Ken Alford

Schooling

• PhD George Mason University
• M.C.S University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• MA University of Southern California
• BA Brigham Young University

Published Materials

Books

• K. L. Alford and C. Manscill. Saints at War: Desert Storm, Afghanistan, and Iraq.(Currently being prepared for publication in 2008.)
• K. L. Alford and L. Stamps, Book of Mormon Readers' Theater, Volume 1(1 Nephi–Mosiah). 2001, 250 pages 2001. (Released on CD.)
• K. L. Alford and L. Stamps, Book of Mormon Readers' Theater, Volume 2 (Alma–Moroni). 2001, 427 pages. (Released on CD.)

Major Papers and Presentations (Selected List)

• K. L. Alford. "The Utah Expedition and The New York Times." Mormon History Association 2007 Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 24-27, 2007.
• K. L. Alford. "Best-in-Class Leadership Benchmarking Study." Proceedings of the 2007 Society of Management International Business Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada,March 26-29, 2007.
• K. L. Alford and C. Lafferty. "Preparing Powerful Presentations." Society of Management Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 26-29, 2007.
• K. L. Alford. "Strategic Leadership Study." American Psychological Association Conference. Fairfax, Virginia, March 1-2, 2007.
• K. L. Alford. "Leadership Program Development." U.S. Department of Transportation "Leaders for Tomorrow" Symposium, Washington, DC, February 21, 2007.
• K. L. Alford. "World War II: The Home Front." World War II Symposium, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 13, 2006.
• K. L. Alford. "Saints at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Gulf War." Department of Religious Education Friday Forum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 13, 2006.
• K. L. Alford. "The Department of Defense and Network Centric Railroading." Systems and Software Technology Conference Proceedings, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 1-4, 2006.
• K. L. Alford. "Developing and Teaching a Graduate-Level Strategic Leadership Program." Society for Advancement of Management (SAM) 2006 International Business Conference Orlando, Florida, 6-9 April 2006.
• K. L. Alford. "Strategic Leadership." American Psychological Association Division 19/21 Conference. Fairfax, Virginia, 2-3 March 2006.
• K. L. Alford and M. K. Davis. "Survey of Senior Leader Development Programs." American Psychological Association Division 19/21 Conference, Fairfax, Virginia, 2-3 March.
• C. Lafferty and K. L. Alford. "Leadership and Information Strategy: A Curriculum for Future Strategic Leaders." Educational Symposium for Research for Innovations, The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Washington, DC, February 25, 2006.

Chapters

• K. L. Alford. "The Utah Expedition and the New York Times." Utah War Sesquicentennial Anthology, Peter Delafosse, ed. University of Utah Press, tentative publication date: 4th quarter,2008. (Accepted for publication.)
• K. L. Alford, E. Ressler, et. al. "A History of Computing at the United States Military Academy." West Point Bicentennial History Anthology. Abilene, Texas: McWhiney FoundationPress, 2004, pp. 561-585.
• G. Conti, K. Alford, et. al. "A Comprehensive Undergraduate Information Assurance Program" in Security Education and Critical Infrastructures, C. Irvine and H. Armstrong, Editors. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, 2003, pp. 243-260.
• K. L. Alford, et. al., The Doctrine & Covenants Reference Companion, Dennis Largey, editor (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2008 tentative publication date.)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• K. L. Alford. "The Utah Expedition and the New York Times." Journal of Mormon History, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Currently in peer-review.)
• K. L. Alford and S. R. Ditmeyer. "Network-Centric Operations: Defense and Transportation Synergy." CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering,January 2007.
• K. L. Alford. "Email Etiquette." CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering.January 2006.
• K. L. Alford. "Handheld Computing." CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. June 2005.
• B. L. Shoop and K. L. Alford. "Army Transformation: Uniformed Army Scientist and Engineer." CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. December 2002.
• J. Surdu and K. L. Alford. "Platform Independent Tactical Data Entry Devices." CrossTalk:The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. August 2002.
• K. L. Alford. "DoD and the Global Information Infrastructure." CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, August 1995.
• K. L. Alford. "DoD Software and the National Information Infrastructure." CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, July 1994.
• K. L. Alford and M. L. Fichten. "Information Mission Area Bulletin Board System."CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, January 1993.
• R. C. Graham and K. L. Alford. "Statistics for Chemists." Intelligent Instruments and Computers, November/December 1990.