Cruse attended college at Emory University where he majored in
mathematics. He was awarded a fellowship for graduate study at
UC-Berkeley by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation on condition that he
agree to give "serious consideration" to pursuing a career in
college teaching, and after finishing his Master's Degree
at Berkeley, he accepted USF's offer in 1966 of a
"temporary" position teaching classes in mathematics: that position
morphed into a permanent one after he completed his mathematics
doctorate, awarded by Emory University in 1974. Professor Cruse
began teaching computer science courses over two decades ago, soon
after USF acquired its first UNIVAC 90/60 mainframe. His current
research interests are in the areas of systems programming for
microcomputers and processor virtualization.
