2001-2002 ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES REPORT
(dates covered: 4/1/01 - 3/31/02)

Timothy J. Hickey,

• Computer Science Department,
• Internet Studies Program (chair),
• General Science Program

II. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES

1. List courses taught throughout the year, (title, number, enrollments, hours per week). For team-taught courses, please provide details of your specific responsibilities. Please discuss, if applicable, new courses created, new pedagogical materials and techniques, and supervision of teaching assistants. You may wish to attach course syllabi and relevant course materials.

   11 Courses taught -- (200 students total)

   • Summer 2001
     • Summer School
       • CS2a -- (9 undergrads)
       • CS11a -- (10 undergrads)
       • CS98a
         • Groupware in Education (1 undergrad)
         • Intelligent Debugging (1 undergrad)

   • Autumn 2001
     • Lecture Courses
       • CS2a -- (158 undergrads)
       • TYP Cosi -- (10 TYP students)
       • CS98a --
         • Interval Arithmetic and Software Engineering ( 6 undergrads)
         • Intelligent Debugging and Error Detection ( 1 undergrads)
       • INET92 -- ( 1 undergrad)
         • Estimating the Effect of IM on Families (1 undergrad)
       • CS200 --
         • Survey of Current Groupware Research (1 MS students)
       • CS210 --
         • Groupware Prototyping (1 MS students)
       • CS300 -- ( 1 PhD student)

2. Spring 2002 - sabbatical

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   SCHEDULE: AUTUMN 2001 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 9:00 CS2a CS2a CS2a 9:30 CS2a CS2a CS2a 10:00 grading CS200 10:30 grading CS200 CS200 11:00 TYP Cosi grading TYP Cosi CS200 11:30 TYP Cosi grading TYP Cosi CS200 12:00 CS98a TYP Cosi officehours grading 12:30 officehours TYP Cosi officehours grading 1:00 CS200 officehours CS98 officehours grading 1:30 CS200 officehours CS98 officehours grading 2:00 CS210 officehours CS99 2:30 INET98 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30

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   New Pedagogical Materials

   • Software

   • Web-materials
     • CS2a at www.cs.brandeis.edu/~tim/Classes/Aut01/CS2a

   • Please describe your involvement in the direction of reading courses, theses, dissertations, and other student research projects (undergraduate and graduate).
     • Ph.D. Students
       • David Wittenberg -- Validated Interval Constraint Solving
     • M.S. Students
       • John Langton
     • Undergraduate Independent Study/Research Projects
       • ???

     • Please list numbers and categories (first year, graduate, etc.) of advisees, and comment on other relevant advising and/or interactions with students outside the classroom. List the times and days of your scheduled office hours.
       • Advisees --
         • graduate students - 1
         • undergrad majors - 84
         • undergrad minors - 26
         • undecided sophmores/transfers - 0
         • first year students - 0
       • Scheduled Office Hours (signup sheet posted on door, with 10 minute time slots)
         • Autumn 01: 3 hours/week

III. PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH, AND ARTISTIC CREATIONS

• List publications that have appeared from March, 2001 to the March, 2002. In the creative arts, please list and describe artistic creations, performances or exhibitions.

  1. T. Hickey, Q. Ju, M.H. van Emden, "Interval Arithmetic: from Principles to Implementation",
     Journal of the ACM volume 48, issue 5, pp. 1038-1068, September 2001.
  2. T. Hickey, "Metalevel Interval Arithmetic and Verifiable Constraint Solving", (.ps.gz), (pdf),
     Journal of Functional and Logic Programming, vol. 2001, no. 7, October, 2001.
  3. A. Kumar, K. Hufford, J. Bergin, T. Hickey, "Internet-Centric Curriculum", The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, vol. 16, no 4, May 2001, pp. 45-49.
  4. A. Kumar, K. Hufford, J. Bergin, T. Hickey, L. Wilkens, "Internet Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum", The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, vol. 17, no 3, Feb 2002, pp. 39-43.
  5. "Internet Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum"
     Amruth Kumar, Kevin Hufford, Timothy Hickey, Linda Wilkens, Aparna Mahadev, Andrew Beiderman,
     Panel position statements accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 50-51, 2002.
  6. "TA-Tool" (.txt)
     Timothy J. Hickey, Richard Alterman, and John Langton
     Faculty Poster presented at SIGCSE 2002 and archived online
• List manuscript(s) submitted or accepted for publication, specifying journal or publisher and anticipated publication date. For artistic work, please provide information about forthcoming exhibitions or performances.

  1. Incorporating Scheme-based Web Programmming into Computer Literacy Courses (ps 148KB) (ps.gz 64KB) (pdf 148KB)
     T. Hickey
     submitted to ICFP'02 on 20 March 2002.

• For ongoing work, please describe progress made since the last activities report (e.g. chapters completed). Be as specific as possible.
  1. Wrote 120 pages of text book for use in the Cosi2a course. Also developed accompanying software for the text. Final text will be about 250-300 pages long and first draft should be completed by the end of May.

