Jennifer S. Kay
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Office Hours Spring 2012
- Mondays 3:15 - 4:15 pm
- Thursdays 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Or by appointment
Class Information
In the Spring of 2012, I am teaching Foundations of Computer Science and independent study
(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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ROBOTS!
Please visit the
Rowan
University
Laboratory for Educational Robotics web page.
C++ Links
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
- Douglas Blank, Jennifer S. Kay,
James B. Marshall, Keith O’Hara, and Mark Russo, “Calico: A
Multi-Programming-Language, Multi-Context Framework Designed for
Computer Science Education.” To appear in the Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical
Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2012,
March 2012. Locally Cached Copy
- Kevin Freisen, Tim Sanders, and
Jennifer S. Kay, “Public
School Students Left Behind: Contrasting The Trends In Public
And Private School Computer Science Advanced Placement
Participation.” Proceedings of FIE 2011, IEEE
Frontiers in Education Conference, October 2011.
Locally Cached Copy
- Stacey L. Montresor, Jennifer
S. Kay, Michel Tokic, and Jonathan M. Summerton, “Work
In Progress - Programming In A Confined Space – A Case Study
In Porting Modern Robot Software To An Antique Platform.” Proceedings of FIE 2011, IEEE
Frontiers in Education Conference, October 2011.
Locally Cached Copy
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- Robots
as Recruitment Tools in Computer Science: The New Frontier
or Simply Bait and Switch?"
Jennifer Kay
In Proceedings of the AAAI
Spring Symposium on Educational
Robotics and Beyond: Design and Evaluation, March 2010. Locally Cached Copy
- 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. Winner, Best Paper Award CCSCE 2009
Locally Cached Copy
- 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.
Locally Cached Copy
- 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.
Locally Cached Copy
-
Getting
Down & Dirty: Incorporating Homogeneous
Transformations and Robot Kinematics into a Computer
Science Robotics Class."
Jennifer Kay
Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot
Venues, March 2007.Locally Cached Copy
- Two
Lab Exercises for an Introductory Robotics Class
Jennifer Kay
AAAI
Spring Symposium on Accessible Hands-on AI and
Robotics Education, March 2004.
Locally Cached Copy
-
Teaching
Robotics from a Computer Science Perspective
Jennifer Kay
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 19, no.
2, December
2003.
Locally Cached Copy
- 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.
Locally Cached Copy
- 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
Locally Cached Copy
- 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
Locally Cached Copy
- 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.Locally Cached Copy
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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.
-
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.
-
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.)
-
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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