MARIA M. KLAWE
June 14, 2010
Contact Information
President’s Office
Kingston Hall, room 201
301 Platt Blvd.
Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 621-8120
klawe@hmc.edu
Education
B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Alberta, 1973
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Alberta, 1977
Graduate Studies, Computer Science, University of Toronto, 1979
| 2006-present | President, Harvey Mudd College |
| 2003-2006 | Dean of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University |
| 1998-2002 | Dean of Science, University of British Columbia (UBC) |
| 1997-2002 | NSERC-IBM Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for BC and the Yukon |
| 1995-1998 | Vice President, Student & Academic Services, UBC |
| 1988-2002 | Professor, Department of Computer Science, UBC |
| 1988-1995 | Head, Department of Computer Science, UBC |
| 1980-1989 | IBM Almaden Research Centre, San Jose, California |
| (1985-1987) Manager, Mathematics and Related Computer Science Department | |
| (1984-1988) Manager (and founder), Discrete Mathematics Group | |
| (1980-1984) Research Staff Member, Foundations of Computer Science Group | |
| 1978-1980 | University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario |
| (1978-1979) Part-time Lecturer, Department of Computer Science | |
| (1979-1980) Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science | |
| 1977-1978 | Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, Assistant Professor, |
| Department of Mathematical Sciences |
Professional Activities
a. Academic or Professional Awards and Distinctions:
Honorary Doctorate, University of British Columbia, 2010
Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2009
Honorary Doctorate, University of Ottawa, 2008
Honorary Doctorate, University of Alberta, 2007
Founding Fellow Canadian Information Processing Society, 2006
Honorary Doctorate, Acadia University, 2006
Honorary Doctorate, Dalhousie University, 2005
Nico Habermann Award, Computing Research Association, 2004
Honorary Doctorate of Science, Queen’s University, 2004
Honorary Doctorate of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 2003
Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Alberta, 2003
Commencement speaker, Mathematics Convocation, UC Berkeley, 2002
Regent’s Lecturer, UC Berkeley, 2002
BC Science Council Champion of the Year, 2001
Honorary Doctorate, Ryerson Polytechnic University, 2001
Canadian New Media Association Educator of the Year Award, 2001
Wired Woman Pioneer Award, 2001
NSERC-IBM Chair for Women in Science & Eng. for BC and the Yukon, 1997–2002
YWCA Woman of Distinction in Science and Technology, Vancouver, 1997
Fellow, ACM, 1996
Counting on Frank (EA Kids, 1994) selected by PC Magazine as a top ten educational
CD-ROM in 1995
IBM Canada Centre for Advanced Studies Award for Contributions to University-
Industry Relations, 1992
IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for Matrix Searching, 1989
NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 1977
NRC Postgraduate Fellowship, 1973–1977
INCO Scholarship, 1968–1971
Weiss Cup, Strathcona Composite High School, Edmonton, 1968
b. Membership on Editorial Boards:
1985–present Member of editorial board of Combinatorica
1994–present Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
1987–1993 Co-founder, member editorial board, SIAM Journal on Disc. Math.
