Michael Stuart Tashbook

Computer Science Department - Michael Stuart Tashbook

Rank/Position Title:

Lecturer

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~tashbook

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

September 2004

Degrees:

Degree

Field

Institution

Date

B.A

Cognitive Science

University of Rochester

6/1997

M.S.

Computer Science

Hofstra University

8/2000

M.C.S.

Computer Science

University of Virginia

5/2003

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

  • SIGCSE 2004 (participant)
  • SIGCSE 2005 (participant)

Other related computing experience:

  • Undergraduate teaching assistant, University of Rochester (1995-6): Lab assistant for CS class for non-majors
  • Graduate teaching assistant, Hofstra University (1999-2000): Grader for CS1 and CS2 courses
  • Graduate teaching assistant, University of Virginia (2000-2001): Ran weekly lab section for CS1 class, graded student exams, served as head TA, ran review sessions, answered student e-mail
  • Graduate teaching assistant, University of Virginia (2003): Head TA for Java class for business students, graded exams, ran review sessions, answered student e-mail

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

None

Principal publications of the last five years.

  • Tashbook, M.S. A Constructive Approach for Visualizing Computer Theory. Master's Thesis. Hofstra University, 2000.
  • Solutions Manual for “C++ for Engineers and Scientists” by Gary J. Bronson. Brooks/Cole, 1999 (with Paul A. Nagin). Solutions Manual for “Programming.java: An Introduction to Programming Using Java, 2nd Ed.” by Rick Decker and Stuart Hirshfeld, Brooks/Cole, 1999 (with Paul A. Nagin).
  • Solutions Manual for “Program Development and Design Using C++” by Gary J. Bronson , Brooks/Cole, 2000 (with Paul A. Nagin).

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

None

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • Upsilon Pi Epsilon (ACM undergraduate honor society)
  • Golden Key Honor Society
  • Psi Chi (psychology honor society)
  • Joseph C. Wilson Honor Society (University of Rochester)

Honors and awards:

None

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term section of the same course separately.

Year/Term

Course Number

Course Title

S05

CSE 114

Computer Science I

S05

CSE 130

Intro to Programming in C

S05

ITS 102

Topics in Info Tech Studies

F04

CSE 114

Computer Science I

F04

CSE 130

Intro to Programming in C

Academic advising:

Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities: