Talks

Fortress and Object-Oriented Programming Keynote

FOOL/WOOD 2007. Nice, France, January 20, 2007.

Encapsulated Upgradable Components

IBM Programming Languages Day. Hawthorne, New York, April 22, 2005.

Object-Oriented Units of Measurement

OOPSLA 2004. Vancouver, British Columbia, October 28, 2004.

Learning to Win at Peg Solitaire Without Human Knowledge

Applies the method of AlphaGo Zero to a one-player game. 73 slides.

Mastering the Game of Go Without Human Knowledge

A review of the AlphaGo Zero paper of Silver et al. (Nature, 2017). 39 slides.

Implementing a Deep Learning Library from Scratch

Builds a small deep learning library from first principles, using MNIST as the running example. 43 slides.

Sentiment Analysis of Summaries

Using a sentiment analysis engine to select summary sentences from online reviews. 15 slides.

Functional Programming

Rice University, Fall 2015 and Fall 2016. Taught with Robert Cartwright and Sağnak Taşırlar.

Fundamentals of Parallel Programming

Rice University, Spring 2016. Taught with Vivek Sarkar.