Dr. William Sverdlik
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti , MI 48197 USA
Office: 511-F Pray-Harrold
Phone: 734-487-7081
e-mail: wsverdlik@emich.edu
"An
enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a
republic." - Thomas Jefferson
"I
know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the
people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not
to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This
is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." - Thomas
Jefferson
There's an election this
year. Don't believe those political ads on TV ! Educate yourself before
you vote! Read:
Factcheck.org
Politifact.com
Enough politics. Work and fun web sites to visit:
TREADS - Text Reading
and Summarization Systems
A web based tool for individuals with reading
disabilities. Developed by students Nik Estep, Eric Schweller and
myself. Still under development.
Power Wheels Robot - Summer 2008
What I did over the summer (with a little help from
Erik and Viola Schweller and Mike Garrison). Preparing for the Robotics
class in the fall semester.
Ecuador
May 2008
Amazing Trip!! And students get credit for this!! Those guys in Biology sure have fun.
Fall 2008 Class Schedule:
COSC 111 Intro to
Programming M 9:00-10:50
302PH, W 9:00-10:50 520PH
Syllabus
COSC
221 Computer Organization 1 M
11:00-12:50 520PH, W 11:00-12:50 301PH
Syllabus
COSC 479/592 Autonomous
Robots MW 5:30 - 6:45 520PH
Syllabus
Office Hours
MW 8:00-9:00, 1:00-2:00, 4:30-5:30. If I am not in
my office, check 520PH. Other times by appointment
Here are some really good computer related links (and people I really
like to read!!!):
Jon
Kleinberg - HITS algorithm, web search, social networks
Lillian
Lee - Computational linguistics
Brian
Davison - Web search, machine learning
Andrew
Moore - These are the best tutorials on Machine Learning and
Data
Mining around!
Dragomir
Radev - Text summarization
Lada
Adamic - Social networks, blogspace structure and other cool
stuff
Tom Mitchell
- AI, Machine Learning
Web
Research at Carnegie Mellon - Tom Mitchell's research group
Information
Dynamics Lab - at HP
Dave
Cook -
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Cool page for robot hobbyists!
Seattle
Robotics Society - One of the better robot clubs around
Robotics at Stanford University
Are you interested in
the Computer
Science Club
? If so, please contact me!
Masters Students:
A
Guide to Writing an Essay or Thesis
My
Publications
Web Class
Server
Server for Web
Programming