Academic Papers

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Graduate Program at Loyola Marymount University

Below are some of the papers that may have more lasting value than the single semester they were produced in.

Masters Thesis, Fall 2004
The title of the paper is Implications of Programming Language Selection On the Construction of Secure Software Systems. The paper takes five programming languages and analyzes how several well-known programming errors manifest, or fail to manifest, themselves in each. Includes conclusions and suggestions for further research. The above link takes you a page with the abstract and links to the paper and presentation.
Advanced Topics in Database Systems, Spring 2004
For this course, I wrote a paper on Java Data Objects (JDO) with the title Implications of Java Data Objects for Database Application Architectures. I considered it a practice run at the techniques and skills needed to do the final graduate paper as it required a proposal, a presentation, along with the paper. The annotated bibliography is probably of more interest than the paper itself. I researched performance issues surrounding databases accessed using Java technologies. (Something actually more relevant to what I'm doing now than my Masters paper.)

Artifacts for much of the work I did at LMU can also be found on my personal site.

Last updated Friday, February 6, 2015.