Professor Information    
William Hurst
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Department of Applied Mathematics and Technology
Division of Natural and Physical Sciences
Philander Smith College

501-370-5334 (phone)
Mabee-Kresge Science Building
Office #211
900 W. Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive
Little Rock, AR  72202

whurst@philander.edu

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Education
B.A. Physics, MacMurray College, May 1976
M.S. Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, June 2008
Professional Organizations
 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Research Interests
High Performance Computing (HPC), operating systems, distributed operating systems, telecommunications, networking, parallel processing, software engineering, software design, programming, programming languages, databases, data mining, system administration, and database administration
Selected Publications
W.B. Hurst, "Eclipse Bug Count Cycle Analysis", Masters Thesis, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock AR, 72204, June 2008.

C. Zhang, W. B. Hurst, R. B. Lenin, S. Ramaswamy, R.B. Govindan, "Predicting Bugs in Open Source Software Systems: An in-depth, Comparative Case Studey on Eclupse," Technical Report, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Computer Science Department, Little Rock, AR, 72204, USA, 2008.

W. Hurst, S. Ramaswamy, R. Lenin, D. Hoffman, "Development of Generalized HPC Simulator", The 6th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technologies, ICDCIT 2010 conference, Bhubaneswar, India, Feb. 15, 2010.

Reviews
M. Sayed, H. Bae, Y. Zheng, B. Armstrong, R. Eigenmann and F. Sabied, "Measuring High-Performance Computing with Real Applications," IEEE Computational Science \& Engineering, Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages: 60-70, Digital object Identifier: 10.1109/MCSE.2008.98, URL=ieeexplore.ieee.org/ie15/5992/454810404548205.pdf, Jul/Aug 2008.

G. Zarinzad, A.M. Rahmani and N. Dayhim, "A Genetic Algorithm Approach for Fault-Tolerant Task Scheduling in Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems," Technical Report, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran, 2008.

Y. Zhang and y. Liu, "Application of Combined Forecasting Models to Intelligent Transportation Systems," Research Center of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2002240 Shanghai, P.R. China, Tech. Rep. 2008.

H. Haverkort, L. Toma and Y. Zhuang, "Computing Visibility on Terrains in External Memory," ACM, J. Exp. Algor. 13, Article 1.5, DOI=10.1145/1412228.1412233, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1412228.1412233, Volume 13, Pages 23, November 2008.

R.A. Gonzalez, "Analysis and Design of a Multi-Agent System for Simulating a Crisis Response Organization," Easychair, Review Form ID: 190610:111613, Submission Number 18, March 2009.








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