{"id":2054,"date":"2017-03-17T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2017-03-17T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:46:14","slug":"dick-nance-former-cs-department-head-to-be-recognized-by-nc-state-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2017\/03\/17\/dick-nance-former-cs-department-head-to-be-recognized-by-nc-state-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Nance, former CS department head, to be recognized by NC State Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Richard Nance and his wife Barbara will be recognized by the NC State University Libraries (NCSU) as Life Members of the Friends of the Library.\u00a0 Dr. Nance\u00a0is an emeritus professor and former department head of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.\u00a0 NCSU Life Members have made a long standing commitment to helping improve the collections and services of the NCSU Libraries.\u00a0 Dr. Nance is one of the founding members of the Simulation Archive (http:\/\/d.lib.ncsu.edu\/computer-simulation\/<\/a>) and continues to serve on the Advisory Board that guides the development and building of the Archive.\u00a0 As a leader in the field of simulation, Dr. Nance has also contributed to a unique collection of oral history interviews with simulation pioneers.\u00a0 Dr. Nance and his wife Barbara have also helped to build the Simulation Archive Endowment to enhance and sustain the Archive for generations of students and scholars.\u00a0 They will be recognized at the annual Friends of the Library Spring Meeting, on\u00a0Friday, March 31\u00a0at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library. The event is a lunch with an exclusive look at upcoming renovations of the D. H. Hill Library and a special viewing of rare books and materials from our Special Collections Research Center. Items from the\u00a0Simulation Archive\u00a0will be on view for attendees before the lunch.<\/p>\n

He received BSIE and M.S. degrees from N.C. State University in 1962 and 1966 respectively, and the Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1968.\u00a0 He has served on the faculties of Southern Methodist University and Virginia Tech.\u00a0 Nance has held research appointments at the Naval Surface Weapons Center and at the Imperial College of Science and Technology (UK) as well as\u00a0visiting appointments at Old Dominion University and Brunel University (UK).\u00a0 He was also appointed Visiting Distinguished Honors Professor for the spring semester 1997 at the University of Central Florida. Nance is the author of over 150 papers on discrete event simulation, performance modeling and evaluation, computer networks, and software engineering.\u00a0 He has held several editorial positions and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the A<\/i>CM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS).<\/i><\/p>\n

Nance has consulted for major private businesses and organizations, and his long-term research relationship with the U.S. Navy led to the establishment of the Systems Research Center at Virginia Tech in 1983.\u00a0 He was named to the John Adolphus Dahlgren Chair in Computer Science in 1988. He was instrumental in the development of the Simulation Archive at N.C. State and currently chairs the advisory committee. \u00a0Nance has received several awards for his editorial and professional contributions, most recently the INFORMS Simulation Society Lifetime Professional Achievement Award in 2007<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0He was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1996 and a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2008.\u00a0 In 2006 he was recognized by the faculty of the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering of N.C. State as one of the 12 Distinguished Alumni over the first 75 years of the department\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Richard Nance and his wife Barbara will be recognized by the NC State University Libraries (NCSU) as Life Members of the Friends of the Library.\u00a0 Dr. Nance\u00a0is an emeritus professor and former department head of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.\u00a0 NCSU Life Members have made a long standing commitment to helping improve the collections […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}