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O'Neal, Dr. Micheal

Degrees

Contact Info

Areas of Specialization

• Artificial intelligence
• Software complexity
• Expert systems

Research Areas/Interests

• Co-principal investigator (Barry L. Kurtz, PI), National Science Foundation, CISE Directorate, Office of Cross-Disciplinary Activities: "Integrating Research Results from Parallel and Distributed Computing into the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum," Project activation date: September 1994. Project duration: 3 years. Funded for $238,339.
• Principal investigator, Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund enhancement project: "Computer-based Classroom/Laboratories for Computer Science Research and Instruction," Barry L. Kurtz, Co-PI. Project activation date: June 1994. Project duration: 12 months. Funded for $150.000.
• Principal investigators Barry L. Kurtz and Micheal B. O'Neal, National Science Foundation, Undergraduate Curriculum and Course Development Program: "An Interdisciplinary, Laboratory-Oriented Course for Computer-Based Problem Solving." Project activation date: May 1993. Project duration: 15 months. Funded for $101,833.
• Principal investigator, Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund enhancement project: "Enhancements to the Computing Resources of the Department of Computer Science at Louisiana Tech University," Craig A. Leger, Co-PI. Project activation date: September 1991. Project duration: 9 months. funded for $125,000.
• Principal investigator, Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund enhancement project: "A network of Sun Workstations," This project involved the successful request for funding, procurement, and installation of the first workstation network at Louisiana Tech. The project was rated number three in a state-wide competition of approximately 25 enhancement proposals. Project activation date: September 1988. Project duration: 9 months. Funded for $149,070.
• Principal investigator, Louisiana Tech Summer Research Grant, "An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of Software Measures in the Workplace," April 1992. Awarded competitively. Funded for $1,000.
• Principal investigator, Louisiana Tech Summer Research Grant, "Determining the Effectiveness of Software Measures for Rule-based Programs," April 1991. awarded competitively. Funded for $500.
• Principal investigator, Louisiana Tech Faculty Development Grant, "Evaluation of A Voice-based Computer Interface," April 1990. Awarded competitively. Funded for $1,000.

Publications

• Referred Publications:
• "Complexity Measures for Rule-Based Programs," Micheal B. O'Neal and William R. Edwards, Jr., IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 5, October 1994.
• "A Software Laboratory Environment for Computer-based Problem Solving," Barry L. Kurtz and Micheal B. O'Neal, Proceedings National Education Computing Conference, Boston, June 1994.
• "An Empirical Study of Three Common Software Complexity Measures," Micheal B. O'Neal, 1993 Proceedings Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC-93), Pages 203- 207, February 1993.
• "Comprehending Rule-Based Programs: A Graph-Oriented Approach," Micheal B. O'Neal and William R. Edwards, Jr., International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1, Pages 147-175, July 1993.
• "A Semantic Interpreter for a Transportable Command Language Interface," Lisa E. Moore and Micheal B.O'Neal,1990ProceedingsSymposiumonAppliedComputing(SAC- 90), April 1990.
• Other Publications
• "Requirements for a General Purpose Engineering Programming Language," Donald W. Yates, J. William Ray, Jr., and Micheal B. O'Neal, Proceedings 1991 ASEE Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 1991.

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