Rancho Santiago Community College District

Santa Ana College (1530 West 17th Street  Santa Ana, CA 92706-3398)

Business Division (714-564-6750)
Computer Science Department

B.S. (1981), M.S. (1983), Ph.D. (1988) Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine

Computer Science Education
Programming tools and practices
Object-Oriented Programming
Design and analysis of efficient algorithms, data structures
Formal language and computability theory
Computer typesetting

Concepts/Topics:

Computer and Society, Programming Concepts/Fundamentals, Computer Organization/Archetecture, Assembly Language Programming, Data Structures, Object-Oriented Programming, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Formal Methods/Language Theory, Computability Theory, UNIX shell and typesetting, Internships in Computer Science, Masters' projects

C, C++, Pascal, Basic, QBasic, Visual Basic, FORTRAN
other experience (used but never taught): LISP, APL, Simula, Ada, Algol, ALC, Macro-10, PROLOG, sh, csh, TeX

Unix/Linux, DOS, Windows, VMS

Santa Ana College
California State University at Fullerton
University of California at Irvine
Technical Academy of Esslingen, West Germany
National University, Newport Beach
Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division

Fall 2005-present: Academic Senator representing SAC Business Division

1998–1999 & 2002–present: Chair, Computer Science Department at Santa Ana College (processed student petitions, administered part time faculty executed challenge examinations, planned semester course schedules, placed bookstore orders for class texts)

1990–1995: Undergraduate Coordinator for CSUF’s Computer Science Department (processed student petitions, monitored faculty advisors, executed placement examinations, edited the Undergraduate Brochure, evaluated seniors’ remaining requirements for graduation, gave presentations at campus-wide new student orientation/advisement activities)

1990–1995: Chair of CSUF’s Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum Comittee during complete redesign of the curriculum to conform to ACM/IEEE “Curriculum ’91” standards

1985–present: Reviewer for academic publishers (primarily C++ texts since 1990)

1988–1993: Faculty advisor to the CSUF student chapter of the ACM (During this time, a team composed of students who all took my “algorithms” course won third place in the Western Regional ACM Programming Contest and placed thirteenth (the median) at the National Finals.)

1988–1995: Advisor of M.S. students (averaging 1 per year)

1987–1988: Member of UCI Computer Support Group (developed user software, departmental database, and answered most “postmaster” email and handled minor faculty emergencies)

1983–present: Member of Association for Computing Machinery

1989–present: Member of IEEE Computer Society

1989–1996: Member of TeX Users Group

1989–1991: Founding member of CSUF's Untenured Faculty Organization, giving “survival” help to first-year faculty — I quit when the organization developed a focus on alcoholic activities.

1991–1993: Member of California Teachers' Association

1991–1993: Member of CFA

J. H. Hester, “Probabilistically Faster Search Structures,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Irvine (May, 1988).

J. H. Hester, D. S. Hirschberg and L. L. Larmore, “Construction of Optimal Binary Split Trees in the Presence of Bounded Access Probabilities,” Journal of Algorithms 9,2 (June, 1988) pp. 245–253.

J. H. Hester and D. S. Hirschberg, “Self-Organizing Search Lists Using Probabilistic Back-Pointers,” Communications of the ACM 30,12 (December, 1987) pp. 1074–1079.

J. H. Hester, D. S. Hirschberg, S.-H. S. Huang and C. K. Wong, “Faster Construction of Optimal Binary Split Trees,” Journal of Algorithms 7,3 (September, 1986) pp. 412–424.

J. H. Hester, and D. S. Hirschberg, “Self-Organizing Linear Search,” Computing Surveys 17,3 (September, 1985) pp. 295–311.

J. H. Hester and D. S. Hirschberg, “Generation of Optimal Binary Split Trees,” Proceedings of The Twenty Fourth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (October, 1986) pp. 308–313.

Last Updated: July 5, 2006  by J. Hester   

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