Professor William Mitchell
emailme@willmitchell.online
wmmmitchell@comcast.net

Dr Mitchell retired in 2005 so this career description is of only historical interest.  He has a Facebook page.

November 10th talk to CCSC-SE on history of CCSC

Mitchell family history  (Dr. H. F. Mitchell, is Dr. Mitchell's father and a first generation computer scientist: www.herbmitchell.info)

Dr. Mitchell retired in June of 2004 from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock and now resides in Shelbyville, Indiana and continues consulting and teaching in the classroom and on-line as an adjunct. Dr. Mitchell became the Associate Dean of the Donaghey College of Information Science and Systems Engineering in July of 2001 after serving for a year as Director of the new Information Science program.  His major responsibilities were accreditation and assessment of the college’s six departments and assisting faculty obtain external funding.   He was the Principle Investigator (25% of his effort) on an NSF IT Workforce grant.  He also handled the College's routine reporting and budgetary matters in interfacing with the central administration.   As an administrator he continued to teach as needed in Information Science and Computer Science (see representative course materials at bottom of this page) and to actively participate in computing education nationally and regionally. Dr. Mitchell was awarded the Ph.D. in Mathematics by George Peabody College in 1974.  He previously taught and developed the computer programs at LSU-Shreveport  and the University of Evansville in Indiana. For the past decade Dr. Mitchell has been teaching software engineering, internet technologies, and decision support systems.

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During the 1998-99 Academic year Dr. Mitchell took leave from LSU-Shreveport to work full-time as the chief technical officer of Gestalt Group, LLC.  This was re-initiated as Conventus Corporation, with Dr. Mitchell as the initial Chairman of the Board.   When no funding was forthcoming  Dr. Mitchell resigned from Conventus and incorporated as TelePresense Technologies, Inc.  Although never viable, these companies resulted from the demise of ICON Inc. for which Dr. Mitchell consulted in 1997 and they also pursued the benefits of ATM-based telecommunications that are the goal of TIME.  Follow this link for some more details on these aborted companies.  The focus of ICON when Dr. Mitchell was a consultant was on the development of a software-based machine controller which in combination with telecommunications would allow the rapid conversion of commercial assembly lines to military products.   Despite some demonstrations, the advice of the most recent study committee is that TIME refocus on upgrading the Army’s manufacturing technology to commercial standards rather than trying to leapfrog into the future.

 Powerpoint slides presented to teachers of the web-based pre-calculus course 7/28/2003.

• • Paper on the history of the first on-line bibliographic retrieval systems that was presented at ASIS&T/CHF Conference on November 17, 2002.  Powerpoint slides of the presentation
  • NSF Grant Proposal to CSEMS program for freshman scholarships submitted January 28, 2004 [sample of proposal writing]

Recent Presentations at Regional conferences of the Consortium For Computing Science in Colleges:

Recent Presentations at Regional conferences of the Consortium For Computing Science in Colleges:

• • March 2004 on the new Software Engineering Curriculum
  • March 2003 paper on the Information Technology movement
  • April 2002 paper on the Cybercollege of Arkansas
  • October 2002 paper on CS0  in Information Science
  • April 2001 paper on the Information Science curriculum at UALR
  • Paper on the object-oriented paradigm in the freshman year, published Fall 2000 and presented at the Northwestern SCCC.
  • Paper on reuse of Java code presented at Central Plains SCCC April 2000 (ppt slides),
  • October 1999 Northwest SCCC paper on the Professionalization of Computer Science (Powerpoint presentation )
  • Workshop on Distance Learning Technologies for Midwest SCCC, 9/24/99

• • South Central Paper describing Dr. Mitchell's Video-conferencing grants (4/99)
  • Software Engineering Paper (SESCCC 10/98)    ( Powerpoint version)
  • April 1998 Central Plains Talk about consulting at ICON
  • September 1998 MidWest Tutorial on using the web for computing instruction
  • Applied Computing degree proposal at LSUS (not implemented)

 Dr. Mitchell is founder and Conference Coordinator for the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges  and the Mid-South College Computing Conference

Dr. Mitchell is a visitor for CSAB

Dr. Mitchell was the 1998 President and has since been Treasurer of Arklatex AITP Chapter

Dr. Mitchell is an Elder and has been Adult Education Chair at Shreveport's First Presbyterian Church and was Adult Sunday School teacher at Pulaski Heights Presbyterian Church in Little Rock. He is now a member and adult Sunday School teacher at the First Presbyterian Church of Shelbyville.

 Classes developed and taught at UALR:

Visual Basic Lab (IFSC 1202-summer 2000) (originated course)

Java (IFSC 2300-fall 2000) (originated course)

The following courses were present via WebCT so only pieces are provided here

HCI/Java Swing (IFSC 2340-spring 2001) (originated course)

Problem Solving (IFSC 1305-spring 2001) (taught first four times it was offered)

Operating Systems  I (IFSC 3305-fall 2002) (designed course, second instructor)

Database Administration (CPSC 4375-spring 2003) (originated course)

Computer Ethics (IFSC/CPSC 4310-spring 2003) (originated course)

Software Engineering (CPSC 4373-fall 2003)