Design patterns: an essential component of CS curricula. - Owen L. Astrachan; W. Garrett Mitchener; Geoffrey Berry; Landon P. Cox (SIGCSE, 1998)

A chat room assignment for teaching network security. - W. Garrett Mitchener; Amin Vahdat (SIGCSE, 2001)

Inferring Leadership Structure from Data on a Syntax Change in English. - W. Garrett Mitchener (Scientific Applications of Language Methods, 2010)

Mean-Field and Measure-Valued Differential Equation Models for Language Variation and Change in a Spatially Distributed Population. - W. Garrett Mitchener (SIAM J. Math. Anal., 2010)

A Mathematical Model of Prediction-Driven Instability: How Social Structure Can Drive Language Change. - W. Garrett Mitchener (J. Log. Lang. Inf., 2011)

Evolution of Communication Protocols Using an Artificial Regulatory Network. - W. Garrett Mitchener (Artif. Life, 2014)

A Stochastic Model of Language Change Through Social Structure and Prediction-Driven Instability. - W. Garrett Mitchener (SIAM J. Appl. Math., 2017)

How to evolve a neuron. - W. Garrett Mitchener (GECCO Companion, 2021)