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, is a major contributor to darktable, and has co-authored a number of books.

Teaching

Fall 2024: teaching 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp (syllabus, Lecture 1 slides, Lecture 2 slides); leading 11-696 MIIS Capstone Project.

Spring 2024: led 11-927 MIIS Capstone Planning Seminar.

Fall 2023: taught 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp (syllabus); led 11-696 MIIS Capstone Project.

Spring 2023: led 11-927 MIIS Capstone Planning Seminar.

Fall 2022: taught 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp; led 11-927 MIIS Capstone Project.

Spring 2022: led 11-927 MIIS Capstone Project.

Earlier:

• taught 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp: Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
• co-taught 11-601 Coding and Algorithms Bootcamp: Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017
• led 11-696 MIIS Capstone Planning Seminar: Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021
• led 11-927 MIIS Capstone Project: Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
• 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 at PBase, ImageEvent, and Zenfolio
    (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" 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:

• The SCS 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

• Pittsburgh-related pages

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