Ralf Brown's Home Page (original) (raw)
About....
Ralf Brown is a Principal Systems Scientist (research faculty) at Carnegie Mellon University's [picture,campus panorama]Language Technologies Institutein Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [sunset picture, panorama] working on text mining and language identification (and formerly on language technologies-driven data recovery and thePangloss, DIPLOMAT/TONGUES, Generalized Example-Based Machine Translation,RADD/LingWear, AVENUE, Topic Detection&Tracking,MUCHMORE, GALE, and MTLAB projects).
He is well-known in cyberspace for maintaining the Interrupt List and various otherprograms, is a major contributor to darktable, and has co-authored a number of books.
Teaching
Office Hours: GHC 5713. Usually Thursdays 1-2pm, or by appointment.
Fall 2025: teaching 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp (syllabus, Lecture 1 slides, Lecture 2 slides); leading 11-927 MIIS Capstone Project.
Spring 2025: led 11-696 MIIS Capstone Planning Seminar.
Fall 2024: teaching 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp (syllabus, Lecture 1 slides, Lecture 2 slides); leading 11-927 MIIS Capstone Project.
Spring 2024: led 11-696 MIIS Capstone Planning Seminar.
Earlier:
- taught 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp: Fall 2018-2023
- co-taught 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp: Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017
- led 11-696 MIIS Capstone Planning Seminar: Spring 2016-2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022-2023
- led 11-927 MIIS Capstone Project: Fall 2015-2023
- assisted with 15-213 Intro to Computer Systems: Spring 2016
- co-taught 20-865 Language Technologies in e-Commerce: Spring 2001
Ralf's Informational Pages
- Bibliography of my writings
- Lecture Notes
- Undocumented Information (including Pentium info)
- Locating Information on the Web
- Artificial Intelligence
- Natural Language Processing
- Privacy[*] and Civil Liberties
- [*] You can be tracked by your mouse clicks!
- US Government Sites
- Television
- On the Lighter Side
- Digital Imaging
(the following links take you to other sites)- My photo albums atPBase,ImageEvent, andZenfolio
(note: all public albums reachable via PBase)
Newest albums listed here - Featured Albums:Mid-Atlantic Dance Jam 2019 ::PittStop Lindy Hop 2018 ::KISSME in Ann Arbor 2018 ::All Balboa Weekend 2018 ::DC Lindy Exchange (DCLX) 2018 ::Steel City Blues Festival 2018 ::Swing Fling 2017 ::Cleveland Lindy Exchange 2014 ::Herrang Dance Camp 2012 Week 3 ::Renaissance Festival 2011 ::SCS Day 2010 ::Wings Over Pittsburgh 2008 ::Kennywood Park
- Pictures of mine have been picked up by/appeared in
1. The BBC (TONGUES field test);
2. ASTM International's newsletter Standardization News, Feb 2003 (Cathedral of Learning);
3. Terra Lycos Mexico, 13-Feb-03 (Hollywood Walk of Fame);
4. Centro Flamenco de Pittsburgh;
5. "SF Bay Area Architecture Supplement" inSurface Magazine, Issue 43 (pages 10,11, and12);
6. An interview with Bernardine Dias for the SCS Interview Series (dancing in theSCS Day talent show).
7. The Wings Over Pittsburgh official site's 2004 Photo Gallery (my album) - Photo Exhibition: I exhibited photographs of Japan at Kiva Han on South Craig Street during April 2003.
- My photo albums atPBase,ImageEvent, andZenfolio
- Science Fiction Words -- I made a number of contributions to a project to find the earliest uses of SF terms for the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (external link).
The local Web:
- TheSCS Home Page.
- The CMU Home Page
- The CMU Library
Dancing in Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh Swing Dance Community (weekly)
- Pittsburgh West Coast Swing (weekly)
- Westies in the Burgh (monthly)
- Blues+Fusion Forge (most Fridays)
- Starlight Blues - dance under the stars (weather permitting)
- Tartan Swing - CMU's swing dance (defunct)
- Swing City (defunct)
- Hot Metal Blues - free blues dance (defunct)
Miscellaneous
My Erdos Number is 4:
Paul Erdos -> Henryk Minc -> Marvin Marcus -> John Chollet -> Ralf Brown.
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