I was asked to give an "effective presentation" tutorial to a group of REU students at Texas A&M. As I talked with the organizers we thought it would be helpful to do a two part tutorial. The first is more of a technical, hands-on workshop on how to use …

This week we had a bunch of new students join the SEE-Insight research group. I put together a quick introductory presentation for them. I thought it came out fairly well so I decided to post in here in case anyone is interested in learning more about what our group is …

I was honored to be invited to give a presentation to the Math department about the redesign of MTH314 to focus more on applications in python. Here is my presentation:

I just uploaded my first developer release of my Python jupyterinstruct library on github. This library has been in development over the last couple of years but has really materialized in the last few months as I have been planning to pass on my curriculum materials to other faculty. The …

Michigan State University (MSU) has a Virtual Desktop System that is accessible to students and staff. If you have an account you can access it from here:

• vdi.msu.edu

I find it is a great for when I need to do something in windows or I need a backup …

On Friday during the last day of PEARC20 there was a wonderful Research Software Engineers Community Workshop (US-RSE) to discuss building and sustaining software development community.

Workshop Website

I had the pleasure to be a part of one of the panels and gave a short presentation on my work on …

I was pleased to present the most resent paper form our CyberAmbassador Project entitled "CyberAmbassadors: Results from Pilot Testing a New Professional Skills Curriculum" By Astri Briliyanti, Julie Wilson Rojewski, Katy Luchini-Colbry, and Dirk Colbry. This paper wwas given the best paper award in the PEARC 2020 “People involved in …

I presented an overview of my CMSE401 course (methods in parallel programming) at the SEHET20 Workshop Program put on by the SigHPC Education Chapter.

The presentation ("The Design of a Practical Flipped Classroom Model for Teaching Parallel Programming to Undergraduates") focused mostly on how I designed the course using a …

I was asked to put together a few videos to help transition to online teaching. Here is my first pass...

Zoom is an online video chat program with many useful features including:

• Face-to-face Communication
• Desktop Sharing
• Chat
• Breakout rooms
• Video Recording

Using zoom requires the download and installation of an …

Every few semesters I have a Tensorflow example I want to try on the HPCC. I'm not an expert on the software and between the HPCC, CUDA, Tensorflow, Keras, Python, Anaconda, etc. there are a lot of continuously changing and moving parts. Seems like when I figure out how to …