Buster Dunsmore Associate Professor of Comp Sci bxd@cs.purdue.edu

Address

My Department Biography

• Purdue University
• Department of Computer Sciences
• 305 N. University Street
• West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907-2107
• Office Phone: +1 765-494-1996
• FAX: 765-494-0739

Resumé

Teaching

• CS 177 — Programming with Multimedia Objects, Spring 2007
• CS 180 — Introduction to Computer Science, Spring 2007

Internet and Web Information

• HTML Guide
• Advanced HTML Guide
• JavaScript Guide

Consulting

• Consulting with attorneys concerning intellectual property (primarily Internet and software-related) litigation.
• Uses of the Internet, the World-Wide Web, and Web browsers.
• Object-oriented design and programming.
• Java, C, and C++ programming languages.
• Information Systems including Management Information Systems.

Research Interests

• How can Web technologies (HTML, XHTML, XML, Style Sheets, cgi programs, JavaScript, Java, Java servlets, scripting languages like Perl, ASP, and JSP) best be used to support Internet, Intranet, and Extranet activities?
• What are the real (measurable) advantages of the object-oriented approach? Is it any faster? (Probably not.) Is the code any easier to debug? (Maybe.) Is the code any easier to re-use? (Probably so.)
• What is the best way to teach programmers how to use the object-oriented paradigm? For that matter, how can existing professional software developers best be trained (or re-trained) to take advantage of the object-oriented approach? Should we start with functional programming, then add abstract data types, and finally introduce classes, methods, objects, inheritance, and polymorphism?

I am the Information Systems Convenor for the Global Studies Program in the Office of International Programs.

Research concerning international issues related to the development and the use of Information Systems:

• Global Information Technologies
• Information Technologies to Support Virtual Communities
• Social and Organizational Impacts of Information Systems
• Internet and World-Wide Web-based Information Systems
• Hypertext, Hypermedia, Multimedia Information Systems
• Distributed Learning (Distance Education)
• Information Systems and Business Processes
• Information Systems for Electronic Commerce
• Strategic Information Systems
• Decision Support Systems
• Virtual Information Environments

(This page last modified March 24, 2008)