Marie desJardins
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Department of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
(410) 455-3967
Fax: (410) 455-3969
Office: ITE 337
mariedj @ cs.umbc.edu
Also affiliated with the University
of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computing Studies (UMIACS), UMBC's Bioinformatics Research Center,
Women in Science and Engineering, and the Center for Women in Information Technology
My Opinion
I've moved my opinion to href="http://mariedj.blogspot.com/"my blog
(yes, that's right, I've decided to join the 21st century!)
Peace.
Clearly, I need to visit more (any) countries below the Equator...
Create your
own visited countries map!
Office Hours
I am on sabbatical during the 2007--2008 academic year, and will not
be holding office hours.
Any time my door is open, you should feel free to interrupt me. If my door
is ajar, you should knock if it's important. If my door is closed, please
knock only for urgent matters. I am also happy to meet with students
by appointment, and I try to respond to e-mail within 24 hours.
Curriculum Vita
Here's my current c.v. in PDF format.
Research: MAPLE
My research is in artificial intelligence. My current research interests
are in planning, learning, and multiagent systems. My research group is called
MAPLE (Multi-Agent Planning and LEarning). You can find more information
about MAPLE, including research areas, students, and publications, at the
MAPLE web page.
Teaching
Fall 2008 - CMSC
100 (Introduction to Computers and Programming)
Fall 2007 / Spring 2008 - On sabbatical
Spring 2007 - CMSC
477/677 (Agent Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems)
Fall 2006 -
CMSC 201 (Computer Science I for Majors)
Spring 2006 - CMSC 691B (Basic Research Skills)
Fall 2005 - CMSC 671
(Introduction to Artificial Intelligence)
Spring 2005 - CMSC
477/677 (Agent Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems)
Fall 2004 - CMSC 471
(Introduction to Artificial Intelligence)
Spring 2004 - CMSC 691B (Basic Research Skills)
Fall 2003 - CMSC 671 (Introduction
to Artificial Intelligence); CMSC 691E (Emergence;
enrollment by permission only)
Spring 2003 - CMSC 491M/691M
(Agent Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems).
Fall 2002 - CMSC
203 (Discrete Structures), CMSC 471
(Introduction to Artificial Intelligence)
Spring 2002 - CMSC 691M,
(Agent Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems)
Fall 2001 - CMSC 671 (Introduction
to Artificial Intelligence)
Other Stuff
I wrote a paper full of advice for graduate students and advisors, and I
hope you find it interesting! I've also written a short document with some
advice on how to
organize a workshop that you might find useful. A few years ago, I gave a short
talk to the MAPLE research group on Presenting your research: Papers, talks and
chats.
The slides that I presented at the Fall 2003 UMBC CS&EE graduate student
orientation are here.
The complete (including hidden) slides from my July 2005
presentation on "Presenting Your
Research:Papers, Presentations, and People" at the AAAI/SIGART
Doctoral Consortium are here.
Links for students
Rob Holte, Rob Schapire, and I gave a mini-tutorial at ICML-03 on "The Three
R's of Publishing Machine Learning Papers: Research, 'Riting, and Reviews."
Here are links to my slides, Rob Holte's
slides on reviewing and experimental methodologies, and Rob
Schapire's slides on writing and
formal methods.
AI & Nature
Fall 2006 Honors Forum
talk on AI & Nature
School Redistricting
IAAI-2006
talk on school redistricting
Some funny
and serious
stuff I've collected over the years. (I didn't write most of these items.
I take no responsibility for their content, but full responsibility for my
sense of humor and political leanings.) There are also a few favorite recipes here.
Marie desJardins,
mariedj @ cs.umbc.edu