Recently Taught Classes

Summer 2017
- JBS in Voice, Web, and Mobile Applications (6/5-8/4)
  - CS152aj Web Application Development
  - CS154aj JBS Incubator
- Web/Mobile App Design Summer Program for High School Students (7/9-7/18)
Spring 2017
- CS2a: Introduction to Computers
- CS99a: Independent Studies
  - Innovative Python HW Design - Arya Boudaie
- CS98a: Independent Studies
  - Game Design - Prakhar Sahay, Cuimei Zhang, Tristan Ramirez de Haro
  - UI/UX for Finance - Alexa Diehl
  - Business Computing - Jiamin Shen
  - Tuvalu Biannale Project
  - 4collegewomen Project
- CS210a: Graduate Independent Studies
  - SpeechNinja - Therapeutic Games - Weitao Zou, Chenxi Gao, Yansen Sheng
- CS400a: Dissertation Research
  - Fatima Abu Deeb - Spinoza and Learning Analytics
  - Kristian Kime - CalcTutor and the Teachers Dilemma
  - Xiaodong Qu - Brain Computer Interfaces

Fall 2016
- CS164a: Introduction to 3D Animation
- MKTYP6a
- CS99a: Independent Studies
  - Innovative Python HW Design - Arya Boudaie
- CS98a: Independent Studies
  - PlanDeis - Luyi Bai
  - Unity Game Design - Michelle Kim, Gabe Levin, Alexios Ladikos, Joseph Kanorovich
  - Online Language Lab - Moses Bug, Michael McGregor....
  - UI/UX for Finance - Alexa Diehl
  - SpeechNinja - Therapeutic Games - Zimu Cui, Zijie Shen
  - Unreal Game Design - Rosalind Ellis
- CS400a: Dissertation Research
  - Fatima Abu Deeb
  - Kristian Kime
  - Xiaodong Qu

Summer 2016
- JBS in Voice, Web, and Mobile Applications (6/6-85)
- Web/Mobile App Design Summer Program for High School Students (7/10-7/20)

Spring 2016
- On Sabbatical!
- Independent Research Projects (not for credit)
  - Archiving Sculpture Exhibits - Daniela Dimetrova
  - SpeechNinja: Game-based Speech Therapy - Joseph Tinianow
  - Brain Computer Interfaces: Yansen Sheng, Mingze Li (with Yile Sun PhD Psych student)
Fall 2015
- CS155b: Computer Graphics
- CS94a EL Practicum for CS11a
- TYP Computer Science
- Dissertation Research
  - William Tarimo - TeachBack
  - Kristian Kime - CalcTutor
  - Fatima Abu Deeb - Spinoza
  - Eyad Fallatah - Brain Computer Interfaces for Education (BCIFE)
- Independent Research Projects
  - Archiving Sculpture Exhibits - Daniela Dimetrova
  - SpeechNinja: Game-based Speech Therapy - Rebecca Holman, Joseph Tinianow
  - Brain Computer Interfaces: Mingze Li (with Ethan Stein, MA student)
- Independent Entrepreneurship Projects
  - Building an Apple Watch App - David Barsky, Rosalind Ellis
  - DiscoverDeis: Jessica Huyhn, Jane Kwon, Ziyu Qiu, Limin Wang, Dewar Tan
  - FashionSnapp: Yoseph Kantorovich (with Can Nahum MA student)
Summer 2015
- JBS in Voice, Web, and Mobile Applications (6/1-7/31)
- Web/Mobile App Design Summer Program for High School Students (7/12-7/23)

