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Paper Description
Accelerating Artificial Neural Network Learning via Weight Predictions My research project for Machine Learning (a graduate course that follows Artificial Intelligence);
received highest grade in class (99/100).

Improving Evans Library's Hours of Operation For Scientific Technical and Communications class, I formed a group of students in hopes of extending Florida Tech's short library hours. I worked hard (personally handed out 200 surveys, set up interview with our President, obtained records, and wrote this entire report). The president elected others to present our results, and our paper was posted on his Quality of Life Committee's site.
The professor of the course now uses this paper as the example to follow.


Interests: Computers, Math, Painting, Writing, Baseball, Basketball, Billiards, Working Out
Favorite Movies, In order: Fight Club, American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption, The War, Se7en, PI, Requiem for a Dream, Finding Forrester, Goodwill Hunting, City of God, The Butterfly Effect, The Pianist
Favorite TV Show: "The Simpsons"; but no TV anymore
Music: alanis, cranberries, dido, nirvana, aerosmith, led zeppelin, tchaikovsky, and a lot of hip-hop and rap: atmosphere, sole, cannibal ox, murs, blueprint, living legends, ground opening, mars ill, talib kweli, mos def, roots, v-zilla, jay-z, eminem, nas, dmx's and outkast's old stuff (pre-2001), etc
Albums: Alanis Morissette - MTV Unplugged; Alanis - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie; Nirvana - MTV Unplugged; Atmosphere - Lucy Ford LP; Aerosmith - Big Ones; Sole - Selling Live Water; Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly;
Books: Crime and Punishment; In Cold Blood; Calculus Early Transcendentals (7th Edition by Anton, Bivens, Davis, 1328 pages); Psychology: An Introduction (10th Edition, 724 pages); Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Russell and Norvig); Machine Learning (Tom Mitchell).
Cereal: Oatmeal Crisp w/ Triple Berries!
Wants to see: Alanis; Boston; California; England; Italy; Heaven

Childhood:

I had the best childhood possible. I was reared in a lower-middle class neighborhood (in a suburb north of Atlanta, Georgia) and had unconditionally loving parents who taught me priceless lessons, including good morals, human decency, appreciation and respect for others, and the importance of not being materialistic or falling for money.
I played sports, mostly baseball, nearly everyday ever since I was 7 years old. Those sweltering summer days were the best days I've ever had. I learned a lot from the early eras.

Early Education:

I worked pretty hard in primary school (elementary and middle-school). A few friends called me the human-calculator. I liked Math a lot.
Secondary Education:

I started to slack off in high school; I cared more for having fun with my friends. I aimed for A's, but I didn't even stress too much over low B's. I barely graduated in the top 33% of my class (132/420).
College Education:

I've started to work hard in my academics. I have decent grades, and I've developed a higher, genuine care to learn. Moreover, I've recently been trying to have more fun outside of the classroom, and I've consequently learned a good deal more about the human race. My experience at Florida Tech definitely has been memorable.


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CHRIS TANNER
150 W. University Blvd. #6595
Melbourne, FL 32901
(321) 309-3404
ctanner@fit.edu

OBJECTIVE:
To apply my software and mathematical skills, and relentless drive for knowledge, toward Software Design Engineering and Testing


EDUCATION:
Florida Institute of Technology - Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
3.89 GPA
B.S.' expected in December 2006
Distinguished Scholar ('04-'05); Outstanding Junior Award (C.S. and Applied Math.); Outstanding Sophomore Award (C.S.).
Major-related courses include Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Assembly Language (IA-32), Software Testing 1, Data Structures and Algorithms (JAVA), Accelerated C , Intro. to Software Engineering, Digital Logic, Discrete Mathematics, Statistics, Calculus I-III, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, and Complex Variables



INVOLVEMENT:
Committee member of Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society
President’s Quality of Life Committee member
Founding/Committee member of Infinity—first math club at Florida Tech
A.C.M. Southeast Regional Programming Team, Artists' Guild, and Writers’ Guild



EXPERIENCE:
Harris Corporation - Melbourne, FL 5/2005 - Present


Internship within the Software Testing and Maintenance Lab
Working to develop and automate test harnesses so that various Solaris Servers can be easily tested and benchmarked while using given software.

Florida Institute of Technology - Melbourne, FL 5/2004 - Present


Researcher for NASA Anomaly Detection Project
As part of the four person team, I evaluated and improved the final clustering algorithms and state machine such that data streams are correctly scored in respect to how anomalous they are.

Resident Assistant 8/2003 – Present


For 18 residents, my responsibilities include developing an enjoyable community, handling personal conflicts, and reporting maintenance and security-related issues.

Web and Flash Designer / Teacher 8/2002 – 12/2003


Entailed construction of websites for the university, creating web-based quizzes for Civil Engineer students, and teaching Macromedia Flash to a professor.

Safeguard Business Systems – Tucker, GA 5/2003 – 8/2003

Pre-press Printing and Graphic Designer

Designed and created business checks for small businesses; working as the “middle-man” between the order forms and final printed product, I met and raised the goal of satisfying accuracy from 99.6% to 99.75%.