Teaching

Course Webpages

University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2015:  CIS 700 - Integrated Intelligence for Robotics
Fall 2015:  CIS 419/519 - Introduction to Machine Learning
Spring 2015:  CIS 110 - Introduction to Computer Science
Fall 2014:  CIS 419/519 - Introduction to Machine Learning
Spring 2014:  CIS 110 - Introduction to Computer Science
Fall 2013:  CIS 110 - Introduction to Computer Science

Bryn Mawr College
Spring 2013:  CMSC 380 - Relational Network Analysis
Spring 2013:  CMSC 246 - Programming Paradigms
Fall 2012:   CMSC 206 - Data Structures
Fall 2012:   CMSC 110 - Introduction to Computing
Spring 2012:    CMSC 372 - Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2012:    CMSC 206 - Data Structures
Fall 2011:  CMSC 206 - Data Structures
Fall 2011:  CMSC 110 - Introduction to Computing
Spring 2011:    CMSC 380 - Machine Learning
Spring 2011:    CMSC 110 - Introduction to Computing
Fall 2010:    CMSC 380 - Sustainability and Assistive Computing
Fall 2010:    CMSC 312 - Computer Graphics

Swarthmore College
Fall 2009:    CPSC 063 - Artificial Intelligence

University of Maryland Baltimore County
Fall 2007:    CMSC 471 - Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2006:    CMSC 121 - Introduction to Unix (Sections 0101 & 0102)
Fall 2005:    CMSC 121 - Introduction to Unix (Section 0102)
Spring 2005:    CMSC 203 - Discrete Structures

Many of my course webpages contain slides, lecture notes, homework assignments, and project ideas. Please feel free to use any of these materials for teaching your own classes or for your own education. If you do use any of these materials, please send me a brief e-mail letting me know that they are being put to good use. I also welcome any suggestions that you may have, and encourage you to freely share your own course materials.


AI for Computational Sustainability Lab Companion

I'm happy to announce the online textbook Artificial Intelligence for Computational Sustainability:  A Lab Companion with Doug Fisher, Bistra Dilkina, and Carla Gomes.  This is an experiment in crowd-sourced textbook creation, intended to supplement an AI course with assignments related to sustainability.  We recently presented papers on this project at AAAI'12 (Fisher et al 2012a) and Computational Sustainability 2012 (Fisher et al 2012b).


Educational Software

Gridworld search and rescue: a project framework for a course in artificial intelligence.

This educational software allows students to develop an intelligent agent for a search and rescue application in a partially observable gridworld. It allows students to focus on high-level AI issues for solving the problem rather than low-level robotic navigation. It was used as the semester project for CS63 (Artificial Intelligence) in Fall 2009 at Swarthmore College and CMSC 471 (Artificial Intelligence) in Fall 2007 at UMBC.


Showcase of Student Projects

Below are samples of student projects from my courses:

CMSC 380 - Sustainability and Assistive Computing - Fall 2010, Bryn Mawr College

Poster Presentations of Semester Group Projects

ASL-to-Text Poster Presentation       Overfishing Poster Presentation



CMSC 312 - Computer Graphics - Fall 2010, Bryn Mawr College

Demo Reel of Student Projects