Richard D. Holowczak

E-mail: richard_holowczak@baruch.cuny.edu
URL: http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/holowczak/

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Information Systems
  Rutgers University
  Graduate School-Newark, Newark, New Jersey,
  May, 1997
  Thesis: Extractors for Digital Library Objects
• M.S. Computer Science
  New Jersey Institute of Technology
  Newark, New Jersey, May, 1997
• M.B.A. Information Systems
  Rutgers University
  Graduate School of Management, Newark, New Jersey, 1992
  Dean's Scholarship Award Recipient
• B.S. Computer Science
  The College of New Jersey (formally Trenton State College), Trenton, New Jersey, 1990
  Minor in Mathematics

• Schwartz, R. and Holowczak, R. "Automation in Equity Markets." Encyclopedia of Social Problems. SAGE Reference publications. 2007.
• Liu, Lewis G., Holowczak, R., and Onochie, J. "Using Professional Data Services in an Introductory Macroeconomics Course: A Critical Thinking Approach" The Journal of the Academy of Business Education. Volume 8, Fall 2007. pg. 57-75.
• Holowczak, R. "Real Time Foreign Exchange Data Modeling in International Economics and Finance." The Journal of Financial Education. Summer 2007. pg. 23-36.
• Holowczak, R., Taksa, I. and Levine, I. "Mining Web Logs to Improve WebGIS Application Response Times." To appear in: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2007). IEEE Computer Society. April 2-4, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 2007.
• Holowczak, R., Simaan, Y., and Wu. L., "Price Discovery in the U.S. Stock and Stock Options Market: A Portfolio Approach." Volume 9, Issue 1, 2006. pg, 37-65.
• Holowczak, R. and Friedman, L. W. "Using Real-World Financial Data to Make the Introductory Business Statistics Course More Relevant". Proceedings of the 2006 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting. November 18-21. San Antonio, Texas. 2006. pp. 25411 – 25416.
• Holowczak, R., "Incorporating Real Time Financial Data Into Business Curricula" Journal of Education for Business. 81(1), September/October, 2005. Page 3 - 8.
• Holowczak, R., Peng, C., Yeates, S. "Identification and Visualization of Corporate Structure: A Preliminary Investigation." Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, New York, August 2004.
• Holowczak, R., Adam, N., Artigas, A. and Bora, I. "Data Warehousing for Environmental Digital Libraries." Communications of the ACM. 46(9). September, 2003. Page 172 - 178.
• Holowczak, R., Artigas, F., Chun, S., Cho, J.S. and Stone, H. "An Experimental Study on Content-based Image Classification for Satellite Image Databases." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Volume 40. Number 6. June, 2002.
• Holowczak, R., Chun, S., Artigas, F., and Atluri, V. "Customized Geospatial Workflows for E-Government Services." Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. November, 2001.
• Holowczak, R. "Financial Services in Electronic Commerce" in Managing Business with Electronic Commerce: Issues and Trends. Edited by Aryya Gangopadhyay. Idea Group Publishing. 2002.
• Adam, N. R., Atluri, V., Adiwijaya, I., Banerjee, S. and Holowczak, R. "A Dynamic Manifestation Approach for Providing Universal Access to Digital Library Objects." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 13(4), July/August 2001. Page 705-716.
• Adam, N. R. Artigas, F., Atluri, V., Chun, S., Colbert, S., Degeratu, M., Ebeid, A., Hatzivassiloglou, V., Holowczak, R., Marcopolus, O., Mazzoleni, P. and Rayner, W. "E-Government: Human-Centered Systems for Business Services." Proceedings of DGO 2001. Los Angeles, California. May, 2001.
• Artigas, F., Barrett, K. and Holowczak, R. "Digital Meadowlands: A web-based environmental decision support system for management and research of an urban, estuarine watershed." Integrated Decision-Making for Watershed Management Symposium. Washington, D.C. January, 2001.
• Liu, L. and Holowczak, R. "Using Reuters 3000 Xtra for Financial Information Education." Online Information Review: The International Journal of Digital Information Research and Use. 24(5), November, 2000. Page 371-380.
• Artigas, F., Bielory, L., Holowczak, R. and Patel, K. "Asthma distribution patterns and their relationship with the urban landscape and social conditions in Newark NJ." Second International Health Geographics Conference, Chevy Chase, Maryland. March 17-19, 2000.
• Barrett, K., Holowczak, R. and Artigas, F. "A database of environmental documents about an Urban Estuary, with a WWW-based, geographic interface." Symposium on Water Resources and the World Wide Web. Seattle, Washington, December 5, 1999.
• Adam, N. R. and Holowczak, R. D. "Concept Based Query of Digital Library Objects" Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB '98), May, 1998.
• Adam, N. R., Gangopadhyay, A. and Holowczak, R. D. "A Survey on Research on Database Protection." Proceedings of the International Conference on Statistical Data Protection, Portugal, March 27-28, 1998.
• Holowczak, R. D. and Adam, N. R. "Information Extraction based Multiple-Category Document Classification for the Global Legal Information Network." Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-97). July, 1997. Providence, Rhode Island.
• Adam, N., Awerbuch, B., Bennet, K., Blaustein, B., Brodsky, A., Chen, R., Dogramaci, O., Grossman, B., Holowczak, R., Johnson, J., Kalpakis, K., McCollum, C., Neches, A., Neches, B., Rosenthal, A., Slonim, J., Wactlar, H., Wolfson, O., Yesha, Y., and Yesha, Y. "Electronic Commerce and Digital Libraries: Towards a Digital Agora." ACM Computing Surveys 28(4), December 1996.
• Adam, N. R., Halem, M., Holowczak, R. D., Lal, N. and Yesha, Y. " Digital Library Task Force." IEEE Computer, August, 1996.
• Li, Wen-Syan and Holowczak, R. "Constructing Information Systems Based on Schema Reuse." Proceedings of CIKM'96, November, 1996
• Holowczak, R. and Li, Wen-Syan. A Survey on Heterogeneity Metadata Representation First IEEE Metadata Conference, April, 1996.
• Adam, N. R., Holowczak, R. D. and Li, Wen-Syan. Object Manifestations for Medical Imaging Applications, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics Special Issue, Volume 20, Number 4, 1996.
• Adam, N. R., Boucher, T. O., Holowczak, R. H., A Generic CIM Architecture for Raw Materials Control in FDA Regulated Industries. FAIM Conference, 1993 Dublin, Ireland.

