Daniel D. McCracken
Computer
Sciences Department
City
College, City University of New York
138th
& Convent Avenues
New York,
NY 10031
212-650-6162
voice 212-650-6184 fax
mccracken@cs.ccny.cuny.edu
or ccnyddm@aol.com
Education
M. Div.,
cum laude, Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1970.
B.A.,
Chemistry, Central Washington University, 1951.
B.A.,
Mathematics, Central Washington University, 1950.
Graduate
Study, Courant Institute Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 1958-60.
Continuing
education, Parsons School of Design, New York., 1974-2000.
Experience
1981 to present. City College, City University of New York,
Professor of Computer Sciences. Chairman 1989-91. Chairman of
Curriculum Committee, 1985-97, 2006-. Taught: elementary programming, data
structures, assembler, numerical methods, algorithms, programming
languages, software development, theory of computation, X-Windows, Web site development,
and advanced Java.
1960-1981. Self-employed author and consultant. Clients included
Honeywell, Shell Oil, IBM, Intel, Dun & Bradstreet, and Sybase.
1964, -69, -72. Columbia University, Adjunct Professor. Taught:
Fortran and assembler.
1958-60. New York University Atomic Energy Commission Computing
Center. Included graduate study in mathematics at Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences.
1951-58. General Electric Company: Hanford Atomic Products
Operation (Hanford, WA), Jet Engine Division (Evendale, OH), Computer
Department (Phoenix, AZ), Manufacturing Control Services (New York, NY).
Assignments included programming, computer operations supervision,
programmer training, manufacturing control consulting, and plant
operations.
Books
[With
Rosalee J. Wolfe] User-Centered Website Development: A Human-Computer
Interaction Approach, Prentice Hall, 2003.
Learning GEL By Example, Gain Technology [now part of Sybase], 1992.
[With
Donald G. Golden] Simplified Structured Cobol with Microsoft/MicroFocus
Cobol, Wiley, 1990.
[With
William S. Salmon] Computing for Engineers and Scientists with
Fortran 77, 2nd ed., Wiley, 1988.
[With
William S. Salmon] A Second Course in Computer Science with Modula-2
[data structures], Wiley, 1987.
A
Second Course in Computer Science with Pascal [data structures],
Wiley, 1986.
Computing
for Engineers and Scientists with Fortran 77, Wiley, 1984.
A
Guide to Nomad for Applications Development, Addison-Wesley, 1981.
A
Guide to PL/M for Microcomputer Applications, Addison-Wesley, 1978.
A
Simplified Guide to Structured Cobol Programming, Wiley, 1976.
[With
William S. Dorn] Introductory Finite Mathematics with Computing, Wiley,
1976.
A
Simplified Guide to Fortran Programming, Wiley, 1974.
[With J.
Edward Carothers, Margaret Mead, and Roger L. Shinn (eds.)] To Love
or to Perish: The Technological Crisis and the Churches, Friendship
Press, 1972.
[With
William S. Dorn] Numerical Methods with Fortran IV Case Studies, Wiley,
1972.
Public
Policy and the Expert: Ethical Problems of the Witness, Council on
Religion and International Affairs, 1971. [Master of Divinity thesis.]
[With
Umberto Garbassi] A Guide to Cobol Programming, 2nd ed., Wiley,
1970.
Fortran
with Engineering Applications, Wiley, 1967.
A
Guide to Fortran IV Programming, Wiley, 1965.
A
Programmer’s Introduction to the IBM System/360 Architecture,
Instructions, and Assembler Language, IBM, 1965.
[With
William S. Dorn] Numerical Methods and Fortran Programming, Wiley,
1964.
A
Guide to Cobol Programming, Wiley, 1963.
[With
Fred J. Gruenberger] Introduction to Electronic Computing, Wiley,
1963.
A
Guide to Algol Programming, Wiley, 1962.
A
Guide to IBM 1401 Programming, Wiley, 1962.
A
Guide to Fortran Programming, Wiley, 1961.
[With
Harold Weiss and Tsai H. Lee] Programming Business Computers, Wiley,
1959.
Digital
Computer Programming, Wiley, 1957.
Books have been translated into fourteen languages.
Papers, Articles, and
Presentations (a selection)
"An
Insider’s View of the Design Education Needed for Computer Science
Majors Working in the Media," CUNY Institute for Software Design
and Development, May 19, 2000.
"An
Inductive Approach to Teaching Object-Oriented Design," ACM Special
Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), New Orleans,
1999. Published in SIGCSE Bulletin, March 1999.
"A
Conversation Concerning Computer Science Education," (with Dennis
Frailey) SIGCSE Bulletin, December 1996.
"Three
‘Lab Assignments’ for an Algorithms Course," SIGCSE Bulletin,
June, 1989.
"Changes
in the Commercial Applications Development Process," [Japanese]
Software Industry Association, Tokyo, October, 1980.
"Changes
in the Commercial Applications Development Process," London Branch,
British Computer Society, September, 1979.
"Software
and Systems," Computer Law Association, Washington, DC, 1978.
"The
Changing Face of Applications Programming," Datamation, November,
1978.
