Date: Monday, 25-Nov-96 21:48:16 GMT Server: NCSA/1.3 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Thursday, 26-Sep-96 13:32:34 GMT Content-length: 3876 John David Stone

John David Stone

Lecturer in Computer Science and Philosophy
Manager of the Mathematics Local-Area Network
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa 50112
(515) 269-3181
Bowen Hall of Science, office 2418
stone@math.grin.edu


Interests: syntax and semantics of programming languages, formal language theory, computational linguistics, philosophy of language, mathematical logic, automata theory, data structures, ontology, history of philosophy, and set theory.

This fall I'll be teaching one course, ``Fundamentals of computer science II,'' and conducting an independent study on artificial intelligence.

In the several positions I've held, I've taught a wide variety of courses and workshops and published miscellaneous papers, etc., on topics that caught my interest. To see how I prepared for my career in academia, you might want to have a look at my educational background.

I'm the principal investigator for a three-year study (1994-97) entitled ``In-class experiential learning in four fundamental courses,'' funded by a grant from the Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Program of the National Science Foundation.

At Grinnell, I'm the chair of the Linguistics Concentration Committee and of the Academic Computing Committee, I'm a member of the Selection Committee for the Robert N. Noyce Prize Program, and I organize the Exotic Programming Languages Study Group.

Here are some of the professional organizations that I belong to:

I keep a collection of links that I use as my Netscape startup page, but its contents are somewhat arbitrary. Persons who are curious about my inner life will find more reliable clues in my recommended-reading list.

I invite correspondents to use my PGP public key for confidential messages. Call, write, or visit to obtain a confirming sixteen-byte fingerprint.

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