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Dr. Shankar Hegde Office: PM 366 Telephone: (815) 753-3845 E-Mail shegde@niu.edu |
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Department
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Brief Background
After obtaining my Ph. D. in Mathematics, I came to NIU as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 1978. In the summer of 1980 I moved to then newly formed Department of Computer Science and started teaching computer courses. In May 1984, I left NIU and joined AT&T Bell Laboratories. The Bell Laboratories became a part of the new AT&T spin off company called Lucent Technologies in 1996, so I became an employee of Lucent. During my 17 and a half years at Lucent, I worked on various assignments including all phases of Software Development, Process Management, Software Quality Engineering and Quality Management. Since taking early retirement from Lucent in July 2001, I have been back to teaching Computer Science at NIU as a Visiting (Part-time) faculty. A few years ago Lucent Technologies merged with the French telecommunication company Alcatel, naming the joint company as Alcatel-Lucent.
When I was a fulltime faculty at NIU during 1978-84, it was the mainframe computing era and NIU's Computer Science curriculum was known for its intense hands-on mainframe programming courses. In the job market our students were preferred over well-known schools such as UI-Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern. Some of our graduates of those time are well-placed today in the industry. One of our students from 1980.s, Mr. Wheeler G. Coleman was recently appointed to NIU Board of Trustees. Though our curriculum has changed considerably over the years, we have retained our emphasis on hands-on programming. We have also continued to offer mainframe courses to prepare our students to nitch job market in mainframe computing.
Fall 2013 Teaching
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CSCI 650 -
Principles of Computer Security
This is an online course with 4 face-to-face meetings. Course information and materials are available through NIU
BlackBoard Course Management website at http://webcourses.niu.edu Access to a course webpage is restricted to
the registered students in the class. You must logon using your Z-Id. You may be asked some security questions.
Please answer “Yes” or “OK” to all security questions.
Recently Taught
Courses
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CSCI 641 –
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CSCI 650 - Principles of
Computer Security
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CSCI 590 – Software Quality Issues
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CSCI 480 - Theoretical Operating Systems
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CSCI 468 – Systems Programming (mainframe; programming done in
mainframe assembly language)
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CSCI 464 – Data Structures and Algorithms (on mainframe,
programming done in mainframe assembly language)
Office Hours
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Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00PM – 3:00PM
Teaching
Assistants
§ No teaching assistants for my classes. All homework and programming
assignments are graded by me.
Links
to Selected NIU Web Pages