Contact Information:
Office: 260 Mabee Business Building
Address : ACU Box 28036, Abilene, Texas 79699
E-mail: frazierm@acu.edu
Telephone: 325-674-2210
FAX: 325-674-2507
Degrees, Licenses & Certificates:
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of Illinois, 1994
- M.S. (Computer Science), University of Missouri, 1987
- B.S. (Computer Science), University of Missouri, 1985
Academic Positions Held:
- Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University, 2003-Present.
- Director of Computer Science, 2002-2006, Abilene Christian University
- Graduate Faculty of Abilene Christian University, Fall 2001-2007
- Associate Professor, 2001-2007, Abilene Christian University
- Assistant Professor, 1995-2001, Abilene Christian University
- Assistant Professor, 1994-1995, Southern University at New Orleans
- Adjunct Professor, 1994, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
- Teaching Assistant, 1987-1989, 1990-1992, University of Illinois
- Teaching Assistant, 1985-1987, University of Missouri-Rolla
Other Positions:
- Software Lead, Gray Matters Alzheimer’s screening project
- Software Lead, CuroProbe medical system project
- Consultant, Contingent of Great Cities, Abilene, TX
- Research Scientist, Naval Research Labs, NASA Stennis Space Center
- Research Assistant, University of Illinois
- Programmer, Bruce Artwick Organization (Champaign, IL)
- Research Fellow, University of Illinois
- Research Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey (Rolla, MO)
- Research Scientist, Amoco Oil (Tulsa, OK)
- Independent Consultant, Imperial Marble (Kansas City, MO)
- Consultant, Professional Computing Resources (Kansas City, MO)
Professional and Teaching Awards:
- Awarded the C.W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research and Service to the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, 1993
- Ranked among the top 10% of teaching assistants while at the University of Illinois, 1987-1992
- Selected as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant for the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, 1989
- Selected as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant for the College of Engineering, University of Illinois, 1989
- Finalist for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant for the University of Illinois, 1989
- Selected as the Outstanding Senior Mathematics Student, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1985
Publications:
- Putting Programming before Computer Science. Fall conference, Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, Midwest region. Fall 2002
- For that matter, what is ’I’? An invited talk on the nature of intelligence delivered October 8, 1999, at Texas A & M
- Learning conjunctions of Horn clauses. Invited paper for a special issue of this journal. In Machine Learning, volume 9, 1992, with D. Angluin and L. Pitt.
- Learning conjunctions of Horn clauses. In Proceedings of the 31st Symposium of Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 1990, with D. Angluin and L. Pitt. Also appeared in The Third Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory (COLT-90), 1990
- Learning from entailment: an application to propositional Horn sentences. Plenary paper, Tenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ML-93), 1993, with L. Pitt
- Learnability in inductive logic programming: some basic results and techniques. In The Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-93), 1993, with C. D. Page
- Learnability of recursive, non-deterministic theories: some basic results and techniques. In The Third International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP-93), 1993, with C. D. Page
- Prefix grammars: an alternative characterization of the regular languages. In Information Processing Letters, 51 (1994), pp. 67–71, with C. D. Page
- Learning from a consistently ignorant teacher. In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT-94), 1994, with S. Goldman, N. Mishra, and L. Pitt. Also invited to appear in Journal of Computer and System Science, volume 52, number 3, June 1996
- Classic Learning. In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT-94), with L. Pitt. Also invited to appear in a special issue of Machine Learning, 25, pp. 151–193, 1996
