David's Place

David Davenport
Computer Eng. & Information Science Dept.,
Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara - Turkey.
email: david@bilkent.edu.tr

Thanks for dropping by. I hope you find something of use, interest or amusement within this semi-chaos. I have long described myself as being horizontally organised, that is, everything spread out in "neat" piles across the table and usually overflowing onto the floor. I am relieved to see that others share my disability, therefore, please bear with me while I attempt (yet again) to put my life and mind in order!

About me. My daughter Derya. My wife Günes.
Time for a coffee break. Some amusing Quotes? What Do You Know? Are you LOST?
Understanding bureaucracy. Test your spell checker with this!
Tips for me! Teaching tips. Tips for students.
Bilkent ACM SIGART.  TYWC The Young Writer's Club.
Some Lessons from Life? Speeding down the The Information CuldeSac!
Damn Computers! My Educational Philosophy

 WANTED - Graduate Research Students...
Hint: Students applying for graduate studies in Bilkent are strongly advised to speak
privately to faculty members in their area of interest before the interviews!

 Research / Project Topics

Senior & Masters students wanted for projects in the new
 Collaborative Systems research group

 My personal list of proposals for CS491/2 Senior Projects

A Short Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism

 Grades!

Calendars (useful iCal downloads)

Recent & not so recent...
Software Quest, INSITES, CS590, CS101 & CS102
UNESCO World Poetry Day contest & day-to-day TYWC

Conference pages

BTIE'2001 (Education in the Light of Infomation Technology)
{ held in Ankara, May 2001 }

The 5th Java in the Computing Curriculum Conference
{ held in London, January 2001 }

New Trends in Cognitive Science '99
{ held in Vienna, May 1999 }

Second International Distance Education Symposium
{ held in Ankara May 1998 }

Research Interests & Some Publications

• Artificial Intelligence,
• Information Retrieval,
• Computer-Aided-Learning

"AI is an engineering discipline
built on an unfinished science."
Matt Ginsberg,
reported in SIGART bulletin Vol 6, No.2 April 1995

(The quotation seems to sum up my
AI cartoon of a few years previous)

Graduate students WANTED

Some students:

Online Presentations/Seminars:

• Computationalism - Streaming media conference presentation.
• WIZ - Outline design for Internet-based distance education.
• Introduction to Using Windows '98
• Virtually There - The Internet in Support of Learning

Software:

• Tracker - Online grade & assignment tracking system.
• BilTrader - online for-sale/wanted adverts for Bilkent.
• JRobo - Online introduction to OOP in Java, based on Robo.
• What's On? - an online event calendar for Bilkent.
• ROBO : Helps teach basic computer engineering concepts.
• EasyView(Windows) : Text Organiser/Viewer (get it here or via ftp)
• EasyView(Mac) : {original by Akif Eyler} (get it via ftp)
• TutoR : Experimental CAL Authoring/presentation program.

Courses:

• CS101 : Algorithms & Programming I {Fall semester} lecturer & co-ordinator
• CS102 : Algorithms & Programming II {Spring semester} lecturer & co-ordinator
• CS533 : Information Retrieval {Fall semester, but rarely offered!}
• CS590 : Graduate Seminar Series { occasional joint co-ordinator!}

others...

• A long time ago, I also used to act as CS dept. coordinator for computer related courses in the social science departments, including MAN253, MAN254, IR201 & POLS307
• From ~1990 until 1999, I acted as co-ordinator for the CS492 : Senior Projects course.
  {You can see my current personal list of CS491/2 projects here.}

Begin small, start promptly