Bio-Prof
From Baruchnewmedia
Bio for Professor Linda Weiser Friedman
I grew up in Brooklyn – Crown Heights and Midwood – and currently I am a Professor of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. I hold a Ph.D. degree in Operations research from Polytechnic University, in Brooklyn. My scholarly articles have appeared in such journals as Behavioral Science, Computers & Operations Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Journal of Systems and Software, Simulation, Journal of Statistics Education, and Journal of Internet Commerce. I have also published two professional books, Comparative Programming Languages (Prentice Hall) and The Simulation Metamodel (Kluwer), as well as fiction and poetry.
I have taught courses in statistics, simulation, computer programming, operations research – and new media – at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. I've been on the CUNY faculty since 1981, but my affiliation with CUNY actually goes back to 1972 when I began my undergraduate studies at Baruch which culminated with an ad hoc BA degree in Statistics and Biology. I even wrote for Ticker. I have been on the CUNY doctoral faculty in Computer Science since 1991, on the CUNY doctoral faculty in Business since 1993. I was Chair of the department during the 1990's.
I am married, with five grown children – make that ten, since they are married. I like to play Scrabble (very low tech). My favorite authors are James Lee Burke, Harlan Coben, and Lee Child. On TV, I like Dexter, Highlander, Burn Notice, Fawlty Towers, and The Sopranos (original title: The Family Guy - really!). The last Broadway play I went to was Cyrano De Bergerac.
