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Dr. Hale wins teaching award (Oct. 27, 2009)
Who : Dr. Margie Hale
Professor Margie Hale has won the Florida section of Mathematical Association of America's 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award and will be the Florida 2010 nominee for one of the nations highest awards for a higher education math teacher. Award-winners must be widely recognized as extraordinary, effective and successful teachers whose teaching has influenced others beyond their own institution, and they must foster curiosity and generate excitement about mathematics in their students.
I try to ask good questions that start students thinking, Hale said of her teaching. I do not give quick answers, but support their thoughts and give them hints. In some classes I assign projects and let students propose ones that interest them. I sometimes ask off-beat, open-ended questions and award a golden Sacagawea dollar for good answers or significant progress.
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Math/CS students win awards! (Apr. 30, 2009)...
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2008 Programming Contest (Nov. 25, 2008)...
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Expert Engines and Drools (Mar. 24, 2010)
Who : Sam Romano, Lock heed Martin
Location : EH 205
The Drools Library (officially known now as JBoss Rules) is a forward-chaining inference based rules engine (also known as an Expert System or Knowledge Engine). It is the first widely supported open source rule engine with an implementation based on the Rete Network Algorithm by Charles Forgy, with additions made for the java object orientated paradigm. Drools is currently in version 5.0, and has expanded its feature set to not only be an expert engine, but also handle other services required in enterprise systems/business policies such as a Complex Event Processor/Event Stream Processor (Drools Fusion), work flow engine (Drools Flow), and even a generic plan solver (Drools Solver) for handling problems related to Operations Research. While many businesses employ Drools in enterprise-type situations such as Insurance companies for application handling, or security systems for authentication, it also has found many uses in Logistics (FedEx, Lockheed Martin) and the health industry with medical services and diagnosis systems. We will cover some of the internals of Drools, with examples that exemplify Drools features, and how its internal implementation based on ideas developed 30 years ago allows users in our modern day to apply and build abstract, extensible systems.
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Rewarding Career in Math? Be an Actuary! (Dec. 02, 2009)...
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HOW DID THEY GET INTO MY NETWORK?!? (Nov. 06, 2009)...
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