1986–1993 Member of editorial board of SIAM Journal on Computing
c. Membership of Peer Review Committees:
Committee of Visitors on Undergraduate Education, MIT, 2006–2010
Committee of Visitors on Sponsored Research, MIT, 2005–2009
Review of Strategic Plan of Engineering, Waterloo University, 2006
Review of Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 2001
Review of Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 1999
Review of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Alberta, 1997
Review of Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, 1995
President’s Ad Hoc Committee, Harvard University, 1991
Review of Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, 1990
Review of Department of Computer & Information Science, Queen’s University, 1990
| 2009-present | Board of Directors, Microsoft Corporation |
| 2004-2012 | Trustee, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, CA |
| 2004-present | Executive Advisory Board, National Center for Women in IT |
| 2004-present | Advisory Board, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) |
| 2007-present | Director, Math for America Board |
| 2008-present | Trustee, Anita Borg Inst. for Women in Technology, Palo Alto |
| 2003-2008 | Chair of Trustees, Anita Borg Inst. for Women in Technology, Palo Alto |
| 2004-2006 | Past President, Association of Computing Machinery, NY |
| 2003-2006 | Trustee, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA |
| 2002-2004 | President, Association of Computing Machinery, NY |
| 2000-2002 | Vice-President, Assoc. Computing Machinery, NY |
| 2000-2006 | International Advisory Committee, Alberta Ingenuity Foundation |
| 1998-2003 | Trustee, Institute for Women in Technology, Palo Alto |
| 1992-2001 | British Columbia Premier's Advisory Council on Science & Technology |
| 1997-2001 | Western Technologies Seed Investment Fund Advisory Board |
| 1998-2000 | ACM Council, Member at Large |
| 1995-1997 | Board of Post-Secondary Application Service of British Columbia |
| 1990-1997 | Board of Governors, Science World, British Columbia |
| 1992-1997 | Board of Trustees, American Mathematical Society |
| (Chair 1995-1996) | |
| 1990-1996 | Board of the Computing Research Association |
| (Vice-Chair 1993-1995) |
e. Conference Organizations (recent):
2005 ABI TechLeaders Workshop, Microsoft Research, Redmond
2004 Institute for Women and Technology Leadership Workshop, Los Angeles
2002 International Conf. Women in Engineering and Science, Ottawa
2001 Educators Day, ACM1, San Jose
2000 Senior Summit, Grace Hopper Celebration Women in Comp., Cape Cod
2000 Getting I.T. (more representative), Vancouver
1999 Women, Work and Computerization 2000, Vancouver
1998 Honorary Chair: Women in the Workplace, Vancouver
1997 Associate Chair, Papers, CHI’97 Conf. on Human Factors in Comp. Syst.
1996 Co-chair, BC Conference on Electronic Highway
1996 Moderator, B.C. Premier’s Forum on Youth
f. Conference Lectures and Panels (recent):
Walt Disney Animation Studios, 2010
The Trusteeship 2010
Heinz Ethics Dinner (Keynote), Pasadena, CA 2010
Microsoft Women’s leadership and Development Conference (Keynote), Redmond 2009
NITRD Strategic Planning Forum, Cyber Capable Panel, Washington DC, 2009
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Impostor Panel, Keystone, 2008
Tapia Celebration of Minorities in Computing (Keynote), Orlando, 2007
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (Keynote), Orlando, 2007
MSRA Gaming and Graphics Workshop (Keynote), Beijing, 2007
Microsoft Academic Days on Game Development (Keynote), Orlando, 2007
Amazon Developer’s Conference, Seattle, 2007
MSRI Tech Vista (Keynote), Bangalore, 2006
ITICSE (Keynote), Lisbon, Portugal, 2005
SIGCSE (Keynote), St. Louis, 2005
Girl Power (Keynote), Annual Meeting of Nat. Coal. Girls Schools, San Francisco, 2004
Anita Borg Celebration (Keynote), Stanford University, CA, 2003
OWLS Workshop (Keynote), Northampton, MA, 2003
University of Michigan Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Retreat (Keynote), Ypsilanti, MI, 2003
Girls, Technology and Education, Pittsburgh, 2001
Richmond Schools Prof. Development Day on Social Responsibility 2001
Gordon Conference on Innovation in Chemistry Teaching, Ventura, 2001
BC Principals and Vice-Principals Annual Conference (Keynote), Burnaby, 2000
