Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
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Curtis A. Carver Jr. was appointed the Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer of University System of Georgia on May 1, 2010. Prior to his appointment, he served at West Point in a number of positions including Vice Dean of Education, Vice Dean for Resources, Associate Dean for Academic Computing, and Program Director. He taught in the computer science department starting as an instructor and culminating as a Professor of Computer Science in 2007. As a military officer, his career spanned 27 years with assignments in positions of increasing responsibility including Platoon Leader, Senior Signal Officer, Company Commander, Battalion Operations Officer, Division Deputy G6, and military mentor. He lived in Korea for one year, Italy for five years, and deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq where he served as a strategic mentor and as a member of the NATO-Iraq team.
Throughout his career, Dr. Carver has been engaged in the active leadership of military, academic, research, and service organizations. He has served as a member of a number of governing bodies or executive boards including the Computer Science Accreditation Board (CSAB), Computer Accreditation Commission (CAC), CIO Executive Summit, and Federal Information Assurance Conference (FIAC), and Federal Information Security, System, Education and Awareness (FISSEA) board. He is a senior level member in the ACM and IEEE professional societies and continues to play an active role in shaping the national agenda in accreditation, technology, and education.
While serving as Vice Dean, West Point was ranked as the #1 college in America by Forbes magazine during 2009 and the #1 public liberal arts college by US News and World Report during multiple years. Dr Carver led efforts to more than double student participation in international experiences, substantially expand programs that addressed the needs of at-risk students, coordinated significant revisions to the curriculum, completed the construction of a $72 million library and learning center, secured funding for a $182 million renovation of the Science building, and supported efforts to accredit the institution regionally and through ABET program accreditation.
While serving as Associate Dean for Information Technology, West Point was ranked 11th and 13th in national evaluations of IT operations at academic institutions by PC Magazine and Intel respectively. He doubled the academic information technology budget and secured the external resourcing necessary to increase capacity. Dr Carver consolidated academy servers while simultaneously and dramatically enhancing reliability and capacity, deployed a second generation wireless system, and guaranteed and delivered same day repair of more than 5,000 faculty and student computers whereas previously it would take up to six weeks to repair a machine.
Dr. Carver’s research interests remain diverse with contributions in the fields of information assurance, adaptive hypermedia, computer science education, simulation, and decision-support systems. Within information assurance, Dr Carver explored the use of intelligent agents for intrusion response, creating a game-based environment for learning computer security, and empowering students to educate and protect student-based organizations. Within the field of adaptive hypermedia, Dr. Carver explored the use of learning styles as a basis for adaptive interfaces to rich course material, student digital libraries, and adaptive assessment using multimedia as well as gaming engines. Within the computer science education field, Dr. Carver explored serious gaming, supporting diversity in computer science education, and compiler support for novice programmers. Simulation research examined virtual computers, student assessment using virtual worlds, and network planning using simulated traffic. Finally, Dr. Carver examined effects-based operations and supporting strategic decision-making tools as well as decision-making with incomplete information in low-bandwidth, rapidly evolving environments.
Dr. Carver is the author or co-author of 1 book, 14 journal articles, 58 conference papers, and 47 plenary presentations of which 11 were as keynote speaker. He is a member of several professional organizations and the recipient of numerous national and international honors and awards for military, teaching, and research excellence.
Selected Publications
Curtis A. Carver Jr., M. Hadi Hedyati, and Omer Khan Shaheen (2008). “IT Education in a Cultural Context: A Comparison of Three Approaches in Afghanistan” ACM Special Interest Group on Information Technology Education Conference. Cincinnati, PA. October 28-30, 2008. 173-176.
Ronald C Dodge Jr., Curtis A. Carver Jr, and Aaron J Ferguson (2006). “Phishing for User Security Awareness”. Computers and Security. Vol 26 No: 1-8, pp 73-80.
Curtis A. Carver Jr. (2005). “Techniques for Supporting Diversity in a Core Information Technology Course” Journal of Computers in Education Vol XV No 4., pp. 26-31.
Curtis A. Carver Jr., Richard A. Howard, and William D. Lane (1999). “Addressing Different Learning Styles through Course Hypermedia” IEEE Transactions on Education Vol 42 (1).
Curtis A. Carver Jr., Richard A. Howard, and William D. Lane (1996). “Reaching the Weakest Students through Active Student-Controlled Learning” Liberal Education Vol 82 (3).