Fortune Mhlanga, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science

Contact Information:

Office: 232 Mabee Business Building
Address: ACU Box 28036
E-mail: fsm07a@acu.edu
Telephone: 325-674-2569
Fax: 325-674-2507

Degrees, Licenses & Certificates:

Ph.D., Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1993
M.S., Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1989
B.S., Computer Science, Harding University, 1984

Academic Positions Held

Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Sciences, Faulkner University

Lecturer and Chair, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Zimbabwe

Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer & Information Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Other Positions

Director: Informatics & Electronics Institute, Scientific & Industrial Research & Development Centre, Zimbabwe
Training Officer/System Analyst: Realtime Computers, Zimbabwe

International Experience

Member of Commonwealth Expert Group on Information Technology, Zimbabwe Knowledge Economy Task Force, and National Commission for UNESCO Specialized Standing Committee on Informatics
President of Computer Society of Zimbabwe
Chairman for Wealth Creation Through Science Coordinating Committee and Knowledge Society Coordination Committee

Research & Development

Applied R&D: Information & Communication Technologies capacity and utilization in developing countries, situation analysis in ICT capacity and utilization in developing countries, knowledge economy (and society) strategies for development, ICT in the framework of entrepreneurial and economic development, ICT policy and regulation for developing countries
Pure research: Database management systems, algorithms, query algebras, software engineering, simulation and modeling

Teaching Interests

Database systems
Design and analysis of algorithms
Software engineering
Programming languages
Senior seminar
Mobile computing

Representative Publications/Research Presentations

FS Mhlanga, PD Vardiman, and S Reames (2009). Towards an Abstract Model for Academia and Information Technology Sector Collaborative Partnerships: Responding to the "West Texas Coalition for Innovation and Commercialization" Initiative. CONISAR 2009 (Conference on Information Systems Applied Research), Washington D.C., Nov. 5–8.
FS Mhlanga and PD Vardiman (2009). Towards a Sustainable Development of the IT Sector in Abilene: Responding to the "Re-invent Abilene" Initiative. The Society for Advancement of Management 2009 International Business Conference on Sustainability, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 22–25.
FS Mhlanga, I Shepherd, and PD Vardiman (2007). Converting the Research Base into Commercial Success: Contributing to the "Re-invent Abilene" Initiative. The 4th International Conference on Systems Integration, Brasilia, Brazil, Dec. 2–5, 2007.
EL Perry and FS Mhlanga (2007). Multi-Player Immersive Leaning Simulations. The Huntsville Simulation Conference, Huntsville, AL, Oct. 31-Nov. 1.
FS Mhlanga (2006). A Developing Country's Information and Communication Technology Industry in Perspective: A Vision for the 21st Century. In the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 71–78.
FS Mhlanga (2005). Progress Towards Knowledge Societies Strategies in a Developing Nation - The Zimbabwe Experience. The International Conference on Technology & Knowledge in an Open Society, University of California at Berkeley, Feb. 18–20, www.t05.cgpublisher.com/session_descriptions.html
FS Mhlanga (2004). Fostering an Entrepreneurial Culture in Research Institutions - The Zimbabwe Experience. Presented at the University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, March 23.
FS Mhlanga (2003). ICT Policy Regulation and Applications in Africa. The International Conference on Public Administration for Leadership, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, Oct. 18–22.
T Mohammed and FS Mhlanga (2001). Global IT Readiness Report on Zimbabwe. In Global Information Technology Readiness Report (instanced through collaboration between Harvard University and the World Economic Forum (See www.cid.harvard.edu/cr/profiles/Zimbabwe.pdf)), Oxford University Press, Dec. 15.
FS Mhlanga et al. (2001). A Commonwealth Action Program for the Digital Divide. Report of the Commonwealth Expert Group on Information Technology for the Commonwealth High Level Review Group, (See www.commonwealthdigitalopportunities.com/gif/CAPDD%20summary%20report.pdf) Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX, UK, August.
LD Gudza, WT Mbizvo, FS Mhlanga and D Taranhike (2000). Training and Development in the System of Technology: The Zimbabwe Scenario. Paper presented at the Q-World Conference on the Future of Learning and Working, Berlin, Germany, Aug. 15–18.
FS Mhlanga (1999). On Developing Sustainable Processes and Design Discipline in Informatics and Electronics for the 21st Century. Paper presented at the Sixth Symposium on Science and Technology, Harare, Zimbabwe, September.
FS Mhlanga (1996). A Logical Reconstruction of the D-Model Theory. In IFE Journal of Technology, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 15-60, June.
FS Mhlanga, JTL Wang, Z Zhu and PA Ng (1995). A New Approach to Modelling Personal Office Documents. In Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier Science Publishers, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 127-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-023X(95)00019-O
FS Mhlanga, JTL Wang and PA Ng (1993). A New Approach to Modeling Office Documents. Research Contribution in the ACM SIGOIS, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 46-52, December. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/170846.170862
JTL Wang, FS Mhlanga, QH Liu, W-C Shang and PA Ng (1993). An Intelligent Documentation Support Environment. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 429-436, San Francisco, CA, June. www.ksi.edu/seke/seke93pgm
FS Mhlanga, JTL Wang, TH Shiau and PA Ng (1992). A Query Algebra for Office Documents. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Systems Integration, pp. 458-467, Morristown, NJ, June.