Rate My Professor Douglas Jones

Jones has produced key publications such as the book Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count? co-authored with Barbara Simons (Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2012); chapters including 'On Optical Mark-Sense Scanning' in Towards Trustworthy Elections (Springer, 2010) and 'Evaluation of Voting Technologies' in Secure Electronic Voting (Kluwer, 2002); and articles like 'Douglas Jones on Today's Voting Machines' (IEEE Computer, 2016), 'Internet Voting in the U.S.' (Communications of the ACM, 2012), 'Auditing Elections' (Communications of the ACM, 2004), 'Application of Splay Trees to Data Compression' (Communications of the ACM, 1988), and 'Concurrent Operations on Priority Queues' (Communications of the ACM, 1989). His contributions extend to non-refereed works and web resources on voting testing and motor control. Awards include the Election Verification Network Award (2015), University of Iowa Office of Services for the Handicapped Certificate of Recognition (1980), Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi. Jones held significant roles such as Chair of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Assembly (2002–2003), Associate Chairman of the Computer Science Department (1989–1990), Chair of the Undergraduate Committee (1999–2003), and member of various departmental, college, and university committees including the Advanced Computing Facilities Committee (1990–1996). He has refereed for journals like Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and ACM Transactions, reviewed NSF grant proposals, and provided expert testimony on voting systems.