"A
Problem-List of Issues Concerning Computers and Public Policy,"
Communications of the ACM, September, 1974. [A report of the ACM
Committee on Computers and Public Policy, chaired by McCracken.]
"Some
Negative Social Side-Effects of Computer Technology,"
Correspondence text on Computing and Computers, The Open University (U.
K.), 1973.
"Revolution
in Programming," Datamation, September, 1973.
[With
Gerald M. Weinberg] "How to Write a Readable Fortran Program,"
Datamation, October, 1972.
"Technology
and Society," [keynote address] GUIDE International, Denver, 1969.
"Software
Other Than Cobol," Data Processing Yearbook, 1962-63.
"The
Human Side of Computing," Datamation, January, 1961.
"A
Progress Report on Machine Intelligence," Datamation,
September/October, 1960.
"Systems
Testing at IBM," Datamation, May/June, 1960.
"Industry
Goes to the Campus," General Electric Review, March, 1958.
"Let’s
Really Put the Computer to Work," General Electric Review, July,
1957.
"The
Monte Carlo Method," Scientific American, May, 1955.
"Solving
Problems with SEMAC II," General Electric Review, July, 1954.
Approximately
400 presentations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and
Japan, on technical and policy issues in computing. About a third were
talks for student chapters of the ACM.
Panels (a selection)
"Software Offshoring - Risks
and Opportunities," panel at SIGCSE 2004.
"Teaching HCI: a Report from
the Trenches," panel at SIGCSE 2003.
"Experiences
Starting Computer Engineering Programs," panel organized for SIGCSE
2000.
"Future
Directions for CS2," panel organized for SIGCSE 1998.
Congressional Testimony
Congressional
Commission on New Technological Uses of Technology (CONTU), November 18,
1976 and October 18, 1977. [Testimony was credited, by the CONTU
Counsel, with having tipped the balance leading to a recommendation that
programs be copyrightable, which Congress later enacted.]
United
States Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Commerce,
Subcommittee on Commerce, Science, and Technology, June 27, 1977.
United
States Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary,
Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, September 29, 1977.
United
States Congress, National Commission on EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer),
June 15, 1976.
Member
of, or consultant to, various task forces of the Office of Technology
Assessment, United States Congress, 1975-82.
Academic Service
Department
Chair,
1989-1991.
Chair,
Curriculum Committee, 1985-1997; Member 2000-2004.
Member,
Laboratory Committee, 1991-1994.
Prepared
four CSAB self-studies.
Set up
five computer labs. Obtained external funding for two of these.
Ordered hardware and software, supervised systems administrators,
assembled furniture, installed memory, etc. Attended Sun education
courses.
Wrote
curricula for, and taught for first or only times, three courses:
CSc
221, Software Design Laboratory
CSC
474, X Windows Programming
CSc
473, Web Site Design.
School of
Engineering
Computer
Committee, 1993-2000.
Computer
Engineering Task Force, 1997-1999.
Member
of ECSEL Committee 199?-199?.
Curriculum
Committee, 2000-2003.
College
Educational
Technology at City College, Martin Tamny, chair, 1995-1997.
Faculty
Senate Committee on future directions for City College, John Graziano,
chair, 1998-1999.
Four
search committees.
University
University
Library and Educational Task Force, 1996-1998.
CUNY
Task Force on Intellectual Property, 2001- .
Volunteer Activities (a
selection)
Chair of
two accreditation visits for the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board
(CSAB) and team member of two others, 1986-91.
Trustee,
Charles Babbage Foundation for the History of Computing, 1980-2002.
Member,
Editorial Board, Annals of the History of Computing, 1980 to present.
Chairman,
History of Computing Committee, American Federation of Information
Processing Societies (AFIPS), 1980-82.
Narrated
the film "Computers in Your Life," distributed by ACM and seen
by about 500,000 people in schools and community groups, 1981.
President,
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1978-80.
Vice-President,
ACM, 1976-78.
Member of
Council, ACM, 1974-82.
Vice-Chairman,
AFIPS Committee on Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), 1975-77.
National
Lecturer, ACM, 1964, 1972, and 1976.
Chairman,
Task Force on Science and Technology in the Criminal Justice System,
Scientists Institute for Public Information, 1975-77.
Chairman,
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, 1972-76.
Chairman,
Computer Professionals Against the ABM, 1969-71. [An organization with
about 400 signatories to a statement opposing the Safeguard
Anti-Ballistic Missile System on technical and policy grounds. Spoke and
appeared on TV on a nationwide tour.]
Board of
Education, Ossining, NY, 1962-72 (President 1965-66.)
Editorial
advisor, Datamation, 1960-72.
Honors
Elected
honorary member of the Golden Key National Honor Society, on nomination
by students, 2001.
Elected
Fellow of the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals,
1998.
Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education, ACM Special
Interest Group on Computer Science Education, 1992.
Elected
Fellow (inaugural class) of ACM, 1992.
Norbert
Weiner Award for Social and Professional Responsibility, Computer
Professionals for Computer Responsibility, 1989.
Elected
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1985.
Distinguished
Alumnus Award, Central Washington State University, 1980.
General
Electric Management Award, 1952.
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