GLENN HILTON

Scope: computer science, software engineering, formal methods, requirements specification, computers, electrical engineering, engineering, mathematics, business, information technology, telecommunications, computer security, computer systems, computer networks, physics, chemistry, internet, operating systems, UNIX, Latex, Framemaker.

GLENN HILTON has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal. He spent nine years as a telecommunications officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force before leaving to attend graduate school. After completing his graduate studies, he was a faculty member for 26 years in the Department of Computing and Information Science at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. During his time at Queen's he supervised numerous Ph.D. and M.Sc. dissertations, served on many examination committees in engineering and the natural sciences, reviewed many articles for research journals, published a textbook in computer systems, and published numerous journal and conference papers. During this time he also co-founded and was the first President of Andyne Computing Limited, which grew to be a successful public company marketing business software. His research and technical interests include computer systems, software engineering, telecommunications, computer security, and critical computer systems.

Services:

Dissertation and thesis advice and academic editing with particular interest in software, computer systems, and communications.

Keywords:

Academic editing, theses, disserations, document management, requirements specification, software documentation, presentations and proposals, computer science, software engineering, electrical and computer engineering, MS Word, Office XP, WordPerfect, FrameMaker, HTML, XML, CGI/Perl, RoboHELP, C/C++, UNIX, LaTeX.

Personal Data:

Ph.D. (Comp.Sc., Toronto) 1971, M.Sc. (Comp.Sc.,) 1967, B.Eng. (Elect., McGill) 1962, U.S. citizen, married.

Positions Held:

Document Services, Co-founder and Senior Editor, 1996-present.

Andyne Computing Limited, Founder, President, Director, Consultant, 1976-1995.

Queen's University, Professor of Computing and Inf. Sc., 1970-96

University of Rome "La Sapienza", Visiting Professor, 1995.)

SRI International, International Fellow, 1987-88.

The Royal Military College of Canada, Visiting Professor, 1976-77.

Royal Canadian Air Force, Telecommunications Officer, 1962-1966.

Teaching Experience:

Computer systems and software engineering: second-year through graduate level.

Graduate Supervision:

Scott Knight, "Scenario-Based Access Control", Ph.D. 1999.

Sam Oh, "Behavior Monitoring of Real-Time Tasks for Adaptive Real-Time Distributed Systems", Ph.D. 1994.

Trevor Pearce, "Steady State and Transient Specification of Reactive Systems", Ph.D. 1994.

Book Publication:

E.A. Ashcroft, J.I. Glasgow, J. Jagganathan, G.H. MacEwen, D.B. Skillicorn, "Syntax, Semantics and Applications of Operator Nets", Data Flow Computing: Theory and Practice, J.A. Sharp (ed), Ablex Publishing, U.S., 1992, pp. 512-536.

G.H. MacEwen, "Introduction to Computer Systems: Using the PDP-11 and Pascal", McGraw-Hill, 1980.

Journal Publication:

S.K. Oh, G.H. MacEwen, "Task-Behavior Monitoring for Adaptive Real-Time Communication", Journal of Real-Time Systems, Vol. 11, No. 2, September 1996, pp. 173-195.

J.I. Glasgow, G.H. MacEwen, P. Panangaden, "A Logic for Reasoning about Security", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 10, No. 3, August 1992, pp. 226-264.

J.I. Glasgow, G.H. MacEwen, "An Operator Net Model for Distributed Systems", Journal of Distributed Systems", Vol. 3, No. 4, September 1989, pp. 196-209.

M. Coulas, G.H. MacEwen, G. Marquis, "RNet: A Hard Real-Time Distributed Programming System", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-36, No. 8, August 1987, pp. 917-932.

Plus 10 others.

Conference Proceedings:

Isazadeh, D.A. Lamb, G.H. MacEwen, "Viewcharts: A Behavioral Specification Language for Complex Systems", Proceedings of International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS), IEEE Computer Society Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1996.

Isazadeh, D.A. Lamb, G.H. MacEwen, "Behavioral Views for Software Requirements Engineering", Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS '96), IEEE Computer Society Press, Friedrichshafen, Germany, March 1996.

Isazadeh, A. Malton, G.H. MacEwen, "Behavioral Patterns for Software Requirements Engineering", IBM CASCON '95, Toronto, November 1995.

S.K. Oh, G.H. MacEwen, "Compound Service Scheduling with Run-Time Adaptation in Real-Time Multiprocessor Distributed Systems", Second IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, Cancun, Mexico, April 1994, pp. 119-124.

Plus 31 others.

Personal Interests:

Licensed private pilot, bagpipe playing, all-grain beer homebrewing.

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