Course Material -- Union College -- Fall 2008

I am not teaching any courses this term.

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Presentations

"iClicker: The Fun is Infinite!" 15^th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, St. Lawrence University, April 19, 2008, Canton NY.

"MAXIMIZE! Even with all those imposing constraints," 9^th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Hamilton College, April 27, 2002, Clinton NY.

"The Trouble with Flying," 8^th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Skidmore College, April 28, 2001, Saratoga Springs NY.

"What is a Neural Network?" 7^th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Vassar College, April 8, 2000, Poughkeepsie NY.

"An Introduction to Data Classification," 6^th Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Siena College, April 17, 1999, Loudonville NY.

"An Extreme Point Tabu Search Method for GTO," DSES Colloquium, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, April 1, 1997.

"Optimal Decision Trees Through Multilinear Programming," Invited Talk, INFORMS, November 3, 1996, Atlanta GA.

"Neural Tree Networks via Tabu Search," Invited Talk, INFORMS 5^th CSTS Conference on Computer Science & Operations Research, January 8, 1996, Dallas TX.

"Comparing Cognitive Maps," Mathematics Department Seminar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, April 20, 1994.

Papers

K.P. Bennett and J.A. Blue, "A Support Vector Machine Approach to Decision Trees," In Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pages 2396-2401, Anchorage, Alaska, 1998.

J.A. Blue, "A Hybrid of Tabu Search and Local Descent Algorithms with Applications in Artificial Intelligence," PhD Thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1998.

A.P. Massey, D.L. Clapper, and J.A. Blue, "An interdisciplinary approach for exploring the impact of individual characteristics in the context of GSS research," Annals of Operations Research, 72:75-101, 1997.

Optimal Decision Trees with K.P. Bennett, R.P.I Math Report No. 214, 1996.

An Extreme Point Tabu Search Method for Data Mining. with K.P. Bennett, R.P.I Math Report No. 228, 1996.

Education

M.S. in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1993

B.S. in Mathematics from Texas A&M University 1991

B.A. in Physics from Texas A&M University 1991