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Norman Brenner
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Professorial Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
The George Washington University
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Contact Information
Norman Brenner
Department of Computer Science
The George Washington University
800 22nd Street
NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20052
phone: office (202) 994-6080, cell (301) 980-6374
email: nbrenner@gwu.edu
Office Hours
Mon 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Tue 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Other times by appointment
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Teaching
Activities
This term I am teaching Introduction
to Computers & the Internet (CS1021), Introduction to Webpage Design & Javascript (CS1023); next
term, I may add Discrete Structures
(CS1311).
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Research
Fundamentally, I am interested in rules-based systems.
Besides computer programming, I enjoy learning the structure of human
languages, and have studied (more often dabbled in) about 150 of them. I like phonology
and its representation in spelling, and well-designed computer languages and
operating systems.
Some things I am thinking about now:
- Comparison of website
building techniques between ASP and the newer ASP.NET, and also between
VB6 and the newer VB.NET and C#
- Helping the GWU Tourism
Department build a data base of international aid projects
- A discussion of ease of use
in programming languages, and excoriation of “inhuman factors”
- Examination of the use of
Information Technology in legal firms
- A discussion of the Duke of
Wellington as a master manager—winning battles with superior
administrative talent
- Building my favorite
programming language, APL, in the MSIL language of Microsoft’s new .NET
framework
- Analysis of a simplified
three body gravitational system (Sun, Neptune,
Pluto), confirming the orbit-orbit resonance of the latter planets; I plan
to redo my hand calculations using Mathematica ®.
- A pedagogical presentation of
solutions to the problem of summing powers of consecutive integers, comparing
Bernoulli’s solution with Stirling’s and
Faulhaber’s.
- Learning the structure of
several dozen important spoken languages, and learning a few well (Basque,
Chinese, Georgian, (Ancient) Greek, Lakhota, Quechua, Polish, Tamil,
Wolof)
- Proposal of practical (i.e.
typable/readable/consistent/accurate) orthographies for languages such as
Cantonese, Italian, Lakhota, Maya, Swahili, Thai
- Teaching a survey course on
all the languages of the world, emphasizing the common features of
phonology and grammar
- Designing a website to teach
a language, whether human or computer, in an optimal pedagogical manner;
the human language version would include audio clips, and both would
include copious well-chosen examples
- A Fast Fourier transform of
disk-stored data by matrix transposition
I am always on the look-out for
new and interesting ideas in linguistics, programming languages, military
history and dinosaurs as living organisms. From time to time, I give lectures
on linguistic topics for the student organization Global Languages Network. Send me email at nbrenner@gwu.edu
with your thoughts!
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Publications
and Preprints
PhD
Thesis
Refereed
Proceedings
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“APL on a Multiprocessor Architecture”, APL ’82
Conference Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery
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“A Powerful But Simple Editor for APL”, APL ’83
Conference Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, 195—200
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“Extending APL for Pattern Matching”, APL ’83
Conference Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery
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“Editing APL Objects with CMS XEDIT”, APL ’84
Conference Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery
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“VLSI Circuit Design Using APL with Fortran
Subroutines”, APL ’84 Conference Proceedings, Association for Computing
Machinery
Refereed
Journals
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“Fast Fourier Transposition With Minimum
Multiplications”, IEEE Audio & Signal
Processing, 1976 (with C. Rader)
Book
Chapters
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“The Fast Fourier Transform”, chapter 6.2
of Methods
of Experimental Physics; Vol. 12, Astrophysics, Part C: Radio Observations,
Academic Press, 1976
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“Contour Mapping”, chapter 6.3.1 of Methods
of Experimental Physics; op.cit.
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“Ruled-Surface Mapping”, chapter 6.3.2 of Methods
of Experimental Physics; op.cit.
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“Gray-Scale Mapping”, chapter 6.3.3 of Methods
of Experimental Physics; op.cit.
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“Fast Fourier Transform For Number of Data Not a Power of Two”, IBM Collection of
Numerical Algorithms, 1973.
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Several Non-numerical Algorithms in APL, APL Handbook of Mathematical Techniques,
IBM, 1983.
Technical
Reports
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Three Fortran
Programs Implementing the Fast Fourier Transform, Lincoln Laboratory Technical Report.
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Rapidly
Bit Reversing Data for the Fast Fourier Transform, Lincoln Laboratory Technical Report.
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Programs
for Performing the FFT, SHARE Program Library, #360D.13.4.001, .002, .003,
.005.
Presentations
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"Toward a Model of Cultural Values and
Norms: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis", Norman Brenner & Steve McGuire
(GWU Mgt. Sci.); presented at 18th Annual Washington Consortium of Schools of Business
Research Forum, April 2003
Patent
Disclosures
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Fast
Fourier Transform for a Small Computer Without Hardware Multiplication, IBM
Patent Disclosures, 1972.
Research
in Progress
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"Agile Project Management: An Experiment in the Efficacy of Network-based
vs. Hierarchical Management Structures", Fred. Sencindiver (GWU Mgt Sci) & Norman
Brenner
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"Global Attitudes to Ideal Job", Steve
McGuire (U Calif),
Norman Brenner, Vanessa Perry (GWU Marketing Dept.), Vikas Jain (GWU Marketing)
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“Tom Lehrer’s
classic song The
Elements, updated”, to be submitted to Mr. Lehrer
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Websites
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"Database
of International Aid Projects for Sustainable Tourism", Sheryl Spivack
(GWU Tourism Dept), Shaun Mann (Tourism), Z.
Rozga (Tourism), Norman Brenner Preliminary database of international donor projects
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"SAVE
database ", Z. Rozga (GWU Tourism
Dept.), Norman Brenner Preliminary SAVE database
Personal
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B.A. from Central
High School, Philadelphia PA
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A.B. (Mathematics) from Princeton
University, Princeton NJ
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M.A. (Applied Mathematics) from Harvard University,
Cambridge MA
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Ph,D. (Earth and Planetary Sciences) from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
MA
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Winner of
First MIT Spelling Bee Campus newspaper (The Tech)
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Married to Krystyna Boron, living in Bethesda
MD; two sons, Daniel and Lucas
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