Teaching

I remain in academia to gain credentials to instruct, and my three semesters of teaching experience were extremely successful. In the Spring of 2009, I was the teaching assistant for Cornell’s CS 5150 Software Engineering Course with Prof. Bill Arms. For the effort, I won both the Yahoo! Graduate Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Cornell Computer Science Department’s Teaching Assistant Award. Additionally, 30% of the student groups turned their class projects into companies. One of the student project groups – Seamless Receipts – received $250,000 in venture capital funding from D.J. Gotham Ventures at the end of the semester.

In subsequent years, I helped with the instruction for the same course. William Arms can provide a reference for the quality of my work.

To help supplement my teaching experience, I also give and plan guest lectures on topics related to my work in Information Science and Computer Science courses. I’ll list some of the examples here:

INFO 4307/6307, Cornell University, Introduction to Machine Learning Model Evaluation and Comparison for Undergraduates. November 2010. 2010_Carl_course_presentation.pptx.

Conference Lecture, University of Washington, Tools for Text Conference, Introduction to Supervised Learning and NLP for Political Science. June 2010. ppt Experimental methods .docx

Visiting Course Lecture, Cornell University. Software Engineering CS 5150 -- "Managing Large Projects". September 10, 2009.

Visiting Course Lecture, Cornell University. Software Engineering CS 5150 -- "Managing Large Projects". February 10, 2009. Accompanying slides

Visiting Course Lecture, Cornell University. CS 431 & 631, INFO 431 & 631 -- "Open Source / Open Standards". April 4, 2008. Accompanying slides.

CS 631 Lecture Recommended Reading:

J.Spolsky, “Martian Headsets,” Joel on Software, Mar 30, 2008

B. Sutor, “Open Standards vs. Open Source,” Striking the Right Chord, If You Can Find It, March 30, 2008 2006;

Y. Benkler, The Wealth of Networks : How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yale University Press, 2006. Chapters 1,2

Raymond, Eric. "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". 1998.

My lecture scribe notes on:

pivoted document normalization

the Language Modeling approach to Information Retrieval

few factor representations (Latent Semantic Indexing)

Teaching