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Steven M. Jacobs |
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Steven M. Jacobs |
Adjunct Assistant Professor, USC,
Department of Computer Science
Division Staff Operations Manager (retired), Northrop Grumman
Steven M. Jacobs was Division Staff Operations Manager at Northrop Grumman in Carson, California. Prior to this role, he was Director of Software Development at Beckman Coulter, developing computerized clinical systems. Prior to joining Beckman, Mr. Jacobs managed the Human Machine Interface (HMI) Systems Department at TRW in Redondo Beach, California. He managed a group of engineers developing user interface and web applications software for various government and commercial applications. Mr. Jacobs has over 28 years software development project experience. He is received his M.S.C.S. from UCLA, B.A. in Mathematics from Monmouth University (N.J.)
Steven M. Jacobs has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the USC Department of Computer Science for over 17 years. He developed courses in user interface design for UCLA Extension and ACM. Mr. Jacobs has chaired two workshops and a panel session at ACM SIGCHI "CHI" conferences. He was a charter member of the Editorial Board of ACM Interactions magazine. He has authored over 20 publications on software engineering and user interface related topics.
Steven M. Jacobs is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Northern Arizona University's
Computer Science Department
as well as NAU's W.A. Franke College of Business.
Designing the User Interface, 5th Edition,
contributing author, Pearson. Also companion web site author. April 2009. “Teaming Effectively with Subcontractors to Reduce Process Risk”, SEPG North
America 2008 conference sponsored by the Software Engineering Institute, Tampa FL,
co-author, 20 March 2008. "Human Systems Integration (HSI) 101", 2nd Annual Northrop Grumman
Systems Engineering Symposium, Redondo Beach CA, co-author, presenter and session
chair, 10 May 2006. Educating Students Beyond The Campus: Keeping It Dynamic and Interesting",
panel session participant, presented to the USC Distance Education Network (DEN)
- Curricula for Today's Students (USC-sponsored symposium on distance education
techniques), Los Angeles CA, 19 May 2003. "Human Computer Interaction Design Teams: Interaction of Human Factors
and Software Practitioners", panel session participant and presenter for
the Los Angeles Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) and L.A. Chapter
of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, held at Aerospace Corporation,
El Segundo CA, April 2001. "User Interface Design" module of Fundamentals of Information
Technology televised and web-based course, originally developed for NASA
Ames Research Center, February 1997, author and instructor. "User Interface: The Critical Design Feature", part of a session entitled
"User Interface Design Impact on Clinical Information Systems/Network
Technology", 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of
Medical Instrumentation, Anaheim, CA, May 1995, presenter and panelist. User Interface Software:
Process, Tools and Techniques , one day, nationally broadcast seminar for
USC and National Technical University (NTU), April 1995, author and lecturer.
"Real-Time Decision Making", panel session chair, Proceedings of the 1990
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '90), Seattle, WA, April 1990. "Real-Time, Decision Support Computer Human Interaction", (1989 ACM Computer
Human Interaction (CHI '89) conference workshop results) in ACM SIGCHI Bulletin,
January 1990, co-author and workshop chair. Selected Publications and Presentations
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