CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Robert L. Oakman, III

Place of Birth:

Memphis, Tennessee

Position:

Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
803-777-2401
email: oakman@cs.sc.edu

Education:

B. A., University of Mississippi, Mathematics, 1963
M.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison, Numerical Analysis, 1964
M.A., Indiana University at Bloomington, English, 1966
Ph.D., Indiana University at Bloomington, English, 1971

Employment History:

University of South Carolina
1968-71 Joint Instructor of English and Computer Science
1971-73 Joint Assistant Professor of English and Computer Science
1973-79 Joint Associate Professor of English and Computer Science
1979-81 Associate Professor of English
1981-82 Professor of English
1982-85 Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
1985-Present Professor of Computer Science and Adjunct Professor of English


Universität Bamberg, Federal Republic of Germany
Summer, 1987 Guest Professor of Informatics (Applied Computing)


University of Mississippi
Summer, 1966 Instructor of English

Current Courses:

CSCE 578: Text Processing
 CSCE 590: Multimedia Systems

Honors and Awards:

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, 1963-64
Nomination for USC Russell Research Award in the Humanities, Spring 1980
Election to Sigma Xi, Spring, 1988
Fulbright Fellowship to Federal Republic of Germany (Bamberg), 1988-89

Research Interests:

Natural language processing, multimedia, educational technology, computational linguistics, computer applications in the humanities, computer literacy, Victorian literature

Scholarly and Professional Publications:

Books:

Computer Methods for Literary Research. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1980; 2nd ed., Athens, Ga.: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1984.
Computer Literacy Today: A Laboratory Manual. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993. This book won an Award of Achievement in the Technical Publications Competition of the South Carolina Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, December, 1993.

The Computer Triangle: Hardware, Software, and People. New York: John Wiley, 1995; 2nd ed., 1997.

Selected Recent Papers (total of 35 in print)

"Perspectives on Teaching Computing in the Humanities," Computers and the Humanities, 21(1987), 227-33.
"Expert Systems for Document Retrieval: Problems in Capturing
Synonym Relations from the Experts," Révue informatique et statistique dans les sciences humaines (University of Liège, Belgium), 24 (1988), 291-99.
"Computers and Modern Scholarship, " Literary Research, 13 (1988), 177-96.
"LiveWriter in the Composition Classroom,&quo t; with Carolyn Matalene and Robert Cannon, Composition Chronicle, 2 (April, 1989), 4-8.
"Desktop Publishing: Who Is in Control?" in Desktop Publishing in the University, ed. Joan Burstyn (Syracuse: Syracuse University School of Education, 1991), pp. 35-45.
"An Analysis of Ill-Formed Input in Natural Language Queries to Document Retrieval Systems," with Caroline Eastman and Charlene Young, Information Processing and Management, 27 (1991), 615-22.
"LanguageWriter: A Multimedia Tool for Instructional Development," with Jay Waller, Reginald Riser, and Fred Fenimore, Proceedings of the 1993 ASCUE Conference, Myrtle Beach, June, 1993, pp. 167-71.
"Pedagogical and Distance Learning Implications for New Technology," IEEE Workshop on Electronic Dissemination of Electronic Information, Piscataway, NJ, September, 1993.
"MediaLink: A New Method for Authoring Multimedia Lessons for the Classroom," with Jay Waller and Fred Fenimore, Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Multimedia in Education and Industry, Savannah, GA, July, 1993, pp. 70-71.
"English Language Query Systems in Prolog: A Natural Deduction Approach," with Rita L. Childress. Current Issues in Mathematical Linguistics. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1994. Pp. 409-14.
"Combining Hypermedia Authoring and Classroom Networking in One Software Environment," with Jay Waller, Reginald Riser, and Mark Bloemeke. Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 1994, Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 94, Vancouver, BC, June 25-30. P. 672.
"The Evolution of Intelligent Writing Assistants: Trends and Future Prospects." Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, November 6-9, 1994. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press. Pp. 223-24.
"MediaLink Goes Online: Net working in Multimedia," with Reggie Riser and Jay Waller. Abstract published for Higher Education Network Conference, Myrtle Beach, October, 1994.
"Practical Multimedia Instruction for Undergraduates: Case Studies Using MediaLink," with Reginald A. Riser and Jay A. Waller. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of the Association of Applied Interactive Multimedia, Asheville, NC, August, 1995, pp.112-13.
"Authoring Interactive Multimedia Materials: Choices, Problems, Formats, Potential," abstract published for session on "The Textbook of the Future," Proceedings of American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Baltimore, February, 1996, p. A-18.

Multimedia Grant Funding in 1996-97

Software Development