Academic Biography

Some of my academic work

• [January 2009] The following paper entitled Evolution of an International Collaborative Student Project was presentated at the ACE 2009 conference in Wellington, New Zealand and published in the conference proceedings. I am one of four authors. The paper received a "Best Paper" award.

• [May 2008] The following paper entitled From Foundations to Current Work in a One Quarter Course on Artificial Intelligence was published in the Proceedings fo the 21st International FLAIRS Conference which took place in Coconut Grove, FL. Here is the presentation I gave.

• [April 2006] The following paper entitled A Theorem Prover for a Diagrammatic Blocks World was published in the Proceedings of the 2006 Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference which took place at Valparaiso University. Here is the presentation I gave.

• [August 2005] The following paper entitled Search and Inference with Diagrams was published in the Proceedings of the The Ninth IASTED International Conference on INTERNET & MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS which took place in Honolulu, HI. Here is the presentation I gave.

• [October 2004] The following paper entitled Living in a Transparent Future: Search in a Wired World was published in the Proceedings of the WWW@10 conference which took place in Terre Haute, IN. Here is the presentation I gave.

• [September 2004] Robert Signorelli ('02), Chris Barell ('03), and I published our Zero-Click shopping invention. Here is the full abstract. Contact me, if you want to know more.

• [May 2004] Peter Nei ('03), Chris Barell ('03), and I had the following paper A Diagrammatic Inference System for the Web published in the Alternate Track Papers and Posters Proceedings of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference, which was held in NYC. We did this work while Peter and Chris were students at Rose-Hulman. I presented the following poster at the conference.

• [April 2003] Robert Signorelli ('02), a student working on a senior thesis with me, and myself gave the following presentation Towards a General-Purpose Search Engine at the prestigious 2003 Search Engine Meeting in Boston, MA.

• [February 2003] A paper of mine, entitled: An XML-Based Syllabus Editor and Search Engine that is published in the Proceedings of the Stop Surfing - Start Teaching 2003 National Conference to be held in Las Vegas, NV. The powerpoint presentation that I gave at the conference.

• [November 2002] A short work-in-progress report presented at the FIE 2002 conference in Boston. This is work in which I participated as part of an NSF grant for preparing a case study for teaching inclusive design in an undergraduate engineering school. The powerpoint presentation that goes with the paper on inclusive design was prepared and presented by Madeleine Rothberg with some assistance from the rest of us. Among others, it contains information on how one would use the case study in mechanical engineering or in computer science.

• [October 2002] ELearn 2002 paper on XML Based Course Websites. The ELearn 2002 powerpoint presentation that I gave at the conference. The XML course description search engine that is mentioned in the paper. You need >IE5.5 in order to view the XML documents as we use XSL stylesheets to render them. The XML course description editor that was mentioned in the paper. Our course descriptions begin with CSSE. You need >IE5.5 in order to view the XML documents as we use XSL stylesheets to render them.

• [October 2001] FIE 2001 paper entitled An Undergraduate Research Course Aimed at Furthering the Web. The FIE 2001 powerpoint presentation that I gave at the conference.