Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae (pdf , 7/3/16)
Education

Biographical Sketches
Biographical sketch (html)
Chess biographical sketch (ms-word)

Publications
Scholarly and Creative Works (postscript, 2/18/2008, 18 pages) - complete list

Some papers are available on-line from these old and outdated pages:
old html collection of some of papers by topic
Some of my writings on-line (very incomplete)
very out-of-date html list of publications

An exact formula for the expected wirelength between two randomly chosen terminals
Lazoff, David M., and Alan T. Sherman (revised August 2, 1994), 6 pages.
In this paper we rediscover the solution to a useful problem. Unfortuantely, due to editorial error, the published short summary omits several key references (including Sheng 1983 and Ghosh 1943) that we discuss in the revised version of our technical report:
best version (revised 8-2-1994). Additional details are in appendix to the original 20 July 1994 report.

Current Grants
DoD CAE-R grant for CATS project
NSF SFS Scholarships to UMBC
NSF supplement

Some on-line course documents
How-to's and generic course documents

Notable Facts

• Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi
  
• Promoted to the rank of shodan (first-degree black belt) in the Japanese martial art of Tomiki Aikido, as certified by the Japan Aikido Association (February 1995).
  
• Top Faculty Chess Player, Pan-American Open (1993, 1994, 1998, 1999[tie], 2001).
  
• My Erdos number is 3 (one path of coauthorship with Paul Erdos is via A. Odlyzko, R. Rivest).