ComputersActive Projects
breveCluster
cluster for research in evolutionary learning and artificial life
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
catCluster
general purpose compute cluster [3]
Virtual NMU
interactive virtual environment of NMU's campus
NMUBUNTU
specialized Linux distribution for NMU students and faculty
Holobot
robot with holonomic function in two-dimensional space
Pending Projects
Latte
to combine distbreve work
(for asynchronous, parallelizable steve code) and filament work [6]
for a new simulation environment to supersede breve
3D scanner
lasers and vector math
TrackSight
human interface / 2D spacial input processing software
Courses
CS 101 — Web Site Construction
markup, style sheets, and JavaScript
CS 120 — Computer Science I
Java applets
CS 201 — C++
an introduction to Bjarne Stroustrup's mind
CS 422 — Algorithms: Design & Analysis
of calculation methods and problem-solving operations
Presentations and Papers
"Visualization and Analysis Techniques for Understanding Large Artificial Neural Networks" [6]
NMU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium (October 26, 2007 October),
Eighteenth Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (November 2, 2007)
← Presented material on new ways of visualizing large artificial neural networks.
"A Simulation of Evolved Autotrophic Reproduction" [4]
Correy A. Kowall and Brian J. Krent.
In the proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2007 (Main Conference / Poster Session and also in the
Undergraduate Workshop) (July 2007),
NMU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium (November 8, 2007)
← Paper presented at the GECCO 2007 conference.
"Distributed Evolution of Creative Agents" [2]
NMU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium (Winter 2006)
← This was an hour+ long presentation, intended for a math/computer science audience.
"Distributed Evolution of Self Assembling Agents" [1]
The 11th Annual Celebration of Student Research & Creative Works (April 2006)
(Offsite PDF Abstract)
← This was a short 25 minute general audience presentation.
Press and Presence
"NMU Students Present Paper on Artificial Evolution" [5]
Miriam Moeller, Journal Staff Writer. The Mining Journal (October 14, 2007)
"Computers and Labs" [3]
Northern Michigan University Mathematics and Computer Science Department Newsletter (Winter 2006)
← Just a brief mentioning of the projects in the department newsletter.
Curiosities
The Croquet Project
platform for creating deeply collaborative multi-user online applications
D Programming Language
object-oriented, imperative, multiparadigm programming language
Go Programming Language
expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected
Cyclone
a safe dialect of C
Scala Programming Language
general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way
ArtworkNMU PhysicsNMU Computer Science
NMU Invitational Programming Contest
8th, 9th, and 10th annual programming contests
NMU Unix User Group Logo
A simple logo created for the NMUUUG.
PersonalCurrent extra-curricular activities
Association for Computing Machinery (President Fall 2008 – Present; Vice President Fall 2007 – Summer 2008),
NMU Unix User Group (Vice President Fall 2007 – Winter 2008, USLUG IRC Network CSC Link Administrator Summer 2008 – Present), (Primary Virtual NMU / CSC administrator 2006-2009)
Radio X (DJ Fall 2008 – Present)
Past extra-curricular activities
Otaku Anime Club ("Evil Overlord"/President Summer 2008 – Fall 2008; "Paper"/Secretary Summer 2007 – Winter 2008),
Japanese Language Study Group ("Great Teacher Onizuka"/Japanese Instructor Fall 2005, Winter & Fall 2006, Fall 2007),
Organization for Interactive Computing,
Physics Club
Indent style
Frequently similar to Whitesmiths style;
sometimes Banner style sneaks in there,
depending on my mood at that millisecond.
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