Stephen E. Taylor
790 West Brookfield Road
New Braintree, Massachusetts 01531
(508)867-9288 (home)
setaylor@ma.ultranet.com (email)

           EDUCATION

              Ph.D. Computer Science, 1995, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
              Worcester, MA.  Dissertation: The Capitalist Method: An
              Approach to Analytic Modeling of Multi-dimensional
              File Structures

              M.S., Computer Science, 1990, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
              Worcester,MA

              A.B.,Mathematics,1968,HarvardCollege,Cambridge,MA.


           PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD

              UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY, Al Ain, UAE
                   Lecturer 1997-1998 Academic Year
                   Taught mathematics and computer courses in Undergraduate
                   General Requirements Unit.
                   Participate in staff and committeework.
                   Organize student tutorials.

              WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Worcester, MA

                   Visiting Assistant Professor 1996-1997 Academic Year
                   Instructor. Spring 1993 -- 1995

                   Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in
                   discrete structures,  analysis of algorithms,
                   operating systems, computer architecture, and
                   assembly language.

                   Prepare lesson plans, lecture, supervise
                   teaching assistants, grade student work.
                   Advise student projects.
                   Attend staff meetings and participate in curriculum
                   policy discussion.

              WORCESTER STATE COLLEGE, Worcester, MA

                   Instructor. Spring 1994, Spring 1995
                   Taught operating systems course.


              DATA GENERAL CORPORATION Westboro, MA

                   Principal Software Engineer 1985-1993

                   Proposed, designed, and implemented office automation
                   software products, including
                   -  an interactive report generator;
                   -  an interpretivelanguage for programming persistent queries;
                   -  PC communicationssoftware.
                   Enhanced and maintained existing products, including
                   -  heterogeneous database tools;
                   -  spreadsheets;
                   -  personal database tools;
                   -  charting and graphics tools;
                   -  email interface.
                   Trained new staff and contractors.



              INTERACTIVE SCIENCES CORPORATION, Braintree,MA

                   Senior Systems Programmer,1969-1985

                   Developed and maintained system software.
                   Extended operating system disk services.
                   Wrote BASIC compiler for DECsystem-10
                   Wrote time-sharing system usage accounting and
                   invoicing programs.





           PUBLICATIONS

             Journal Article

              "The average height of a node in the BANG abstract directory tree"
              with Nabil Hachem and Stanley Selkow, Information Processing
              Letters vol 16, #1 pp 55-61 (Jan 14, 1997)

             Refereed Conference Papers

               "Approximate Query Answering in Numerical Databases"
               with Nabil Hachem and Chenye Bao, Eighth International
               Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database
               Management Stockholm, Sweden, June 18-20, 1996.

              "The DHWTC algorithm for transitive closure" in Proceedings
              of the Mathematical Foundations for Database Systems
              Symposium ed. Bernhard  Thalheim, Springer-Verlag,1991

              "A BASIC compiler for the PDP-11" in Proceedings of the
              Spring DECUS conference, Digital Press, 1977

             Commercial

              "Instructor's Manual for Operating Systems" with William
              Stallings, Prentice-Hall, to appear 1998

             Unrefereed

              "Teaching Operating Systems with Projects" IEEE Computer
              Society Bulletin of the Technical Committee on
              Operating Systems and Application Environments
              (TCOS) Fall 1996,Number 3, Volume 8.

             Technical Reports

              "Analyzing NIBGF and BANG files using the Capitalist model"
              with Nabil Hachem and Stanley Selkow, Department of Computer
              Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute WPI-CS-TR-94-4,
              November 1994

              "On Direct Algorithms for Computing the Transitive Closure
              of a Two-Dimensionally Structured File", with Nabil Hachem,
              Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic
              Institute WPI-CS-TR-90-14, August  1990

             Review

              Reviewed `Queueing Networks-Exact Computational Algorithms',
              Conway and Georganas, [MIT Press] in Performance Evaluation
              Review, Vol. 02, #2, pp 24-26, November 1992




           SOFTWARE

              PC Operating System development suite -- used for student projects at
WPI.
              Relational Report Generator, with Edward McColgan and
              Donald Dewar, developed at Data General.

              GIFT database agent, with Barbara Sangster, developed at
              Data General.

              BASIC compiler for DECsystem-10 -- developed for
              Interactive Sciences and sold to several other sites.

              BASIC compiler for PDP-11 -- sold to the Office of Naval Research.


           PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES


              Association for ComputingMachinery
                   ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data
                   ACM Special Interest Group on ComputerArchitecture
                   ACM Special Interest Group on ProgrammingLanguages

              Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

              Occasional Referee for
                   Journal of Information Systems
                   Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

              Beta Tester for Hennesey & Patterson Computer Architecture
              textbook.


           COMMUNITY SERVICE

             Institutional

              UAEU UGRU Computer User Committee,1997 - 1998
              UAUE UGRU Mathematics Student Advising Committee,1997 - 1998
              WPI CS Department Colloquium Series Coordinator,1993 - 1994
              New Braintree Town Planning Board 1971 - 1993. Chairman
               for over ten years.  Developed Growth Regulation Bylaw for town.
              Worcester Art Museum Ad Hoc Technology Advisory Committee 1996 - 1997
              Tri-Parish Church Committee.  Financial and program
               oversight for Tri-Parish Church. Occasional Chair;
               Chair for Pastoral Search Committee,1993 - 94.