John Perry

Associate Professor

University of Southern Mississippi•  August 2006 - Present

Research and education in mathematics. My research focuses on symbolic computation, which lies at the intersection of mathematics and computer science.

Question Writer

Advanced Instructional Systems•  May 2005 - August 2005

Coded matheamtics questions for online delivery using a language based on Perl, combined with HTML and CSS.

Intern

Contemporary Cybernetics•  May 1993 - August 1993

Intern; studied feasibilty of implementing garbage collection in embedded C.

Intern

Jefferson Lab•  May 1992 - August 1992

Intern; set up a signal database using Ingres/SQL and the C programming language.

North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Mathematics, PhD•  August 1999 - May 2005

Dissertation titled "Combinatorial Criteria for Groebner Bases", used Eiffel to write code that revealed structures which helped me develop the theory.

Northern Arizona University

Mathematics, MS•  August 1993 - May 1995

Wrote a GraphDQ, a program to graph solutions to 2-dimensional differential equations, which still exists on Aminet.

Marymount University

Mathematics, BS•  August 1989 - May 1993

Also studied Mathematics Education and a lot of Computer Science.