Don Costello has had a mixed career splitting his time between Universities and Business. He helped start three Computer Science Departments and three University Information Technology facilities (University of Nebraska, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh and Madison and Colorado State University). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses and has done work in research areas of Statistical Computing, Performance Modeling, Standards for Learning Objects, Managing Intellectual Property and Financial Cryptography. He is a 40-year member of ACM and is a fellow of the British Computing Society. He has lectured at Universities and ACM Chapters all over the United States as well as in England, Ireland, Austria, Germany, India and Sri Lanka. He also held a four-year Carnegie Foundation grant to investigate how IP is managed in Universities around the World.
In business career he has managed IT facilities, founded and sold two firms and consulted with over 100 firms throughout the world. His recent consulting includes five years consulting on ERP systems, SAP, as well as being a Technical Consultant on .com and e-Learning projects.
Don currently holds a position as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Nebraska and is the PI of a $500,000 GAANN grant from the US Office of Education. He is also working on the importance of standards in modeling High Performance Computing systems needed to support e-learning and scientific computing environments.
Previous Outstanding Lecturers were
Association for Computing Machinery Lectureship
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