Spring 2015
- CS65a: 3D Animation
- TYP Computer Science
- Dissertation Research
  - William Tarimo - TeachBack
  - Kristian Kime - CalcTutor
  - Fatima Abu Deeb - Spinoza
  - Eyad Fallatah - Brandeis Learning Games Initiative
- Independent Studies
  - lowkey - Jacob Murphy, Alex Bardasu, Sharat Sridhar, David Barksy
  - BodyScan - Michael Soboff
  - Statistics-based Marketing Analysis in R - Giang Nguyen
  - Web App Development - Larry Yu
Fall 2014
- CS11a Intro to Programming in Java
- Dissertation Research
  - William Tarimo - TeachBack
  - Kristian Kime - CalcTutor
  - Fatima Abu Deeb - Spinoza
- Independent Studies
  - WGO - David Giliotti, Jacob Murphy, Samir Undavia, Sharat Sridhar
    Location-aware friend-based event calendar
    Swift, NodeJS, Mongo
  - KnightLife - Ari Kalfus, Burak Sezer, Sam Raphael, Wesley Chin
    Group Communication App to Facilitate Safe Outings
    Angular, NodeJS, Phonegap, Mongo
  - Crowdz - Yuya Yoshida
    Wayz for walkers at Brandeis --
    HTML5, CSS, javascript, Twitter bootstrap, appery.io for iPhone and Android
  - Haptic Apps - Gil Zamir, Alex Bardasu, Brian Huangs, Kerri Gardner, Jiaqi Gu
    Purely Haptic iPhone Games
    Swift, iPhoneBeta
  - YoWakeUp - Ben Freudman
    An alarm clock you can talk with
    Phonegap
  - EdTech - Deema Alswailmil and Eyad Fallatah
  - Virtual Pickup Ballgames - Danny Glasgow, Daniel Melemed
    Location-aware Mobile App to Support PickupBall games
  - VUIs for School Management software - Damian DeMarco
- Programming Team coaching
- CS Alumni Networking and Career Fair, 10/21/2014
- Committees
  - Committee on Faculty Rights and Responsibilities (CFRR)
  - University Curriculum Committee (UCC)
  - Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee (CTLAC)
Summer 2014
- JBS in Voice, Web, and Mobile Applications (6/2-8/9)
- 3D Game Design Summer Program for High School Students (7/6-7/19)
- Posse CS Workshop 2014 7/1/2014
Spring 2014
- CS155b: Computer Graphics
- CS98a: Independent Study courses
  - Intumusic — Asaf Meir, Gil Zamir, Sam Goldberg, Alex Bardasu, Morgan Fine
  - StudyBuddy - Berk Sarioz, Avishek Neupane, Soha Sattar, Derrick Orare
- CS Alumni Networking and Career Fair, 1/27/2014
Fall 2013
- CS65a Intro to 3D Animation
- TYP COSI
- CS98a:StudyBuddy - a group independent study to build an ambitious web/mobile app for coordinating study groups in classes

Summer 2013
- JBS in Mobile Apps, Game Design, and Entrepreneurship (6/24-8/9)
- High School Summer Camp in 3D Game Design (6/24-7/4) (Video)
- Science Posse workshop on Matlab (Fri 7/5)
- EBY 3D Game Design Class (Tue 7/9 - Wed 7/17)
- Lecture on 3D Game Design for the Brandeis Gateway Scholars Program (Tue 7/16).

Spring 2013
- CS12b Advanced Programming Techniques
- TYP COSI - 3D Game Design
- High School STEM Academy - 3D Game Design
Fall 2012
- On Sabbatical

Summer 2012
- JBS in Web Apps and Social Networks

Spring 2012
- CS65a Intro to 3D Animation
- CS94a: EL Practicum for CS65a
- TYP 2a: Quantitative Reasoning and blog
- Software Entrepreneurship - monetization, APIs, and scalability.
- Mobile 3D Game Development
- Peer Grading Research: website and blog ..
- NEUCS12 - New England Undergraduate Computing Symposium for 2012
Fall 2011
- TYP COSI: 3D Game Design
- JBS Internship Course (website blog )
- JBS Journal Reading Course (website blog )
- Independent Studies
  - Software Design for Large Scale Public courses - Deepali Agarwal, Yan Wang, Ritu Pradhan (website )
  - Academic Recommender Systems - Alex Marder
  - 3D Mobile Game Design - Jeremy Croll, Michael Field Artem Malyshev
  - Android Entrepreneurship - Todd Kirkland and Sahar Massachi
  - CS210a - Robin Jha, Godsway Sappor, Tarif Rahman

