Richard G. Gibson

Background

Richard Gibson was born on October 12, 1953 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, in the family of Richard G. Gibson Sr. and Miriam (Healy) Gibson.

Education

In 1976 Richard received Bachelor of Science in Engineering at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and then he got Master of Business Administration there in 1980. After that he studied at University of Maryland at College Park, where he earned Master of Science in 1990 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1992.

Career

Richard G. Gibson worked in the Queen City Plastics, where he was a sales engineer, plant engineer, plant manager, and general manager until 1981. Then he served in Guilford Technical Community College as an instructor in industrial management, computer sci¬ence, and office automation technology and coordinator of cooperative education in 1981 - 1985. After that he took the post of instructor in business management, computer science, information systems, and mathematics in University of Maryland, European and Asian Divisions in 1985 - 1989. In 1991 he was a part-time instructor in computer science and information systems in University of Maryland at College Park.

Editor Richard G. Gibson has taught a variety of programming languages around the globe. He serves on several editorial boards, including those of The Journal of Global Information Management, The Journal of Database Management, and The Journal of End-User Computing. He is also a consultant to Xerox Corp.

Achievements

• Richard G. Gibson is famous mostly for his books "The History of Programming Languages II" and "Global Information Technology and Systems Management."

Works

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• book

  • Object Oriented Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges 1999
  • History of Programming Languages II 1996

Membership

• Information Resources Management Association

• Decision Sciences Institute

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

• Association of Computing Machinery

• DC SPIN

• Beta Gamma Sigma

• Omega Rho

• charter member

  Upsilon Pi Epsilon

Connections

On April 22, 1994 Richard married Karen Hillman, with whom he has a daughter Sarah Elizabeth Gibson.

Father:

Richard G. Gibson Sr.

Mother:

Miriam (Healy) Gibson

Spouse:

Karen Hillman

Daughter:

Sarah Elizabeth Gibson