  2. Wrote about 30 pages of a book on Web Programming using Scheme and Java.

• Unpublished manuscripts

  • T. Hickey Jscheme Web Programming for CS0
  
  
  • T. Hickey, R. Alterman, J. Langton, TA Groupware
  
  

1. Departmental: Service on committees, administrative tasks, etc.
   1. Chair of the Internet Studies Program
   2. Undergraduate Advising Head for Computer Science
   3. General Science Program Committee Member
   4. Miscellaneous Service:
      • Speaker in Library Intensive Program Luncheon -- 5/1/01
      • Sat on Senior Honor's Thesis Committes for Cosi Honors students
      • Gave degrees to Cosi graduates in mini-commencement
2. University: Involvement in student activities, panel presentations, fund-raising, etc.
   1. Internet Studies Program Committee
   2. Wien Admissions Committee
   3. Hiatt Advisory Committee
   4. TYP Admissions Committee
   5. Committees with little or no activity
      • CS Department Liason to the Pscyhological Counseling Center
   6. Other activities:
      • Sat on Senior Honor's Thesis Committee for Economic Student (Josh Hill)
      • Maintain Internet Studies Webpages
      • Maintain TYP Webpages

Please list grant applications, renewals, and awards from March, 2001 to the present. Include granting agency, title of project, period of grant, and total amount.
1. Grant Applications
   1. NONE

2. Grant Awards
   1. 2nd installment of 3 year NSF grant, #0082393,
      $448,526 over 3 years
      • FY2000 $134,326
      • FY2001 $157,052
      • FY2002 $157,148
      
      ITR/Groupware-Mediated Cooperative Programming: Teaching Web ..., submitted 02/15/00,
      awarded 09/12/00 effective 09/15/00
      PIs: Timothy Hickey, Richard Alterman,
      NSF Division: DIVISION OF EXPERIMENTAL & INTEG ACTIVIT
      Program Name: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
      Program Officer: Michael J. Foster
      Telephone: (703) 306-1980
      E-Mail: mfoster@nsf.gov
      

   2. internal Brandeis grant of $900 to support Internet Studies Program as part of the "Strengthening Interdepartmental Cooperation" University wide grant from Hewlett Foundation

VI. AWARDS AND HONORS

1. Please list awards and honors received since March, 2001.
   NONE.

1. List any inventions, patent applications, patents, copyright, software, maskworks, and any other intellectual property that is or may be patentable which you have conceived or reduced to practice, individually or jointly with others, during the course of your appointment, employment, or participation in Brandeis activities.
   1. jscheme.sourceforge.net -- the Silk Scheme project (on which I am a codeveloper) has been renamed the Jscheme project
   2. groupscheme.sourceforge.net -- this is an open-source project to build a library of high-level tools for developing groupware applications.

1. List and/or describe lectures given, involvement in professional societies, legislative testimony, etc. If none, indicate non-applicable.
   1. Panels at Conferences:
      • Internet Centric Curriculum
        at CCSCNE'01
        with Amruth Kumar, Kevin Hufford, Joseph Bergin.

      • Internet Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum
        at ESCCC'01: Eastern Small College Computing Conference
        with Amruth Kumar, Joseph Bergin, Kevin Hufford, Linda Wilkens.

      • "Internet Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum"
        Amruth Kumar, Kevin Hufford, Timothy Hickey, Linda Wilkens, Aparna Mahadev, Andrew Beiderman,
        Panel at SIGCSE 28 February 2002
   2. Talks
      • Jscheme: a Dialect of Scheme for Scripting in Java
        at the MIT Dynamic Languages Seminar, 10/12/2001, 2-3pm
        with Ken Anderson

1. List courses taught at other institutions for which you received payment (March, 2001 to present). Please provide name of institution, term, course(s) taught, days and hours per week. If none, indicate non-applicable.

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2. List any and all other employment, and/or consultant arrangements, that you have outside of Brandeis (March, 2001 to present). Please provide name of company, corporation or institution. Please append summaries of relevant parts of contracts, letters of appointment or consulting agreements. Do any of these arrangements provide present or future equity interest possibilities to you and do you receive any research support from any of these organizations? If none, indicate non-applicable.

   NONE

3. List management or fiduciary activities in which you have a role as an officer, director, trustee, supervisor, or founder with respect to any organization or group. If none, indicate non-applicable.

   NONE

4. List any inventions, patent applications, patents, copyright, software, maskworks, and any other intellectual property which you have conceived or reduced to practice, individually or jointly with others, which has been developed outside of Brandeis University and which has been developed during the course of your appointment, employment, or participation in Brandeis activities.

   NONE

1. Please reflect upon what you hope to achieve in the coming year in terms of your ongoing work, new project you hope to begin, your teaching, professional development, and/or your role in the Brandeis community.
   1. Research
      • Scheme
        • Add continuations and modules to Jscheme
        • Continue building a Scheme library of high level groupware components.
        • Complete book on using Scheme to introduce web programming to non-programmers.
        • Write book on Jscheme for Java programmers
        • Write the Jscheme Reference Manual
      • Interval Arithmetic
        • Several papers on the implementation of Interval Arithmetic Constraints need to be completed
        • Investigate methods for solving optimization problems using metalevel techniques
        • Port mathlib to multiple platforms/languages.
   2. Teaching
      • Revise CS2a so that it includes online group homework assignments and groupware projects.
      • Help prepare for CS33b in the Spring (line up speakers, plan syllabus)
   3. Service
      • Work to help strengthen the Computer Science Department and the University
        • Work with the administration to increase the breadth of the department by seeking to bring in additional Faculty in important areas in which we are not well represented. Bringing underrepresented groups into the faculty is also a high priority.
        • Work with development to seek sources of additional funding to help grow the Computer Science Department while increasing the revenues of the University and enhancing the strength of the Department and the University.
        • Increasing the diversity of the student body in computer science (undergrad, master, and PhD level). In particular, increasing the numbers of women and minorities.
      • Build up the Internet Studies Program
        • Seek outside funding for the program
        • Make creative use of the website for the program
        • Hold regular meetings

   Please feel free to provide any other information relevant to your 2001-02 activities and contributions to the University.

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