We will be hosting two candidates for our open visiting position
tomorrow and Wednesday.
The person who fills this position will be teaching five or six
courses next year. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask Jim or Charlie.
Tuesday, 8 Feb.:
Ebru Celikel, Ege University, Turkey.
Meeting with students: 1:00--2:00, Dennis 209.
Talk: 4:00, Dennis 220. (Refreshments)
Title: Automated Author Recognition Using the Prediction by Partial
Matching (PPM) Model.
Abstract: Automated author recognition is the problem of
determining the correct author of a disputed text using
texts whose authors are already known. We will discuss
an approach to solving this problem using the Prediction
by Partial Matching (PPM) Model, which gauges the
likelihood of authorship of a text on the basis of how
effective statistics gathered from the known text are as
a data compression model for the text in question.
Wednesday, 9 Feb.:
Farouk Musa, Arab American University, West Bank
Meeting with students: 1:00--2:00, Dennis 209
Talk: 4:00, Dennis 220.
Title: Distributing Distance Learning Contents over the Web
Abstract: The Internet with its world wide web (WEB) of computers
has drastically changed how learners receive the course
material and communicate with their professors and
colleagues. The Web has become an important tool in
both distance education and traditional classroom
teaching. Putting all distance learning materials on
the WEB using one server is not without problems. The
size of the database for such a distance learning
system would be enormous. In this lecture we describe
a distance learning system with the database distributed
over remotely connected servers.