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Faculty

Joel

Joel C. Adams

Professor

616-526-8562

North Hall 299A

adams@calvin.edu

Interests: computer science education, distributed systems, fault-tolerant computing, high performance computing, object-oriented programming, networking

Pat

Patrick Bailey

Assistant Professor

616-526-7543

North Hall 291

pmb4@calvin.edu

Interests: database technology, architecture-centric project management, software maintenance, ASP.Net, data mining

Earl

Earl D. Fife

Professor

616-526-6403

North Hall 293

fife@calvin.edu

Interests: computer forensics, computer security, cryptography, number theory

Dr. Fife has a joint appointment with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Jeremy

Jeremy D. Frens

Assistant Professor

616-526-8666

North Hall 296

jdfrens@calvin.edu

Interests: programming languages, agile software development, compilers

David

David Laverell

Professor

616-526-6691

North Hall 297

lave@calvin.edu

Interests: networking, computer architecture, computer security, intellectual property

Jeff

Jeff Nyhoff

Assistant Professor

616-526-6553

North Hall 298

jnyhoff@calvin.edu

Interests: computing and theater, interface design, reformed views of technology

Harry

Harry Plantinga

Professor

616-526-6860

North Hall 299

hplantin@calvin.edu

Interests: computer graphics, computational geometry, design and analysis of algorithms, digital libraries and the Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Keith

Keith Vander Linden

Professor, Department Chair

616-526-7111

North Hall 290

kvlinden@calvin.edu

Interests: human language technology, knowledge management, human-computer interaction, software engineering, and cognitive science

Adjunct Faculty

Fred

Fred Ferwerda

Adjunct

Interests: Microsoft Office applications, financial planning, tax assistance

Emeriti

Lees

Sanford Leestma

Professor Emeritus

Interests: numerical analysis, computer science education

Dr. Leestma is the department’s first faculty emeritus.

Larry

Larry Nyhoff

Professor Emeritus, Adjunct

Interests: programming languages, algorithm and data structure design and analysis, computer science education

Contributing Faculty

Randall

Interests: computational statistics, scientific computing, computational complexity theory, theoretical computer science

Stob

Interests: computability theory (formerly called recursion theory), cognitive science (especially formal models of learning), tournaments (especially ranking problems)

Staff

Gary

Gary Draving

System Administrator

616-526-8723

Science Building 321B

gbd2@calvin.edu

Sharon

Sharon Gould

Administrative Assistant

616-526-7163

North Hall 270

seg5@calvin.edu