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Title: Computing: Limitations and Promising Developments, Computing Tutorial, Grinnell College, Fall, 2004, Tutorial, Fall 2004, Walker
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Uses the exploration of issues around artificial intelligence and computing in general
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:222

Title: Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century: Recent Advances in Economic Theory and Undergraduate Economics
Description: Article arguing that undergraduate curricula should incorporate new approaches to economics including game-theory and other advances in economic analysis
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:11656

Title: Data Repository for Reproducible Research
Description: To promote reproducibility, since 2009 all my empirical research has been cached in a data repository that captures all source code and data dependencies automatically or semi-automatically.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:10001

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Tutorial, Fall 2004, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. The arrival of European Americans in the Upper Midwest in the middle of the nineteenth century led to dramatic changes in the region's ecology. In what was perhaps the most rapid and extensive degradation of a natural ecosystem in human history, in the space of 50 years settlers plowed under millions of acres of the native tallgrass prairie and replaced it with a diversified agricultural ecosystem on what proved to be some of the best farmland in the world.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:317

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003 Syllabus, Tutorial, Fall 2003, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. The arrival of European Americans in the Upper Midwest in the middle of the nineteenth century led to dramatic changes in the region's ecology. In what was perhaps the most rapid and extensive degradation of a natural ecosystem in human history, in the space of 50 years settlers plowed under millions of acres of the native tallgrass prairie and replaced it with a diversified agricultural ecosystem on what proved to be some of the best farmland in the world. As agriculture expanded, the prairie diminished.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:316

Title: Dynamic Map and Timeline: History of the Modern Middle East (1798-Present)
Description: A poster explaining how the faculty member used a dynamic map and timeline to illustrate events. The map and timeline are tied together so that an entry on one appears on the other.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:3324

Title: Music in the Balance of Power, Tutorial: Music in the Balance of Power
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:226

Title: PIPS: An Instruction Set Architecture for Teaching Computer Organization
Date Created: 2021
PID: grinnell:10426

Title: Research Methods for Empirical Computer Science
Description: Course materials for Research methods for empirical computer science which is designed to teach basic methods for conducting a personal research program for graduate students.
Date Created: 2009
PID: grinnell:10002

Title: Summary of Online Experiments and Pilots, Online Experiments and Pilots
Description: Summary of online courses and pilot projects which Grinnell College has participated in.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:5185