributed systems as part of a project called Clouds. In many ways, Clouds was to be a form of the modern cloud. Previously, Dr. Pitts was a faculty member at Merrimack College and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He was a principal member of the technical staff in Verizon Labs Advanced System Group for 10 years. He was also chair of the Information Technology program at ITT Wilmington.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
  • M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology
  • B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology

Specialties

  • Distributed computing
  • Parallel programming
  • Computer operating systems
  • Programming languages

Recent Publications and Proceedings

  1. “Supporting Advanced Course Work in Computer Science,� Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education North Eastern Division Conference in Kingston, RI, April 2007.
  2. “The Standard Template Library: A Guide to Successful Tool-Making�, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education North Eastern Division Conference in Kingston, RI, April 2007.
  3. “Design of a Compiler Construction Project�, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 21, Number 6, June 2006. “Experiences with Distributed Data Management in Real-time C3 Systems.