Horizons 2000 (Keynote) Annual Conf. Computer Using Educators, Burnaby, 2000
IEEE Annual Conference, Vancouver, 2000
AMTEC 2000 (Keynote), Vancouver, 2000
NISE Forum, Detroit, 2000
Countdown (Keynote), Burnaby Principals Conference, Burnaby, 2000
Catalyst 2000, BC Science Teachers Annual Meeting, Whistler, 2000
STARS Conference, (Keynote) Regina, 2000
Exploring IT (Keynote), Calgary, AB, 1999
Society for Computers in Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, 1999
Gender and Computer Science (Keynote), Saskatoon, 1999
IBM America’s Women's Leadership Conference, Vancouver, BC, 1999
NSF Workshop on Improving Undergraduate Education in the Mathematical and
Physical Sciences through Use of Technology, Arlington, VA, 1999
Olga Taussky Todd Celebration (Panel), Berkeley, CA, 1999
Graphics Interface 99 (Keynote), Kingston, Ontario, 1999
FCRC Computing Research Association Workshop on Research Careers for Women in
Computer Science and Engineering. Atlanta, GA, 1999
IT Implementation Forum, Burnaby, BC, 1999
Celebration Of Women In Math., Stat. & Comp. Sci. (Public Lecture), Waterloo, 1998
NCTM Standards 2000 Technology Conference, Arlington, VA, 1998
NCTM Annual Meeting (Keynote), Washington, DC, 1998
Can. Math. Soc. Winter Meeting (Public Lecture), Victoria, BC, 1997
M.A.A. Pacific Northwest Section Meeting (Keynote), Bellingham, WA, 1997
Western Can. Conf. Computing Education (Keynote), Malaspina, BC, 1997
BC Technology Planning Institute (Keynote), Vernon, BC, 1996
BC Childcare Symposium (Keynote), Richmond, BC, 1996
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Keynote), Vancouver, BC, 1996
Can. Information Proc. Soc. Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, 1996
Power-Up Symposium, Vancouver, BC, 1996
Educational Computing Organization of Ontario, Toronto, ONT, 1996
h. Invited Lectures (recent, DLS denotes Distinguished Lecture Series):
University of Buffalo (DLS), 2010
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 2010
Loyola University, 2009
U. Delaware (DLS), 2009
Stanford University, 2009
U.C. Riverside (DLS), 2009
University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2008
Yahoo Research (DLS), 2008
Oakland University (DLS), 2008
Cal Poly Pomona (DLS), 2008
Haverford College (DLS), 2008
George Washington University (Welling Lecture), 2008
University of Southern California (DLS), 2008
George Washington University (Welling Lecture), 2007
Northwestern University (DLS), 2006
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (DLS), 2006
Fermi Lab (DLS), 2006
Tufts University, 2005
University of Washington, 2005
Lehigh University, 2005
University of Pennsylvania (DLS), 2005
University of Kentucky (DLS), 2004
Lynda Shaw Memorial Lecture, University of Western Ontario, 2004
Women’s Leadership Conference, New York, 2004
Columbia University (DLS), 2004
University of Minnesota (DLS), 2003
Microsoft Research, Redmond, 2003
Google, Mountain View, 2003
Cal Tech, Pasadena, 2003
Stanford University, Palo Alto, 2003
Mathematics Colloquium, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, 2002
UC Berkeley (Regents Lecture), Berkeley CA, 2002
Xavier University, Cincinnati, 2002
Dalhousie University (DLS), Halifax, 2000
Microsoft Research, Redmond, 2000
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000
American Film Institute, Los Angeles, 1999
University of Calgary (DLS), Calgary, 1999
DePaul University, (DLS) Chicago, 1999
University of Montana (DLS, Public Lecture), MT 1999
University of Victoria (WISE chapter), 1999
University of Saskatchewan, (Public Lecture) 1998
University of Northern British Columbia (Public Lecture), 1998
Texas A&M (DLS), 1997
University of Victoria (DLS, Public Lecture), 1997
University of Waterloo, 1996
Oregon Graduate Institute, 1996
University of Texas (DLS, Public Lecture), 1996
York University, 1996
Research Interests
Theoretical computer science (data structures, algorithms, complexity); interactive multi-media (education: mathematics, programming, literacy; art-therapy); human-computer interaction; gender issues related to information technology, hand-held computers as cognitive aids for aphasic patients
Publications
- D. Grasso, M. Brown Burkins, editors ; forewords by C. Judson King, R. Miller and M. Klawe (2010). Holistic Engineering Education: Beyond Technology.
