2003-2004 ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES REPORT
(dates covered: 4/1/03 - 3/31/04)

I. NAME AND DEPARTMENT

Timothy J. Hickey,

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.

    1 Courses taught

    SCHEDULE: AUTUMN 2002 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 9:00 CS2a CS2a CS2a 9:30 CS2a CS2a CS2a 10:00 10:30 11:00 TYP TYP TYP 11:30 TYP TYP TYP 12:00 12:30 1:00 ITR 1:30 ITR 2:00 ITR 2:30 ITR 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30

    New Pedagogical Materials

III. PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH, AND ARTISTIC CREATIONS

IV. SERVICE

Please detail your participation in Departmental and University activities:
  1. Departmental: Service on committees, administrative tasks, etc.
    1. Chair of the Computer Science Department
    2. Chair of the Internet Studies Program
    3. Member of the University Advisory Committee
    4. Undergraduate Advising Head for Computer Science
    5. Miscellaneous Service:
      • Redesigned Computer Science Webpage from scratch
  2. University: Involvement in student activities, panel presentations, fund-raising, etc.
    1. Internet Studies Program Committee
    2. Wien Admissions Committee
    3. TYP Faculty Committee
    4. Committees with little or no activity
      • CS Department Liason to the Pscyhological Counseling Center
      • Hiatt Advisory Committee
      • International Studies Advisory Committee
    5. Worked on developing prototype website for OSP
    6. Supervised the development of the 4Collegewomen.org website
    7. Other activities:
      • ?

V. GRANTS
    Please list grant applications, renewals, and awards from March, 2002 to the present. Include granting agency, title of project, period of grant, and total amount.

  1. Grant Applications
    1. Analytic Constraint-based Modeling of Hybrid Systems $327,639 for 2 years
      Submitted to NSF 01-161
      CNS - Embedded and Hybrid Systems (EHS)
      12/4/2003
    2. Reshaping Computer Literacy Courses via Web Programming $628,642 for 3 years
      (my share is $191,712) Submitted to NSF 04-001
      CISE Combined Research and Curriculum Development and Educational Innovation Program -- CRCD/EI
      1/13/2003
    3. Highly Collaborative Programming: \\ Infrastructure, Pedagogy, Curricula and Communities
      Letter of Intent submitted to NSF 04-012
      Information Technology Research for National Priorities -- ITR
      1/14/2003

  2. Grant Awards
    1. 1 year extension 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 Technology to Non-scientists
      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

VI. AWARDS AND HONORS

  1. Please list awards and honors received since March, 2002.
      NONE.

VII. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
  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 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.

VIII. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY
  1. List and/or describe lectures given, involvement in professional societies, legislative testimony, etc. If none, indicate non-applicable.

IX. WORK OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY
  1. List courses taught at other institutions for which you received payment (March, 2002 to present). Please provide name of institution, term, course(s) taught, days and hours per week. If none, indicate non-applicable.

    NONE

  2. List any and all other employment, and/or consultant arrangements, that you have outside of Brandeis (March, 2002 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.


  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.

    ...

X. GOALS -- OPTIONAL

  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. ...

    Please feel free to provide any other information relevant to your 2002-03 activities and contributions to the University.

    NONE

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