Now

What I am up to right now (updated weekly; last update: 22 March 2020). Inspired by Derek Sivers.

I live in Conway, Arkansas with my wife and two sons (ages 8.5 and 2.5), where I am an assistant professor of computer science at Hendrix College.

Teaching

This semester I am teaching two courses: Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming. Teaching is suddenly looking very different as I transition to teaching these courses online. This week is spring break, after which classes will start up again. This week I will probably be spending a lot of time making some video lectures for my courses.

I am spending a lot of time preparing for, grading, and typing up lecture notes for Discrete. I am also constantly thinking about my functional teaching language disco, which I hope to be able to use the next time I teach the course.

Projects

I’m co-chair of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for ICFP 2020. I’ve put together a committee at this point and continue to work on preparing for the evaluation process.

I’m also co-chair of the 2020 CCSC Mid-South programming contest (together with Top Malasri) which will be held virtually. We’re currently putting together a set of problems, soliciting registrations, and getting ready to host the contest.

I’ve been working lately on a functional pearl to explain/derive Fenwick trees in functional programming terms.

I’m working with Nick Wu on a better semantics for active, a Haskell library for describing and working with time-varying values (i.e. animations). Slowly but surely it is crystallizing into a concrete library and a paper.

I enjoy solving problems on Open Kattis, for fun, learning, and as preparation for teaching Algorithms and coaching the Hendrix programming team. I’ve also started a series of blog posts on how to solve competitive programming problems in Haskell.

I continue to write on my math blog The Math Less Traveled, and on my academic blog.

Reading

Things I’m reading right now: