Cathie LeBlanc

EDUCATION

• 1997   Ph.D. in Computer Science
  The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
  Dissertation Topic: Development of architectures and learning algorithms for Recurrent Expert Networks.
  
  
• 1995   M.S. in Computer Science
  The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
  GPA: 3.9
  Thesis Topic: Hierarchical ART-Based Classification Networks
  
  
• 1985   B.A. in Computer Science, cum laude
  Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  GPA: 3.5
  
  

EMPLOYMENT

• December, 2006-present
  Associate Professor of Digital Media
  Department of Communication and Media Studies
  
  June, 2003-December, 2006
  Associate Professor of Computer Science and Technology
  
  August, 1998-June, 2003
  Assistant Professor of Computer Science
  
  Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
  Classes Taught:
  • Introduction to Communication
  • Introduction to Game Design and Development
  • Creating Games
  • First Year Seminar
  • Women and Their Environments
  • Introduction to Computers and Their Applications
  • Foundations of Computer Science
  • Computing Fundamentals
  • Computational Theory
  • Programming in Java
  • Multimedia
  • Hardware
  • Algorithm Development Under Time Constraints
  • Client/Server Programming
  • Organization of Programming Languages
  • Computer Security
  • Science, Technology and Society
  • CyberEthics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Introduction to the Academic Community

• August, 1997-July, 1998
  Assistant Professor of Computer Science
  Keene State College, Keene, NH
  Classes Taught:
  • Introduction to Computer Information Processing
  • Computer Programming I
  • Database Management Systems
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • Java Programming

• August, 1996-August, 1997
  Dissertation Fellow
  Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  
  • Job Description: Finish dissertation
    

• January, 1996-August, 1996
  Research Assistant
  Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  
  • Job Description: Develop content for distance education courses
    

• August, 1992-December, 1995
  Teaching Assistant
  Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  
  • Job Description: Full classroom responsibility
    Classes Taught: Computer Literacy, Computer Programming II
    

• December, 1990-August, 1992
  Administrative Coordinator
  Necessities/Necesidades, Northampton, MA
  
  • Job Description: Write grant proposals. Oversee fundraising events. Manage organization budget. Speak to potential funding organizations about mission of the organization.
    

• June, 1985-March, 1990
  Project Leader (last title held)
  The Geary Corporation, Pittsfield, MA
  
  • Job Description: Increasing responsibility for computer software projects. Design and development of software for Fortune 500 manufacturing corporations. Train users.
    Participated in multi-million dollar project in Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands. Received management award for work on that project.

TEACHING AREAS/INTERESTS

• Game Design and Development
• Game Studies
• Digital Media

RESEARCH AREAS/INTERESTS

• Game Studies
• Digital Media and Society
• Creativity in the Curriculum

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

• In Progress: Cathie LeBlanc, Fear and Loathing in Second Life: Gender in the Online Community.
• In Progress: Cathie LeBlanc, Games in the Communication Curriculum.
• Submitted: Robin DeRosa, Karolyn Kinane, Cathie LeBlanc and Evelyn Stiller, Review of Ken Wilber's A Brief History of Everything.
• Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc, From Computer Literacy to Cyber-Literacy, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 21(6), June 2006, pages 4-13.
• Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc, Teaching Software Development by Example, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 21(6), June 2006, pages 228-237.
• Cathie LeBlanc and Evelyn Stiller, Teaching Computer Security at a Small College, Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2004, pages 402-406.
• Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc, Creating Computer Science Curricula for the New Millennium, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 18(5), May 2003, pages 198-209 (2nd place in the best paper competition).
• Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc, Project-Based Software Engineering: An Object-Oriented Approach, Dutch translation, Addison Wesley Longman: Boston, MA, 2002. (ISBN: 90-430-0636-X)
• Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc, Project-Based Software Engineering: An Object-Oriented Approach, Chinese translation, Addison Wesley Longman: Boston, MA, 2002. (ISBN: 7-111-10101-4/TP 2385)
• Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc, Project-Based Software Engineering: An Object-Oriented Approach, Addison Wesley Longman: Boston, MA, 2001. (ISBN: 0-201-74225-X)
• Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc, Effective Software Engineering Pedagogy, The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 17(6), pages 124-134, May, 2002.
• Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc, Teaching Client/Server Programming in the Context of Computing Curricula 2001, The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 16(4), pages 122-133, May, 2001.
• Cathie LeBlanc and Evelyn Stiller, UML for Undergraduate Software Engineering, The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 15(5), pages 8-18, May, 2000.
• Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc, Teaching Problem-Solving and Programming Constructs, The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 14(4), pages 64-70, May, 1999.
• Cathie LeBlanc and Susan I. Hruska, The Effect of Reasoning with State Information, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference Proceedings, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, Volume 3, pages 2555-2560, October, 1997.
• Cathie LeBlanc, Utilization of State Information via Recurrent Connections in Expert Networks, PhD Dissertation, Florida State University, 1997.
• Cathie LeBlanc, R.C. Lacher, Kristin Adair, John W. Elling, and Susan I. Hruska, Rule Refinement Using Expert Networks, Proceedings of the NIPS96 Rule Extraction From Trained Artificial Neural Networks Workshop, Robert Andrews and Joachim Diederich, editors, Queensland University of Technology, NeurocomputingResearch Centre, pages 46-53, December 6, 1996.
• Cathie LeBlanc, Recurrent Expert Networks, Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2, AAAI Press/MIT Press, Menlo Park, CA, 1996.
• Cathie LeBlanc, Hierarchical ART-based Classification Networks, Master's Thesis, Florida State University, 1995.
• Cathie LeBlanc, Charles Katholi, Thomas Unnasch, and Susan Hruska, DNA Sequence Analysis using Hierarchical ART-based Classification Networks, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 1994.

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

• Cathie LeBlanc, Blog entries about the impact of technology and games on society.
• Cathie LeBlanc, Writing to Create Games, Out of WAC, Plymouth State University, Volume 15, Number 2, 2007-08.
• Cathie LeBlanc, Blog entries for the International Game Developers Association Education Special Interest Group.
• Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc, Blogging Across the Curriculum, Out of WAC, Plymouth State University, Volume 13, Number 1, 2005-06.
• Cathie LeBlanc, My Letter Writing Campaign, Out of WAC, Plymouth State University, Volume 11, Number 2, 2003-04.
• Cathie LeBlanc, On the Privacy Issue, Mixed Points of View, Letter to the Editor, Internet World, Volume 5, Issue 12, March 29, 1999, p. 10.
• Cathie LeBlanc, Teaching Tips for Large Classes, Teaching at FSU, Volume 3 Number 2, Program for Instructional Excellence, Spring 1995.
• Cathie LeBlanc, Teaching Tips on Active Learning, Teaching at FSU, Volume 2 Number 2, Program for Instructional Excellence, Spring 1994.
• Cathie LeBlanc, Department of Computer Science Teaching Handbook, 1994.
• Cathie LeBlanc, Book Review: Teaching College, Teaching at FSU, Volume 2 Number 1, Program for Instructional Excellence, Fall, 1993.

REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

• Submitted, Paper Presentation, Fear and Loathing in Second Life: Gender in the Online Community, Northeast Modern Languages Association, to be held in Boston, MA, February, 2009.
• Paper Presentation, Authoring Women: Female Avatars in Second Life, Masculinities, Femininities, and More? Conference, Carrollton, GA, November 6-8, 2008.
• Paper Presentation, Games in the Communication Curriculum, Eastern Communication Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1-4, 2008.
• Paper Presentation, Coding Women: Female Avatars in Online Communities, part of a panel called Just the Same Old Song: Technology, Communication, and Gender at the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Portland, ME, November 1-4, 2007.
• Plenary Presentation, Games and the End of the World, Media and the End of the World Conference, Plymouth, NH, April 13-14, 2007.
• Paper Presentation, Teaching Software Development by Example, Eleventh Annual CCSC Northeastern Conference, Worcester, MA, April 21-22, 2006.
• Poster Presentation, Teaching Software Development by Example, Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louis, MO, February 23-26, 2005.
• Paper Presentation, Teaching Computer Security at a Small College, Thirty-Fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Norfolk, VA, March 3-7, 2004.
• Paper Presentation, UML for Undergraduate Software Engineering, Fifth Annual CCSC Northeastern Conference, Mahwah, NJ, April 28-29, 2000.
• Paper Presentation, The Effect of Reasoning with State Information, 1997 IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference, Orlando, FL, October 12-15, 1997.
• Doctoral Consortium Presentation, Recurrent Expert Networks, Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Portland, OR, August 5, 1996.
• Poster Presentation, Recurrent Expert Networks, Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Portland, OR, August 7, 1996.
• Paper Presentation, DNA Sequence Analysis using Hierarchical ART-based Classification Networks, Second International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Stanford, California, August 14-17, 1994.
• Poster Presentation, An Adaptive Method for DNA Sequence Classification, Third International Conference on Bioinformatics and Genome Research, Tallahassee, Florida, June 1-4, 1994.

NON-REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

• Workshop Presentation, Assessing Creative Thought Courses, Faculty Day, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, August 22, 2007.
• Workshop Presentation, Reflective Practice, Faculty Day, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, August 23, 2005.
• Workshop Presentation, Using Powerpoint, Faculty Day, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, August 24, 2004.
• Workshop Presentation, Web Page Development for Faculty, Faculty Day, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, August 28, 2002.
• Workshop Presentation, Web Page Development for Faculty, Faculty Day, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, August 29, 2001.
• Workshop Presentation, Web Page Development for Faculty, Faculty Day, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, August 30, 2000.
• Individual Workshops, Using Technology in the Classroom, Technology Across the Curriculum Committee, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, Spring, 2000.
• Poster Presentation, Multimedia in the Classroom, Faculty Day, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, August 25, 1999.
• Workshop Presentation, Feminist Pedagogy, Faculty Day, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, August 26, 1998.
• Workshop Presentation, Recurrent Expert Networks for Protein Folding, Identifying Features in Biological Sequences Workshop, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, June 13, 1996.
• Colloquium, Recurrent Expert Networks for Protein Folding, Structural Biology Program, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, April 2, 1996.
• Workshop Presentation, Writing Tests, Spring Teaching Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, January 5-6, 1995.
• Workshop Presentation, Preparing for the First Day, Spring Teaching Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, January 5-6, 1995.
• Workshop Presentation, How Did I Get on This Side of the Desk?, Fall Teaching Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, August 24-26, 1994.
• Workshop Presentation, Active Learning, National Association of Graduate and Professional Students, Wakulla Springs, FL, November 13, 1993.

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2003 - Second Place, Best Paper Competition for Creating Computer Science Curricula for the New Millennium, by Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc, at Eighth Annual CCSCNE conference in Providence, RI.
• 1996-97 - University Fellow, selected as one of six recipients of Florida State University's Dissertation Fellowship.
• 1996 - Doctoral Consortium Participant, Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Portland, OR, August 2-3.
• 1996 - Selected to attend Identifying Features in Biological Sequences Workshop, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, May 27 - June 16.
• 1996 - Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, FSU.
• 1995 - Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, FSU.
• 1994 - University-wide Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Florida State University.
• 1994 - 1995 - Managing co-editor, Teaching at FSU newsletter.
• 1994 - Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, FSU.
• 1993 - Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, FSU.
• 1993 - Selected as 1 of 100 graduate students to attend the NSF-sponsored Windows of Opportunity Conference, Washington, DC.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Association for Computing Machinery

• International Game Developers Association , Member of the Education Special Interest Group

