Dr. David Lefkovitz, Professor
        Department of Computer and Information Sciences

Dr. Lefkovitz' professional career has been divided among teaching, research, system development and management, and consulting. He has also been an ACM professional development lecturer and has given specialized courses in France and Israel.  Also, from 1969 to 1972 he served on the National Academy of Science Committee on Chemical Information. 

He has published two books on the subject of File Management and papers in the fields of information system and real time system development methods.      

He is currently Professor of Computer Science at Temple University.  His research and teaching specialization for the past 15 years have been in software engineering.   Under DoD contracts he has developed software specification and design aids, particularly related to real time systems and the Ada language.  He is currently exploring the impact of the new client/server and distributed N-Tier architectures on software specification and design.

His major work of the last three years has been in upgrading the department's computer science and information science curricula through the development of courses in net-centric computing, within the context of software engineering and application systems development methodologies.  The Web and Application languages currently taught in his courses are Microsoft ASP.NET, VB.NET, JSP and Java.

Course	Language
CIS 308 Development of Multi-Tier Client/Server Systems	Java, JSP
CIS 342 Networked Application Systems	ASP, VB.NET
CIS 618 Software Engineering	ASP, VB.NET
CIS 668 Design and Development of E-Commerce Systems	ASP, VB.NET
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