I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
My advisor is Kurt VanLehn who is director of CIRCLE.
I anticipate completion of my degree by August 2004.
For an expanded version of this information, see my cv (Mar 04).
EDUCATION
- Ph.D.
, University
of Pittsburgh, expected August 2004. - M.S. Computer Sciences, May 1997, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- B.S. Mathematics & Computer Science, minor in Philosophy, cum laude, honors in Computer Science, May 1995, Truman State University.
REFEREED
PUBLICATIONS
Lane, H. Chad & Kurt VanLehn (2004). A Dialogue-Based Tutoring System for Beginning Programming, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS), AAAI Press, p. 449-454, Miami Beach, FL. [pdf]
Lane, H. Chad & Kurt VanLehn (2003). Coached Program Planning: Dialogue-Based Support for Novice Program Design, Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '03), ACM Press, p. 148-152, Reno, NV. [pdf]
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS & WRITING
Lane, H. Chad & Kurt VanLehn (submitted). Teaching Program Planning Skills to Novices with Natural Language Tutoring. Submitted to Computer Science Education, special edition on doctoral research, M. Guzdial & S. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Swets & Zeitlinger, release date: May 2005.
Lane, H. Chad. Preventive Tutoring of Novice Programming. ACM 2004 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Doctoral Consortium. March 3, 2004. Norfolk, VA. [html]
Lane, H. Chad. Preventive Tutoring in Programming: An Intelligent Tutoring System for Novice Program Design. Dissertation proposal. October 2003. [pdf]
Lane, H. Chad. An Intelligent Tutoring System for Novice Program Design. ACM 2003 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Doctoral Consortium. February 19, 2003. Reno, NV.
Lane, H. Chad. Eliciting Pseudocode from Novice Programmers. ACM 2002 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Doctoral Consortium. February 27, 2002. Northern Kentucky, KY.
Lane, H. Chad. Cryptographic Algorithms for Privacy-Enhanced Mail. Technical Report K/DSRD-1721, Oak Ridge National Lab, June 1994.
AWARDS
- Poster Award, runner-up, Graduate Student Competition, University of Pittsburgh, November 16, 2002.
- Orrin E. & Margaret M. Taulbee Award for Excellence in Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, September 28, 2001.
- Orrin E. & Margaret M. Taulbee Award for Excellence in Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, September 15, 2000.
- Teaching Award for Highest Student Evaluation among Teaching Assistants, University of Pittsburgh, 1998-1999.
- Commendation from Vice Chancellor for positive interaction with students. Fall 1998.
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison. May 2, 1997.
last update: 7/12/04
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