Summer 2011
- JBS in Mobile Apps and Game Design
  - CS153aj Mobile Application Development
  - CS153bj Game Design
  - CS154aj The JBS Incubator

Spring 2011
- CS177: Scientific Computing
- Incubator-stye Independent Studies
- Readings courses
- Lets All Make games - a website to help students from middle school through college set up after school (3d) game design clubs using free software!
- NEUCS11 - New England Undergraduate Computing Symposium for 2011
Fall 2010
- TYP COSI: 3D Game Design
- Independent Studies as part of the Idea Lab at Brandeis

Summer 2010
- JBS 2010, cotaught with Pito Salas'76
Spring 2010
- CS133b: Internet and Society
- TYP Quantitative Reasoning I
- USEM 2c: Physical Sciences Scholars USEM (first half only)
Fall 2009
- COSI 65a: Introduction to 3D Animation
- TYP Quantitative Reasoning
Summer 2009
- CS2a: Introduction to Computers
- CS11a: Introduction to Programming in Java and C
Spring 2009
- Office Hours: Mon 11-12, Wed 2-3, Thu 10-11
- CS2a: Introduction to Computers
- TYP Math: Quantitative Reasoning and the Environment
- USEM 2c: Physical Science Frontiers
Fall 2008
- CS29a: Discrete Structures
- Guest lecture in CS101a: Artificial Intelligence on Logic and Constraint Programming.
- CS98a: Algorithmic Music - Peter Swire
Summer 2008 session I (6/2/08-7/3/08)
- CS2a: Introduction to Computers - no prerequisites
Spring 2008
- CS2a: Introduction to Computers (registered students may also access the moodle pages)
- CS93a: Research Internship
  - Alexander Friedlander - Simulation and Cluster Computing
- INET98a and CS98a: Independent Studies
  - Alexander Friedlander - Physics Engines and 3D Game Frameworks
  - Zachary Broderick, Alexandar Gaman, Natan Lempert - Open Distributed Social Network Infrastructure
  - Scott Koenig - web-based maps and databases
  - Joshua Sheena - Gestalt Visualization of Flow Cytometry
  - Dustin Smith - Networking in Low-income communities
  - Michael Greenberg - The Future of Mobile Computing
  - Andrew Meyers
- INET 92b: Internship
  - Masha Dushkina
- CS210a: Graduate Independent Study
  - Andrew Bergal - Content Management Systems
Fall 2007
- CS155: Computer Graphics (registered students may also access the moodle pages)
- Guest Lectures in CS33b: Internet and Society
- CS93a: Research Internship
  - Jordan Suchow
- CS98a: Independent Study
  - Zachary Broderick: Social Networking
  - Joshua Sheena: Scientific Visualization
- CS210: Independent Studies
  - Andrew Bergal: Website Use Analysis
- CS400: Dissertation Research
  - John Langton: Scientific Visualization and Visual Data Mining
  - Kenroy Granville: Collaborative Editors
- INET92a: Internship and Analysis
  - Zachary Broderick: developing Social Networking features on academic websites
- INET98a: Independent Study
  - Michael Greenberg: The Video Internet
  - Natan Lempert: Social Network Applications
Summer 2007 session I
- CS65a: Introduction to 3D Animation
  Note: this link is password protected if your are accessing it from off campus. Send me email if you want the username/password for this link - Tim
Summer 2007 session II
- CS2a: Introduction to Computers
  (If the main link above doesn't work try this one)
  Note: this link is password protected if your are accessing it from off campus. Send me email if you want the username/password for this link - Tim
- CS33b: Internet and Society
  (If the main link above doesn't work try this one)
Spring 2007
- CS65a: Introduction to 3D Animation
