2002-2003 ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES REPORT
(dates covered: 4/1/02 - 3/31/03)

Timothy J. Hickey,

• Computer Science Department (chair),
• 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.

   1 Courses taught -- (176 students total)

   • Summer 2002
     • Summer School
       • CS2a -- (10 undergrads)

   • Autumn 2002 (126 students)
     • Lecture Courses
       • CS2a -- (110 undergrads)
       • TYP Math -- (6 TYP students)
       • CS98a -- 1 undergrad
       • CS200a -- 1 grad
       • INET92 -- 8 undergrads

   • Spring 2003 - no lecture courses (40 students)
     • TYP Math -- (10 TYP students)
     • INET92b -- 18 undergrads
     • CS98b -- 2 undergrads
     • INET98b -- 2 undergrads
     • CS210b -- 8 grads

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   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 INET92 CS200 12:30 INET92 1:00 ITR 1:30 ITR 2:00 ITR 2:30 ITR 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/Aut02/CS2a

   • Please describe your involvement in the direction of reading courses, theses, dissertations, and other student research projects (undergraduate and graduate).
     1. Ineida Andrade (TYP summer intern) -- 8 weeks in June and July, developing P2P applets in Jscheme
     2. Soksan Roeng (TYP summer intern) -- 8 weeks in June and July, developing DB libraries for Jscheme
     • Ph.D. Students
       • David Wittenberg -- Validated Interval Constraint Solving
       • Ming Ming Hao -- (with R. Alterman)
       • Svetlena Taneva -- (with R. Alterman)
       • Kenroy Granville -- (with R. Alterman)
       • Michael Head -- (with R. Alterman)
     • Undergraduate Independent Study/Research Projects
       • Soksan Roeng and Ineida Andrade -- Summer Interns in Groupware project

     • 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 - 3
         • undergrad majors - 40
         • undergrad minors - 27
         • undecided sophmores/transfers - 0
         • first year students - 0
       • Scheduled Office Hours (signup sheet posted on door, with 10 minute time slots)
         • Autumn 02/ Spring 03: 3 hours/week, different blocks every week

III. PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH, AND ARTISTIC CREATIONS

• List publications that have appeared from March, 2002 to the March, 2003. In the creative arts, please list and describe artistic creations, performances or exhibitions.

  1. "Incorporating Scheme-based Web Programming into Computer Literacy Courses" (.pdf 146KB)
     by Timothy J. Hickey
     Proceedings of Scheme2002 held on 10/5/2002 in Pittsburg, PA.
• 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.

  Accepted for publication

  Submitted for publication

  2. none

• For ongoing work, please describe progress made since the last activities report (e.g. chapters completed). Be as specific as possible.
  1. First draft of first 8 chapters of textbook for Cosi2a completed. 8/1/2002
  2. Tech Report: "Modeling Hybrid Systems using Analytic Constraint Logic Programming" (.pdf 235K)
     by Timothy J. Hickey and David K. Wittenberg
  
  
  

1. Departmental: Service on committees, administrative tasks, etc.
   1. Chair of the Computer Science Department:Aug02->Mar03
   2. Chair of the Internet Studies Program
   3. Undergraduate Advising Head for Computer Science
   4. General Science Program Committee Member
   5. Miscellaneous Service:
      • Led Development of post-baccalaureate program in Computer Science in the dept.
      • Complete redesigned the department webpage
      • Developed an internship program in which students are developing a health website with National focus. (I took over from Shula and focusing more on the technical than the social/medical aspects).
2. University: Involvement in student activities, panel presentations, fund-raising, etc.
   1. Internet Studies Program Committee
   2. International Studies Advisory Committee
   3. Wien Admissions Committee
   4. Hiatt Advisory Committee
   5. TYP Faculty Committee
   6. Committees with little or no activity
      • CS Department Liason to the Pscyhological Counseling Center
   7. Other activities:
      • ?

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. NONE

2. Grant Awards
   1. 3rd 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
      

VI. AWARDS AND HONORS

1. Please list awards and honors received since March, 2002.
   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 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.

   • Talks
     • 5/22/2002. Northeastern University, Programing Languages Seminar. Jscheme
     • 6/5/2002, Brandeis University, Conference on Transitional Education, Technology in Transitional Education
     • 10/3/2002, Pittsburg, PA, Scheme2002 Workshop at PLI, Incorporating Scheme-based Web Programmming into Computer Literacy Courses
     • 10/15/2002, Worcester, MA, NEPLS Meeting Rigorously Modelling and Analyzing Hybrid Systems using Analytic Constraint Logic Programming
     • 10/15/2002, Worcester, MA, NEPLS Meeting Report on a Five Year Experiment in Teaching Web Programming in Scheme as a Computer Literacy Course
     • 11/9/2002, Lightweight Languages II, MIT. Leveraging Libraries in Lightweight Languages with Ken Anderson (BBN), Gary Kratkiewicz(BBN), Geoffrey Knauth (BAE Systems)
     • 3/3/2003, invited speaker at the 2003 Volen Center Retreat, Exploring Complex Non-linear Systems using Interval Arithmetic Constraint Solving

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.
   
   • 6/2002. NSF Site Visit
   • 2/2003, NSF Panel
   
   
   

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.

   As part of my NSF grant, we have developed a groupware tool for helping students complete group homework assignments together from remote locations.

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. Groupware for Education -- In the past year we have run several experiments on the use of groupware in educational contexts and have developed a framework to support many more such experiments. I intend to analyze that data in the coming year and publish the findings with my colleague and graduate students. Also, I intend to apply for some large multidepartment NSF grants in this area. I will also look into deploying the groupware tool as a TA tool in computer science classes and possibly in other domains. We will conduct some controlled studies of the tool in this context before deploying it fully.
   2. Interval Arithmetic -- I'm working with a PhD student to study the use of non-linear interval arithmetic constraints as a tool in the analysis of hybrid systems. We are beginning to get some results and should have some papers (and a dissertation) in the coming year.
   3. Dept Chair -- My main goal as chair is to increase the diversity of the department at all levels including gender/race in majors, minors, grads, faculty. I would also like to explore ways in which the deparment could interact with other departments more fruitfully, from joint research opportunities to new interdisciplinary Master's programs. I would also like to look into ways of forging closer ties with private industry to open up new research and funding opportunities. I've also redesigned the Department web page and would like to add interactive features that will keep our alumni connected to the department.
   4. Internet Studies Chair -- I plan to arrange for more interaction among the faculty in the coming year (e.g. through invited speakers and receptions).
   5. Undergraduate Advising Head -- I'm working on revising the undergraduate minor to make it more accessible to students with little or no background in Computer Science.

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

   NONE