Oklahoma
Supercomputing Symposium 2003
Wednesday September 24 -
Thursday September 25 2003
at the University of Oklahoma
Dr. Steven F. Jennings
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Applied Biosciences
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Steve Jennings received his PhD in Computer Science from Iowa State
University and joined the Computer Science faculty at Colorado State
University in 1980. After three years, he surrendered to industry
enticements and spent nineteen years developing software and managing
all aspects of software businesses. During this time,
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he was a charter member of the IEEE committee that developed the
POSIX standard for the UNIX operating system,
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he managed development of the networking software for the
International Space Station, and
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he consulted for various small companies and several Fortune 500
companies including IBM, Kodak, US WEST, and American Express.
Over these years, Steve has held senior management positions in the
development of specialized systems software, software for medical
devices, internet websites, and embedded software for mobile devices
as well as in the not-for-profit social services sector. He received
his MBA degree in 1991 through the Executive Programs of the
University of Colorado, Denver.
Steve joined the faculty of the Applied Science Department at the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock in May, 2002, as an Associate
Professor to pursue his interests further in bioinformatics,
distributed and parallel systems, technical infrastructure, software
systems architecture, and software engineering practices. He is the
Program Director for the Joint Graduate Program in Bioinformatics
with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Executive
Director of the MidSouth Bioinformatics Center, and Acting President
of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinfomatics Society.
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