General Information

• My Education
  
• Professional Activities
  
• Selected Publications
  
• Outside of Work

My Education:

B.S., Mathematics, University of New Orleans, 1977
M.S., Computer Science, Florida State University, 1979
Ph.D., Computer Science, Florida State University, 1981

Professional Activities:

Director, Center for Engaged Research, Teaching and Scholarship. Co-director of the Computer Science Curriculum Accessibility Project. Member of the ACM and its special interest groups on Accessibility and on Computer Science Education. Currently serving on the Computing Research Association's CRA-W Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research. Have served on editorial board of IEEE Computer, executive committees of Supercomputing '94 and Supercomputing '96, as Program Co-Chair of the first ACM Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Tools in May, 1996, and as Conference Treasurer for the Assets 2004 and 2006 conferences.
 

Selected Publications:

Zhang, M., Lundak, E., Lin, C., Gegg-Harrison, T., and Francioni, J., “Interdisciplinary Application Tracks in an Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum,” in Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE Technical Conference on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, pp. 425-29, March 2007.

Berg, Tamara, Francioni, Joan, and Smith, Ann, “Insights and Implications: New Orleans in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,” chapter in special edition of the Handbook on Service Learning in Women's Studies and the Disciplines, Institute for Teaching and Research on Women (ITROW), September 2007.

A. C. Smith, J. M. Francioni, M. Anwar, J. S. Cook, A. Hossain, and M. Rahman. "Nonvisual Tool for Navigating the Hierarchical Structure of Programs," in Proceedings of Assets 2004, October 2004. ( pdf version)

Francioni, Joan M., “A Conference’s Impact on Undergraduate Female Students,” in SIGCSE Bulletin inroads, Special Issue on Women and Computing, Vol. 34 (2), June 2002. (pdf version )

Francioni, Joan M. and Smith, Ann C., "Computer Science Accessibility for Students with Visual Disabilities," in proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education , Northern Kentucky, February 2002, pp. 91-95. (pdf version)

Smith, Ann C., Francioni, Joan M., and Matzek, Sam D., "A Java Programming Tool for Students with Visual Disabilities," in proceedings of Assets 2000 , Washington D.C., November 2000. (pdf version)

Francioni, Joan M., "Supporting Students with Disabilities as Computer Science Majors," Computing Research News , March 1, 1998. (HTML version.)

Pancake, Cherri M. and Francioni, Joan M., "High Performance Debugging Standards Effort," to appear in Scientific Computing,2000.  Earlier version available at http://www.ptools.org/hpdf/article.html .

Francioni, Joan M., "Debugging and Performance Analysis Tools," in Debugging and Performance Tuning for Parallel Computing Systems, IEEE Computer Press, October 1996.

Damodaran-Kamal, Suresh K. and Francioni, Joan M., "mdb: A Semantic Race Detection Tool for PVM," in the proceedings of the 1994 Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, Knoxville, Tenn., May 1994.

Francioni, Joan M. and Jackson, Jay Alan, "Breaking the Silence: Auralization of Parallel Program Behavior," in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, June 1993. (pdf version)

Langholz, Gideon, Francioni, Joan M., and Kandel, Abraham, Elements of Computer Organization, Prentice Hall Publishing Co., New Jersey, February 1989.

Other Interests:

• Biking
• Cross-country skiing, snow-shoeing
• Kayaking
• Gardening
• Women's Resource Center
• New Orleans, Lousiana (my home town)