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(photo borrowed from NASA's JPL ) 		Charles Snow
email: csnow@cs.gmu.edu 		This site last updated: 13:52 20 May 2004
This page last updated: 13:52 20 May 2004

What I Do:

Teaching:

Ah, summer... I am not teaching this summer, but will work in NETLAB (room 322A, ST2) on some enhancements to NEW: Network EducationWare. This open-source program, created and evolved by Dr. J. Mark Pullen and his students in NETLAB, provides for simultaneous participation in lectures via the Internet, or for time-shifted learning (students playback recordings of lectures).

I have taught these courses in the last 12 months:

Students interested in independent studies projects with me should send me an email message; I have several interesting projects in this area that want attention.

Research Interests:

I am primarily interested in the area of pervasive computing.

I am also interested in distance learning, some of which makes use of pervasive computing. Of partiuclar interest are: (1) remotely conducted student evaluation & assessment, (2) distributed, virtual campuses that aim to provide not just a teaching setting but also some aspects of what real campus interaction offers, (3) very widespread deployment of distance learning for certain topic areas.

What I've Done:

My thesis work was in the area of computer speech recognition, looking at the problem of how well phonetic models trained on a corpus for one ‘dialectic’ group work when faced with speakers not in that dialectic group. This is a serious problem for deployment of real speech recognizers for wide-spread, general-purpose use.

I have taught undergraduate operating systems, assembly-language and machine organization, computer networks, and C programming courses for many years, as well as supervised a number of independent studies projects.

And in antiquity, I was a systems manager, running UNIX on computers, some now found in museums [PDP 11/45, VAX 11/7*0, all generations of Sun].