John Dougherty
John Dougherty
he/his/him
Associate Professor of Computer Science
KINSC H111A
(610)896-1000
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jdougher [at] haverford.edu
Assistant:
Lisabeth Lieberman
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Teaching Schedule Spring 2023

  • Introduction to Data Structures (cs106B)
  • Concurrency and Co-Design in Operating Systems (cs356B)
  • Senior Thesis in Computer Science (cs399B) - 2 advisees
  • Office Time for Student Drop-In:
    • Mondays 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET
    • by appointment, see my calendar

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Education

Biography

John Dougherty, or "J.D.", has worked at the College since 1997. He is a Senior Member of the ACM and has been involved with ACM/SIGCSE.  He presently studies dependable parallel computing (i.e., performability), computing education, and accessible computing. Before Haverford, J.D. was an assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at the Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, now Thomas Jefferson University, East Falls Campus.

Scholarship

  • Computer Science Education: pedagogy, kinesthetic learning (CS unplugged, Computational Singing), K-12 outreach, UDL
  • Accessible Computing and Universal Design: "from the start" approaches to design, generalized models for evaluation and comparison; alternatives for text input; automatic captioning approaches
  • High-Performance Scientific Computing: performability models, dependable parallel computing, data-intensive scalable computing

Professional Service

ACM Inroads/Math Counts Columnist until 2018; SIGCSE 2018 & 2019 Events Chair; SIGCSE 2017 & 2018 Associated Program Chair; ITiCSE 2017 & 2018 Associated Program Chair; SIGCSE 2014 Symposium Chair; SIGCSE 2013 Program Chair; SIGCSE 2012 Accessibility Liaison; SIGCSE 2008 Symposium Chair; SIGCSE 2007 Program Chair; SIGCSE 2006 Panels/SSs; SIGCSE 2005 Publications; CCSCE 2003-5 Papers Chair, CCSCE 2009 K-12 Liaison; PACSE founder (now CSTA-Philly)

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