• The E-Learning Guild

• Sigma Xi

• Eastern Communication Association

• International Communication Association

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/SERVICES

• Reviewer: proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation's CreativeIT Program, November, 2007 in Washington, DC.
• Workshop Attendee: Learning from Video Games: Designing Digital Curriculums, sponsored by NERCOMP, October 1, 2007.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for SIGCSE 2008.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for CCSCNE 2007.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for ITiCSE 2007.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for SIGCSE 2007.
• Mentor: in MentorNet, an online mentoring project for women in engineering and science.
• Reviewer: Chapters for The Handbook of Computer Networks, Wiley, 2007.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for ITiCSE 2006.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for SIGCSE 2006.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for ITiCSE 2005.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for SIGCSE 2005.
• Textbook Reviewer: 8 texts for Scott/Jones, Inc., El Granada, CA.
• Reviewer: The Handbook of Internet Security, two chapters, Wiley, 2005.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for SIGCSE 2004.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for SIGCSE 2003.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for CCSCNE 2002.
• Reviewer: proposals submitted to The National Science Foundation, Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program, July, 2001, in Washington, DC.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for CCSCNE 2001.
• Reviewer: papers submitted for CCSCNE 2000.
• Reviewer: Multimedia: Concepts and Practice by Steven McGloughlin, Prentice Hall, Needham Heights, MA, 2001.
• Reviewer: Java Experiments in Computer Science by Samuel Rebelsky, Addison-Wesley Longman, Reading, MA, 2000.
• Reviewer: articles for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 1998.
• Co-chair: Hybrid Intelligent Systems and Their Applications Session with Susan Hruska at the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference, October, 1997.

DEPARTMENT/UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Committee Member and Chair, Search Committee for the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs, Spring 2007-Fall 2008.
• Council Member, Women's Studies Council, Fall 1999 to Spring 2003, Fall 2004 - Spring 2007, Fall 2008 - present. Interim Council Chair, Fall 2008.
• Faculty Speaker, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008.
• Committee Member, Steering Committee, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008.
• Task Force Member, Scholarship Award Task Force, Fall 2006 - Spring 2007.
• Committee Member, Faculty Welfare, Fall 2005 - Spring 2007. Committee Chair, Fall 2005 - Spring 2007.
• Council Member, First Year Seminar Coordinating Council, Fall 2005 - present.
• PSU Representative, New Hampshire Colleges and University Council, Fall 2004 - present. Participated in selecting the EDdies Award winners 2005-2007.
• Council Member, Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinating Council, Spring 2005 - present.
• Committee Member, General Education Committee, Fall 1998 - Spring 1999 and Fall 2004 - Spring 2007.
• Participant, Reflective Practice Group, Fall 2001 to Spring 2003 and Fall 2004 - present.
• Committee Member, Administrator Selection Committee, Fall 2002 to Spring 2007, participated in selecting the Registrar during the Spring 2007 semester.
• Team Member, General Education Implementation Team, Fall 2004 - Spring 2005.
• Committee Member, Systems Adminstrator III Search Committee, Fall 2004.
• Committee Member, SAFE Committee, Spring 2003.
• Committee Member, CIO Search Committee, Spring 2003.
• Committee Member, Help Desk Manager Search Committee, Spring 2003.
• Participant: taught CS452 as part of General Education Task Force Pilot Program, Fall 2002.
• Task Force Member, General Education Task Force, Fall 2002 to Spring 2003.
• Committee Member, Distance Education Committee, Fall 2001 to Spring 2003.
• Board Member, Computer Advisory Board, Fall 2000 to Spring 2003.
• Committee Member, Technology Across the Curriculum Committee, Spring 2000 to Spring 2003.
• Faculty Advisor, PSC Chapter of ACM, Fall 1999 to Spring 2003.
• Commission Member, President's Commission on the Status of Women, Fall 1999 to Spring 2001.
• Council Member, Honors Council, Fall 1999 to Spring 2000.
• Task Force Member, Assessment Task Force, Spring 1999 to Spring 2000.
• Committee Member, Women's History Month Planning Committee, Fall 1998-Spring 1999. Brought the keynote speaker, Donna Lopiano, to campus.
• Committee Member, Athletic Council, Fall 1998 - Spring 1999.
• Participant, New Faculty Orientation, Fall 1998.