Magazine Article ProposalJames A. McHugh, Ph.D

Alejandro IparraguirreProfessor ElliotSTS 304-001November 8, 2012

Project Overview

• Thematic Area

• James A. McHugh

• Topic Proposal

• Research Design

• Method

• Timeline

• Problems & Solutions

• Literature Survey

• Relevant Works Cited

• Magazine Template

My Thematic Area: Digital Everyware

Digital Everyware contains the topic of user interface and

device concepts that can expand the use of new and

innovative applications.

The innovation of new interactions with computer hardware

is through software.

The research I would like to delve into would be the open

source movement , which pertains to the promotion of an

open style of software development.

James A. McHugh, Ph.D

• Professor and Researcher at New Jersey Institute of

Technology

• Currently teaching courses in o Software Engineering

o Data Structures and Algorithms

o Internet Programming

• Education: Ph.D Applied Mathematics 1970

• Doctor McHugh relates to my Digital Everyware Theme as

he is involved in the development of programs and was co-

author of “Open Source: Technology and Policy”

Topic: How Open Software Leads to the improvement in the development of technology that benefits Digital Everyware

• By making new software development techniques open to

the public , software my take new interesting roles in

environments.

• If technologies are readily available and understood many

people can develop new methods and algorithms that can

advance the implementation of hardware.

Development of Interview Questions

Meeting with Dr. McHugh

Article Creation

Giving a draft to Dr. McHugh to review for accuracy

Redrafting of Article

Research Design

Method

Structured Interview The first portion of my

interview would be a brief introduction of myself and a conversation with Dr. McHugh on my topic and how it is intertwined with the work he did with Dean Deek.

Document Based Interview The main objective of

my interview lies within this area, as I will be asking Dr. McHugh questions based upon his work.

I will be reviewing the section he worked on in “Open Source: Technology and Policy”

This interview takes place after the biography based interview.

Problems

• Storm Pushing Dates Back

• How will I come up with great Interview Questions

• Remembering the interview answers without having to pause in order to write down answers.

Solutions

• Scheduling Interview closer or provide alternate means of conducting the interview.

• Reading Research along with new research/articles being done on the same topic.

• Will need to bring a functioning recording device

TimeLine

• October 28th –November 3rd: Read “Open Source:

Technology and Policy”

• November 8: Presentation of Article

• November 13-14th: Create Interview questions to be

reviewed by Professor Elliot

• November 15th: try to schedule an appointment to conduct

the interview within the next two weeks.

• November 24-25th: Write Article

• November 30th: Hand in 1sr draft

• December 4th: Hand in Revised Article

Literature Survey

• Open Source: Policy and Technology (with F. Deek), Cambridge University Press, 2007.

• Mining The World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach (with G. Chang, M. Healey,

and Jason Wang), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Japanese edition published 2003.

o An Information Search Approach explores the concepts and techniques of Web

mining, a growing field of computer science research.

• Strategic Software Engineering: an Interdisciplinary Approach (with F. Deek and O. Eljabiri),

Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.

o The book addresses technical, scientific, and management aspects of software

development in a way that is accessible to a wide audience.

Citation

Deek, Fadi, James A Mchugh. Open source: technology

and policy. New York: Cambridge University Press,

2007. eBook.

Focus of Article is to the center of page which contains text.

Images flow nicely in conjunction to text.

Over all color scheme and article layout look professional.

Subheadings different color and size allowing them to stand out from body of article

Side Bar allows for a brief biography on Professor McHugh.