RONALD L. DANIELSON
Chief
Information Officer
Telephone
(408) 554-5000
Fax (408) 554-5001
rdanielson@scu.edu
PERSONAL
DATA
Born
EDUCATION
PhD Computer
Science,
MS Mathematics, Northwestern
University, August, 1968
BA Mathematics,
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Management
of university technology and information resources; impact of information
technology on organizational performance and behavior; human-computer
interaction; web-based educational tools.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Chief Information Officer July
2000 - present
Responsible
for leading the Information Services organization in offering academic and
administrative computing, networking and telecommunications, web, instructional
and classroom technologies, and library services to the university. Recent accomplishments include an upgrade to release 8 of
the PeopleSoft administrative suite and implementation of the Angel course
management system. Construction of an automated retrieval system to
dramatically increase library capacity will be completed in December 2004.
Associate Professor September
1982 - present
Assistant Professor September
1976 - August 1982
Department
of Computer Engineering
Courses in compiler
design, operating systems, data structures, programming languages, interactive
systems design, multimedia systems, and programming. Supervised staff of 10
adjunct faculty. Research in image processing system design, human/computer
interface design.
Associate
Vice President for Academic Affairs July 1990 -
August 1992
(Acting July 1990 - June 1991)
Responsible for research policy and funding, central
coordination of graduate programs, academic area budget development, and
information technology. Supervised the Sponsored Projects Office,
Director of Information Systems August
1984 - June 1990
Responsible for policy and operational issues related to
all computing activities on campus (academic, administrative, and personal)
as well as telecommunications. Supervised staff of 32 full-time and 30
student employees.
Lund
Institute of Technology,
Visiting Professor August
1982 - July 1983
Department
of Computer Science and Numerical
Analysis
Courses in image
processing and distributed systems. Supervised four graduate student research
projects. Advised on course content and curriculum for new program in computer
science.
Visiting Research Assistant
Professor August 1975 - August 1976
Research/Teaching Assistant September
1971 - July 1975
Department
of Computer Science
HONORS
PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Consultant to
Ten external grants
from NASA, NSF, and DOD for research on computer systems for digital image
processing, network applications in education, and computer software curriculum
development. Two grants from the Irvine Foundation for pilot studies on
improving undergraduate learning using peer educators. Equipment grants from HP
and Cisco for instructional technology investigations.
Recent Santa Clara University
committee service: chair, budget advisory committee (2 years); chair, core
curriculum committee (3 years); co-authored undergraduate education assessment
chapter for most recent regional accreditation visit; member, Dean of Arts and
Sciences search committee (2 years); co-organizer of 16 three-day workshops on
IT leadership for Executive Development Center; adjunct professor in SCU School
of Law,
Member of IT
advisory boards for local community college and two local technology companies.
PUBLICATIONS
“Thinking Styles of North American IT Executives”
(with P. DeLisi), Proceedings of the
Third Annual Global Information Technology Management World Conference,
“Java-based Instructional Materials for Introductory Logic
Design Courses” (with S. Wood), Proceedings
of 2000 Frontiers in Education Conference,
“Curriculum Evolution: Integration of Web-based
Resources, Tutorial Software, and Commercial Design Tools.” (with S. Wood) Proceedings of the International
Conference on Engineering Education,
“Stimulating
Introductory Engineering Courses with Java” (with S. Wood), Proceedings of 1998 Frontiers in Education
Conference,
“Automatic Extraction of Representative
Keyframes Based on Scene Content” (with D. Diklic and D. Petkovic), Proceedings of the 32nd Asilomar Conference
on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, November 1 -
4 1998.
“Web-based
Enrichment Courseware for Introductory Engineering Students” (with S. Wood), Proceedings of the IASTED International
Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, Cancun,
Mexico, May 27 - 30 1998, pp. 121 - 125.
“A
CEO’s-Eye View of the IT Function” (with P. DeLisi and B. Posner), Business Horizons, Vol. 41, No. 1,
January-February 1998, pp. 65 - 74.
“Work in Progress: Learning Styles, Media
Preferences, and Adaptive Education,” Proceedings
of the Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web,
Sixth International Conference on User Modeling, Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy,
June 2 - 5, 1997, pp. 31 - 35.
“Adaptive
Interaction through WWW” (with F. Lin and
“Practically Formal Methods” (with R.
Davis), Proceedings of the Conference on
Software Engineering: Education and Practice,
“LSL +
“Factors
in the adoption and use of an electronic communication system for MBA students”
(with J. Schmidt-Posner and B. Posner), Journal
of Educational Technology Systems, Vol. 21, No. 1, September 1992, pp. 5 -
19. Earlier version presented at the
meeting of the American Educational Research Association,
Review of Managing Information Systems: Change and Control in Organizational
Computing, by Kenneth L. Kramer, John Leslie King, Debora E. Dunkle, and
“A preliminary investigation of
communication techniques for local and remote access to image databases” (with
M. Ma and W. Likens), Geocarto
International, (3) 1988, pp. 17 - 24.
“The use
of computer conferencing by a university faculty” (with P. Friedl and J.
Schmidt-Posner), in Message Handling
Systems: State of the Art and Future Directions, R. Speth (editor),
North-Holland, 1988, pp. 387 - 402.
“Design education in computer science and
engineering” (with G. Langdon, et al.), IEEE
Computer, Vol. 19, No. 6, June 1986, pp. 20 - 27.
“An
experimental vehicle for the user/filing-system interface” (with P. Rolander), Proceedings of the 1981 ACM National
Conference,
“Towards
uniform user interfaces in an office automation system,” Proceedings of the Canadian Man-Computer Communications Society
Conference,
“Easy interactive access to batch image
analysis software,” Proceedings of the
1981 National Computer Conference, Chicago, Illinois, AFIPS Press, May
1981, pp. 375 - 382.
“Digital image processing on a small
computer,” Proceedings of the 1981
Conference of Remote Sensing Educators,
“Selecting an image analysis computer
system,” Proceedings of the 1981
Conference of Remote Sensing Educators,
“User experience and evolving design in a
local electronic mail system” (with J. Bruder, et al.), in Computer Message Systems, R. P. Uhlig (editor), North Holland,
1981, pp. 69 - 78.
“Educating the working computer scientist:
a survey and analysis,” ACM SIGCSE
Bulletin, Vol. 13, No. 1, February 1981, pp. 109 - 113.
“Considerations
in processing satellite images,” ACM
SIGSMALL Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 1, July 1980, pp. 5 - 10.
“A building block approach to image
analysis computer capability,” Proceedings
of the Third Conference on the Economics of Remote Sensing Information Systems,
“Computer uses in remote sensing
education,” Proceedings of the First
Conference of Remote Sensing Educators,
“ACSES: an automated computer science
education system” (with J. Nievergelt, et al.), Angewandte Informatik, Vol. 17, No. 4, April 1975, pp. 135 - 142.
“Ein automatischer Tutor für die
Einführung in das Programmieren” (with J. Nievergelt), Angewandte Informatik, Vol. 17, No. 3, March 1975, pp. 91 -
94. (English version in ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 1,
February 1975, pp. 47 - 50.)