Publications & Lectures

• New methods for Hamiltonian lattice spin systems
  Physical Review D21, 1557, (1980), PDF.
  
  
• Finite lattice approach to the O(2), O(3) and Z(2) models
  Physical Review D21, 3341, (1980), PDF.
  
  
• The phase structure of the Z(q) Potts models
  Physical Review B23, 1357, (1981), PDF.
  
  
• Toward an automated academic advising system
  KAAU report 1403 (1983)
  
  
• Design & implementation of a bilingual database
  KAAU report 1406 (1985)
  
  
• Handling right-to-left languages
  Proceeding of the 10th National Computing Conference, Jeddah, 707 (1987)
  
  
• Handling Diacritics: Input, output and processing
  Proceeding of the 11th National Computing Conference, Dhahran (1988)
  
  
• Assembly Language Programming for the iAPX family
  A textbook (Sept. 1989)
  
  
• A graph theoretic approach to the brachistochrone problem
  Computers in Physics, 303, May/June (1990) PDF.
  
  
• A fast parallel algorithm for global tree balancing
  KAAU technical report 1412 (1990)
  
  
• The Communication Super highway in Construction
  Toronto Construction Association (TCN), 17, March/April (1994)
  
  
• The Java Seminars
  Lecture Notes for a department-wide transition from Pascal/Turing/C++ to Java (1998)
  
  
• A New Platform for COSC1540
  The final report of a Teaching Development Grant, York University (1995).
  
  
• Computer Science Introductory Handbook
  Used to introduce incoming students to the Unix environment and the basics of object oriented programming. (1999 to 2003)
  
  
• The Monitor Guide
  or monitors of departmental labs (1998, revised in 2002). link.
  
  
• TYPE (The York Programming Environment).
  A site dedicated to standardised pedagogical tools for learning how to program. (2002) link.
  
  
• "Design Guidelines for the Lab Component of Objects-First CS1"
  Published in the proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education, pp 222, 2002. Presented in Cincinnati, OH. PDF
  
  
• "Fortran@York"
  A comprehensive site on Fortran and the SLATEC library. Includes software downloads, resources, and a set of labs. Published in June 2003. Link.
  
  
• "A Guided Tour of Unix"
  A hand-on introduction to the Unix/Linux environment @CSE. Intended for newcomers to the department including CSE1020 and transfer students, grads, and new faculty. Published in July 2004. Link.
  
  
• "Verimips: A Lab Handbook on Assembly and Hardware Design Languages"
  A series of labs on MIPS and Verilog. Published in Aug. 2004. Link.
  
  
• "Java By Abstraction"
  Published by Pearson Education Canada, Addison-Wesley (2005). Link and press article.
  
  
• "We Don't Need Arrays"
  Presented at the 7th ACSE conference (2005). Link.
  
  
• "Practice What You Preach"
  Published in the proceedings of the 37th ACM SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education, pp 491, 2006. Presented in Houston, TX. PDF
  
  
• "Separation of Concerns in CS1/CS2"
  Presented at the York/CSE Seminars, March 24, 2006. Slides, Programs.
  
  
• "The ePost System"
  A Secure Web-Based Grade Posting System for CSE@York. The latest version supports impersonation, http authentication over SSL, and automatic production of the course performance summary forms. Link.
  
  
• "The Science in Computer Science: A Journey Through Abstractions"
  Presented at the Royal Canadian Institute, Macleod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto on Sun Oct. 28, 2007. Link and press article.