Chris Fernandes

My Schedule

Research Interests

• human-computer interaction
• semantics of undo
• semantic integration of heterogeneous databases
• distributed query processing

Teaching

• CSC 120: Programming on Purpose
• CSC 270: Computer Organization
• CSC 105: Intro to CS: Game Development
• CSC 234: Data Visualization
• CSC 106: Intro to CS: Can Computers Think?
• CSC 055: Working with the Web
• CSC 380: User Interfaces
• BIO/CSC 243: Bioinformatics
• SRS 200-01: Designing as if People Mattered
• CSC 335: Operating Systems
• CSC 050 (formerly CSC 010): Computers and Computing
• CSC 498/499: Capstone Design Project
• CSC 244: Artificial Intelligence
• CSC 538: Advanced Topics in Database Systems
• ESC 014: Introduction to Programming II
• CSC 150 (formerly CSC 140): Data Structures
• CSC 340: Intro to Database Systems
• CS 393: Reading Seminar: Introduction to Databases and Database-related Fields -- Spring 2000-2001 -- Colby College
• CS 151: Structured Programming and Elementary Algorithms -- Spring 2000-2001 -- Colby College
• CS 113: Great Ideas in Computer Science -- Fall 2000-2001 -- Colby College
• CS 375: Analysis of Algorithms -- Fall 2000-2001 -- Colby College
• CS 120: Introduction to Computers and Information Technology -- Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer 1993-2000 -- Northwestern University

• Aaron G. Cass and Chris S. T. Fernandes. Simulated Conference Submissions: A Technique to Improve Student Attitudes about Writing, Frontiers in Education, Saratoga Springs, New York, October 2008.
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• Aaron G. Cass and Chris S. T. Fernandes. Using Task Models for Cascading Selective Undo. 5th international workshop on Task Models and Diagrams for User Interface Design (TAMODIA 2006), Hasselt, Belgium, October, 2006.
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• Aaron G. Cass, Chris S. T. Fernandes, and Andrew Polidore. An Empirical Evaluation of Undo Mechanisms. 4th Nordic conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2006), Oslo, Norway, October, 2006.
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• Aaron G. Cass and Chris S.T. Fernandes. Modeling Dependencies for Cascading Selective Undo. Workshop of the Tenth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Integrating Software Engineering and Usability Engineering, Rome, Italy, September, 2005.
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• Chris Fernandes and Michael Whalen. Data Warehousing from the Web. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, June 2004. (poster presentation)
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  poster in Powerpoint format

• Chris Fernandes and Lawrence Henschen. Discovering and Resolving User Intent in Heterogeneous Databases. Fundamenta Informaticae, Vol 47, Numbers 1-2, pp. 137-154, July, 2001.
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  Abridged version appeared at Twelfth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS00), Charlotte, North Carolina, October 11-14, 2000.
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• Lawrence Henschen, Tania Neild, Chris Fernandes. An Object-Oriented Graph Traversal Algorithm for Data Mediation. Proceedings of the 2nd Americas Conference on Information Systems (AIS96), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, pp. 506-508, Aug. 16-18, 1996.
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• Lawrence Henschen, Chris Fernandes, Tania Neild, Wen-Syan Li. Modeling Data Correspondence in Multidatabase Systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Information Management Systems (IIMS96), Washington, D.C., USA, pp. 19-23, June 5-7, 1996.
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• Chris Fernandes, Wen-Syan Li. Resolving Keyword Abbreviation Heterogeneity Using Gene Matching. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Digital Libraries (ISDL95), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, pp. 263-264, Aug. 22-25, 1995.
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