Publications

(2019). Promoting Successful Transitions to Careers for Young Adults: Impacts on School to Work Sequences. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference.

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(2018). Des Moines Area Community College Workforce Training Academy Connect Program: Implementation and Early Impact Report. Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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(2016). One Outcome, Two Methods: Comparing the Cost, Quality, and Utility of Survey and Administrative Data Sources.. Washington, DC: Corporation for National and Community Service Research Summit.

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(2012). Starting with the End in Mind: Mapping Current Students' Program Pathways Using the Transcripts of Completing Students. Presentation at the Conference of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges.

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(2012). Keeping the End in Mind: Examining Completers' Course Taking to Improve Advising and Program Design. Presentation, American Association of Community Colleges Annual Conference.

(2010). Middle Skill Jobs: The Projected Demand and Community Colleges' Response. Presentation Given at the League for Innovation in the Community College Conference.

(2010). Human Resource Development and Career and Technical Education in American Community Colleges. Paper prepared for the Human Resources Development Group meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organization.

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(2010). Dynamics of an Economics Model for Generation Coupled to the OPA Power Transmission Model. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

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(2009). A Simple Model for the Reliability of an Infrastructure System Controlled by Agents. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS.

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(2008). Community Colleges Under Stress. Issues in Science and Technology.

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(2005). Agent-Based Models of Urban Industrial Specialization. Presentation at the Agent 2005 Conference on Generative Social Processes, Models, and Mechanisms, Chicago.

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(2005). Mapping Career Paths in the U.S. Labor Market. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Conference on Careers.

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(2004). Too Many Bad Jobs: An Analysis of the Prospects for Career Ladder Initiatives in the Service Economy. Paper Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association.

(2004). Reflecting Society: Studies in Federal Civil Litigation Involving Businesses, 1971-2004. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sociology).

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(2003). Sifting and Winnowing: Approaches to Finding Useful Information on the Web. Ph.D. Thesis, University of WIsconsin-Madison (Computer Science).

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(2002). Can Career Ladders Really Be a Way Out of Dead-End Jobs? A Look at Job Structure and Upward Mobility in the Service Industries. Paper Presented at the Association for Public Policy and Management Fall Research Conference.

(1996). Kill the King: Monopolies, Alliances, and Litigation in the American Computer Industry. M.S. Thesis, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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(1992). Back propagation as a test of the efficient markets hypothesis. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

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(1991). Implementing Spatial Relations in Neural Nets: Figure/Ground and Containment. Report, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan.

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(1991). Predicting Stock Market Fluctuations Using Neural Network Models. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics and Control, Capri, Italy.

(1990). Neural Networks in Artificial Intelligence. Chichester, UK: Ellis Horwood (book).

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(1987). Unix a la Mac. MacWorld.

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