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  • convivial tools news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    How Innovative was the Apple II? By Damian Alessandro ’19. In most popular histories of computing, the Apple II personal computer (1977) stands out as a pathbreaker among early devices in the PC Revolution. But how innovative was Apple’s first mass-market computer, and what design features and ideas helped it stand… July 23, 2018 Apple IIconvivial toolsDamian Alessandroinnovation studiesSteve Wozniak

  • Steve Wozniak news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    How Innovative was the Apple II? By Damian Alessandro ’19. In most popular histories of computing, the Apple II personal computer (1977) stands out as a pathbreaker among early devices in the PC Revolution. But how innovative was Apple’s first mass-market computer, and what design features and ideas helped it stand… July 23, 2018 Apple IIconvivial toolsDamian Alessandroinnovation studiesSteve Wozniak

  • The University of Washington has a new Center for the Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD). This NSF funded program is offering paid summer REU positions at UW and at a dozen other institutions around the country.  The focus is on cutting edge…

    , and control light underpin the modern information-technology era. Society is increasingly reliant on such devices for efficient lighting, information display, and optical data transmission. Furthermore, the study of optoelectronics is enabling new technologies ranging from ubiquitous sensors and photorealistic virtual reality displays to quantum-based information technologies that promise to produce exponential increases in computing power and secure communication networks from hacking. Such

  • Translating the Enlightenment The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded Professor of  French  Rebecca Wilkin a $133,333 grant under the Scholarly Editions and Translations interest area. Wilkin and her collaborator Angela Hunter, an English professor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock,…

    affords.” Moving Math ForwardThe National Science Foundation recently awarded Associate Professor of Mathematics Ksenija Simic-Muller — in collaboration with professors from the University of North Carolina and University of Houston — a $299,993 grant under the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. Simic- Muller and her colleagues across the country will complete a project titled “Supporting the Development of Mathematics Preservice Teachers’ Critical Consciousness through Statistical Investigations of

  • Translating the Enlightenment The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded Professor of French Rebecca Wilkin a $133,333 grant under the Scholarly Editions and Translations interest area. Wilkin and her collaborator Angela Hunter, an English professor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock,…

    affords.” Moving Math ForwardThe National Science Foundation recently awarded Associate Professor of Mathematics Ksenija Simic-Muller — in collaboration with professors from the University of North Carolina and University of Houston — a $299,993 grant under the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. Simic- Muller and her colleagues across the country will complete a project titled “Supporting the Development of Mathematics Preservice Teachers’ Critical Consciousness through Statistical Investigations of

  • Professor Emeritus of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | dollinmb@plu.edu | Current position Pacific Lutheran University 1981 – 1998. Emeritus Professor, Department of Mathematics, 1998 – present. Chair, Department of Mathematics, 1992 – 1994. Publications Commentary on ‘Misunderstandings about Q and ‘Cochran’s Q test’ in meta-analysis’, Statistics in Medicine, 2015, 35(4):501-502 · February 20, 2016, DOI: 10.1002/sim.6758 (with E.

    of Statistical Planning and Inference, V. 137, p. 462-472, 2007 (with E. Kulinskaya). A Welch-type test for homogeneity of contrasts under heteroscedasticity with application to meta-analysis, Statistics in Medicine, V.23, p. 3655-3670, 2004 (with E. Kulinskaya, E. Knight, and H. Gao). On the moments of a Stahel-Donoho robust multivariate estimator, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, V. 70(1), p. 89-106, 2001 (with K. Bjørkestøl). Asymptotics of guarded weights of evidence

  • Administrative Systems Policy Pacific Lutheran University’s administrative computing systems collect and store sensitive data on employees and students that is needed for the normal operations of the University. PLU employees, including student workers, must assume responsibility for legal and ethical computer, data, and network use. This data may include but is not limited to: Personal...

    Administrative Systems Policy Pacific Lutheran University’s administrative computing systems collect and store sensitive data on employees and students that is needed for the normal operations of the University. PLU employees, including student workers, must assume responsibility for legal and ethical computer, data, and network use. This data may include but is not limited to: Personal (non-public) information on students, employees, or university affiliates University financial information

  • The means by which data is created, stored, accessed, transmitted, and disposed is the focus of this policy — a framework within which all members of the PLU community must work to access the network, use and control data, enable non-university entities to access or use university data, and actively maintain a secure computing environment....

    The means by which data is created, stored, accessed, transmitted, and disposed is the focus of this policy — a framework within which all members of the PLU community must work to access the network, use and control data, enable non-university entities to access or use university data, and actively maintain a secure computing environment. It is the right and responsibility of the university to restrict access to internal or restricted information by assigning access rights and privileges to

  • 3.4.1 Basic Practices for All Network Users Persons using the PLU network or computing resources (including university employees, students, guests, and vendors) may not change, delete, corrupt, or remove university data from university systems without work-related need or specific authorization to do so share or use university data for any purpose other than university business...

    3.4.1 Basic Practices for All Network Users Persons using the PLU network or computing resources (including university employees, students, guests, and vendors) may not change, delete, corrupt, or remove university data from university systems without work-related need or specific authorization to do so share or use university data for any purpose other than university business transport or share university-owned restricted data (as defined in 3.2) via portable media (e.g. flash memory, laptop

  • In 2004, a gift from the Benson Family Foundation of Portland, Ore., created the first fully funded, endowed chair at PLU, the Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History.

    inaugural program director from 2017 to 2024. Halvorson’s research interests include American business history, the history of computing, and the creative use of technology in the social impact sector. He has also written widely about the history of early modern Europe, including the Renaissance and Reformation movements. Halvorson graduated from PLU in 1985 with a B.A. in Computer Science and a minor in History. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from the University of Washington in 1996 and