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Karl R. Wurst
 
 
 
 
 
Professor and Chair of Computer Science


 My Ph.D. Dissertation as Haiku

Robot puppets act
but the human director
will not let them be.

 My M.S. Thesis as Haiku

Learning to cook means
expectation failures, but
that is how you learn.

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  Teaching Open Source
  Currents in Teaching and Learning Journal
  Center for Teaching and Learning
  Botball - High School and Middle School Robotics Education Program
  KISS Institute for Practical Robotics
  CCSCNE - Consortium for Computing Science in Colleges Northeast Region
  ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
  AAAI - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
  Upsilon Pi Epsilon - International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines
  Autonomous Wheel Chair Project
  I Comici Roboti
  Artbotics
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Worcester State University
Computer Science Department

Office: ST 110A
Phone: +1-508-929-8728
Fax: +1-508-929-8156
Email: Karl.Wurst@worcester.edu

486 Chandler Street
Worcester, MA 01602-2597

B.S., Computer Science, Central Connecticut State University
M.S., Computer Science, University of Connecticut
Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering, University of Connecticut

Specialization: Robotics, Computer Science Education, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Logic Design.

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Syllabus for CS 140 BL - Summer 1 2013
Textbook for CS 140 BL - Summer 1 2013
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 My Summer 2013 Schedule

Summer Session I (20 May - 28 June)

CS 140 BL - Introduction to Programming - MW 6:00-9:00pm - ST 107
Office Hours - MW 5:00-6:00pm, 9:00-10:00pm, or by appointment

 My Fall 2013 Course Schedule - Tentative

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
08:30 AM




09:00 AM




09:30 AM




10:00 AM
CS 101 03 Basics of Computer Science ST 107
CS 101 03 Basics of Computer Science ST 107
10:30 AM
Department Meeting
11:00 AM

11:30 AM

Office Hours Office Hours
12:00 PM


12:30 PM CS 101 01 Basics of Computer Science ST 107
CS 101 01 Basics of Computer Science ST 107

01:00 PM CS 135 01 Programming for Non-CS Majors ST 107 CS 135 01 Programming for Non-CS Majors ST 107
01:30 PM
02:00 PM Office Hours

02:30 PM



03:00 PM




03:30 PM CS 135 02 Programming for Non-CS Majors ST 107
CS 135 02 Programming for Non-CS Majors ST 107

04:00 PM


04:30 PM


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CS 101 EL Basics of Computer Science - Online

 Affiliations
 My Academic Lineage

Based on the concept that one’s Ph.D. advisor is one’s academic parent. An interesting exercise, but don’t read too much into it…

From the Mathematics Genealogy Project  with some links from the AI Genealogy Project (AIGP)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erhard Weigel

Leipzig 1650

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Otto Mencke

Leipzig 1665, 1666

 

 

 

 

 

Gottfried Leibniz

Altdorf 1666

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Johann Wichmannshausen

Leipzig 1685

 

 

 

 

 

Jacob Bernoulli

Basel 1684

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christian Hausen

Wittenberg 1713

 

 

 

 

 

Johann Bernoulli

Basel 1694

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham Kästner

Leipzig 1739

 

 

 

 

 

Leonhard Euler

Basel 1726

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friedrich Thibaut

Kiel 1796

 

 

Johann Meyer

Göttingen 1773

 

 

Johann Pfaff

Göttingen 1786

 

 

 

Joseph Lagrange

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enno Dirksen

Göttingen 1820

 

 

 

 

Carl Gauß

Helmstedt 1799

 

Simeon Poisson

École Polytechnique  

 

 

Jean-Baptiste Fourier

 

 

Karl von Langsdorf

Erfurt 1781

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carl Jacobi

Berlin 1825

 

 

 

 

Christian Gerling

Göttingen 1812

 

 

 

Gustav Dirichlet

Bonn 1827

 

 

 

 

Martin Ohm

Nürnberg 1811

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friedrich Richelot

Königsberg 1831

 

 

Otto Hesse

Königsberg 1840

 

 

Julius Plücker

Marburg 1823

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rudolf Lipschitz

Berlin 1853

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carl Neumann

Königsberg 1856

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C. Felix  Klein

Bonn 1868

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Story

Leipzig 1875

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solomon Lefschetz

Clark 1911

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Albert Tucker

Princeton 1932

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marvin Minsky (AIGP)

Princeton 1954

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eugene Charniak (AIGP)

MIT 1972

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert McCartney (AIGP)

Brown 1988

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karl Wurst (AIGP)

University of Connecticut 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 My Erdös Number

My Erdös Number is at most 5. (Which is the median value.)

Karl R. Wurst (5) → Holly Yanco (4) → Tucker Balch (3) → Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi (2) → Noga Alon(1) → Paul Erdös (0)
 My Graduation
Me with a couple of guys...
 Me in the "uniform" of the 1629 Salem Militia
Me in the "uniform" of the 1629 Salem Militia
 Me with *another* couple of guys...