Michael Tindall

Biography

Education: BS, Seattle Pacific College, 1971; MS, University of Illinois, 1975; PhD, University of Illinois, 1975. At SPU since 1980. Before coming to Seattle Pacific, Mike Tindall was at Colorado State University, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses, supervised eight master’s thesis students, and researched developments in high-level language computer machine architectures, compiler error detection, and emerging areas related to microprocessor computer systems with new tech companies such as Microsoft and Apple. To improve his ability to stay up to date in computing technologies and professional software development, he also began ongoing consulting work as a real-time operating system and programming languages expert for computer-based industrial control systems. In 1980, Dr. Tindall responded to a call for a career in Christian higher education, and returned to Seattle Pacific University as the first chairperson of the newly created Department of Computer Science. His first effort was to design and implement the initial SPU undergraduate computer science curriculum, based upon national standards. Over the years, he has been involved in all subsequent curricular revisions and related instructional computing lab and equipment planning necessary to keep SPU programs up to date with the evolving and fast-changing computer science field. Dr. Tindall has taught nearly all courses offered in the Computer Science curriculum, and has created or introduced many new courses in a variety of computer science topics, including operating systems programming, Windows GUI programming, object-oriented programming, Pascal, C, C++, Java, C#, PHP, JavaScript, and Python programming languages, network socket programming, and client-server web programming. His current teaching specializations are in programming languages, operating systems, algorithm analysis, and the interactive web client-server programming environment.

Research Interest

Computer Science