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Assistant Professor |
Office: 228 Technology Center Office Hours: Mailing Address: |
Intersession 2007:
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Previous Offerings: ITL 100: IT and Society (Spring 2005) ITL 102: Introduction to Programming with Java (Fall 2005, 2006; Spring 2006) ITL 211: Fundamentals of IS (Fall 2004, 2005; Spring 2005, 2006) ITL 233: Cyberattacks (Intersesssion 2005, 2006) ITL 310: Systems Analysis (Fall 2004, 2005, 2006) ITL 330: Computation and Cognition (Spring 2005, 2006) FMF 199: Freshman Forum (Fall 2006) |
During Intersession 2006, my Cyberattacks class investigated methods for spoofing fingerprint scanners and was able to have some success. I have also published a paper discussing my Cyberattacks class and another considering the our ITL department as a case study for teaching computing in a liberal arts setting. (see below)
My research interests center on natural language processing, discourse planning and knowledge representation. In my graduate work, I investigated the presentation of formal mathematics through natural language, primarily focusing on the organizational and planning issues involved in structuring a mathematical text. I have implemented a prototype system for converting computer-generated proofs into textbook-style English texts via an empirically-motivated intermediate plan representation. Currently, I am working on applying traditional authorship identification techniques to computer code, specifically Java code. See below for publications on my work.
I am currently chairing the Academic Status Committee. I am the College's fellowship coordinator for the Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship and the DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Program. I am affiliated with the college's Mind, Brain and Behavior program. I am also a member of the ACM and Sigma-Xi.
My current hobbies include weblogging, robot buiding, photography, quilting, knitting, and other crafts. I am an occassional volunteer proofreader with Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders project. My personal homepage is hosted elsewhere; visit it for links to my weblog, book reviews, photo galleries and other content.
Amanda M. Holland-Minkley. Cyberattacks: A Lab-Based Introduction to Computer Security. ACM SIG for Information Technology Education Annual Conference, 2006 (pdf).
Amanda M. Holland-Minkley and Matthew A. North. Innovation in the IT Curriculum: A Case Study in Information Technology Leadership. Issues in Information Systems, 2006 (pdf).
Amanda M. Holland-Minkley. Restructuring Formal Mathematics for Natural Texts. Doctoral dissertation, Cornell University, 2004 (pdf).
Amanda M. Holland-Minkley. Planning Proof Content for Communicating Induction. Second International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2002 (pdf).
Amanda M. Holland-Minkley, Regina Barzilay, and Robert Constable. Verbalization of High-Level Formal Proofs. Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1999 (pdf).
Susannah Hobbs, Amanda Holland-Minkley, and Lynette Millett. A Case for Building Inclusive Research Communities as an Integral Part of Science and Engineering Graduate Education. 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (pdf).
