Dan Tappan
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
College of Engineering
Idaho State University

Current Courses:

Contact:

    Office hours: TTh 1015-1130, by appointment, or if my door is open
    Colonial Hall 8 (Pocatello); Student Union 118 (Idaho Falls)
    (208) 282-2840

    dtappan_progeny.isu.edu for course-related communication
    tappdan_isu.edu for other business

    (for both addresses, replace the antispam underscore with @)


Here are some interesting and possibly useful tidbits.

Some stuff about me:

Goodies relating to engineering and computer science:

My Ph.D. dissertation, Knowledge-Based Spatial Reasoning for Automated Scene Generation from Text Descriptions:

My master's thesis, A Russian-to-English Translation System for Scientific Abstracts:

Years ago I prepared this survey of computational linguistics and knowledge representation for my Ph.D. comprehensive exam:

Even more years ago I also prepared these study guides for my Ph.D. qualifying exams. They consolidate and index a massive amount of computer-science information from a variety of sources. They might be useful for other students, but keep in mind that they were written primarily for me, and not everything makes sense outside of this context. I also make no claims about the correctness of the information. I did pass my exams, though.