Rate My Professor Frank McCown

McCown also serves as Senior Content Developer for zyBooks since 2019. His research specializations encompass web archiving, digital preservation, web crawling, web science, web search engines, and mobile application development; he developed Warrick, a tool for reconstructing lost websites during his doctoral studies. He has published dozens of research papers in these domains and authored or co-authored zyBooks textbooks including Mobile App Development with Android and Jetpack Compose (2024, with Dan Ouellette), Data Structures in Java (2024, with Evan Olds and Roman Lysecky), C# Fundamentals (2022), Mobile App Development with Android and Kotlin (2022), Database Systems with SQL (2020, senior contributor), Mobile App Development with Android and Java (2018), and Web Programming (2016). Notable papers include Why Web Sites Are Lost (and How They're Sometimes Found) in Communications of the ACM (2009), What Happens When Facebook is Gone? at ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2009), Tools for Discovering and Archiving the Mobile Web in D-Lib Magazine (2015), and Agreeing to Disagree: Search Engines and Their Public Interfaces (2007). McCown received the Harding University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2011 and 2019, along with Old Dominion University honors: Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant (2007), College of Sciences Dissertation Fellowship (2006), Outstanding Graduate Assistant (2005), and Dominion Graduate Scholar (2004). His service includes program committees for ACM IEEE JCDL (2008-present), WADL (2013-2020), TWAW (2011-2019), workshop organization at Stanford (2012), and Program Co-Chair for International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation (2009).