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CurranKelleher


WorkExperience:
InstituteforVisualizationandPerceptionResearchatUMassLowell-Lowell,MA
SoftwareEngineerandResearchAssistant-June2005-August2007,September2008-present
ImplementedsessionhistoryrecordingandreplayintheUniversalVisualizationPlatform-IVPR\'smainvisualizationplatform,writteninJava
Workedwithateamdevelopingavisualization-baseddocumentmanagementsysteminC#
ParticipatedincreatingtheIEEEVAST2007Contestdataset
Wrotetextprocessingutilitiesfornamedentityaggregationandsearch(Java,Lucene)
AuthoredJyVis,anopensourcevisualizationplatform(Java,Python,Groovy)
WorkedaspartofthedevelopmentteamoftheWeaveweb-basedvisualanalyticsplatform(Java,SQL,Flex,Grails)
ComputerGraphicsCenter(ZGDV)-Darmstadt,Germany
SoftwareEngineerandResearchAssistant-October2007-August2008
Designedandimplementedsoftwareforoverlayinghairstylesonfacepictures(Java)
Workedwithateamofthreetodesignandimplementareal-timevision-based3Dreconstructionandhandposeestimationsystem(C,C++,CUDA)
NewEnglandComplexSystemsInstitute(NECSI)-Cambridge,MA
SoftwareEngineerandResearchAssistant-January-June2006
Workedwithateamtodevelopavisualizationandsimulationplatformforearth-widesocioeconomicdynamics(Java)
UniversityofMassachusettsMedicalSchool-Worcester,MA
ResearchAssistantinDr.WillamTheurkauf\'sresearchlab-June2004-June2005
AssistedgraduatestudentswithexperimentsinvestigatingtheroleofRNAicomponentsindrosophilaembryonicaxisspecificationandrelatedphenomena

個人博客：http://www.curransoft.com/curran/

課程安排：

1Intro-III:Welcome,toolsforthinking,formalsystemsThreepartinvention;two-partinvention;sonataforunaccompaniedAchilles;contracrostipunctus
2IV:Consistency,completeness,andgeometryLittleharmonicLabyrinth
3V:RecursivestructuresandprocessesCanonbyintervallicaugmentation
4VI:ThelocationofmeaningCrabcanon
5VIII:TypographicalnumbertheoryAMuoffering
6IX:MumonandG?delEdifyingthoughtsofatobaccosmoker
7XVI:Self-refandself-repPrelude...;...antfugue
8XI:BrainsandthoughtsNonescheduled