Mark Moss
Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army
3rd Year Graduate Student, College of Computing Ph.D. Program, Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech College of Computing, KACB 3201
markmoss@cc.gatech.edu (preferred)
markmoss@bellsouth.net (alternate)

Degrees Earned
1995 – 1997: M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California
1985 – 1989: B.S., Mathematics with Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Publications
Mark Moss, Calton Pu, Assessing Operational Impact in Enterprise Systems by Mining Usage Patterns, Proceedings of the 18th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Maintenance (DSOM), 29-31 October 2007, Springer LNCS 4785, pp. 159-170

Mark Moss, Comparing Centralized and Distributed Approaches for Assessing Operational Impact in Enterprise Systems, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC), 2-4 November 2007, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 765-769

Teaching Experience
2000 – 2002: Adjunct Professor, Southeastern University, Washington, D.C.
Directed and Taught Introduction to Database Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, and Assembly Language courses

1997 – 2000: Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
Taught Introductory Computing, and Programming Languages courses; Directed and Taught the Database Systems and Concepts course; also, Provided Technical Direction for numerous Cadet Capstone Design Projects (year long, real-world projects, for customers ranging from local groups to Department of Defense-level organizations)

Areas of Interest
Managing Enterprise Systems, Database Schema Evolution, Legacy System Transformation, Generic Game Playing Systems, Computer Language Environments and Translation Techniques (e.g. interpreters, virtual machines, symbolic machines and other novel architectures)

Military Schools Attended
2002 – 2005: Command Staff College (CSC – Non-Resident), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
1998: Combined Arms Staff Service School (CAS3 – Resident), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
1990 – 1991: Telecommunications Operations Officer Course (TOOC), Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

Hobbies
Playing Volleyball, Ultimate Frisbee, Various Abstract Strategy Games and Variants (e.g. Chess, Shogi, Xiang-Qi, Checkers, Othello/Reversi); Reading Short Science Fiction and Horror Stories

About Me
I am a native of Atlanta, Georgia, and I’ve also been very fortunate to have numerous opportunities to live abroad. As an Officer in the United States Army for the past 18 years, I’ve had many interesting experiences: I led a tactical communications platoon in Korea; I commanded a Satellite Operations Center in Okinawa; and, I directed and monitored computer and communication networks in Germany (and throughout Europe) to provide military command and control capabilities, and to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.

I’m still on Active Duty with the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel. Currently, I’m assigned here at Georgia Tech to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Afterwards, I’ll return to the Military Academy at West Point as an Assistant Professor to teach Computer Science, and share my experiences with the cadets. I’m very excited about this latest adventure in my life, and I’m enjoying my time here in the Ph.D. program!

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