  Note: this link is password protected if your are accessing it from off campus. Send me email if you want the username/password for this link - Tim
- CS22a: Lab for the Data Structures Course CS21a
  I'm helping develop the lab assignments for this course.
- Independent Study and Research courses:
  1. INET 92: Sean Hogan. Redesigning povertyfighters.com
  2. CS 93b: Jeremy Novich. Developing an Introduction to Programming using the Alice approach in Blender with Python scripting
  3. CS 93b: Michael Raybman. Distributed GIS Databases.
  4. CS 98b: Vlad Reznik Social Interaction in Competitive Online Games
  5. CS210: Liz Gifford - Automatic Inference of Classification Rules based on high dimensional grid data
  6. CS210: Catherine Havasi - Web-based User Interaces to Computational Linguistics Toolsets
  7. CS210: Michael Meirovich - Lets Do Sports - an Entrepreneurial Web Development Project
  8. CS400: Kenroy G. Granville - collaborative editing
  9. CS400: John T. Langton - visualization of large databases
Fall 2006
- CS2a: Introduction to Computers
- Independent Study and Research courses
  1. INET92a: Aaron Braver - Internship at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
  2. CS98a: Dan Lazewatsky - Collaborative Math Editing
  3. CS98a: Limo Sadalla blog, Andrew Bergal blog, Ecolib wiki Ecolib
  4. CS98a: Jeremy Carmasin - Online Game Interfaces and Socialization
  5. CS98a: Michael Meirovich - tools for building online intramural sports communities
  6. CS210: Liz Gifford - literature review
  7. CS210: Matthew Sachs - benchmark-based optimizing compilers
  8. CS400: Kenroy G. Granville - collaborative editing
  9. CS400: John T. Langton - visualization of large databases
Summer 2006
- CS155a: Introduction to Computer Graphics
Spring 2006
- Office Hours for all classes: Tuesday 9:00-11:00 or by appointment
- CS2a: Introduction to Computers
- Consultant/Advisor for CS22a: Fundamentals of Programming
- TYP Math: one section of the Transitional Year Program Mathematics course
- INET Internships and Independent Studies (INET92, INET98)
  - Online Gaming: a multiperspective view - Seth Young
  - Instant Messaging: a multiperspective view -- Joshua Goldfischer
  - INET 92 Stephen Konar internship at SpiderSplat.com
- CS Independent Studies (CS98, CS200, CS210)
  - Massively Collaborative Peer Processing - Thorin Tabor
  - Precomputed Radiance Transfer Algorithms - Yuri Mednikov, Craig Fuchs, Matthew Sachs, Jeremy Kolb, Ian Adams
  - Ecoweb - strategies for automatically analyzing and providing multimedia web access to ecological data - Dustin Smith, Michael Raybman, Yuri Mednikov in consultation with Professor Dan Perlman in Biology extending the Ecolibrary project.
- CS99: Senior Honors Thesis
  - Automatic Classification of Neuron Waveforms -- Elizabeth Gifford
- CS400: Dissertation Research
  - Collaborative Editing Systems -- Kenroy Granville
  - Scientific Visualization for Large Databases -- John Langton
Fall 2005
- CS11a: Introduction to Programming in Java and C
- TYP Math: Transitional Year Program Mathematics
- CS98: Independent Study
  - Optimizing Precomputed Radiance -- Wayne Mak
- CS99: Senior Honors Thesis
  - Automatic Classification of Neuron Waveforms -- Elizabeth Gifford
- INET92: Internship in Internet Studies
  - "Webmaster for 4collegewomen, AAAS, ..." -- Colleen O'Connor
- CS210: Graduate Independent Study
  - Optimizing Precomputed Radiance -- Marco Leon, Yuri Mednikov, Inokently Kremerman
  - Supporting Community-building through Web Architecture via JIRG -- Jonathan Sagotsky
