Norman E. Gibbs (November 27, 1941 – April 25, 2002) was an American software engineer, scholar and educational leader. He studied to a B.Sc. in

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(1964) and M.Sc. (1966) and Ph.D. (1969) in

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, advised by Robert R. Korfhage. His research area was cycle generation, an area in

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. Gibbs joined the faculty at

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and

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(mathematics) in

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before moving to

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, joining

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of computer science and becoming the first director of the educational program at the

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(1987–97). Since then he was chief information officer at Guilford College in Greensboro and

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, jointly serving as professor of Operations and Information management. He eventually worked for

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as chair of computer science (2000–02).Norm Gibbs - a leader in Software engineering education
from

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Articles

*''A cycle generation algorithm for finite undirected linear graphs'', in Jnl. of the ACM, 16(4):564-68, 1969. *''Tridiagonalization by permutations'', in Comm. of the ACM, 17(1):20-24, 1974 (with William G. Poole, jr.) *''Basic cycle generation'', in Comm. of the ACM, 18(5):275-76, 1975 *''An Algorithm for Reducing the Bandwidth and Profile of a Sparse Matrix'', in SIAM Jnr. of Numerical Analysis, 13(2):236-250, 1976 (with W. G. Poole and Paul K. Stockmeyer *''A hybrid profile reduction algorithm'', ACM Trans. on Math. Softw., 2(4):378-387, 1976 *''An introductory computer science course for all majors'', ACM SIGCSE, 9(3):34-38, 1977 *''A model curriculum for a liberal arts degree in computer science'', Comm. of the ACM, 29(3):202-210, 1986 (with Allen B. Tucker) *''A Master of Software Engineering Curriculum: Recommendations from the Software Engineering Institute'', IEEE Computer, 22(9):59-71, 1989 (With Gary A. Ford) *''Software Engineering and Computer Science: The Impending Split?'', in Educ. & Computing. 7(1-2):111-17, 1991

Books

*''Principles of data structures and algorithms with Pascal'' (William C. Brown Publ.,1987). With Robert R. Korfhage *''Software Engineering Education: The Educational Needs of the Software Community'' (editor, with Richard E. Farley, 1987)

References

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