Heather D. Pfeiffer, PhD

hdp AT cs.nmsu.edu
Welcome to Heather D. Pfeiffer's home page

Biography

Heather is College Research Faculty at New Mexico State University. If you like, you may look at her resume, Curriculum Vita or Publications.

Teaching Responsibilities

She is teaching in Fall 2009 the following courses: two sections of EE161. If you are student in either section, you can get to the course through Blackboard.

Work Responsibilities

She is research faculty working with Dr. Jeanine Cook; doing work on several projects including AHPCRC and Project ENABLE.

Research Interests

Current research interests include software development emphasizing fast data structures, modelling systems, performance optimization in particular caches, knowledge base and data base management systems, and/or graphical user interfaces.

She is involved in the Conceptual Structures community. She was the Program Co-Chair for ICCS2004; ran a Workshop on Conceptual Graphs Tools in connection with ICCS2001, and Program Co-Chair for CS-TIW 2007 in connection with ICCS2007.

Webmaster

Heather is currently the webmaster for the Faculty Senate at NMSU and the webmaster for the Conceptual Structures Organization web site. She is also the Chair and Webmaster for the SIG-KM group associated with the ASIS&T organization. Lastly, she maintains a mirror web site for the Peirce On-line Resource Testbeds Project, PORT; in which, is developing a testbed of tools for Semantic Web and Concept Analysis.

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Personal Interests

Heather is a bassoon player for the New Horizons Band, and Mesilla Valley Concert Band. She also does lighting and sound for some of the theatres, LCCT and Black Box, in town. She is married to Joseph , and they have two children (Joel and Becca).