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Research History for
Dietolf Ramm

The text and references below outline my research involvement over the last 45 or so years. My current focus is mostly on teaching.

* Computer Science Education (1968-present)

My first formal act of computer science education was probably when, as a graduate student, I decided to teach a short course in IBM System 360 Job Control Language to all comers at Duke University. Then, in the Fall of 1969 Professor Thomas Gallie asked me if I would like to teach the introductory computing course: Mathematics 51. This was my first year on the faculty in Duke University Medical Center as a computer professional and I decided to try it. I got hooked on teaching and have taught a course almost every semester since. Other inspirations in computer science education have come from Professor Alan Biermann and Professor Owen Astrachan. Each in his own way has shown me sides of teaching to admire and (when possible) emulate.

Not very much of my interest in computer science education has resulted in publications, but some of it is represented in the following references.

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* Gerontological Research and Methodology (1969-1982)

This work shows my involvement with gerontology research while at the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. I would especially like to recognize the Center Directors of this period from whom I learned so much about the social sciences: Ewald Busse, M.D., Carl Eisdorfer, M.D., Ph.D., and George Maddox, Ph.D. Since the Center had close ties with the Department of Psychiatry, I was often involved with gerontological, psychiatric, or gero-psychiatric research. The separation of the articles that follow (between gerontology and psychiatry) are sometimes almost arbitrary since there is often considerable overlap.

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* Psychiatric Records and Computers in Psychiatry (1969-1982)

This work was done while I was Director of the Geriatrics Computing Center mostly in collaboration with and often under the mentor-ship of Professor Daniel G. Gianturco, M.D. From him I learned great respect for the field of psychiatry and the mental health professionals who practice in this arena. Since I had a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry in the Duke University Medical Center and thus worked with other psychiatrists in the department, this collaboration is also shown here.

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* Low Temperature Physics (1964-1969)

This work was done in my years in graduate school at Duke University under the supervision of Professor Horst Meyer.

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* Laser Physics (1964-1965)

This research work was performed during summer employment at the U.S. Army's Institute for Exploratory Research in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, under the supervision of Dr. Rudolf Buser.

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