Public Talks by Henry M. Walker

Index of Public Talks

The following list provides links to Web-based materials developed by Henry Walker for talks and panels.

Tutorial conducted at CCSC Northwest 2022

• November 5, 2022: Conducting Departmental Reviews and Serving as a Reviewer

Presentation at Willamette University

• November 4, 2022, Bias in Algorithms and the Misuse of Big Data Sets

Presentation to CS Faculty at Sonoma State University 2022-2023

• August 31, 2022: Condcting Department/Program Reviews

CS Colloquia: at Sonoma State University

• March 30, 2022: Robots in CS1: Overview, Bluetooth, Tone Generation, and Testing with eSpeak
• November 3, 2021: Bias in Algorithms and the Misuse of Big Data Sets

CS Extras for Spring 2021: at Grinnell College

• February 4, 2021: Elements of MyroC with Robots, Part 1 Bluetooth, Tone Generation, and eSpeak
• April 8, 2021: Elements of MyroC with Robots, Part 2 Motion, Timing, and Image Processing

Talk for Math 119/312, CS, and Physics at Williams College

• November 4, 2020: Bias in Algorithms and the Misuse of Big Data Sets

Thursday Extra: at Grinnell College

• September 3, 2020: Bias in Algorithms and the Misuse of Big Data Sets

Talk for the Computer Science/Mathematics Seminar Series at the University of Puget Sound

• February 3, 2020: Bias in Algorithms and the Misuse of Big Data Sets

Talk at Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium

• November 16, 2019: Bias in Algorithms and the Misuse of Big Data Sets

Talk at CCSC Midwest 2019 Conference

• October 5, 2019: 1000 _(binary) Ways to Help New, Visiting, and Adjunct Faculty

Presentation to Computer Science Faculty, University of Oregon, April 2019

• April 19, 2019: Lab-based Pedagogy with Collaboration: An Example of a Flipped Classroom

Faculty Colloquium at Willamette University, April 2019

• April 5, 2019: Lab-based Pedagogy with Collaboration: An Example of a Flipped Classroom

CS Tea at Willamette University

• March 7, 2019: A System to Place Incoming Students in Classes (abstract)

PFF Panels at Iowa State University, September, October 2018

• September 18, 2018: Hiring New Faculty: Initial Thoughts on Five Questions

MAA Minicourse at MathFest 2018, Denver, CO

• August 3-4, 2018: Leading a Successful Program Review (with Rick Gillman, Valparaiso University)

Sessions at Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium at Drake University

• April 24, 2018: Approaches for Introductory Computer Science: Content and Pedagogy
• April 24, 2018: Lab-based Pedagogy with Collaboration: An Example of a Flipped Classroom
• April 24, 2018: Grinnell / U.Iowa 4+1 Program

Talk at Williams College, November 2017

• November 7, 2017: Lab-based Pedagogy with Collaboration: An Example of a Flipped Classroom

Talk at Mt. Holyoke College, October 2017

• October 26, 2017: Approaches for Introductory Computer Science: Content and Pedagogy

Talk at Bennington College, October 2017

• October 6, 2017: Can AI Support Placement of Incoming Students in CS/Math/Statistics

Session at CS Affinity Reunion, November 2016

• November 18, 2016: Computing at Grinnell: Early History through International Recognition

Sessions at MAA Iowa Section 2016 Conference

• October 7, 2016: A Lab-based Pedagogy that Emphasizes Collaboration
• October 6, 2016: Using a Database to Support a Course Home Page, Syllabus, Schedule, and Other Online Materials

Talk at CCSC Midwest 2016 Conference

• 1 October 2016, Student-Faculty Collaboration in Developing and Testing Infrastructure for a C-based Course Using Robots

Sessions at CCSC Central Plains 2016 Conference

• April 1, 2016: MyroC: A Work-in-Progress for incorporating robots into an introductory CS course

MyroC Talk at NW Missouri State University to Illustrate CS Concepts

• March 31, 2016: MyroC 3.1:A C-based Project for using Robots in CS2: Design Approaches and Techniques to Implement Robot Commands

Sessions at Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium

• March 19, 2016: Robotics in an introductory CS course using C
• March 19, 2016: SIGCSE Committee on Computer Science and the Liberal Arts
• March 19, 2016: Helping 2-year college transfers

Thursday Extra: MyroC Status Report

• MyroC 3.0: Update, Portability, Non-blocking, Threads, Processes, Coordination

MyroC Talk at Williams College to Illustrate CS Concepts

• October 8, 2015: MyroC 3.0:A C-based Project for using Robots in CS2: Design Approaches and Techniques to Implement Robot Commands

