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Workshop – Beyond Prompting: A Gentle Introduction to Agentic AI – May 21, 2026

AI
GenAI
Workshop
Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that can act autonomously — planning, making decisions, and executing multi-step tasks with minimal human intervention.…
Jun 9, 2026
 

arXiv: Preprints citing preprints

AI
Musings
Research
I’ve been reading a lot of AI research lately. Something has been nagging at me: the modern AI research ecosystem has quietly abandoned peer review, and the field has…
May 23, 2026
 

Conscience Is Not One-Sided

AI
Musings
I have a lot of respect for Alex Reid. He has a lot of great posts that often help me bring some balance with AI and technology in general. His recent post, “The Conscience…
May 12, 2026
 

Is Computer Science Dead?

AI
Musings
computer science
curriculum
There is very little doubt in my mind that AI is here. Despite the plethora of thoughts and feelings of faculty across higher ed, AI is here, with all signs pointing to its…
May 2, 2026
 

AI Agents should not be used as customer service

AI
Musings
We’re hearing that multiple companies are striving to optimize and streamline services across their businesses with AI, buying into the promises AI companies themselves are…
Mar 5, 2026
 

Talk – Prompting AI – July 15, 2025

AI
Talk
I gave a talk for faculty and staff on how to prompt AI to get better results. We covered the background of AI, explained LLMs and their data, and discussed the increasingly…
Jul 15, 2025
 

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they’re faster, study finds

AI
GenAI
Software Engineering
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/
Jul 14, 2025
 

How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era? – NYTimes

AI
CS Education
GenAI
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/technology/computer-science-education-ai.html
Jul 1, 2025
 

The Entire Internet is Reverting to Beta – The Atlantic

AI
GenAI
ethics
society
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/06/ai-janky-web/683228/
Jul 1, 2025
 

Anthropic launches program to track fallout from AI

AI
GenAI
ethics
As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout
Jun 27, 2025
 

AI as the New Study Partner: Yes, we CAN help students learn responsible AI use

AI
GenAI
AI to the Rescue: https://www.chronicle.com/special-projects/the-different-voices-of-student-success/ai-to-the-rescue
Jun 24, 2025
 

You mean, ChatGPT isn’t good for your brain?

AI
GenAI
https://www.theweek.in/news/health/2025/06/19/chat-gpt-might-not-be-good-for-your-brain-new-mit-study-finds.html
Jun 19, 2025
 

Workshop – Demystifying AI – May 23, 2025

AI
GenAI
Workshop
The links below are to Python notebooks for each section of the workshop. Open the notebook, which will take you to a Google Drive link that is a read-only version of the…
May 23, 2025
 

Extended Reality (XR)

Teaching
XR
I developed an intense interest in understanding how Extended Reality devices could be used for, well, “good.” Over the pandemic, as many of us were stuck home, I purchased…
Nov 3, 2024
 

Updating CSCI 205

CSCI 205
Java
Teaching
CSCI 205 has been a highly successful course for our majors. It is a lot of work for students, and likewise for the instructors who teach it (myself and Prof. Chris Dancy.)…
Nov 23, 2019
 

Past Research Projects

Research
The following are research projects that, for one reason or another, ended up falling down the priority list and are no longer being actively worked on. I list them here as…
Jul 13, 2019
 

Current Student Research

Research
autism
deep learning
eye tracking
students
These are ongoing projects as of Summer 2019
Jul 2, 2019
 

My joy with ILTM

Bucknell
ILTM
interdisciplinarity
I had the joy of becoming a core faculty member of the Institute of Leadership in Technology and Management for the past two summers (Summer 2017, 2018). I found this to be…
Aug 27, 2018
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