Teaching Awards.
I have taught a wide variety of courses over the years,
everything from 100+ students in an
introductory programming course to ten students in a graduate-level research seminar.
I won
Teaching Incentive Program Awards
from the University of South Florida in 1997 and 1994.
(For a brief period of time, the Florida state legislature had the TIP awards
come with a $5,000 salary increase and winners in one year
were not eligible the following two years.)
I also won
an Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award from
USF in 1991.
Biometrics.
I have taught a seminar on biometrics, with major emphasis on iris
biometrics, several times.
The
syllabus
for the Fall 2011 offering of this course is available, with
links to a copy of the slides for most of the classes.
A
paper
resulting from an assignment in the 2010 offering of the course
explores how recognition performance is affected by inter-operability between
iris sensors.
A
paper
that describes an earlier offering of an undergraduate course in
biometrics and privacy appeared in the 2004 Frontiers In Education
conference.
Artificial Intelligence.
I taught an unusual course titled
Perspectives on AI, Robotics and Humanity.
Students seemed to love this course, which alternated between reading classic
AI research papers
and critiquing the depictions of AI in popular movies and television.
Check out the video of the light-sabre argument between Kat and Natalie over the relative merits
of R2D2 and C3PO.
The
syllabus for this course is available
and has links to selected student presentations.
As an example, check out Kevin Mickey's interpretation of the
animated movie Wall-E in the context of Aaron Sloman's paper,
"What sort of architecture is required for a human-like agent?".
Computer Vision / Image Analysis.
I organized two workshops on Undergraduate Education and Computer Vision
that were supported by National Science Foundation grants (CDA 97-12195,
EIA 99-88400)
that were held in conjunction with the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
conference.
A discussion of the lessons learned and recommendations resulting from one workshop
appears in the paper:
"Themes for Improved Teaching of Image Computation",
Kevin W. Bowyer, Louise Stark and George Stockman,
IEEE Transactions on Education 43 (2), 2000.
I also edited
special issues of papers on this topic:
Special Issue: Image Computation and Education", Kevin W. Bowyer, Louise Stark and George
Stockman,
12 (8), December 1998.
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
"Introduction: Undergraduate Education and Computer Vision",
Kevin W. Bowyer and Louise Stark,
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
15 (5), August 2001.
Ethics and Professionalism.
I led several NSF-sponsored (DUE 97-52792) workshops on the theme of
"Teaching Ethics and Computing"
and also collaborated with Marion Ben-Jacob on an NSF-sponsored workshop,
"Computer Ethics Across the Curriculum",
that she hosted at Mercy College.
Educational approaches and materials in this area were the subject of papers at the
Frontiers In Education conference in 1997, 2000 and 2001, as well as two
articles in the Journal of Information Systems Education Summer-Fall 2000 issue.
My book Ethics and Computing: Living Responsibly in a Computerized World
is an IEEE Press / Wiley Press title.
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