John B. Smith
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
919-962-1792 (office)
919-967-2001 (home)
jbs@cs.unc.edu
Biographical Statement
John B. Smith is Professor of Computer Science at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a faculty member there since 1984.
During that time he has taught courses and done research in hypermedia systems
(he was co-chair of the first international conference on hypertext, which was
held at UNC in 1987) and in collaboration theory and systems (he is the author
of Collective Intelligence in Computer-Based Collaboration, published in
1994). For the past 10 years, his work has focused on Web-based systems,
and he has taught courses on enterprise systems using J2EE, DB2, WAS, and WSAD
since 2000. A current research interest deals with problems students and
professionals have in learning J2EE concepts and technologies and ways in which
that process can be accelerated and eased. He is also working on applying
those techniques to industrial situations to enable fast prototyping of J2EE
applications and faster development of basic systems. Dr. Smith has a B.A. degree in mathematics from the University of the South (Sewanee), a Ph.D. in English from the
University of North Carolina, and over 30 years experience working with computers. He is married to Catherine F. Smith and has one son, Ian.
email: jbs@cs.unc.edu
url:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jbs/