Professor Thomas Marlowe has been a member of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Seton Hall University for almost 40 years, and has taught a wide variety of courses in both disciplines. Until he went on phased retirement in 2017, he was coordinator and advisor for the Computer Science program. Professor Marlowe enjoys working with students and with professional colleagues—almost all his research is collaborative. His professional interests include in mathematics, abstract algebra and discrete mathematics; in computer science, programming languages, real-time systems, and software engineering, and pedagogy; and in information science, collaboration and knowledge management. The connection between graphs and algebraic structures is a recurrent theme.
Professor Marlowe has Ph.D. in Computer Science, from Rutgers, The State University, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics, also from Rutgers. Professor Marlowe has many publications and academic distinctions, with over 100 publications in refereed conferences and journals in mathematics, computer science and information science. Some of the more recent and more significant include:
- J. Marlowe, J.R. Laracy, “Logic as a Key to Integrating the Curriculum for STEM Majors”, Journal on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: JSCI Volume 15 - Number 4 - Year 2017, pp. 63-71, ISSN: 1690-4524 (Online)
- Kirova, T.J. Marlowe, C.S. Ku, “Monitoring and Reducing Application Fragility through Traceability and Effective Regression Testing”, Genie Logiciel, No 115, 2-9, December 2015.
- Rountev, S. Kagan, T. J. Marlowe, “Interprocedural Dataflow Analysis in the Presence of Large Libraries”, Proceedings of CC 2006, 216, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3923, 2006.
- P. Masticola, T. J. Marlowe, B. G. Ryder, "Multisource Data Flow Problems'', ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 17 (5), 777 -803, September 1995.
- D. Stoyenko, T. J. Marlowe, "Polynomial-Time Program Transformations and Schedulability Analysis of Parallel Real-time Programs with Restricted Resource Contention'', Journal of Real-Time Systems, 4 (4), 1992.
- J. Marlowe, B. G. Ryder, "Properties of data flow frameworks: A unified model'', Acta Informatica, 28 (2), 121 -164, 1991.
Professor Richard Self is a Senior Lecturer in Governance of Advanced and Emerging Technologies at the University of Derby in the UK. He gained his business background during 30 years at Rolls-Royce before changing to academia in 2002.
His approach to students is not to teach answers, rather he inspires, challenges, mentors and guides his students to find important questions and then how to research to find relevant answers for the specific context.
He guides the students into their own experiences in order to find the insightful questions that motivates them to their best work.
Professor Nagib Callaos is the Founding President of the a
32 years old Multi-Disciplinary Organization oriented to 1) solve real life
problems which mostly require multi-disciplinary teams and 2) to synergistically
relate all disciplinary and inter-disciplinary departments of the University
Simon Bolivar with the public and the private sectors as well as with business
and the Venezuelan society at large. He is also the Founding President of the
IIIS and the Founding Editor in Chief of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics,
and Informatics (JSCI). He is former Dean of Research and Development of the
University Simon Bolivar.
Professor Callaos was also the founding president of several organizations on
research, development, and technological innovation, e.g. The Foundation of
Research and Development of the University Simon Bolivar, the founding president
of the Venezuelan Fund for Technological Innovations (created by presidential
decree), which required the evaluation of projects from any discipline as well
as technological innovations that required multi-disciplinary teams, The Venezuelan
Association of Executives in Patents and Copyrights. As a professional, Dr.
Callaos was for many years consultant in Information Systems in the largest
corporations in Venezuela including its Central Bank. In this context he is
the Founding president of a consulting 32 years old consulting firm in information
systems and software engineering. His main research, academic, and professional
activities, along almost 50 years were in the area of Systemic Methodologies
of Information System Development, Group Decision Support Systems, and Action-Research
mainly via Operations Research. He tutored more than 100 undergraduate and graduate
theses and produced more than 100 research papers and reflection articles. He
has also edited, or co-edited many books, mostly conferences proceedings.
Nobel Laureate, Murray Gell-Mann affirmed that “The philosopher F. W. J. von Shelling introduced the distinction (made famous by Nietzsche) between ‘Apollonians,’ who favor logic, the analytical approach, and a dispassionate weighing of evidence, and ‘Dionysians,’ who lean more toward intuition, synthesis and passion. These traits are sometimes described as correlating very roughly with emphasis on the use of the left and right brain respectively. But some of us - asserts Gell-Mann - seem to belong to another category: the ‘Odysseans,’ who combine the two predilections in their quest for connections among ideas. Such people often feel lonely in conventional institutions.” (1994, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex; New York: W. H. Freeman and Company; p. xiii) [italics and bold fonts added]. We will try to show that the integration between intra- and inter-disciplinary communication 1) relates them synergistically by means of different kinds of cybernetic loops, and, consequently, 2) relate both of them to industry, business and society at large.
