My PLG/IR research files can be found here
I'm an undergraduate student currently studying at the School of Computer Science of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.
This term (Spring '12), I'm still working part-time as Gord Cormack's undergraduate research assistant. I'm also the ISG CS Tutor for CS 240 (Data Structures and Data Management).
Last term (Winter '12), I am taking CS 350 (Operating Systems), CS 442 (Programming Languages), CS 365 (Models of Computation), CS 341 (Algorithms), and STAT 231 (Statistics). I'm also still Gord Cormack's undergraduate research assistant.
In Fall '11, I am a full time student taking the courses below, as well as a part-time research assistant with the same professor, Gord Cormack.
In Spring '11, I was on a research term with Gordon Cormack working on Information Retrieval and the TREC Legal Track. I was also studying part time, taking 1 course at the university, Linear Algebra II. As of Fall 2011 I plan to be a full time student, taking CS 24{0,1} and CS 251, along with MATH 247 and MATH 249.
My primary academic interest lies with Computer Science and Mathematics. That interest has sparked a few pet projects of my own, which can be found (or at least a description of) here. Fields of specific study which I'd like to look further into include Pure Mathematics/Analysis, Programming Langagues, Foundations and Theory of Computing, Compilers and parsing, among others.
My other non-academic interests include games, books, music, and the occasional day off to code a tool that would make my life a bit easier (which, frankly, is not too hard to do when one deals with Unix tools). Currently, I'm playing The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. When I'm not busy with distractions, I'm hard at work with my IR research and with the CS 241 Compiler Challenge. Unix tools which I've coded up and found fairly useful over the years can be found here
I've also spent some time packaging updated versions of libraries and miscellaneous tools on Ubuntu's Launchpad. My page there can be found through here. For those interested, as libsdl_mixer is still at 1.2.8 in trunk, I've packaged a copy of libsdl_mixer 1.2.14 in my personal package archive.
Also for those who are interested, an universal binary FLAC decoder/encoder
for Apple's Core Audio Framework can be located here.
I do not claim any credit for creating it
[this is actually Apple's reference example from a OS X SDK from a few years back],
I merely fixed the project file and code to compiler properly on OS X Snow Leopard.
Project generates an i386/x86_64 universal binary. (I can't test PPC support, sadly.)
If it doesn't work, feel free to drop me a line at the email address below, and I'll see
what I can do to fix any potential build issues. I have not conducted exhaustive testing
on the codebase, but it seems to work well enough to let me afplay(1) my FLAC files.
Other things which can be found here include my resume.
Finally, I'd like to credit Prabhakar Ragde for the formatting of this web page. His web site provided a simple and clean reference that I drew upon for my web site.