Updated Status Report to Grinnell's Science Division

• May 11, 2015: Updated Status Report: Science Students from DMACC Considering Transfer to Grinnell

Talk given as a Thursday Extra and at the CCSC Central Plains 2015 Conference, Point Lookout, MO

• April 2, 10, 2015: A Refined C-based Infrastructure and Curriculum to Support Robots in Introductory CS

Sessions at Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium

• March 28, 2015: Session Slides

Special Session at SIGCSE 2015

• March 5, 2015: Special Session on Curricular Assessment: Tips and Techniques

Talks at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln

• October 30, 2014: A Lab-based Approach for Introductory Computing that Emphasizes Collaboration
• October 30, 2014: Using CS2013 for a Department's Curriculum Review: A Case Study

Status Report to Grinnell's Science Division

• October 13, 2014: Status Report: Science Students from DMACC Considering Transfer to Grinnell

Tutorial conducted at CCSC Midwest 2014

• September 19, 2014: Conducting Departmental Reviews and Serving as a Reviewer

Talks on Academic Honesty at Grinnell College for the 2014-2015 Academic Year

• September 18, 2014: Celeste Miller's Tutorial: Academic Honesty: An Introduction
• September 11, 2014: Eliza Kempton's Tutorial: Academic Honesty: An Introduction
• August 22, 2014: International Students' Orientation: Academic Honesty: A Brief Introduction

Talks at the Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium, Wellesley College

• July 29-30, 2014: Not currently available

Talk given at ITiCSE 2014: Uppsala, Sweden

• June 24: 2014: Course Development through Student-Faculty Collaboration: A Case Study

Presentation at Thursday Extra, Grinnell College

• April 15, 2014: Bluetooth Communications with Scribbler 2 Robots: A Progress Report

Talk given at CCSC Central Plains 2014: Westminster College, Fulton, MO

• April 4, 2014: Using CS2013 for a Department's Curriculum Review: A Case Study

Talks given at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri

• April 3, 2014: Grinnell's Experience Using CS2013 as Part of a Review of its CS Curriculum and Major
• April 3, 2014: Academic Implications for Google Glasses: Some Initial thoughts
• April 3, 2014: SIGCSE/CCSC CP Paper Submission and Review System

Talks given at the 2014 Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium, Iowa State University

• March 29, 2014: Grinnell's Experience Using CS2013 as Part of a Review of its CS Curriculum and Major
• March 29, 2014: Academic Implications for Google Glasses: Some Initial thoughts

Talk given at SIGCSE 2014: Atlanta, GA

• March 7, 2014: Experiences Mapping and Revising Curricula with CS2013

Departmental Presentation for a New CS Curriculum and Major

• February 26, 2014: Presentation to Students: Planning with Grinnell's New CS Curriculum and Major
• January 27, 2014: Presentation to the Science Division and Curriculum Committee: A Proposed Revision of Grinnell's CS Curriculum and Major
• November 11, 2013: CS Department Session: A Possible Revision of Grinnell's CS Curriculum and Major

Talks on Academic Honesty at Grinnell College for the 2013-2014 Academic Year

• September 26, 2013: Sujeev Wickramasekara's Tutorial: Academic Honesty: An Introduction
• September 12, 2013: Stella Chan's Tutorial: Academic Honesty: Some Observations
• August 22, 2013: International Students' Orientation: Academic Honesty: A Brief Introduction

Talk given at the Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

• August 2, 2013: Grinnell's Experience with a CS 2013 Curricular Mapping (on-campus access only)

Presentation to Grinnell's Admission Office, Grinnell College

• July 24, 2013: Grinnell's Competitive Advantages in CS

Williams College Computer Science: 25^th Anniversary Symposium

• April 20, 2013: Panel on CS Education

Presentation at Thursday Extra, Grinnell College

• April 11, 2013: Grinnell's Competitive Advantages in CS

Keynote at CCSC Southwest 2013: San Marcos, CA

• April 5, 2013: CS 2013 and the Concept of Course Exemplars: Grinnell's Introductory Sequence

Sessions given at SIGCSE 2013: Denver, CO

• March 7, 2013: First Timers' Luncheon Address
• March 8, 2013: CS2013 Exemplar Fest: Grinnell's Multi-paradigm Introductory Sequence
• March 8, 2013: AP CS A Exploration of a Change from GridWorld to Labs
• March 8, 2013: How AP CS A Matches Colleges Courses

Sessions given at the 2012 Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium

