Background
Sedelow, Walter Alfred was born on April 17, 1928 in Ludlow, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Walter Alfred and Una M. (Roberts) Sedelow.
educator sociologist computer scientist
Sedelow, Walter Alfred was born on April 17, 1928 in Ludlow, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Walter Alfred and Una M. (Roberts) Sedelow.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Amherst College, 1947; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1957.
Master, Milton (Massachusetts) Academy, 1947-1948;
instructor history, Williams College, 1948-1950;
instructor, then assistant professor of history, Amherst College, 1954-1956, 57-60;
associate professor of history and sociology, department chairman sociology, Parsons (Iowa) College, 1960-1961;
Jane Addams associate professor sociology and history, department chairman sociology, Rockford (Illinois) College, 1961-1962;
human factors scientist Advanced Research Projects Agency, unites states department Defense, command studies project, corporation staff for advanced research planning, System Development Corporation, 1962-1964;
associate professor sociology, department chairman sociology and anthropology, director health organization research Doctor of Philosophy program, St. Saint Louis University, 1964-1966;
member of faculty, U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1966-1970;
research associate Institute Research Social Sciences, U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1966-1968;
associate professor sociology and information science, U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1966-1968;
dean Graduate School Library Science, U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1967-1970;
professor sociology, computer and info science, research professor Institute Research in Social Sciences, U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1968-1970;
professor sociology and computer science, member committee for program in history and philosophy of science, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1970-1985;
also faculty in Soviet and East European studies, U. Kansas, 1979-1985;
member of faculty, Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1981-1982;
professor computer science, U. Arkansas-Little Rock, since 1985;
Adjunct Professor Graduate Institute Technology, U. Arkansas-Little Rock, since 1985. Adjunct Professor radiology College Medicine U. Arkansas for Medical Sciences, since 1988. Director networking-for-science program, staff associate for computers and society, division mathematics and computer science National Science Foundation, 1974-1977.
Vice president Taos (New Mexico) Book Shop, Inc., 1975-1980, treasurer, 1980-1988. Member committee information technical American Council Learned Socs., 1968-1970. Member evaluation panel INTREX project, National Science Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968, chairman National Science Foundation depth indexing evaluation panel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969.
Consultant Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, 1969, College Human Ecology Michigan State University, 1973, Upjohn Company, 1982-1983, The Brucheum Group, Waynesboro, Virginia, since 1986, principal investigator National Aeronautics and Space Administration project, 1968-1970, Office of Education project, 1968-1970, National Science Foundation project, 1971-1973, 85-89, 91-, Exxon Research Foundation, 1985-1991. Visiting scientist National Science Foundation/Association for Computing Machinery Visiting Scientist Program, 1969-1970. Member of advisory panel Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, National Science Foundation Science Communication Project, La Jolla, California, 1976-1977.
Lecturer National Science Foundation Summer Institute, Computers in Behavioral Science, U. Colorado, 1973, U. Novosibirsk/Siberian division Soviet Academy Sciences, 1978, U. Copenhagen, 1988, U. Nijmegen/Max Planck Institute, 1990, U. Salzburg/Technology Zentrum, 1991, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Fachbereich Mathematik, Algebra Gruppe, 1992. Member of advisory panel, alternative approaches to management and financing university computer centers project (National Science Foundation) Denver Research Institute, U. Denver, 1971-1974, on computer applications National Endowment for Humanities, 1975-1980. Member oversight committee, technical assessment program Battelle Laboratory, 1975-1976, member Fulbright Senior Scientist Selection Committee (Computer Science), 1976-1980, chairman, 1979-1980,1st Connection Machine Institute, Northeast Parallel Architecture Center Syracuse University, 1989.
Consultant biotechnology resources National Institutes of Health, 1978-1980. Consultant, lecturer Ketron, Inc., Barcelona, New York City and Washington, since 1978. Expert witness Kansas redistricting case United States House Representatives, 1982.
Guest Research professor Fachbereich Mathematik (Universal Algebra Group) Technische Hoschschule, Darmstadt Polytechnical University, Germany, 1992. Consultant evaluator unites states department Education (post-secondary) Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Program, 1993.
(Book by Barr Jr., Alfred H.)
Trustee International Social Science Institute, Santa Barbara, California, 1966-1968. Trustee, member corporation Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation, 1957-1960. Trustee A.J. Gilmore Trust, Boston, since 1990.
Member business advisory board Arkansas College, 1987-1991. Served to First lieutenant United States Air Force, 1952-1954. Captain Reserve 1956-1968.
Fellow American Sociological Association. Member Association Computing Machinery, Society General Systems Research, Human Factors Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American History Association, Association Computational Linguistics, Society for History Technology, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Sally Ann Yeates, June 14, 1958.