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Name: Kip Irvine, Instructor
Office Info: ECS 360, 305-348-1528
E-mail: irvinekcis.fiu.edu
Homepage: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/~irvinek
Office Hours: T/R 5:00-6:15 PM (OFFICE HRS ONLY)

Research Interests
Intel Assembly Language,
Visual C++,
Visual Basic

Background Education
1995 - M.S., Computer Science, University of Miami, Miami, Fl.
1982 - Doctor of Musical Arts, Composition, University of Miami, Miami, Fl
1978 - Master of Music, Composition, University of Hawaii
1975 - Bachelor of Music, Composition, University of Hawaii


Professional Experience
2000 - present
  Instructor, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1985
  Founding programmer, Omega Research Inc. (now called TradeStation Group)
1983 - 2000
  Professor, Computer Information Systems, Miami-Dade Community College


Programming and Research Experience
  • Flight Simulator - assisted in the design and implentation of C++ and Visual Basic software for the Instructor Workstation for a commercial-quality GAT-2 flight simulator.
  • College-Prep Writing - created the online testing and database reporting system for the College Preparatory Writing Lab at Miami-Dade Community College.
  • Prometheus - lead programmer and later co-director of the Prometheus project at Miami-Dade Community College
  • MEDSTAT - co-created the project for the National Library of Medicine. MEDSTAT is an interactive expert system for database retrieval
  • FundTracker - created FundTracker, a Mutual Fund portfolio management product
  • TLOComm - creator of TLOComm, a micro-to-mainframe telecommunications program
  • Textbase - wrote this hierarchical text-processing system for Miami-Dade Community College


  • Selected Publications
    1. Advanced Visual Basic 6 (with Kaiyang Liang)
    2. C++ and Object-Oriented Programming (1997)
    3. Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers (1990, 1993, 1998)
    4. Advanced Visual Basic (1st Edition, VB5)
    5. COBOL for the IBM Personal Computer, 1987