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teaching currently and that I have taught in the past.
My Research
My research focuses on program language design and
implementation, especially as it applies to graphical
user interfaces. The current project I am involved with focuses
on the development of computer aided drawing tools that make it
easier for instructors and students to draw and animate data structures, such as
trees and lists, that are commonly presented in undergraduate computer
science courses. Such tools can provide presentation aids for instructors
in the classroom, allow for the creation of animated notes that might
accompany a course, distance course, or textbook, and allow either students
or instructors to provide an animated set of homework solutions.
An initial paper from this project can be found here.
Some of the research projects I have previously been involved in include:
Spreadsheet Programming:
Techniques and algorithms that allow spreadsheet-style
constraints to specify graphical interfaces.
Optimizing Storage Use in Graphical Toolkits:
Adaptive, profile-based compilation techniques for reducing the amount
of storage required by applications created using rapid prototyping,
graphical toolkits.
Pam Interface Toolkit:
Interactive, interpreted front-end to the Amulet graphical
interface development environment that allows a programmer to
rapidly prototype applications by creating graphical objects and
callback procedures in Python. Pam is an outgrowth of the
adaptive, profile-based compilation project and is used to
help us prototype our optimization ideas.
Whiteboard Environment:
Visual programming environment for creating programs that
manipulate arrays, lists, graphs, and trees.
Lapidary:
Interface design tool that allows the graphics and run-time
behaviors that go inside an application window to be
specified pictorially. Lapidary is part of the
Garnet toolkit developed at Carnegie Mellon University.
Effective Presentations
If you are preparing a presentation, whether it be a conference talk,
a lecture, or a non-technical talk, consider the following
tips.