- M. Klawe, T. Whitney, C.Simard (2009). Women in Computing, take 2. CACM Vol. 52 (2), February 2009.
- M. Klawe (2007). Lumines Forever, Math Horizons 2007.
- Boyd-Graber, J., Nikolova, S., Moffatt, K., Kin, K., Lee, J., Mackey, L., Tremaine, M., and Klawe, M. (2006). Participatory Design with Proxies: Developing a Desktop-PDA System to Support People with Aphasia. Proc. of ACM CHI 2006.
- K. Moffatt, J. McGrenere, B. Purves, and M. Klawe. (2004), The Participatory Design of a Sound and Image Enhanced Daily Planner for People with Aphasia, Proceedings of CHI 2004.
- J. McGrenere, R. Davies, L. Findlater, P. Graf, M. Klawe, K. Moffatt, B. Purves, S. Yang (2003). Insights from the Aphasia Project: Designing Technology For and With People who have Aphasia, Proc. ACM Conference on Universal Usability, Vancouver, BC.
- James Dai, Michael Wu, Jonathan Cohen, and Maria Klawe. (2003). PrimeClimb: Designing to Facilitate Mediated Collaborative Inquiry, in Proceedings of CSCL 2003, Bergen, Norway. Kluwer Academic Publishers: 31-35.
- Gauthier J, Fisher B, and Klawe M. (2003) Peer Presence and Real-Time Assessment: A Symbiotic Relationship in Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2003, Honolulu, HI.
- Cohen J, Dai J, Wu M, Wu T, and Klawe M. (2002) Promoting Peer-to-Peer Discourse for Collaborative Mathematics in Canadian Grade 7 Classrooms, Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2002, Denver, CO. AACE: 325-326.
- Cohen J, Dai J, Wu M, Wu T, and Klawe M. (2002) Sharing Toys on the Electronic Playground: Documenting Collaborative Classroom Interactions, Proceedings of Computers and Advanced Technology in Education 2002, Cancun, Mexico. May 2002. IASTED: 38-42
- Dai J, Wu M, Cohen J, Wu T., and Klawe M. (2002) Toys to Teach - Mathematics as a Collaborative Climbing Exercise, ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications, San Antonio, TX. July 2002. ACM Press: 117-119.
- M. Klawe, Girls, boys and computers, Inroads (the SIGCSE Bulletin), vol. 33, no. 2, 2002.
- W. Duplantis, E. MacGregor, M. Klawe and M. Ng, 'Virtual Family': an Approach to Introducing Java Programming, Inroads (the SIGCSE Bulletin), vol. 33, no. 2, 2002.
- M. Klawe, K. Inkpen, E. Phillips, R.Upitis, A. Rubin, E-GEMS :A Project on Computer Games, Mathematics, and Gender, in Ghosts in the Machine, eds. A. Rubin, N. Yelland, 2002.
- M.Wu, J. Dai, J. Cohen, T. Wu, J. Sze, K.Wong, S.Yang, M. Klawe, Colorful Hints for Collaborative Climbing, CSCL 2002 Workshop on Documenting Collaborative Learning, Boulder, 2002.
- K. Sedig, M. Klawe and M.Westrom, (2001) Role of interface manipulation style and scaffolding on cognition and concept learning in learnware. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 8(1) 34-59.
- M. Klawe, Refreshing of the Nerds, Comm. ACM, 2001.
- C. Conati, M. Klawe, Socially Intelligent Agents in Educational Games, AAAI Fall Symposium, 2000.
- A.R. Davies, M. Klawe, C. Nyhus, H. Sullivan, M. Ng, Gender issues in computer science education, Proc. National Inst. Science Education Forum, Detroit, 2000.
- E. Law, M. Klawe, C. Conati, J. Meech, Team-paced versus Self-paced: The effects of educational game design on collaboration, learning and attitude towards information technology, Proc. ED-MEDIA 2000, Montreal, 2000.
