Dr. Lillian (Boots) Cassel's Homepage

Dr. Lillian (Boots) Cassel
Professor
lillian.cassel@villanova.edu
MSC 288
610-519-7341

Computing Education Resources,
Computer Science Education,
Information Systems Education,
Software Engineering Education,
Information Technology Education,
Information Science Education

Computing Portal

Project Team Member

Current and Recent Courses :

Spring 2012: CSC 9010 Digital Libraries
Fall 2011: CSC 8000 Foundations of Algorithms and Data Structures
Fall 2011: CSC 5930 Topic: Web Crawling
2010 -- 2011: Sabbatical year with the CiteSeerX group at Penn State
Spring 2010: CSC 1300 Discrete Structures
CSC Fall 2009: CSC 9010-Digital Libraries and other Web-Based Information Presentation
Spring 2009: CSC 5930 Probability and Statistics for Computers Science
Fall 2008: CSC 9010 - 5930 -Search Technology and Personal Information Management
Spring 2008: CSC 2500 - Survey of Information Science
Fall 2007: CSC 9010 - Digital Libraries and other Web Based Information Presentation
Fall 2006: CSC 9010 - Digital Libraries and other Web Based Information Presentation
Spring 2006: (with Dr. Paula Matuszek) CSC 9010 - The Semantic Web
CSC 8990 001 33993 Graduate Computing Practicum
Past Courses

Biography :

Memberships :

My teaching and research interests are focused on digital libraries and information retrieval in the Web.

Curent projects include an ontology of all computing and information related topics, a repository for educational materials for pre college computer science, enhancements to the CITIDEL project, a project for client side personalization of digital library access, superimposed information for digital library resources, and and client-side context-based web searching.

Current grant work includes support from the NSF NSDL program. CITIDEL is the computing collection component of this very ambitious digital library for learning in all the STEM disciplines. (Read More about me)

Degrees :

Ph.D. Computer Science University of Delaware
M.S. Computer Science University of Delaware

Books and Publications

Research and Projects :

ACM SIGCSE (served previously as a Chair)
ACM SIG IR ACM SIG WEB

Professional Activities :

ACM Education Board
SIGCSE 2001 Luncheon Talk , also available at CSTC )
Pictures from SIGCSE (ITiCSE 2000 and SIGCSE 2001
IFIP Working Group 3.2
Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET
Founding Co-Editor (with Ed Fox) of JERIC -- The ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (term ended 2006)
Co Principal Investigator of CITIDEL - the Computing part of the NSDL and past chair of NSDL Policy Committee

Villanova Activities :

Director - Graduate Program in Computing Sciences (2004 - 2009)
Chair - Faculty Congress (2008 -- 2010)

Grants :

NSF NSDL program
CITIDEL
NSF NSDL Ensemble
NSF CPATH Distributed Expertise