Phone: (215) 951-1096 (it is WAY better to send me e-mail than to leave voice mail - in fact, since returning from my sabbattical I found I don't use my office phone at all)
Office: 131 Holroyd Building (Math Science and Technology Center)
Teaching
I have been teaching at La Salle since May 1999. Prior to that, I taught
at Rutgers-Camden (starting in 1991).
This spring I am teaching:
CSC 240 - Database Systems
CSC 371 - Data Mining
CIS 624 - Data Warehousing (online)
If you notice a pattern, let me know :-)
In spring 2011 I was on sabbatical. I worked on
talking to people in industry about Data Warehousing
learning how to integrate my data mining code into the Weka open source software
Android programming
learning more about web development - a little JavaScript.
To see more info about my teaching
background and experience See
My Teaching Page.
(However, all of my recent courses have been hosted on Blackboard instead of on my own web site)
Research
I have worked on research involving Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), sometimes
in combination with some other artificial intelligence areas, especially
learning. I am particularly excited about my ongoing work involving CBR
and law enforcement.
TJ Highley and I published a paper "Empirical Analysis of Case-Editing Approaches for Numeric Prediction" in the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences and Engineering (CISSE '09) in Fall 2009.
I also published a paper with Cynthia Line at the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in Norway in summer 2003:
Redmond, M
Redmond, M. &
Line, C. (2003). Empirical Analysis of Case-based Reasoning and Other
Prediction Methods in a Social Science Domain: Repeat Criminal Victimization.
In Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development;Proceedings of 5th
International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Ashley, K. & Bridge,
D. (eds), June 2003, Trondheim, Norway. Springer-Verlag
Because of copyrights I cannot post the paper here, but I have a picture from Norway that is
pretty awesome.
I have also widened my research since coming to La Salle; my paper with Professors
Tavana and Joglekar of the School of Business was published in 2007.
For more info, see
My Research Page.
Education:
I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech in 1992, completing
my grand tour of the south. To see my educational background See
My Education Page.
I keep learning!!
Visual Basic, Java, C++, C, Pascal, Lisp, PL/I, COBOL are all languages I've spent a fair amount of time with.
The only languages that ever drove me insane were APL and ML,
though at this point I'd hate to have to go back to C++.
Latest - Python and JavaScript. Here's my JavaScript
Sandbox.
(most of this stuff is not good UI :-) )
Used to belong to AACE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education)
Family
My wife, Susan Phillips ,
is the Physical Chemistry Lab Coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania.
It's hard to believe that she's in her 10th year at Penn.
That is after 11 years
at Holy
Family College , in Philadelphia where she had been
an Associate Professor of Chemistry.
She had to leave after Jon and Cyndi left :-)
Oh, and she doesn't believe in "Holy Family University"
BTW, She received her PhD from Georgia Tech in 1986, before
I even started working on mine.
She has taken up yoga, and loves it.
She is back to running since she has learned of ways to avoid pain, and finished the Philly Half Marathon in 2011.
Alas,
kickboxing,
which she really enjoyed, seemed to give her tennis elbow.
We were married at a church on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, in May 1990. (Oh my, almost 22 years!) We tell Bryan that Georgia is his ancestral homeland.
Bryan Redmond was born in May 1994. I can't believe he's almost 18!
Now, he's waiting to hear from colleges ... we'll see in April.
He's been looking forward to voting for years.
He sent his first letter to the president in spring 2006 (about NCLB)
(he actually wrote one in 2004 but didn't send it).
he finished 15th in NJ in Earth Science in the Science League in 2009, and he placed 1st in Burlington County in the Merck Science Day Integrated Science test in 2010.
He also won 2nd place in a local photography contest a couple years ago,
and finished 2nd in a state creative writing contest sponsored by the NJ Association for Gifted Children in 2002.
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan in Toronto, taken in August 2010
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan in the San Francisco area, taken in August 2009
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan in Stanley Park in Vancouver, taken in August 2006
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan on the Sognefjord in Norway, taken in June 2003
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan, taken in October 2000
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan, taken in September 1998
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan, taken around October 1996
Other Interests
I like playing and watching sports, and listening to rock music. My youthful idealism
has faded, I don't think I've gotten involved in politics since I left
Charlotte NC way back when (well, we put up yard signs for Election 2004 and 2008). Click
for more info, links, plus one of my favorite stories.
pretty awesome.
I have also widened my research since coming to La Salle; my paper with Professors
Tavana and Joglekar of the School of Business was published in 2007.
For more info, see
My Research Page.
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan in Toronto, taken in August 2010
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan in the San Francisco area, taken in August 2009
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan in Stanley Park in Vancouver, taken in August 2006
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan on the Sognefjord in Norway, taken in June 2003
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan, taken in October 2000
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan, taken in September 1998
Click here to see a
photo of Bryan, taken around October 1996