- CS300: Masters Thesis
  - Precomputed Radiance Transfer -- Marco Leon
- CS400: Dissertation Research
  - Collaborative Editing Systems -- Kenroy Granville
  - Scientific Visualization for Large Databases -- John Langton
Summer 2005
- CS11a: Introduction to Programming in Java and C
- CS155a: Introduction to Computer Graphics
Spring 2005
- CS33b: Internet and Society
- TYP Computer Science
- CS11 GrewpEdit Labs
- INET92: Internship
  - Arielle Macher
- CS98: Indep Study
  - Jon Sagotsky - Designing,Building, and Analyzing a Collaborative Role Playing Game Engine
- CS99: Senior Honors Thesis
  - Design, Analysis, and Implementation of an Optimizing Compiler of JScheme to the JVM -- Peter Williams
- CS210: Graduate Independent Study
  - User Interface of 3D Animation Packages by Dong Wang, Master's student in Cosi
  - 3D graphics Scripting by Innokentiy Kremerman
- CS300: Masters Thesis
  - Precomputed Radience Transfer -- Marco Leon
Autumn 2004 (109 students, 10 classes)
- CS2a: Introduction to Computers (92 students)
- CS98a: Independent Study
  - 3D graphics -- shaders and plugins: Wayne Mac, Marco Leon
  - Scripting Collaborative Games using high level languages - Jon Sagotsky
  - APIs for Sensor/Actuator networks -- Ben Weisburd
  - Scripting Production Quality websites using High Level languages -- Jaina Morgan, Yelena Yatskar
- CS99: Senior Honors Thesis
  - Design, Analysis, and Implementation of an Optimizing Compiler of JScheme to the JVM -- Peter Williams
- INET 92a: Internship
  - Developing content for the www.4collegewomen.org website -- Arielle Macher
  - Developing a fully interactive, database backed website for the Brandeis Internship office -- Craig Fuchs
- CS210: Independent Study (4 students)
  - Scheme-based approaches to web programming: Tyler Adams, Seohyun Im, Bo Young Pak
  - 3D animation -- Julia Tutko
- CS400: Dissertation Research
  - Kenroy Granville - High level languages for prototyping collaborative environments
  - John Langton -- Collaborative editing environments and the psychological effects of high latency connections
Summer 2004, Session 1
- CS2a: Introduction to Computers
Spring 2004
- TYP Cosi
- CS99
  - Joshua Sunshine -- 3D Alignment of 2D Projections
  - Ross Gershick -- Evolving Cellular Automata Models of Chinese Brushstroke Painting
- CS98
  - Chandni Valiathan -- Fast and Rigorous Evaluation of Mathematical Functions
  - Meghan Russ -- Web Development in Scheme
  - Adam Batkin, Kevin Grinber -- Web Lotteries
- Inet92b -- Website development
  - Sarah Beckwith, Shari Gabel, Joshua Goldfischer, Kevin Grinberg, Kevin Skobac, Seth Young
- Inet98b
  - Mark Brescia, Aron Cohen
- Cosi210a -- Website Performance Testing
  - Archana Suhas Joshi
Autumn 2003
- CS2a Introduction to Computers
- Inet92a -- Website development
- CS99
  - Joshua Sunshine -- 3D Alignment of 2D Projections
  - Ross Gershick -- Evolving Cellular Automata Models of Chinese Brushstroke Painting
- CS200 -- Groupware in Education
- CS210 -- Declarative Groupware Toolkits
Summer 2003
- Cosi2a Introduction to Computers
- Cosi155a Computer Graphics
Spring 2003
- TYP Cosi - Programming and the Web
- CS210b: Group independent study into 3D Graphics
- INET 92b: Website Development Internship
- CS98b: Wearable, Context Aware, Application Interfaces
- INT92b: Academic Web Development
Autumn 2002
- Cosi2a: Introduction to Computers
- TYP Cosi
Summer 2002
- Cosi2a: Introduction to Computers
All Courses from 1984-2004