Academic Rank: Professor, Pace University
Education
College of Mt. St. Vincent, BA Mathematics, 1972
Lehman College, MA Mathematics, 1975
Pace University, MS Computer Science, 1984
Teachers College, Columbia University, Ed.D. College Teaching of Mathematics,
1991
Professional Development
2006 Courtney, Mary F. and Allen Stix Building a Steganography Program including How to Load, Process and Save JPEG and PNG Files
in Java, Mathematics and Computer Science Education, Volume 40, Number 1, Winter 2006.
2004 Member of Iona College CS Advisory Board as they worked on earning their ABET accreditation
2004 Participated in the NYU Faculty Summer Research Seminar on Computer Science Curriculum
2003 Gargano, Michael and Courtney Mary . Identification Numbers and the Mathematics of Check Digit Schemes for Computer Scientists
published in the proceedings of EISTA '03, Orlanda, Florida, July 2003.
Also this paper was presented at the Hendrick Hudson High School Mathematics Honor Society Initiation, March 2003.
2003 Organized and led a panel discussion Teaching CS Courses Online
at CCSCNE, April, 2003, Rhode Island College
2002 Participated in summer NSF workshop at Williams College
on using event driven programming and graphics (Objectdraw) to teach CS1
2002 Courtney, Mary F. and Allen Stix. Introducing Java Swing Components in Computer Labs
Refereed Proceedings: The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 17, Number 6, May 2002
2002 Developed an online asynchronous course in Java for high school Advanced Placement Computer Science teachers
Taught the course in summers 2002 and 2003
2000 Stix, Allen and Courtney, Mary F. How the Object-Oriented Revolution was Won
ISECON 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 9, 2000, 2000
2000 Courtney, Mary F. and Stix, Allen. Workshop: Moving from C++ to Java
Sixteenth Annual Easter Small College Computing Conference, University of
Scranton, October 27, 2000
2000 DIMACS (The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer
Science), wrote Java code and presented it at the conference for the paper
Complemented Dominations written by Michael Gargano, Louis Quintas, and Jeff Rubens, Rutgers University, July, 2000.
1999 Applied and was selected to review St.Thomas Aquinas College Proposal
to New York State for a Computer Information Science Major. The resulting paper was
presented to the administration of St. Thomas Aquinas College on September 9, 1999.
1999 Mary F. Courtney, Allen Stix Survey
Results and Observations on an
Asynchronous
Course, Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, April 1999,
at Providence
College
1998 Summer Research Grant Preparing an
asynchronous course in C++ for teachers
of Advanced
Placement Computer Science
1997 Narayan Murthy, Mary F. Courtney, A New Algorithm
for Clipping A Line,
Consortium
for Computing in Small Colleges, Northeastern Conference,
April,
1997
1997 Mary F. Courtney, Allen Stix Observations on Teaching
C++ After Two Years,
Journal
of Computer Science Education, January 1997
1996 Presentation on using labs for a Graphics Course Pace Faculty Research Day
1995 Summer Research Grant Graphic Tools in C++
1994 Mary F. Courtney, Allen Stix, C++ in CS121 and CS122,
CSIS Technical
Report, No. 75, September 1994.
1994 Summer Research Grant Incorporating C++ into CS curriculum
1993 Mary Courtney, Classification and Efficiency of
Algorithms, CSIS Technical
Report,
No. 64, August 1993.
1992 Summer Research Grant on using Turbo Pascal Graphics in CS122
1991 Mary F. Courtney, Graph Theory in an Undergraduate
Lower-Division Computer
Science
Algorithms Course, doctoral thesis, Teachers College,
Columbia
University, 1991.
1990 Summer Research Grant – Developed Eleven Laboratory
Projects for CS 121 for
the mainframe
computer
1990 Attended 21st ACM SIGCSE Symposium in Washington,
D.C. and presented
Narayan
Murthy and Allen Stix’s paper on A Multiple Precision Arithmetic:
A Programming
Assignment in CS2 Applying Linked Lists, March 1990
1990 Mary F. Courtney, What Happened to the Glory Days
of Computer Science,
CSIS Technical Report, No. 34, September 1990
1987 Mary F. Courtney, Let Verification Help You
in Teaching Programming, CSIS
Technical Report, No, 23, November 1987.
Courses Taught, Computer Science
Introduction to Computer Science
Computer Programming in Pascal, C++ and Java on the undergraduate and graduate
level
Data Structures and Algorithms on the undergraduate and graduate level
Computer Graphics
Topics in Computer Science: Graphics Tools in C++
Assembly Language
Introduction to Computing
Administrative Appointments
Assistant Chair, Computer Science Department, Westchester 1990-1992
Service and/or elected positions
Pleasantville Faculty Council Technology Committee Chair, 2000-2004
CS Curriculum Committee Chair 1996 – present
CSIS Faculty Council Student Affairs Chair 1995- 1999, 2005-
CSIS school –wide Tap Committee Chair 1996
CSIS Representative to the Pace University Advisory Committee 2000-2003
CDFPT - Pleasantville Faculty Council Alternate 2002-2003
Honors/ Awards
Who’s Who Among Young American Women
1997 CSIS Faculty Service Award
2000, 2004, 2005 Who's Who Among College Teachers
2000 Elected to Cardinal Spellman High School Athletic Hall of Fame
2003 Selected for St.Patrick's Elementary School Hall of Fame
Consulting
Reviewed a Pascal textbook for McGraw Hill, 1987
Reviewed a C++ textbook for West Educational Publishing, 1995
Reviewed Java, An Eventful Approach, Bruce, Murtaugh, and Danyluk, 2004
Community Activities
Basketball coach Yorktown Athletic Club, Mohansic Girls’ Club
St. Patrick Elementary School Home School Association Vice President
St. Patrick Parish Trustee 1997 – present
St. Patrick Parish Finance Committee 1990- present
Kennedy Catholic High School Parents’ Association Secretary 1997-1998
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