• October 27, 2012: The Course Exemplar Concept
• October 27, 2012: MAA Program Study Group on Computer Science and Computational Science
• October 27, 2012: Using undergraduates as mentors, lab assistants, graders, peer tutors

Talk given at the Iowa Section meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa

• October 6, 2012: MAA Program Study Group on Computer Science and Computational Science: Status Report

Talk given at the Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

• June 16, 2012: Comments on Assessment in the Liberal Arts

Workshops conducted at CCSC Central Plains 2012

• March 31, 2012: Proven Strategies for Increasing Participation of High School Students in Computing
• March 30, 2012: Conducting Departmental Reviews and Serving as a Reviewer

Talk given at SIGCSE 2012, Raleigh, NC

• March 1, 2012: A C-based Introductory Course Using Robots

Talk given at Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, MN

• February 2, 2012: A System to Place Incoming Students in Classes (abstract)

Talk given at CCSC Midwest 2011, with co-presenters Andrew Hirakawa and Russel Steinbach

• September 23, 2011: A System to Place Incoming Students in Classes

Talk given at the Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium, Hope College/Kalamazoo College, Michigan

• July 22, 2011: Lab-based Pedagogy with Collaboration: Some Possibilities for a Collaborative LACS Paper

Talk given at the Computer Science Education Research Conference (CSERC '11), Heerlen, the Netherlands

• April 7, 2011: 16:00-17:00: A Lab-based Approach for Introductory Computing that Emphasizes Collaboration

Presentation at Rochester Institute of Technology

• March 22, 2011: R.I.T.: "Perspectives" for General Education and Computing

Presentations at SIGCSE 2011, Dallas, Texas

• March 11, 2011, 1:45-3:00 pm: Special Session Role and Value of Quantitative Instruments in Gauging Student Perspectives in Computing Curriculum
• March 10, 2011, 3:45-5:00 pm: Panel Successful K-12 Outreach Strategies
• March 10, 2011, 10:45-12:00: Paper Incorporating Social Issues of Computing in a Small, Liberal Arts College: A Case Study

Presentation at Thursday Extra, Grinnell College

• February 24, 2011: Grinnell College: Programming Robots — A Status Report

Presentation at Thursday Extra on Summer Research Opportunities

• February 3, 2011: Robots in CSC 161 (maybe, if all goes well)

Talk given at MAA — Iowa Section Meeting

• October 23, 2010: A System to Place Incoming Students in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics

Talk given at Thursday Extra

• September 30, 2010: Software for the Submission and Review of Conference Proposals: 10 (Hexadecimal) Lessons

Talk given at CCSC Midwest 2010

• September 25, 2010: Proven Strategies for Increasing Participation of High School Students in Computing

Talk given at CCSC Central Plains 2010

• April 9, 2010: The SIGCSE Submission and Review System: 10 (Hexadecimal) Lessons

Presentation at Thursday Extra

• March 18, 2010 (with John Stone): Web Content Management with Drupal

Talk given at SIGCSE 2010

• March 11, 2010: Panel on What Everyone Needs to Know About Computation

Presentation at Thursday Extra on Summer Research Opportunities

• February 4, 2010: Placing Incoming Students in CS/Math/Statistics: from Version 1.3 toward Version 2.0

Talk given at the Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium

• April 25, 2009: A Lab-based Introduction to Computer Science that Emphasizes Collaboration

Talk given at SIGCSE 2009

• March 6, 2009: Advanced Placement Computer Science: The Future of Tracking the First Year of Instruction
• March 6, 2009: SIGCSE Bylaws Revision: Motivation, Mechanics, Refinements, Policies/Procedures, Timing

Talk given at the ACM/Project Kaleidoscope/FaCE Workshop on Science Education at Grinnell College

• December 6, 2008: A Lab-based Introduction to Computer Science that Emphasizes Collaboration

Talk given on at Grinnell College Computer Science for Thursday Extras

• November 13, 2008: Placing Incoming Students in CS/Math/Statistics: from Version 1.3 toward Version 2.0
• October 2, 2008: Games in the computer science classroom: good or evil?

Talks given at CS2 Workshop for Computer Science Faculty

• June 16, 2008: CS2: Why, What, and How?
• June 16, 2008: A Lab-based Introduction to Computer Science that Emphasizes Collaboration
• June 16, 2008: Games Should be Banned from the Undergraduate CS Curriculum

Panel at SIGCSE 2008

• March 14, 2008: Debate Presentation on the Evils of Games in the Undergraduate Curriculum

Talks given at Carthage College

• February 16, 2007: The Limits of Computing
• February 16, 2007: Google's Page Rank Algorithm
• February 15, 2007: Are Computers Intelligent or Could They Be in the Future?

