Rebecca Parsons

Ph.D., Rice University

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Programming languages (semantics and applications); computational biology; genetic algorithms; distributed and parallel computation; modeling and simulation.

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Professional Activities

1998 Coordinator for GNA-VSNS Biocomputing Course.

1995, 1996 Instructor for an Internet Course on BioComputing, offered through the GNA-VSNS. See my course home page.

1992-Present Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group of the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS).

1992-1993 Local Arrangements Chair, 1993 ACM Sigplan Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.

1992-1993 Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Computer Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society.

Papers Available

• DNA Fragment Assembly and Genetic Algorithms -- New Results and Puzzling Insights, Rebecca J. Parsons and Mark E. Johnson, appeared in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology, 1995, AAAI Press, pages 277-284.
• A Case Stufy in Experimental Design Applied to Genetic Algorithms with Applications to DNA Sequence Assembly, Rebecca J. Parsons and Mark E. Johnson, appeared in the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, Vol. 17, Nos. 3 and 4, pages 369-396.
• Genetic Algorithms, Operators, and DNA Fragment Assembly, Rebecca J. Parsons, Stephanie Forrest and Christian Burks, appeared in Machine Learning, Vol. 21, Nos. 1 and 2, pages 11-33.