TEACHING AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York, College at Oswego. (1998 to present)

• Taught courses in Computer and Information Science. Have served in various capacities in introducing the new Cognitive Science major to campus.

Assistant Director, Social Science Empirical Analysis Laboratory and Supervisor of Media Services, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York (1997 to 1998).

• Have been a central participant in the development of a computer laboratory for social science, education and biology faculty members and students. Have supervised the operation of a microcomputer cluster and have trained train fifteen staff members in the use of computer programs. Offered computer instruction to the Le Moyne community. Participating in developing multimedia and hypertext applications in the Falcone Library.

Instructor - Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Oswego (1995 to 1996)

• Offered instruction in programming languages, Internet use, and computer applications. Also offered Internet instruction to members of the Oswego community through the Office of Conferences and Institutes.

Data Analyst/Programmer (1992 to 1994) - Brown University Center for Health Promotion/Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI

• In charge of data management and assisted analysis for a number of research projects in the medical and in the psychological fields. Designed and programmed tracking and data analysis systems; regularly provided reports.

Academic Researcher/Computer Consultant (1987-1991) - University of Pittsburgh

• Supervised data entry, designed and implemented databases, devised coding schemes, developed algorithms, and designed reports. In addition, developed skills in graph theoretic applications to social analysis,as well as quantitative and statistical analysis of social and political phenomena.

Visiting Lecturer - Social Sciences - Community College of Rhode Island (October, 1991)

Instructor - Department of History, Boston University (1990 - 1991)

Instructor - Social Sciences, Bunker Hill Community College (1989)

Lecturer - Social Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (1987-1988)

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Researcher in Quantitative Sociology of Education) - University of Bochum, Germany (1985-1986)

Researcher - Quantitative/Computer Social Science Project (Summer, 1984)

Teaching Assistant/Instructor (Computer Science) - Control Data Institute (1977)

Teaching Fellow (Mathematical Logic) - University of Notre Dame (1974-1975)

Teaching Assistant (Mathematical Logic) Loyola University of Los Angeles (1973)

DATA PROCESSING/ANALYSIS EXPERIENCE

Senior Research Analyst- Health Services Medical Corporation, Baldwinsville, New York (1996 to 1997)

• Have been an analyst investigating demographic and epidemiological characteristics of client populations. Developed ODBC applications in SAS and Access.

Data Management Operations / Statistical Analyst (1994 to 1995) Corporate Services Incorporated, South Bend, Indiana.

• Currently in charge of designing data analysis plans for market and clinical research. Provided data operations and management support (including database programming) , gained in-depth familiarity with imaging systems (including ICR technology), conducted survey research and data analyses, wrote reports and produced graphic displays of survey outcomes. Developed HTML documents, and provided hypertext/hypermedia consulting.

Statistical and Software Consultant (1993 to 1998) - Statistical Management Services, Providence, Rhode Island

• Wrote programs and conducted analyses of survey data, provided statistical and software advice concerning survey development, analyses of data and automation of report procedures. In addition, have conducted training sessions for focus group research and analyzed results (empirical qualitative research). Clients included State Street Bank and International Laborers Union.

Systems Analyst/Programmer - Local 25 Medical Center, Boston, MA (1977-1983)

• Designed all computer programs (in COBOL and DIBOL and DEC Macro 11), defined and managed databases (in Datatrieve), trained all personnel, supervised the installation of a computer system (in a distributed environment) and converted all files. Analyzed and provided demographic analyses to professional staff.

STATISTICAL BACKGROUND

Descriptive statistics, regression and correlation analysis, multivariate statistics (including MANOVA with repeated measures), reliability measures, cluster analysis, factor analysis, multidimensional scaling , time series analysis, graphical representation of numeric data.

KNOWLEDGE OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE

Java, COBOL, C, SPSS, SAS, FORTRAN, PL/1, ASSEMBLY LANGUAGES (IBM and Digital), PASCAL, BASIC, Visual Basic, Perl, Prolog, DIBOL; various wordprocessors (Wordperfect, MS Word); database systems (FoxPro, Access and dBase); graphics (Harvard Graphics) spreadsheet programs (Quattro Pro, Excel), and artificial intelligence languages (LISP).

