William
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William
- MANHATTAN, Kansas, US
- Last Login: 4/26/2009
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Music Player
Interests
General
algorithms, angband, angel, animation, anne mccaffrey, anti-racism, anti-spam, applied mathematics, arabidopsis, arrakis, artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, asia, asian americans, battlestar galactica, bayesian networks, beowulf clusters, bioinformatics, blender, books, c++, c. s. lewis, cgi, children of dune, chinese food, christianity, computational geometry, computational science, computer graphics, computer science, computer security, computers, dan simmons, data mining, data visualization, databases, decision theory, digital art, disney, distributed computing, dorothy sayers, drawing, drosophila, dune, ecology, ecumenicism, endymion, evolutionary computation, expert systems, fanfiction, fantasy, films, firefly, folk music, free software, friends, game programming, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, genomics, god, grant writing, graph theory, grid computing, highlander, hobbits, human-computer interaction, hyperion, hypermedia, inference, information extraction, information security, information visualization, java, jedi, julian may, kansas, lestat, libraries, lightsabers, linux, literature, livejournal, lloyd alexander, lord of the rings, machine learning, machine translation, mathematics, maya, mercedes lackey, microarrays, middle-earth, mmorpg, monte carlo, multimedia, music, nanotechnology, nanowrimo, narnia, neural networks, nonviolence, ontologies, open source, opengl, orson scott card, pacifism, painter, peace, peace and justice, pixar, poetry, probabilistic reasoning, probability, programming, prydain, reading, real-time systems, rendering, research, robotics, roguelikes, science fiction, scientific visualization, semantic web, shakespeare, simulation, singing, singularity, software engineering, sourceforge, star trek, star wars, statistics, stochastic processes, technical writing, technology, teunc, theoretical computer science, time series, tolkien, tori amos, travel, visualization, web design, writingMusic
I have eclectic tastes in music, ranging from Tori Amos to Weird Al Yankovic to R.E.M. Besides the above, my favorite artists are Sarah McLachlan, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Dido, Josh Groban, and Rosanne Cash. I have been known to listen to Gregorian chant (Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos), rapcore (P.O.D.), and occasionally Evanescence and Alison Krauss.Movies
I like epic fantasy book adaptations such as The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia, but the transition to the silver screen is not an easy one. Successful ones I have seen include The Joy Luck Club and The Shawshank Redemption. Mr. Holland's Opus and Dead Poets' Society also hold special places in my heart.I enjoy a good science fiction movie at least once or twice a year. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Serenity were among the noteworthy films I saw in 2005. And yes, I liked the Kubrick-Spielberg collaboration A.I., even though it had an incongruously sappy ending.
Recently, I have begun to watch anime movies, and found that I loved Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke) and Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away). I also liked Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
Television
There is not a whole lot on TV that is particularly good these days, though I love a fun sitcom such as Joey or What I Like About You. My favorite shows at present are:- Battlestar Galactica (the reimagined series that began in 2004 on the Sci-Fi Channel
- Stargate: Atlantis (also Sci-Fi)
- Lost (ABC)
Books
..Fiction..- 1. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkienv
- 2. Diamond Mask, Julian May
- 3. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
- 4. The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons
- 5. Jack the Bodiless, Julian May
- 6. Endymion, Dan Simmons
- 7. Hyperion Cantos, Dan Simmons
- 8. The Many-Colored Land, Julian May
- 9. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
- 10. Foundatioin, Isaac Asimov
- 11. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- 12. Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov
- 13. All The Weys of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
- 14. Queen's Own, Mercedes Lackey
Heroes
In fiction: Jack the Bodiless, Diamond Mask, Raul Endymion, Aenea, Finrod Felagund, FingolfinIn everyday life: People of principle, who stand up for the rights of the downtrodden against great odds. Honest and forthright people.
Details
- Orientation: Straight
- Religion: Christian - other
- Zodiac Sign: Libra
- Children: Someday
- Smoke / Drink: No / No
- Education: Post grad
- Income: $75,000 to $100,000
Schools
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University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
- Champaign,Illinois
- Graduated: 1998
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Major: Computer Science
1993 to 1998 -
Johns Hopkins University
- Baltimore,Maryland
- Graduated: 1993
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Master's Degree
- Major: Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences
1986 to 1993
Blurbs
About me:
My name is William H. Hsu (..). I am an associate professor (since June, 2005) in the Department of Computing and Information Sciences (CIS) at Kansas State University (K-State) in Manhattan, KS, where I have been a faculty member since July, 1999. In the summer of 1998, I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science (DCS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Before that, I was at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, MD, where I earned a dual B.S. degree in CS and Mathematical Sciences and a master's degree in CS, graduating in 1993. I am an alum of Severn School in Severna Park, MD (Class of 1989). Last but not least, I was in the CTY program at Hopkins back in 1986-1987.I work on problems in machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, time series analysis, information visualization, and data mining. My research interests include artificial neural networks (ANNs), genetic and evolutionary computation (GEC), and graphical models of probability such as Bayesian networks ("belief networks"), with applications to commercial decision support and bioinformatics. Our open-source software package Bayesian Networks in Java (BNJ) is used by people at over 50 research institutions. See my research lab page (http://www.kddresearch.org) for papers and resources.
I teach the following courses at KSU:
- CIS 560, Database Systems (every spring)
- CIS 690, Implementation of High-Performance Data Mining Systems (summer, given sufficient demand)
- CIS 730, Principles of Artifcial Intelligence (every other fall)
- CIS 732, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (every fall)
- CIS 736, Computer Graphics (every spring)
- CIS 830, Topics in Artificial Intelligence (every other spring)
I am also a J.R.R. Tolkien and Star Wars fan, and a Tolkien Eccentric Unusual Nut Case (TEUNC). I have accounts on MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal (LJ), Friendster and Orkut, but I am most active on LJ. LJ is better! I also have a GreatestJournal (GJ), but that is not the blog you're looking for. You don't need to see my GJ. Move along...
Feel free to add me to your friends list, but please post a comment in my journal or e-mail me to let me know, especially if you wish to be added to my list.
Cheers, Bill
P.S. : If you're wondering about the meaning of the name Banazîr, it is Westron (the Common Tongue of Men) for Samwise or "half-wise" in Tolkien's Middle-earth. This and other interesting etymologies for Tolkien conlangs can be found on Ardalambion.
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Maetrik - Being Used (Brian Aneurysm Remix)
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Jell Cell - Jettison
Morgan Page - Outside The City (Morgan Page Dub)
Arctic Hospital - Oel
Soultek - Paradigm
Los Hermanos - Quetzal
Alexander Kowalski - Dark Soul EP
Alexander Kowalski - Progress
Cisco Ferreira - House Abuse
Underground Resistance - Transition
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