Computer science expert to visit UW-Stevens Point
The Computing and New Media Technology Department (CNMT) at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will host a high-profile computing specialist who will share his expertise with students and faculty Nov. 8–9.
Joe Hummel, an author, consultant and tenured visiting professor in computer science at the University of California at Irvine, will give two student presentations and take part in a faculty roundtable during his visit. The public may attend the following programs at no charge:
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, from 3–5 p.m., he will present CNMT students with different ways of thinking about programming in “Free Your Mind—Imperative vs. Functional vs. Declarative” in the College of Professional Studies Room 116.
Tuesday evening from 5–6 p.m., he will meet with CNMT faculty members in Science Building Room B240 to discuss “Programming Paradigms and Parallelism—Two More Curriculum Challenges.”
On Wednesday, Nov. 9, from 10 a.m. to noon he will present “Async and Parallel Programming is Your Future,” a discussion of current programming technologies, to senior CNMT students in Science Building Room B240.
Hummel, in addition to his professorship, trains professionally for Pluralsight LLC and runs his own consulting company, Joe Hummel, Inc. He is well versed in the Microsoft platform, including the .NET framework and languages, parallelism and high performance computing.
He has co-authored two books on Windows development, hosted more than 60 MSDN webcasts and taught courses worldwide both academically and professionally. He resides in the Chicago area with his wife and daughter.
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