- R. Davies, M. Klawe, K. Muldner, C. Nyhus, H. Sullivan, Virtual Family: Including girls in the world of programming, Proc. ED-MEDIA 2000, Montreal, 2000.
- V. Chan, K. Stafford, M.Klawe, and G. Chen, Gender Differences in Vancouver Secondary Students’ Interests Related to Information Technology Careers, Proc. WWC 2000, Vancouver, 2000.
- M. Klawe, I. Cavers, F. Popowich and G. Chen, ARC: A Computer Science Post-Baccalaureate Diploma Program that Appeals to Women, Proc. WWC 2000, Vancouver, 2000.
- M. Klawe, Computer Games, Education And Interfaces: The E-GEMS Project, Proc. Graphics Interface ’99, Kingston, 1999.
- M. Klawe, Designing Game-based Interactive Multimedia Mathematics Learning Activities, Proc. 4th UCSMP International Conference on Math. Educ., Chicago, 1998.
- M. Klawe, When does the use of computer games and other interactive multimedia software help students learn mathematics? Technology and NCTM Standards 2000 Conference, Arlington, 1998.
- D. Graves and M. Klawe, Supporting learners in a remote computer-supported collaborative learning environment: the importance of task and communication, Proc. CSCL ‘97, Toronto, 1997.
- K. Inkpen, J. McGrenere, K.S. Booth, and M. Klawe, Turn-Taking Protocols for Mouse-Driven Collaborative Environments, Proc. Graphics Interface '97, 138-145.
- Klawe, M., Westrom, M. , Super, M. and Davidson, K. Phoenix Quest: Lessons from developing an educational computer game, Int. Conf. on Multimedia Tech. Man., Hong Kong, 1996.
- Super D. , Westrom M., and Klawe, M., “Design Issues Involving Entertainment Click-ons”, Computer-Human Interaction ‘96 Conference Companion, Vancouver, 1996, pp. 177-178.
- Sedighian K. and Klawe M., “An Interface Strategy for Promoting Reflective Cognition in Children”, Computer-Human Interaction ‘96 Conference Companion, Vancouver, 1996, pp. 179-180.
- Sedighian K. and Klawe M., “Super Tangrams: A Child-Centered Approach to Designing a Computer Supported Mathematics Learning Environment”, Proceedings of ICLS ‘96, 1996.
- Klawe, M. and Philips, E., “A classroom study: electronic games engage children as researchers”, Proc. Computer Support for Collaborative Learning ‘95, Indiana, 1995.
- Inkpen, K., Booth, K.S. and Klawe, M., “Playing together beats playing apart, especially for girls”, Proc. Computer Support for Collaborative Learning ‘95, Indiana, 1995.
- Inkpen, K., Booth, K.S., Gribble, S.D., and Klawe, M., “Give and take: children collaborating on one computer”, CHI’95 Conference Companion, Denver, CO, 1995.1.
- Klawe, M. and Leveson, N., “Women in computing: where are we now?” Communications of the ACM 38(1) (1995) pp. 29-35.
- Lawry, J., Upitis, R., Klawe, M., Anderson, A., Inkpen, K., Ndunda, M., Hsu, D., Leroux, S. and Sedighian, K., “Exploring common conceptions about boys and electronic games”. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching 14(4), (1995) pp. 439-459.
- Klawe, M. and Mumey, B., “Upper and Lower Bounds on Constructing Alphabetic Binary Trees”. SIAM J. of Disc. Math. 8(4) (1995), pp. 638-651. Preliminary results appeared in #15.
- Inkpen, K., Upitis, R., Klawe, M., Lawry, J., Anderson, A., Ndunda, M., Sedighian, K., Leroux, S. and Hsu, D., “We have never-forgetful flowers in our garden: girls’ responses to electronic games”. Journal of Computing in Mathematics and Science Education 13(4) (1994), pp. 383-403.
