Gabriel Weaver - Résumé

Professional Objectives

To develop the skills necessary to teach computer science and preserve our world's cultural heritage. Ultimately to develop sustainable business models that preserve, increase accessiblity, and raise awareness of cultural heritage objects while increasing funding for and innovation within the humanities as a whole.

Employment History

Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College(Hanover, NH)
Fall 2007-Present

I'm a graduate student!

Programmer
The Perseus Project at Tufts University (Medford, MA)
Fall 2004-Present

Requires the ability to rapidly research and implement technologies and their applications to the humanities.

Projects:

Diagram Project: Develop a mechanism for representing and meaningfully interacting with construction-based diagrams on the computer. More generally, develop ways to visualize and make reasoning processes on the computer more transparent.
Perseus XML Services: Perseus' XML services are based on the TICI stack. More information about TICI can be found at the digital classicist wiki and CHS.
Perseus Infrastructure: Working with the head of Tufts' ASUnix to replace Perseus' outdated production hardware. The new hardware and virtualization will provide a network architecture that will increase performance, reliability, and security.
Tiled Image Browser: The code is licensed under the Mozilla Public License.
The SCALE Project: Funded by the NSF and NSDL, the SCALE project is a reading environment to facilitate interdisciplinary learning. Services developed include an XML service, a reading assistance tool, and an encyclopedia.
Wiki Research: Research centered on the use of a wiki to create online communities. The wiki has manifested itself as a powerful tool for collaboration. Perseus hopes to use this tool to increase dialogue between academics and amateurs interested in the humanities.

Summer Teacher
The Butler Center (Westboro, MA)
Summer 2004

Taught Life Science to a group of roughly 16 incarcerated students with various mental disorders and criminal history.

Designed and taught Life Science curriculum with a difficulty level ranging from elementary to high school.

Vision Research
College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
Summer 2003-Spring 2004

Assisted Professor Constance Royden in her research on motion perception

Research included developing an interactive computer program that presents various stimuli including dot stimuli and Gabor functions within a grid

Mathematics Research
College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
Summer 2002

Assisted Professor Gareth Roberts in his research on dynamical systems and numerical methods

Research included developing a program that showed where numerical methods fail on different functions

Computer Consultant
College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
Fall 2001-Spring 2004

Assisted students on a one-on-one basis with the reconfiguration and troubleshooting of CPUs, either in person or over the phone

Education

Ph.D in Computer Science, Sept 2007-Present. Currently starting courses.
Dartmouth College(Hanover, MA)
Courses:
- Computer Security
- Computational Neuroscience
- Problem Solving in Computer Science (TA)
Work towards MA in Computer Science, Fall 2006-Sept 2007.
Tufts University (Medford, MA)
Courses:
- Theory of Computation
- Computer Security
- Bioinformatics
- Extreme Programming Methods
- Computer Graphics I & II
- Computational Geometry I & II
BA in Classics and Mathematics (minor in Computer Science), May 2004. Summa Cum Laude
College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
Overall GPA: 3.91 out of 4.0

Information Technologies

Programming languages include Bash, Haskell, Java, MySQL, C++, C, Python, Scheme, Perl, PHP, SVG, XSLT
Programming experience on the Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X platforms
Programs used include MySQL server, Shorewall, Tomcat, Apache, Ant, JUnit, Mantis and Mailman
Beginner web application framework experience in Fedora, Spring, and Cocoon.

Conferences Attended

ASIDIC 2007 Spring Meeting Presented two 20 minute lectures on the following two panels: 'Getting Search Right For Premium Content' and 'Getting Archiving Right: The Emerging Importance of Archiving Services'
Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities, Arts, And Social Sciences- Accepted and attending this workshop.
CANE Summer Institute at Dartmouth - Co-taught 'Preparing Free Editions of Classical Texts' with Professor Neel Smith of Holy Cross
JCDL 2006 - Presented a poster session on measuring the accuracy of relational statements in Wikipedia.

Foreign Languages

Languages include Latin, Greek, and Arabic.

Publications

"Quantifying the Accuracy of Relational Statements in Wikipedia: A Methodology".
Accepted as a poster at JCDL 2006. Scheduled to present this article in a brief session.
Personal Blog

Awards

Dean's list (8/8 semesters), College of the Holy Cross
Dana Scholar, College of the Holy Cross
Magis Award, College of the Holy Cross
John C. Lawlor Medal, College of the Holy Cross
Valedictorian, Killingly High School

Honor Societies

Alpha Sigma Nu
The Jesuit Honor society that emphasizes scholarship, loyalty, and service beyond the college years.
Phi Beta Kappa
The oldest and most respected undergraduate honors organization in the United States. Its mission, to foster and recognize excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.
Pi Mu Epsilon
The Honorary National Mathematics Society. Its mission is to promote scholarly activity in mathematics among the students in academic institutions.

Interests

Artistic. Archaeology, Calligraphy, Origami, Sculpture, Harmonica
Outdoors. Camping, Hiking, Rock collecting, birdwatching
Strength and Conditioning. Lifting, Rowing

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