Adam Reed

Professor of Information Systems

Office: ST-616
Phone: +1.323.343.2985
Email: areed2@calstatela.edu

INTRODUCTION

I came to CSLA in 2000, after 18 years at Bell Labs (and before that at Rockefeller University and at the Graduate Faculty of the New School). I love teaching, Los Angeles, teaching in Los Angeles, and the knowledge-hungry students of this university.

TEACHING INTERESTS

My primary research interests are the philosophy and history of the cognitive and information sciences, and productivity and accessibility of information systems; I teach in these areas, as well as programming languages, operating systems, and information networks.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am doing research in productivity and accessibility, and in the cognitive science foundations (linguistics, cognitive psychology and epistemology) of computer programming languages. My recent publications and papers are listed below. My previous research dealt with neural networks and expert systems, and before that with the psychology of attention, memory, and speed-accuracy tradeoffs.

**Representative Professional Activities**
Date	Publications/Presentations
Spring 2009	Ronald E. Merrill and the Discovery of Ayn Rand's Nietzschean Period. Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 10(2): 313-328.
February 2008	Negative Scarcity and the Praxeology of Open Source Software. Journal of Business and Economics Research 6(2): 61-64.
February 2008	Dialectical Learning in Information Systems. College Teaching Methods and Styles 4(2): 59-61.
Spring 2008	Not Even False: A Commentary on Parrish and Toner. Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, 9(2): 361-94.
2008	Rationality, History, and Inductive Politics. In Roderick T. Long and Tibor R. Machan, Editors: Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country? Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, England, UK, and Burlington, Vermont, USA, ISBN 978-0-7546-6066-8: 21-38.
August 2006	From System Development to Information Infrastructure: The Shifting Technical Focus of Corporate IS Organizations. Review of Business Information Systems 10, no. 3: 19-21.
June 28, 2006	Dialectical Learning in Information Systems. Paper presented at the 2006 College Teaching & Learning Conference, Florence, Italy.
June 22, 2006	Negative Scarcity and the Praxeology of Open Source Software. Paper presented at the 2006 Applied Business Research Conference, Siena, Italy.
June 22, 2005	Integrating Technical Specialty Certification into University Courses in Information Systems. Paper presented at the 2005 Teaching and Learning Conference, Santorini Island, Greece.
June 22, 2005	Teaching Java with Industrial Courseware. Paper presented at the 2005 Teaching and Learning Conference, Santorini Island, Greece.
June 13, 2005	From System Development to Information Infrastructure: The Shifting Technical Focus of Corporate IS Organizations. Paper presented at the 2005 European Applied Business Research Conference, Athens, Greece.
June 13, 2005	Server Administration in the Undergraduate Information Systems Curriculum. Paper presented at the 2005 Teaching and Learning Conference, Athens, Greece.
May 2005	Server Administration Networks. Communications of the Association for Information Systems 15: 642-660.
June 2004	The Subtle and Counterintuitive Hazards of Non-Sequential Evaluation in Languages of the C Family (with Knox Wasley.) Communications of the Association for Information Systems 13: 580-588.
June 25, 2003	Object-Oriented Programming and Objectivist Epistemology: Parallels and Implications. Target paper, Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Studies, Waltham, MA
Spring 2003	Object-Oriented Programming and Objectivist Epistemology: Parallels and Implications. The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 4, no. 2: 251-284.
March 19, 2002	User Display in Speech Recognition System (with Raziel Haimi-Cohen.) US Patent 6,359,971.
April 10, 2000	Web Productivity Techniques. Workshop presented at AT&T WebWeek 2000.
November 13, 1999	Web Productivity Techniques. Workshop presented at Lucent Technologies WebTech 1999.
October 1996	Using the X Window System. Chapter 27 in Rosen et al, eds, Unix System V Release 4 - an Introduction - second Edition.
October 1996	Developing Applications I. Chapter 30 in Rosen et al, eds, Unix System V Release 4 - an Introduction - second Edition.
October 1996	Developing Applications II. Chapter 31 in Rosen et al, eds, Unix System V Release 4 - an Introduction - second Edition.

OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

I am an occasional expert witness in patent litigation in the Federal Courts, and frequently a peer review referee for granting organizations, journals and conferences.

I maintain a web archive of the writings of the late Ronald E. Merrill, co-author (with Henry D. Sedgwick) of The New Venture Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Run Your Own Business (American Management Association Books, 1994); (with Gaylord E. Nichols) of Raising Money: Venture Funding and How to Get It (American Management Association Books, 1990); and author of The Ideas of Ayn Rand (Open Court Publishing, 1991).

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

PhD Mathematical Psychology 1974
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Engineer EECS 1970
MIT, Cambridge, MA

MS Biology 1970
MIT, Cambridge, MA

MS EECS 1970
MIT, Cambridge, MA

BS EECS 1967
MIT, Cambridge, MA

SPRING 2013 SCHEDULE
Course/
Syllabus Section
Number(s) Title Units Day & Time Room

CIS 301 02 Management Information Systems 4 Tue+Thu, 4:20 - 6:00 PM SHC-139

CIS 301 03 Management Information Systems 4 Thu, 6:10 - 10:00 PM SHC-139

CIS 301 04 Management Information Systems 4 Tue, 6:10 - 10:00 PM SHC-168

**SPRING 2013 SCHEDULE**
Course/ Syllabus	Section Number(s)	Title	Units	Day & Time	Room
CIS 301	02	Management Information Systems	4	Tue+Thu, 4:20 - 6:00 PM	SHC-139
CIS 301	03	Management Information Systems	4	Thu, 6:10 - 10:00 PM	SHC-139
CIS 301	04	Management Information Systems	4	Tue, 6:10 - 10:00 PM	SHC-168

OFFICE HOURS
(Room ST-616)
Day(s) Time

Tuesdays 2:15 - 4:15 PM

Thursdays 2:15 - 4:15 PM

OFFICE HOURS
(Room ST-616)
Day(s)	Time
Tuesdays	2:15 - 4:15 PM
Thursdays	2:15 - 4:15 PM

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