A few years ago, I posted annual
reviews of what I did in the year; thought that this year I might
bring that tradition back.
This year has been a year of some major achievements and changes. I
earned tenure, published a major piece of integrative scholarship that
I’ve been working on for a few years, and one of my Ph.D students
successfully defended her proposal.
I’m also working on figuring out what the next phase of structure and
operation looks like for my research lab, since Sole Pera moved to Delft. I’m
thrilled she got this new position! It’s been a very good 6 years
building the PIReTs and having other academic adventures with her, and
we continue to work together remotely on various things. For now, she’s
been continuing to meet with the research group while some of the
current students finish and we figure out what the long-term future of
the PIReT ship will be.
It’s time for this year’s State of the
Tools. Things are a bit in flux this year, as I’m working on
transitioning my endpoints from Windows to macOS, but I’ll run down
where I’m at and where I’m headed; there have also been substantial
changes in our personal computing infrastructure.
Published on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 and tagged with talks.
I’m starting to do some speaking again, and now that Japan has opened
back up for travel, I’m very pleased to be giving a couple of talks
later this month:
On November 19, I will be speaking at Waseda University,
hosted by Tetsuya Sakai.
On November 20, I will be giving a keynote talk at IBIS
2022 (Information-Based Induction Sciences). Thank you very much to
Toshihiro Kamishima for inviting me!
I’ll have a little time around the edges of my trip, so if you are in
Tokyo and would like to connect, send me an e-mail and let’s see what we
can arrange. Or say hi at IBIS!
Published on Saturday, August 13, 2022 and tagged with teaching and academia.
White Rabbit from The Nursery Alice, illustrated by John
Tenniel.
As long as I have been teaching, I’ve used a “late day” policy in
most of my classes. I designed this policy after learning about
universal course design while taking Preparing Future Faculty
at the University of Minnesota, but I don’t think I’ve ever publicly
written down the motivations and design of this policy. So here you
go!
A few years ago, early in my first faculty position, I wrote about how I tracked academic work. I
still implement the core ideas of that piece, but most of the details
have changed; I thought now, after working on my first annual review
after applying for tenure, would be a good time to write an update.
