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Larry A. Edison
 Professor Emeritus
 Department of Computer Science
     & Computer Engineering
 Pacific Lutheran University
 Tacoma, WA 98447
 Dept. Phone: 253-535-7400

 email: edisonla@plu.edu

Home address:
 109 Point Fosdick Circle
 Gig Harbor, WA 98335
 Telephone: 253-851-1056

Education:
  • M. S. Operations Research/Computer Science, Stanford University.
  • Ph. D. Mathematics, Stanford University.
  • B. A. Mathematics, Whitman College.

Professional Positions:

  • Professor of Computer Science, Pacific Lutheran University.
  • Chair and Director of Graduate Program, Computer Science, PLU.
  • Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, PLU.
  • Visiting Research Scientist, Agder College, Kristiansand, Norway.
  • Program-Analyst for database project, Research Libraries Group, Stanford, CA.
  • National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow, Stanford University.
  • Visiting Research Professor, Department of Operations Research, Stanford University.
  • Professor and Chair of Mathematics, Alma College, Alma, Michigan.
  • Assistant Professor, Reed College, Portland, Oregon.

Areas of Professional Interest and Teaching Expertise

  • Computer Graphics
  • Programming Languages
  • Data Structures
  • Computer Information Systems & Database Management
  • Teaching & Learning Mathematical Concepts using the Computer
  • Operations Research: Queuing Theory
  • Calligraphy and Calligraphic Design
  • The Internet and Web Page Design

Professional Membership and Service:

  • Computer Science Accreditation Board of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Commission--evaluator
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Danforth Associates Northwest
  • Society for Italic Handwriting

Honors and awards:

  • Research Fellowship from the National Research Council of Norway, 1989-90
  • National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship (for full years post-doctoral study in Computer Science at Stanford University), 1981-82

Publications, manuscripts, etc.

  • Matriser og Datagrafikk (Matrices and Computer Graphics). Co-authored with Aasvald Lima and Hans Erik Borgersen. Agder College monograph.
  • Tables of Queue Size and Waiting Time Distributions. Co-authored with Avis, Fossett, Hillier, Reiman, and Yu. Technical Report. Stanford University.
  • Partial Derivative and the Tangent Plane. Computer animated movie. Co- authored with Clifford Long. Computer Graphics for Learning Mathematics, National Science Foundation Project.
  • Linear Algebra and Multi-Variable Calculus, textbook, co-authored with Paul Wilson.
Updated: October, 2005