I am a Professor of Computer Science at Olin College in Needham MA. In 2009 and 2010, I was a Visiting Scientist at Google, Inc. You can read an interview with me at EEWeb.
Here is my original web page, which still has most of my teaching and research material.
Here is a page of ideas for projects, some for students, some I hope to get to eventually. Here is the web page for an innovative college structure I would like to implement, and an experiment I am running in Workplace-Mode education.
That's a picture of me finishing the Busa Bushwhack a few years ago.
BooksAll of my books are available free from Green Tea Press. Or you can buy hard copies:
Recent ClassesSpring 2011
Spring 2011
Slides and talksOn May 23, 2012 I gave a talk at Google's Cambridge office about my book, Think Complexity. Here are the slides: At PyCon 2012 I taught a tutorial on Bayesian statistics. It is based on Chapters 5 and 8 of my book, Think Stats. Here is the web page I created for the tutorial. And here, courtesy of PyCon and pyvideo.org, is the video. It's three hours long, so get comfortable!
Here's a screencap of me magically deriving Bayes's Theorem: On October 4 I am doing a webcast with O'Reilly Media; the subject is statistical hypothesis testing. I make the argument that if you know how to program, you can do hypothesis testing with simple simulations. Here is the announcement and my slides.
Here are my slides for a talk at Google, September 19, 2011:
Notes for a talk at the Boston Python Meetup.
Here are the slides for a talk I gave at Olin College and at Notre Dame Academy in Hingham MA. If you read the speaker notes, you can see what I was planning to say.
Here's a talk I gave at Northeastern that they kindly put on YouTube
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