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Steven M. Jacobs |
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Steven M. Jacobs |
Work: (310) 813-6423
stevenjacobs21@yahoo.com
Adjunct Assistant Professor, USC,
Department of Computer Science
Division Staff Operations Manager,
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Steven M. Jacobs is Division Staff Operations Manager at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems 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 26 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 is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the USC Department of Computer Science. He has 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.
“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.