- Klawe, M., “Shallow Grates”, Theor. Comp. Sci. 123 (1994), pp. 389-395.
- Klawe, M. and Mumey, B., “Upper and lower bounds on constructing alphabetic binary trees”, Proc. 4th ACM, SIAM Symp. on Disc. Algorithms, San Antonio, 1993.
- Klawe, M., “Bringing mathematical research to life in the schools”, Proc. 7th Int. Conf. Math. Education, Quebec, 1992.
- Klawe, M. and Leighton, F.T., “A tight lower bound on the size of planar permutation networks”. SIAM J. Disc. Math. Vol. 5, No. 4 (Nov. 1992), pp. 558-563. Preliminary results appeared in #26.
- Klawe, M., “Superlinear bounds for matrix searching problems”. J. Algorithms 13 (1992). pp. 55-78. Preliminary results appeared in #40.
- Kirkpatrick, D.G., Klawe, M. and Tarjan, R.E., “Polygon triangulation in O(nloglogn) time with simple data-structures”, Journal on Disc. and Comp. Geom. 7 (1992). pp. 329-346. Preliminary results appeared in #25.
- Aggarwal, A.,, Klawe, M. and Shor, P., “Multi-layer grid embeddings for VLSI”, Algorithmica 6 (1991). pp. 241-255. Preliminary results appeared in #35.
- Aggarwal, A., Klawe, M., Lichtenstein, D., Linial, N. and Wigderson, A., “A lower bound on the area permutation networks”, Algorithmica 6 (1991). pp. 129-151. Preliminary results appeared in #35.
- Klawe, M. and Kleitman, D., “An Almost Linear time algorithm for generalized matrix searching”, SIAM J. Disc. Math. 3 (1990). pp. 81-97.
- Aggarwal, A. and Klawe, M., “Applications of generalized matrix searching to geometric algorithms”, Discrete Applied Mathematics 27 (1990). pp. 3-23.
- Klawe, M., “Superlinear bounds for matrix searching programs”, Proc. of 1st ACM/SIAM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms, San Francisco, 1990.
- Kirkpatrick, D. G., Klawe , M. and Tarjan, R. E., “Polygon triangulation in O(nloglogn) time with simple data-structures”, Proc. of 6th Annual Symp. on Comp. Geom., Berkeley, 1990. pp. 34-43.
- Klawe, M. and Leighton, F. T., “A tight lower bound on the size of planar permutation networks”, Proc. of SIGAL Int. Symp. on Algorithms, Tokyo, 1990.
- Aggarwal, A., Klawe, M., Moran, S., Shor, P. and Wilber, R., “Geometric applications of a matrix searching algorithm”, 1986, Algorithmica 2 (1987). pp. 195-208. Preliminary results appeared in #29.
- Bern, M., Klawe, M. and Wong, A., “Bounds on the convex label number of trees”, Combinatorica 7, 2 (1987). pp. 195-208.
- Aggarwal, A., Klawe, M., Moran, S., Shor, P. and Wilber, R., “Geometric applications of a matrix searching algorithm”, Proc. of 2nd Symp. on Computation Geometry, 1987.
- Fagin, R., Klawe, M., Pippenger, N. and Stockmeyer, L. “Bounded depth, polynomial size circuits for symmetric functions”, TCS 36 (1985). pp. 239-250.
- Allender, E., and Klawe M., “Improved lower bounds for the cycle detection problem”, TCS 36 (1985). pp. 231-237.
- Klawe, M., “A tight bound for block and white pebbles on the pyramid”, JACM 32 (1985). pp. 218-228.
- Kirkpatrick, D., Klawe, M. and Pippenger, N., “Some graphic-colouring theorems with applications to generalized connection networks”, SIAD 6 (1985). pp. 576-582.
- Coppersmith, D., Klawe, M. and Pippenger, N., “Alphabetic minimax tress of degree at most t”, SICOMP 15 (1986). pp. 189-192.
