Jennifer S. Kay
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Sabbatical
I will be on sabbatical for the 2009/2010 academic year and will not be on campus regularly
during that time. I will continue to read my email frequently.
Office Hours
No office hours while I am on sabbatical. Please email me for an appointment
Class Information
In the Spring of 2009, I am teaching Intro to Programming,
Intro to Programming using Robots, and Foundations of Computer Science
(old links: Please note: These web pages are password protected
simply so I can see who is looking at them. If you'd like a guest
password, please email me.
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Research Information
My areas of interest include computer science education, intelligent
software agents, robotics (especially mobile robots), vehicle
teleoperation, human-computer interaction, user interfaces, computers
and the elderly, cryptography, computer vision, and artificial
intelligence.
Please visit the Rowan
University Laboratory for Educational Robotics (RULER) home page.
For my Ph.D., I developed the STRIPE
system, which was part of Carnegie
Mellon's Navlab
Project. STRIPE is a system for teleoperating vehicles across low
bandwidth links, and links with delays.
While working on my Ph.D., I also did some work in cryptography. You
can take a look at a technical report of mine: Cryptanalysis
Techniques: An Example Using Kerberos
Publications
Refereed Publications
- Robots as Recruitment Tools in Computer Science: The New Frontier or Simply Bait and Switch?"
Jennifer Kay
To appear in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Educational Robotics and Beyond: Design and Evaluation, March 2010.
- Robots in the Classroom ... And the Dorm Room
Jennifer Kay
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 25, No. 3, January 2010, pp.128-133
- From Mad Libs to Tic Tac Toe: Using Robots and Game Programming as a Theme in an Introduction to Programming Course for Non-Majors
in Proceedings of the 22nd International FLAIRS Conference, May 2009.
- Pushing Beyond Traditional School and Course Boundaries: High School and University Students Collaborate on an Interdisciplinary Project
Adrian Rusu, Amalia Rusu, Jennifer Kay, and Hong Zhang
Proceedings of FIE 2007: The Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, October 2007.
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Getting Down & Dirty: Incorporating Homogeneous Transformations and Robot Kinematics into a Computer Science Robotics Class."
Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues, March 2007.
- Two Lab Exercises for an Introductory Robotics Class
Jennifer Kay
AAAI Spring Symposium on Accessible Hands-on AI and Robotics Education, March 2004.
- Teaching
Robotics from a Computer Science Perspective
Jennifer Kay
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 19, no. 2, December
2003.
- Open Source Software
and Computer Science Education
Keith O'Hara and Jennifer Kay
Journal of Computing Sciences in
Colleges, vol. 18, no. 3, Februrary, 2003.
- Investigating Open
Source Software and Educational Robotics
Keith O'Hara and Jennifer Kay
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 18,
no. 3, Februrary, 2003
- Building Confidence and Skills: A Prep Course for
Computer Programming
Linda Head, Jennifer Kay, John Schmalzel, Glenn Arr, Christopher Foster, Steven
McDermott, Michael Sterner, Kenneth Whelan, and Jason Wollenberg, ECE
Student Teaching Team,
Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for
Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionAlbuquerque, NM,
June 2001
- Using
the Force: How Star Wars Can Help You Teach Recursion
Jennifer Kay
Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, vol. 15, no. 5, May 2000.
- Windows on the World:
Expanding the View from the Nursing Home
Jennifer Kay and Patricia Kay
Proceedings of CHI '99: ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems,
Extended Abstracts, 1999.
- An Examination of the STRIPE
Vehicle Teleoperation System
Jennifer Kay and Charles Thorpe
Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots
and Systems (IROS '97), Grenoble, France, September 1997.
- Students at CHI
Casey Boyd and Jennifer Kay
Proceedings of CHI '99: ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing
Systems, Conference Companion, 1996.
- STRIPE:
Remote Driving Using Limited Image Data (doctoral
consortium)
Jennifer Kay
Proceedings of CHI '95: ACM Conference on
Human Factors and Computing Systems, Conference Companion, 1995.
- STRIPE:
Remote Driving Using Limited Image Data (poster)
Jennifer Kay
Proceedings of CHI '95: ACM Conference on
Human Factors and Computing Systems, Conference Companion, 1995.
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Machine
Learning and Human Interface for the CMU Navlab
Charles Thorpe, Charalambos Athanassiou,
Jennifer Kay, Tom Mitchell, and Dean Pomerleau
Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Robotics Research,
Pittsburgh, PA, October 1993.
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STRIPE:
Supervised TeleRobotics Using Incremental Polygonal Earth Geometry
Jennifer Kay and Charles Thorpe
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent
Autonomous Systems, Pittsburgh, PA, February 1993.
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MARVIN
& TINA: A Multiprocessor 3D Vision System
Michael Rygol, Stephen Pollard, Chris Brown, and Jennifer Kay
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Applications of
Transputers, Southampton, UK, July 1990.
Ph.D. Thesis
- STRIPE: Remote Driving Using
Limited Image Data
Jennifer Kay
Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, January 1997. Available as
technical report CMU-CS-97-100, Computer Science Department, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Book Chapter
Invited Publications
Technical Links
Useful Links
Fun Stuff
These links are really old. One day, I'll have time to add some of my
more recent favorites.
- The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory's Coffee Machine.
(Sadly, this webcam was turned off in 2001. But it was very cool
in its day and I can't bear to take away the link.)
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Some good
quotes.
Biographic Stuff
I did my undergraduate work at the University
of Pennsylvania, in Computer
Science (in the School of
Engineering and Applied Science) and in Mathematics (in the School of Arts and Sciences). I
also worked in the GRASP
Lab at Penn.
While I was an undergraduate I also spent a year as a visiting
student at Somerville College, Oxford University, which is in Oxford, in the United Kingdom.
I've also been a research assistant at the AI Vision Research Unit in the Psychology
Department at the University of
Sheffield.
I graduated with my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon in December of
1996. I was a member of the CMU Vision and Autonomous Systems Center
(VASC), which is a part of the Robotics
Institute. I was also a founding member of VASC's Software Documentation
Initiative (SDI), an attempt to put information about our software
environment on-line.
I used to be a member of the AI
Laboratory in the Advanced
Technology Laboratories in Camden, New Jersey .
I was also a part-time
faculty member in the Computing
Sciences Department at Villanova
University.
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