Ralf Brown

About....

Ralf Brown is a Principal Systems Scientist (research faculty) at Carnegie Mellon University's [picture, campus panorama] Language Technologies Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [sunset picture, panorama] working on text mining and language identification (and formerly on language technologies-driven data recovery and the Pangloss, 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 other programs, and has co-authored a number of books.

Teaching

Office Hours: By appointment.

Fall 2018: teaching 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp (draft syllabus); leading 11-927 MIIS Capstone.

Spring 2018: led 11-696 MIIS Capstone Planning Seminar.

Fall 2017: co-taught 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp; led 11-927 MIIS Capstone.

Spring 2017: led 11-696 MIIS Capstone Planning Seminar.

Fall 2016: co-taught 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp; led 11-927 MIIS Capstone.

Spring 2016: assisted with 15-213 Intro to Computer Systems and led 11-696 MIIS Capstone Planning Seminar.

Fall 2015: co-taught 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp; led 11-927 MIIS Capstone.

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 at PBase, ImageEvent, and Zenfolio
  (note: all public albums reachable via PBase)
  Newest albums listed here
- Featured Albums: Steel City Blues Festival 2018 :: Mid-Atlantic Dance Jam 2018 :: PittStop Lindy Hop 2017 :: Swing Fling 2017 :: KISSME in Ann Arbor 2017 :: All Balboa Weekend 2017 :: DC Lindy Exchange (DCLX) 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" in Surface Magazine, Issue 43 (pages 10, 11, and 12);
  6. An interview with Bernardine Dias for the SCS Interview Series (dancing in the SCS 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.
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:

Dancing in Pittsburgh

Tartan Swing - CMU's swing dance
Swing City
Hot Metal Blues - free blues dance
Starlight Blues - dance under the stars (weather permitting)
Pittsburgh West Coast Swing

Miscellaneous

Pittsburgh-related pages

My Erdos Number is 4:
Paul Erdos -> Henryk Minc -> Marvin Marcus -> John Chollet -> Ralf Brown.

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(Last updated 23-May-2018)