Computer Science Associate Professor Retires

J. Christian Wild Jr. retired December 2004 after 24 years. One of the first faculty in the department, he helped develop the undergraduate and graduate programs and later developed one of the first Internet courses.

Wild earned his doctorate in computer science in 1977 at Rutgers University. Hired in 1980 by ODU, he also served as a senior research scientist for Mandex, Inc. in Vienna, VA and as a consultant for ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center from 1983-87.

He concentrated his research interests in distributed system software architecture, interactive multimedia collaborative applications, adaptive learning models, intelligent agents in distributed systems, qualitative decision models, computer assisted project management, image processing, machine learning, knowledge based software testing, and automatic programming. He was involved in research grants worth almost $2 million, and wrote more than 60 publications. He was the research adviser for many doctoral and master's students.

Today, you'll find him sailing coastal waters in Wildcat, a Lagon 380 catamaran, with his wife and son.

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