205 Paoli Pike 

Malvern, PA 19355

(610) 647-9789, voice only

Cell # available upon request

david.matuszek@gmail.com (preferred)

dave@acm.org

Michigan State University 

The University of Texas

1967 

1978

B.S. in Mathematics 

PhD in Computer Science

My primary interests include programming languages, programming tools, computer graphics, GUI design, and compiler construction.

Skills

• Skilled in design of innovative software systems. 
• Experienced in 20+ languages, including Java (Sun certified), JavaScript, Python, Scala, Ruby, Perl, C, Ada, Lisp, Prolog, ML, Haskell, HTML. 
• Over thirty years experience with UNIX and with MacOS, twenty with Windows, and twelve with Linux. 
• 54 years programming experience. 
• 50 years teaching experience (24 years full time). 
• Sixteen years experience in industry; experienced in technical management. 
• Excellent technical writing ability (one published textbook).

2001 - 2017

Director, Masters in Computer and Information Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA., http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/.

1999 - 2001

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computing Sciences, Villanova University, Villanova, PA.

1985 - 1999

Employed by an R&D group owned originally by Burroughs, finally by Lockheed Martin. Highlights include:

• Assisted in building a security management system in Java. 
• Developed processes for translating large MS Word documents into clean HTML. 
• Built an HTML-based GUI for a segment generation tool for the DoD. 
• Analysed 70,000 lines of C++ code for Year 2000 errors. 
• Webmaster for Global Transportation Network. 
• Invented the BARD program transformation language. 
• Used BARD in a Pascal-to-C translator and in a prototype Y2K program for COBOL. 
• Translated Sperry's COBOL parser from GSA to PCCTS. 
• Built parsers for reengineering CMS-2 and FORTRAN. 
• Developed a graphical development environment for a KL-1-style knowledge base. 
• Principal investigator for an evaluation of expert system shells for hardware maintenance. 
• Principal investigator for the design of an advanced knowledge representation system. 
• Developed a logic for incompletely specified temporal and spatial intervals. 
• Developed a language for the representation of constraints in a principled semantic network. 
• Developed an API for a KL-1-like knowledge representation system.

Concurrently, adjunct professor at Villanova University.

1979 - 1985

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

• Served (at various times) as head of the Graduate Committee, the Undergraduate Committee, and the Undergraduate Curriculum Revision Committee. 
• Taught almost all the required undergraduate courses in computer science. 
• Introduced the Pascal language into the curriculum. 
• Developed and taught three graduate-level courses in artificial intelligence.

1979

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712.

1978

Consultant, Tracor Inc., Austin, TX.

• Determined requirements for a system to collect and analyze meteorological data. 
• Guided selection of an appropriate on-flight microcomputer. 
• Introduced Chief Programmer Team methodology.

1972 - 1974

Graduate Assistant, Dept. of Zoology, The University of Texas (Man-Computer Interactive Chromosome Project).

• Designed, implemented, and documented a complete operating system, loader, assembler, communications package, and graphics package for the PDS-1 minicomputer. 
• Wrote several compilers and special-purpose editors. 
• Wrote programs for the manipulation of digitized chromosome photomicrographs.

Matuszek, David. "Rabbit Hunt," presented at the Nifty Assignments Workshop, SIGCSE 2004, http://nifty.stanford.edu/, Norfolk, VA, March 3-7, 2004.

McKay, Donald P.; Matuszek, Paula; Matuszek, David; Smith, T.J.; and Testani, Sandra. "An Architecture for a Training Virtual World Environment,'' in Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Virtual Worlds and Simulation--1998 Western MultiConference, San Diego, California, January 11-14, 1998.

Matuszek, David. "BARD/Idiom Tool: Reference Manual,'' internal publication, Lockheed Martin, 1996.

Finin, T.; Fritzson, R.; Matuszek, D. (1989) "Adding Forward Chaining and Truth Maintenance to Prolog,'' IEEE Artificial Intelligence Applications Conference, Miami, Florida, 1989.

Matuszek, D.; Finin, T.; Fritzson, R.; Overton, C. "Endpoint Relations on Temporal Intervals,'' Third Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Denver, Colorado, 1988.

Matuszek, David. "Quick Pascal,'' John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1982.

Matuszek, David. "Disjunctive Complexity of Assertions as a Model of Perceived Complexity of Programs.'' PhD dissertation, The University of Texas, 1978.