KNOWLEDGE OF COMPUTER HARDWARE AND OPERATING SYSTEMS

UNIX, DEC VMS, NOVELL, IBM CMS, MS-DOS, Windows and MacIntosh systems.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/WIDELY DISTRIBUTED REPORTS

"Prescription Writing Characteristics Among Nurse Practitioners" . Joyce Pulicini, David Vampola (to appear in The Nurse Practioner, October 2002)

"NPACE Nurse Practitioner Practice Characteristics, Salary, and Benefits Survey for year 2000" Joyce Pulcini, David Vampola, Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practioners (in press).

"NPACE Nurse Practitioner Practice Characteristics, Salary, and Benefits Survey for year 1999" Joyce Pulcini, David Vampola. Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners , November 2000. (This a "peer reviewed" publication.)

"NPACE Nurse Practitioner Practice Characteristics, Salary, and Benefits Survey for year 1997" Joyce Pulcini, David Vampola. Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners , September 1998.

"Needs Assessment for the Laborers AGC Education and Training Fund-1996" Lincoln, Rhode Island, 1996

"Negating Positivism: Language and the Practice of Science" (with Michael Shank) in The Philosophy of Discourse , edited by Chip Sills and George Jensen, Heinemann Publishers, 1992

Review of Christophe Charle, Les Professeurs de College de France (1901- 1939) in Isis, Journal of the History of Science Society, June, 1990

COMPUTER RELATED LECTURES

"Salaries, Benefits. Practice Characteristics and Prescription Writing Patterns for Nurse Practitioners 1997- 2001: Implications for Marketing the Role to Potential Students", Minneapolis, MN "Shaping New Paradigms in Nurse Practitioner Education" April 12, 2002.

"The Machine in the Quad", to be given at the American Association of Higher Educators, Washington DC, March 2001 (The submissions to this conference are refereed.)

"The Cognitive Dimensions of Information Science", SUNY Oswego, April, 2000

"Mapping the Mind" Linguistic Circle Lecture, SUNY Oswego, April, 1999

"Vagueness: Its Clearly-Defined Position in Cognitive Science" given at "Re-Imaging the Mind" conference, SUNY Oswego, March, 1998

"The Text and Context of Hypertext: Narrative Structures, Communities of Readers and the Critique of Taste" Conference on Culture, Technology and the Human Experience, SUNY Oswego, April, 1996

"Morals and Machines", Winter Breakout, SUNY Oswego, January, 1996

OTHER INVITED TALKS

New York Academy of Sciences

Harvard School of Public Health

Harvard University, Department of Psychology

University of Bochum

University of Osnabruck

University of Duesseldorf

Boston University

Ecole Normale Superieure

University of Pittsburgh

Leo Beck Institute (New York City)

CNRS (Paris, France)

Bard College

OTHER TALKS/PRESENTATIONS

"The Oswego Reading Initiative: An Informational Forum for Faculty and for Students" SUNY Oswego, April 2002

GRANTS

Auxilary Services, SUNY Oswego for "Cogntive Science Luncheon Series" (February 2000 through May 2001)

SMET Grant (with William Bosch), SUNY Oswego for "CSC 120 as a Problem Solving Course" (Summer 1999)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE WORK

Outside reviewer, OOPSLA Conference 2000

Director, Cognitive Science Luncheon Series

Member, Languages Across the Curriculum

Member, Cognitive Science Board, SUNY Oswego

Member, Information Science Board

Member, Computer Science Curriculum Committee

Member, Information Science Curriculum Committee

EDUCATION

University of Pittsburgh - Doctoral Candidate in Quantitative Social Sciences, Secondary Field in Conceptual and Social Foundations of Science

Tufts University - Master of Arts (Social Sciences/History) - Awarded 1980

University of Notre Dame - Master of Arts (Mathematical Logic) - Awarded 1976

Princeton University - Additional Graduate Study (Social Sciences) 1980-81

Boston University - Graduate Computer Science Courses, Graduate Courses in Social Theory, Quantitative Approaches to Social Sciences - 1982-84

Digital Equipment Corporation - Computer Science Courses - 1981

Loyola University (Los Angeles) - Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy, with emphasis in Mathematical Logic) - 1973

FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS

Volkswagen Foundation Fellow - University of Pittsburgh (1986- 987)
Mellon Predoctoral Fellow - University of Pittsburgh (1984-1985)
University Fellow - Boston University (1982-83)
Davis Fellow - Princeton University (1980)
University Scholarship - Tufts University (1979)

MEMBERSHIP

American Statistical Association
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ACM Special Interest Group - Artificial Intelligence
Association for Symbolic Logic
IEEE Computer Society
American Association for Artificial Intelligence