Samuel A. Rebelsky

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• Frequently Asked Questions
• Curriculum Vitae
• Home
• Office
• Teaching
• Research
• Notes

I am teaching two courses this semester, CSC151, a first course in computer science using a scripting media approach, and BIO/CSC295, an experimental course in bioinformatics, team-taught with Vida Praitis in Biology.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where are the pages with memories of your parents, Freda Rebelsky and Bill Rebelsky?

http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Freda/

Where are the resources for the SIGCSE2009 Media Scripting workshop?

http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Workshops/SIGCSE2009/

Do you ever update this page?

Rarely. If you note things that seem to need updates, please let me know.

Where can I find the code for Experiments in Java?

ftp://ftp.cs.grinnell.edu/pub/rebelsky/EIJ/Code/

Where can I get papers about your research projects?

Papers on Web Raveler, the Blazer system, and related technologies will soon be available from the Glimmer Web Site.

Can you help me with the following homework question? ...

Not unless you're one of my students. If you plan to send me a question, you should read my policies for dealing with questions on homework.

Can I send you an unsolicited email advertisement?

No.

Why do you have links to a Front Door and Origin rather than a Home Page.

I'm following the lead of my colleague, John David Stone. Dr. Stone notes that Home Page is ambiguous, because it can either mean entry to my site, or place which I use to start my browsing. He suggests using Front Door for the former and Origin for the latter.

Why do you have a Skip to Body link at the top of your page?

Usability guidelines suggest that you should provide an easy way to skip any large set of links. Since I sometimes have a lot of links at the top of the page, I include that link, too.

Where can I find you?

Take a look at my schedule. During the summer, my whereabouts are unpredictable.

I sent you a question N days ago and you haven't replied. Are you ever going to reply?

If I saw the question, I probably plan to reply or think I've replied already. If it's been a few days, it never hurts to prod me again.

I'm a former student. Will you write me a letter of recommendation or serve as a reference?

Certainly. I write much better letters (and serve as a better reference) for people who take the time to fill out my requested information for letters of recommendation form. I also tend to push deadlines, so please drop me an email to remind me to get those recommendations done!

Curriculum Vitae

My CV is available in HTML or PDF.

Home

Samuel A. Rebelsky
1120 Main Street
Grinnell, Iowa 50112
641-236-7445

Office

Samuel A. Rebelsky
Department of Computer Science;
Grinnell College
Science 3824
1116 8th Avenue
Grinnell, Iowa 50112
641-269-4410
641-269-4285 (fax)
rebelsky@grinnell.edu
http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/

Teaching

If you're interested in more historical information, you can look at a partial list of course webs for courses I've taught at Grinnell.

Research

Forthcoming

Notes

Feel free to visit my origin (a list of links, term due to John Stone).

While there may be a fairly deep hierarchy at in my Grinnell pages, there are not index pages for every level. As I have time, I'll add indices. Let me know if you notice something missing.