Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office: 313B Young Hall
Email: sblythe@lindenwood.edu
Phone: (636) 949-4681

Education:

• PhD: Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) 1997
• MS: Computer Science,  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) 1993
• BS: Computer & Information Science, University of Delaware (Newark, DE) 1990

Courses Taught:

• CSC 10000 Introduction to Computer Science
• CSC 14400 Computer Science I
• CSC 30500 Introduction to Database Systems
• CSC 38000 Telecommunications and Computer Networking
• CSC 40900 Topics in Computer Science : Agile Development
• CSC 43000 Senior Project
• MTH 14100 Basic Statistics
• MTH 22100 Discrete Structures

Research Interests:

• Distributed Systems, where clusters of computers are utilized to solve problems considered too complicated for a single computer to solve.
• High-Level Synthesis, in which the process of turning an algorithm into a microchip is automated by a computer program. High-Level Synthesis is part of the larger Electronic Design Automation problem.
• Computer Science Education, where the actual practice of teaching Computer Science is openly discussed and researched.