George A. Novacky was an Assistant Department Chair and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, and an Assistant Dean of CAS for Undergraduate Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
George Novacky | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | U.S.  |
| Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Pittsburgh |
| Doctoral advisor | Chong-Yun Chao |
Education and career
editNovacky first received a mathematics degree from Wheeling Jesuit College in 1968. In 1971, he received his MA in mathematics followed by a PhD in mathematics in 1981. Both his MA and PhD were from University of Pittsburgh. Novacky's dissertation was Chromaticity of Extremal Graphs.[1]
He was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Community College of Allegheny County from 1977 to 1985.
He has been a faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Computer Science since 1985. In 1993, Novacky received The Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award.[2]
Publications
edit- Computers and Networks: A Laboratory Approach to Computer Literacy, published by McGraw Hill
- Computer Applications & the Internet, co-author with Y. Khalifa. Published by Pearson, 2003
- PDA Programming in C, co-author with Yasir Khalifa. Published by Kendall Hunt, 2006
References
edit- ^ "George Novacky". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Archived from the original on 2006-09-11.
- ^ "University Of Pittsburgh - Novacky". pitt.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05.