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

	Teaching CS263 Advanced Object-Oriented Design CS344 Artificial Intelligence CS496B Senior Design ENGR120 Introduction to Engineering   Office Hours MW 1400-1500, TTh 1330-1430, by appointment, or if my door is open Colonial Hall 8 (Pocatello) or after class (Idaho Falls)   Schedule   Research Current Work     ShelbySim: A Transparent, Pedagogy-Oriented Simulator for Computer-Based Systems   A Pedagogical Framework for Modeling and Simulating Intelligent Agents and Control Systems plus poster   A Pedagogy-Oriented Modeling-and-Simulation Environment for AI Scenarios   Pedagogy-Oriented Software Modeling and Simulation of Component-Based Physical Systems   Recent Work     Knowledge-Based Spatial Reasoning for Scene Generation from Text Descriptions plus poster   Monte Carlo Simulation for Plausible Interpretation of Natural-Language Spatial Descriptions   Augmentation of Explicit Spatial Configurations by Knowledge-Based Inference on Geometric Fields   Miscellaneous Some stuff about me     Curriculum vitae (web version)   Teaching philosophy and background and extended version   Research interests and background     ISU 2009 Master Teacher Award     Shelby, Loki, their research, activities, schedule, friends, camping buddies, and masters   Toothbrush Battle to the Death (with brother)   Dreadful Teton Dance Video (with brother)   How to be an engineering professor (by brother)   Goodies relating to computer science, engineering, and ISU     ISU Computer Science poster   ISU Computer Science pamphlet   ISU Department of Computer Science overview   Computer Science curriculum map   Forays into the Field presentation I and presentation II     Finagle's Laws   Understanding science and another   Engineering careers   The Knack   Community presentation on voting technology     Idaho State Journal commentary on ISU 24/7 faculty research expectations   Open letter from ISU Faculty Senate to Idaho Governor on proposed salary cuts   Ph.D. dissertation, Knowledge-Based Spatial Reasoning for Automated Scene Generation from Text Descriptions     Dissertation   Defense   JavaDoc API   Master's thesis, A Russian-to-English Translation System for Scientific Abstracts     Thesis (with font issues)   Defense   A survey of computational linguistics and knowledge representation for my Ph.D. comprehensive exam     Knowledge Representation for Natural Language Processing   Study guides for my Ph.D. qualifying exams. They consolidate and index a large amount of computer-science information from a variety of sources. They might be useful to other students, but keep in mind that they were written primarily for me, and not everything makes sense outside this context     Computer Architecture   Programming Languages   Computational Linguistics   Automata, Languages, and Computability   Analysis of Algorithms     Contact Dan Tappan Idaho State University College of Engineering 921 S. 8th. Ave., Stop 8060 Pocatello, ID 83209-8060   Voice:  (208) 282-2840 Fax: (208) 282-4538   dtappan0@progeny.isu.edu   for course-related communication (enrolled students only) tappdan0@isu.edu for all other communication for both addresses, remove the antispam "0" suffix