Louisiana Tech Faculty Information Page
O'Neal, Dr. Micheal
Program Chair and Associate Professor of Computer Science
Degrees
PhD-Computer Science: University of Southwestern Louisiana
MS-Computer Science: Louisiana Tech University
BS-Computer Science: Louisiana Tech University
Contact Info
Office: 247 Nethken Hall
Email: mike@engr.latech.edu
Phone: (318) 257-2931
Home Page: http://www.latech.edu/~mike
Areas of Specialization
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Artificial intelligence
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Software complexity
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Expert systems
Research Areas/Interests
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Principal investigator, Louisiana Tech Summer Research Grant, "Determining
the Effectiveness of Software Measures for Rule-based Programs," April
1991. awarded competitively. Funded for $500.
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Principal investigator, Louisiana Tech Faculty Development Grant, "Evaluation
of A Voice-based Computer Interface," April 1990. Awarded competitively.
Funded for $1,000.
Publications
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Referred Publications:
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"A Semantic Interpreter for a Transportable Command Language Interface,"
Lisa E. Moore and Micheal B.O'Neal,1990ProceedingsSymposiumonAppliedComputing(SAC-
90), April 1990.
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Other Publications
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"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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