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Frank McCown

Frank McCown graduated with honors from Harding University in 1996 with a B.S. in Computer Science. While at Harding, Frank competed on the university programming team for three years and won the competitive Software Development Project competition during his senior year. After working as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin Astronautics for a year, he returned to his alma mater as an Instructor of Computer Science where he taught a variety of courses including Data Structures, Graphical User Interfaces, Computer Graphics, and Web Programming.

While teaching at Harding, Frank completed his M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock (2002). In 2004 he began work on his Ph.D. at Old Dominion University. As a Dominion Scholar, he was recognized as the C.S. department's Outstanding Research Assistant in 2005 and 2007 and was awarded the College of Sciences Dissertation Fellowship in 2006. He has been working with his advisor, Michael L. Nelson, on issues surrounding the digital preservation of the Web and in 2005 created a popular tool named Warrick which has been used by many individuals to recover numerous lost websites.

Since 2005 Frank has co-authored fifteen publications and is scheduled to present his work this summer at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference and 7th ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Frank returned to teaching at Harding in the fall of 2007 while finishing his dissertation, which he defended on October 19th.