• Holowczak, R. Getting started with TradeStation in the Subotnick Financial Services Center. Working paper for the Subotnick Financial Services Center. April, 2003. 13 pg.
• Dologite, D. and Holowczak R. Introduction to Popkin System Architect 2001. Tutorial for Systems Analysis and Design courses. February, 2002. 30 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Reuters 3000 Xtra and Kobra Tutorial: Indexes, Stock Quotes and News. Working paper for the Subotnick Financial Services Center. August, 2000. 35 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Reuters 3000 Xtra and PowerPlus Tutorial - Market Data and News using MS Excel. Working paper for the Subotnick Financial Services Center. April 2000. 32 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Reuters 3000 Xtra and Kobra Tutorial: Equities. Working paper for the Subotnick Financial Services Center. April, 2000. 10 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Oracle Developer A Tutorial on Oracle Forms, Reports and Graphics Covering Developer version 6.0 and 6i for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. On-line tutorial. December, 2000. 81 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Oracle Developer/2000 A Tutorial on Oracle Forms, Reports and Graphics Covering Developer/2000 version 2.0 and 2.1 for Windows 95/NT. On-line tutorial. July, 2000. 80 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Oracle Developer/2000 1.5 A Tutorial on Oracle Forms and Reports. On-line tutorial. January, 1998. 50 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Oracle SQL*Plus: An Introduction and Tutorial (Revised and Updated). On-line tutorial. Updated October, 2000. 75 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Microsoft Access '97 Tutorial. On-line tutorial. September, 1998. 30 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Microsoft PowerPoint Tutorial. On-line tutorial. September, 1998. 17 pg.
• Bruins, R., Holowczak, R., Wang, H., Adam, N. and Albin, S., Design and Implementation of a Supplier Evaluation System Technical Working Paper 104, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. June, 1995
• Adam, N. R., Holowczak, R. H., Materials Management for Raw Material and Finished Goods: Database Design and Implementation Technical Working Paper 101, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. August, 1994
• Adam, N. R., Eghbali, G., Holowczak, R. H., Jafari, M., Electronic Data Interchange: EDI Translation Software Evaluation Technical Working Paper 98, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. April, 1995
• Adam, N. R., Eghbali, G., Holowczak, R. H., Jafari, M., Electronic Data Interchange: Introduction, Concepts and Examples Technical Working Paper 95, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. February, 1995
• Adam, N. R., Holowczak, R. H., Maeng, J-H., ORACLE SQL*Plus and SQL*Forms: An Introduction and Tutorial Technical Working Paper 89, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. September, 1994
• Adam, N. R., Holowczak, R. H., Quality Assurance for Raw Material and Finished Goods: Database Design and Implementation Technical Working Paper 87, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. August, 1994
• Holowczak, R. H., Installation and Maintenance of Novell Netware and Oracle Server Technical Working Paper, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University.
• Holowczak, R. H., Consistency and Availability in Distributed Databases State of the Art Review Paper (Ph.D. Requirement), Department of MS/CIS, Rutgers University. December, 1994

