About SBU

Levine, David B.

Name:
David Levine
David B. Levine, Ph.D.

Academic School:
School of Arts and Sciences

Academic Department:
Computer Science

Titles/Responsibilities:
Professor, Computer Science

Contact Information:
Phone: (716) 375-2598
E-mail: dlevine@cs.sbu.edu
Web site: http://www.cs.sbu.edu/dlevine 

Office Location/Hours:
Walsh Science Center 112

Courses Taught:

Academic Degrees:
  • Ph.D., Dartmouth College, 1986
  • A.M., Dartmouth College, 1982
  • B.A., Swarthmore College, 1980

Professional Background:

Educational Testing Service and The College Board

  • Worked for sixteen years on the AP Computer Science Examination
    • Served as Reader, Question Leader, and Exam Leader
  • Developed (along with Steve Andrianoff) the Role Play Exercises for various APCS case studies
  • Conducted numerous workshops for APCS teachers for over a decade
  • Served as part of Test Development Committee for Major Field Test in Computer Science

Eastgate Systems, Inc.

  • Co-founder and member of the board of directors of a leading firm in the field of hypertext support software

Accomplishments:
  • Junior Faculty Award for Professional Excellence, 2001

A partial list of recent publications

  • “XP Practices Applied to Grading”, with Henry Walker, Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February 2006, pp. 173-177.
  • 5 Steps to a 5: AP Computer Science, with Kathleen Larson, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2005, 362 pages, ISBN 0-07-143711-8.
  • “A Testing-Based Framework for Programming Contests”, with Steven Andrianoff, Steven Gewand (class of 2004), and Greta Heissenberger (class of 2005), Proceedings of the Eclipse Technology eXchange at OOPSLA 2003, Anaheim, CA, pp. 96-100.
  • “Role Playing: Easing the Paradigm Shift”, with Steven Andrianoff and Joseph Bergin.  Proceedings of the OOPSLA Educators’ Symposium, Seattle, WA, November 2002, pp. 8-13.

A partial list of grants received

  • IBM Scholars Program – Eclipse Innovation Grant.  Co-author (with Steve Andrianoff) of a proposal to create a framework to introduce testing into the introductory computer science curriculum.  Award was for $25,000. (2003)
  • IBM Scholars Program – Eclipse Innovation Grant.  Co-author (with Steve Andrianoff) of a proposal to create a programming contest framework within the Eclipse system.  Award was for $28,000.  (2002)
  • National Science Foundation.  Co-investigator for NSF Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship (CSEMS) grant number DUE-0123027, to create a scholarship program for talented students at St. Bonaventure University. (2001)
  • National Science Foundation.  Co-author and co-investigator for NSF CCLI-Adaptation and Implementation grant number DUE-9980999, to create an undergraduate robotics library including sufficient software support for the robots to be used in a variety of courses. (1999)

Current Research Interests/Projects:
  • Automatic generation of test suites, with emphasis on beginning programmers and “tolerant” acceptance of answers.
  • Creation of a campus geospatial database with multiple map representations.

Other Interests/Community Involvement:
  • I am an avid orienteer and adventure runner; I am a reformed player of ultimate frisbee.
  • My wife and I are section hiking the Appalachian Trail (currently have hiked all of the trail in Maine and New Hampshire).