Academics

Robert L. Holliday
Professor
Mathematics and Computer Science

Phone 847-735-5153
E-mail holliday@lakeforest.edu

Specialization
Combinatorics
Block Designs

Interests
Elementary Cryptography 

Education
Ph.D, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
M.S., Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
B.S., University of Missouri at Rolla

Courses Taught
CS214--Digital Logic
CS213--Computer Architecture
CS417--Algorithms
CS434--Theory of Computation
Math 375--Combinatorics

Books
Author (Jointly with Lowell Carmony)--A First Course In Computer Science with Turbo Pascal, Computer Science Press 1991

Author (Jointly with Lowell Carmony)--A First Course in Modula-2, Compuer Science Press, 1990

Articles
Liars and Truthtellers:  Learning Logic from Raymond Smullyan, Math Horizons (A publication of the MAA), September, 2005

Algorithms, McGill's Survery of Science: Physical Science, Salem Press, May, 1998

Cryptography and Public Key Cryptosystems, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, May, 1994

Some Nonexistence Results for Strongly alpha-Resolvable Designs, Congressus Numerantium, Vol 90, Nov, 199

Graph Theory in the High School Curriculum, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics--1991 Yearbook, 1991

A Scheduling Problem: Modeling, Approximate Algorithms, and Implementation, with Lowell Carmony, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Feb, 1987