Thomas: Wheeling tutor
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I spend entirely too much time working on computer related projects and could use an intervention, possibly involving a lobotomy. I suspect I am ADD patient zero. Asimov's Robot stories led me to a life-long interest and PhD in artificial intelligence from Northwestern University.
I have worked for Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Citrix Labs, and Ernst & Young in numerous areas: telecommunications, distributed processing, databases, data science and machine learning to name a few.
I am an expert in C, C++, C#, and Java coding. I am proficient in Python, SQL, and a number of other languages.
I taught upperclass and graduate computer science topics at Illinois State University for six years, including operating systems, distributed processing, graphics, and gaming. I also taught at DigiPen Technical Institute for a year, topics including software engineering and artificial intelligence.
I also do android apps for games and open science projects.
I have collaborated on a robot of a wormlike creature that is on display currently at Ars Electronica in Linz Austria.
See https://github.com/portegys and tom.portegys.com/programs.html for code projects.
See tom.portegys.com/research.html for a list of my publications in AI and other fields. My most recent project is an AI simulation of honey bee nectar gathering, which includes a fascinating dance they do to tell other bees where the nectar is outside the hive.
I enjoy the teaching part of tutoring quite a bit. Grading homework not so much! Last summer my granddaughter and I built a horse racing game with Godot, for example. My approach is to build things as the best way to learn. Computers give you that opportunity!
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Undergraduate Degree: Northern Illinois University - Bachelor of Science, Psychology
Graduate Degree: Northwestern University - Doctor of Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence
New and ancient syfy, fantasy and horror. Tramping around with dogs and serving as a cat couch. I'd like to go back to school someday and go on a dig somewhere. More about me at portegys.com
- Algebra
- AP Computer Science A
- AP Computer Science Principles
- BASIC
- Basic Computer Literacy
- C
- C#
- C++
- College Computer Science
- Computer Architecture
- Computer Science
- Computer Theory
- Concurrency
- Cryptography
- CSS
- Data Science
- Datamining
- Discrete Math
- Distributed Computing
- Geometry
- High School Computer Science
- HTML
- Hyper-V
- Java
- JavaScript
- Linux
- Machine Learning
- Math
- Microsoft Office
- Parallel Computing
- Pascal
- PC Basic Computer Skills
- Perl
- PHP
- Programming VB.NET
- Project Management/PMP
- Python
- Relational Databases
- Robotics
- Social Networking
- SQL
- Technology and Coding
- Visual Basic
- Visual Basic .NET