Samuel A. Rebelsky

Welcome to the front door (explanation) for SamR's Site, the primary Web site for Samuel A. Rebelsky. On this page and site, you can find all sorts of stuff, including ... (skip table of contents).

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

Frequently Asked Questions

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?

You may certainly use SamR's Email Advertisement Abbreviated Evaluation Service. Of course, I assume that unsolicited advertisements are submissions to that service.

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. Check my to do list to see if you're on it. If not, send me the question again. If so, it still wouldn't hurt to prod me.

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. You may also want to look at my annual annual faculty activity reports for more details on what I do.

Home

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

Office

Samuel A. Rebelsky
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science;
Grinnell College
Science 2427 (Y-2)
Grinnell, Iowa 50112
641-269-4410
641-269-4285 (fax)
rebelsky@grinnell.edu
http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/

Teaching

In Spring 2006, I am teaching three courses, CS152, Fundamentals of Computer Science II, and CS302, Programming Languages.

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. The courses I taught at Dartmouth are currently unavailable. (I've been trying to make course webs for most of my courses since 1994, and doing it for every course since somewhere in 1995.)

Research

My current research has to do with investigating and affecting the ways in which people use the Web. Siteweaver is a system used to simplify the construction of pages and sites. WebRaveler (also called Ravel) is a system used to customize the presentation of pages (so that readers can better affect the presentation of pages that they don't control). For example, the trails project mentioned above is part of Ravel. Ravel is also being used to support Project Clio, a study of the ways in which students use Web pages.

You can find more information on these projects at the Glimmer Labs Web site.

Notes

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

I've not-so-recently moved from the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College to the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Grinnell College.

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.