- Aggarwal, A., Klawe, M., Lichtenstein, D., Linial, N. and Wigderson, A., “Multi-layer grid embeddings”, Proc. of 26th IEEE Symp. on Found. of Comp. Sci . 1986, pp. 186-196.
- Kirkpatrick, D., and Klawe, M., “Alphabetic minimax trees”, SICOMP 14 (1985). pp. 514-526.
- Hoover, H. J., Klawe, M. and Pippenger, N., “Bounding fan-out in logical networks”, JACM 31 (1984). pp. 13-18.
- Klawe, M., “Limitation on explicit constructions of expanding graphs”, SICOMP 13 (1984). pp. 156-166. Preliminary results appeared in #46.
- Klawe, M., “The complexity of pebbling for two classes of graphs”, Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on the Theory and Appl. of Graphs, John Wiley & Sons, 1984.
- Klawe, M., Paul, W., Pippenger, N. and Yannakakis, M., “On monotone formulae with restricted depth”, Proc. of the 16th ACM Symp. on Theory of Computing. 1984, pp. 480-487.
- Kirkpatrick, D., Corneil, D., and Klawe, M., “On pseudo-similar vertices in trees”, JCT Series B 34 (1983). pp. 323-339.
- Kahn, J., Klawe, M. and Kleitman, D., “Traditional galleries require fewer watchmen”, SIAD 4 (1983). pp. 194-206.
- Klawe, M., Corneil, D. and Proskurowski, A., “Isomorphism testing of hookup graphs”, SIAM J. Alg. Disc. Math. 3 (1982), pp. 260-274.
- Dolev, D., Klawe, M. and Rodeh, M., “On O(nlogn) unidirectional distributed algorithm for extrema finding in a circle”, J. of Algorithms 3 (1982). pp. 245-260.
- Klawe, M. and Yao, A., “Equal justice for unequal share of the cake”, Proc. of the 13th S.E. Conf. on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Comp., Boca Raton, FL, 1982.
- Klawe, M., “Non-existence of one-dimensional expansion graphs”, Proc. of the 22nd Annual Symp. on Found. of Comp. Sci., Nashville, 1982. pp. 109-114.
- Klawe, M., “Dimensions of the sets of invariant means of semigroups”, Illinois J. Math. 24, 2 (1980). pp. 233-243.
- Grossman, J., Harary, F. and Klawe, M., “Generalized ramsey theory for graphs, X: Double Stars”, Discrete Mathematics 28 (1979). pp. 247-254.
- Erdos, P., Harary, F. and Klawe, M., “Residually-complete graphs”, Annals of Discrete Mathematics 6 (1980). pp. 117-123.
- Kirkpatrick, D.G., Corneil, D.G. and Klawe, M., “Generalized notions of pseudo-similarity in graphs”, 11th Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Boca Raton, FL, 1980.
- Klawe, M., “Optimal strategies for a fair betting game”, Discrete Applied Mathematics 1 (1979). pp. 105-115.
- Klawe, M. and Sevcik, K., “Operational analysis versus stochastic modelling of computer systems”, Proc. of Computer Science and Statistics 12th Annual Interface, Univ. of Waterloo, 1979.
- Klawe, M., “Semidirect product of semigroups in relation to amenability, cancellation properties and strong Folner conditions”, Pacific J. Math. 73, 1 (1977). pp. 91-106.
- Klawe, M., “On the dimension of left invariant means and left thick subsets”, Trans. American Math. Soc. 231, 2 (1977). pp. 507-518.
Artistic Works, Performances, Designs
Educational content design of “Counting on Frank”, a math CD-ROM game published by Electronic Arts, 1994.
Producer and lead designer of Virtual Family, an entertaining software activity and tutorial to introduce non-programmers to programming in Java, see taz.cs.ubc.ca/swift.
Producer and lead designer of Phoenix Quest, a mathematical computer adventure game designed for students aged 10-14 with particular attention to the interests of girls.








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