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Last update: May 17, 2013
Professor of the Year, selected by students of Computer Science. Six times; 1983, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996, 2010.
Acadia Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award, Fall 1996.
Grants:

Grant from DAAD - German Academic Exchange Program, to visit Hagen University, Germany. Summer 1992.

Zenith Data Systems; Masters of Innovation, 1992 Competition. First place in the Category of Engineering and Computer Science for: "HyperC - Hypertext CBT System for Learning the C Programming Language".

Grant from Acadia Teaching Innovation Fund, TIF
1) (with T. Archibald and P. Williams). Acadia University, Winter 1993.
2) (with E. Shakshuki and H. Moussa): A System for Explaining Algorithms. 2005 and 2006

2005: NSERC Research Grant: XML-based globalization framework RGPIN: 5 years/ $15,000 year

2008: Acadia University Research Fund, $2,000

2010: NSERC Research Grant: Queryable and Updateable XML Compressors, RGPIN: 5 years/ $15,000 year

1988/89 - sabbatical, Visting Professor, University of Western Ontarion, London, Ontario

1991/92 - acting director, Jodrey School of Computer Science

1997: Co-Chair of EDMEDIA'97, Calgary, Canada

1998/99 - vice-president of Acadia University Faculty Association

2000/2001: sabbatical, partly at: Informatik, Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

2005 - acting co-director (for six months, together with R. Giles), Jodrey School of Computer Science

2006/07 - sabbatical