Merrimack College Department of Computer Science
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I have a BA from Kenyon College, and an MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After graduation, I taught for a decade at Williams College, Amherst College, and Boston College. I spent the next 15 years working in industry, and the last decade of that working for a sequence of startup companies around Boston. Throughout this period, I taught a course every semester at the Extension School at Harvard University to adult learners. It was an exhilarating period, but I am happy to be teaching full time again.

I worked for Phoenix Technologies, Prime Computer, Sun Microsystems, Agile Networks, Nexabit Networks, Lucent Technologies, and Axiowave Networks. I helped design and implement a number of networking devices, including an intelligent switch and two high speed routers.

I spent the last two years teaching Computer Science at Middlebury College, and I am now teaching at Merrimack College in North Andover.

I have two daughters: Laila, a graduate of Carleton College, now working in Seattle and Andrea, a graduate of University of Chicago now living in Oakland. My wife is a Math Coach, working with teachers to help change mathematics education in the Boston Public Schools


Standards Work

I am active in the IS-IS Workgroup of the IETF. IS-IS is a routing protocol that is used to direct traffic inside large Internet Service Providers (ISPs).


T2S5 - A system to generate S5 slides from text

I have been using an HTML system call S5 to present "slides" in class. This allows students to view the original with any browser. To simplify the production of HTML slides, I have developed a small filter I call Text 2 S5 (T2S5) to transform text into the format S5 expects. This S5 presentation gives some background on the tool.


Contact

  252 Mendel Hall
  Department of Computer Science 
  Merrimack College 
  North Andover, Mass 01845 
  
  parkerj at merrimack dot edu
  (978) 837-5000  x4204
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