Panel at the Joint Mathematics Meetings

• January 5, 2007 (MAA Committee on the Profession): Panel on Professional Codes of Ethics

CRA-E Summit

• January 4, 2007: Panel on Existing Infrastructure

Panel at the Department Chairs' Workshop of the Pew Midstates Consortium

• April 22, 2006: Conversations between Deans and Chairs

Talk given at 12th Annual CCSC Central Plains Conference, Northwest Missouri State University

• April 1, 2006 (with co-author Kevin Engel): Research Exercises: Immersion Experiences to Promote Information Literacy

Presentation at the SIG Governing Board (SGB) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• February 10, 2006 (SIG Chairs Meeting): SIGCSE Viability Review

Panel at the Joint Mathematics Meetings

• January 15, 2006 (MAA Committee on the Profession): Panel on Scholarship Scenarios

Talks given at Grinnell College

• September 29, 2007 (with all CS faculty): Open Discussion regarding Future Developments of the Computer Science Department at Grinnell
• February 1, 2006 (with Sam Rebelsky and Shonda Kuiper, for students): Summer Opportunities for CS Students
• Winter, 2005 (for coaches): Status Report and Possible Directions
• Summer, 2005 (with summer students for coaches): Status Reports to Coaches
• September 12, 2005 (topics for Science Division Meeting): Science Division Agenda Items
• May 12, 2005 (with other department members, for students): Restructuring the Math/CS Department
• April 30, 2005 (to Trustees): Integrating Teaching, Scholarship, and Service
• February 1, 2005 (with John Stone, for students): Summer Opportunities for CS Students
• March 31, 2004 : Pair Programming

Talks given at Macalester College as Pew Foundation Visiting Speaker

• November 18, 2003 (Departmental Seminar): Extreme Programming
• November 19, 2003 (Computer Science 120): Computer Science is to Hacking as History is to Riding a Horse
• November 19, 2003 (Computer Science class): Pair Programming

Talk given to the Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium at Central College, Pella, Iowa

• October 25, 2003 (Invited Talk): Getting Published at CS Education Conferences: Factors for Acceptance, Approaches, Reflections
• October 25, 2003 (Invited Session): Should the Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium Become an ACM SIGCSE Chapter?

Talk given at the CCSC: Midwest Conference, Denison University

• October 3, 2003 (Invited Talk): Getting Published at CS Education Conferences: Factors for Acceptance, Approaches, Reflections

Talk given at the MAA PREP Workshop, Valparaiso University

• June 2, 2003: Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science: What, How Much, Who, When

Talks given at UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland, NZ

• May 2, 2003 (Luncheon Talk): Introduction to Extreme Programming
  • Abstract (Word format)
  • Talk Slides
• May 9, 2003 (Luncheon Talk): Planning Lab Activities
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• May 13, 2003: Research Exercises: Units for Hands-on, Just-in-time Information Literacy Instruction
  • Abstract (Word format)
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• May 14, 2003 (General Talk): Technology-related Tensions in Higher Education and Society
  • Abstract (Word format)
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• May 16, 2003 (Luncheon Talk): Introduction to Expert Systems
  • Abstract (Word format)
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• May 17-18, 2003: Doctor-of-Computing Series
  • Elements of Extreme Programming
  • Pair Programming
  • Elements of Expert Systems
  • Introduction to Neural Networks
  • References
    • References on Extreme Programming
    • References on Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence

Talk given at Trinity School, Bloomington, MN

• March 8, 2003 (Talk to School): Computer Science is to Hacking as History is to Riding a Horse

Talks given at the Conference on Computer Science in the Next Decade at Hope College, sponsored by the Pew Midstates Consortium

• November 15, 2002 (Keynote): Challenges facing CS Departments at Liberal Arts Institutions
• November 15, 2002 (Invited Talk) Challenges for Faculty Recruitment in Computer Science

Talk given at Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium at Grinnell College

• October 12, 2002: Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science: What, How Much, Who, When

Slide Format

All slides utilize standard html, so they may be viewed in most any browser, and so that font size may be adjusted according to viewer preferences and environment. Slides from November 2002 onward utilize frames, with the left frame showing the outline of the talk and the right frame presenting details.

Details on frame format, html, and the optional use of php for generating the index are available for interested viewers.

This document is available on the World Wide Web as

http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~walker/talks/

created: 2 September 2003 last revised 18 June 2019
For more information, please contact Henry M. Walker at walker@cs.grinnell.edu.