Teaching Experience

• Special Topics: Networked Information Systems Security (Baruch College graduate) Fall 2003
• Electronic Commerce (Baruch College graduate) Spring 1999 -Spring 2001
• Database Management Systems (I and II) (Baruch College undergraduate and graduate) Fall 1997 - Present
• Computer Network Applications (Rutgers University Undergraduate) Spring 1996
• Database Programming and Design (Rutgers M.B.A., Teaching Assistant) 1993, 1994 and 1995
• Volunteer instructor for Making Healthy MUSIC computer camp and CIMIC Summer Computer Camp for Newark area high school and middle school students. 1996, 1997
• Teacher/Tutor - Computing seminars for students and faculty

Work Experience

• Director - Subotnick Financial Services Center. Baruch College, City University of New York 2003 - Present
• Associate Professor - Baruch College, City University of New York 2002 - Present
• Assistant Professor - Baruch College, City University of New York 1997 - 2002
• Member of the CUNY Graduate Center - Doctoral Faculty in Computer Science. 2000 - Present
• Member of the CUNY Graduate Center - Doctoral Faculty in Business. 2001 - Present.
• Research Associate - The Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 1995 - 1997
• Graduate Assistant - Database Programmer/Consultant and Network Manager, CORANET Project (Formerly CRAMTD), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 1992 - 1995
• Systems Consultant Intern, Amerada Hess Corporation, Woodbridge, NJ May 1991 - Sept 1991
• Database Programmer/Consultant Intern, MCI International, Piscataway, NJ May 1990 - Sept 1990

Software Knowledge

• All major database, spreadsheet, word processing and specialty programs in PC-DOS, Windows/95/98/NT/2000/XP, Macintosh, DEC VAX, UNIX and NOVELL environments. UNIX and NOVELL system administration. Network and Systems security specialist.
• Languages: Basic, C, C++, Clipper, Cobol, Fortran, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, Prolog, SQL, Visual Basic and others.
• Databases: Extensive knowledge of, and experience with Oracle including database design, application development, database administration, tuning and management.
  Intermediate knowledge of Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2.

• Member - Association for Computing Machinery
• Member - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Member - American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• Member - Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Computer Science Honor Society
(Academic Excellence)
• Member - Beta Gamma Sigma National Business Honor Society (Academic Excellence)
• Phase II Winner - Harris Semiconductor Real Time XPress Programming Contest
• Represented Rutgers University at the ``University Contributions to Preparedness'' forum in Washington, DC
• Prepared grant proposals submitted to NSF, TIIAP, Law Library of Congress, NASA and NLM
• Review of technical papers for major publications and conference proceedings

Interests

• Composing computer assisted music, playing guitar and piano, and creative writing