Ross Kirsling

GitHub Projects

• Modal Logic Playground

  A graphical semantic calculator for modal propositional logic.

  Repository

MOOC Participation

I find the open online education movement to be truly inspiring. As I enjoy the various course offerings, I'm keeping track of my participation below.

Completed

• Programming Languages
  Dan Grossman — Coursera, 2014
• Introduction to Databases
  Jennifer Widom — Stanford OpenEdX, 2014
• Principles of Reactive Programming
  Martin Odersky, Erik Meijer, Roland Kuhn — Coursera, 2013
• Tales from the Genome
  Matthew Cook & Lauren Castellano — Udacity, 2013
• Functional Programming Principles in Scala
  Martin Odersky — Coursera, 2013
• Introduction to Parallel Programming
  John Owens & David Luebke — Udacity, 2013
• Computational Neuroscience
  Rajesh P. N. Rao & Adrienne Fairhall — Coursera, 2013
• Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity
  Larry Randles Lagerstrom — Coursera, 2013
• Know Thyself
  Mitchell Green — Coursera, 2013
• Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
  Sebastian Wernicke — Udacity, 2012
• Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation
  Umesh Vazirani — Coursera, 2012
• Web Application Engineering
  Steve Huffman — Udacity, 2012
• Introduction to Logic
  Michael Genesereth — Coursera, 2012
• Natural Language Processing
  Dan Jurafsky & Christopher Manning — Coursera, 2012
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  Sebastian Thrun & Peter Norvig — pre-Udacity, 2011

Audited

• Discrete Optimization
  Pascal van Hentenryck — Coursera, 2014
• Compilers
  Alex Aiken — Coursera, 2013
• Probabilistic Graphical Models
  Daphne Koller — Coursera, 2012
• Model Thinking
  Scott E. Page — Coursera, 2012
• Machine Learning
  Andrew Ng — Coursera, 2011

Research

(from Linguistics M.A. program at UW-Madison, September 2010–December 2012)

M.A. Preliminary Paper

• December 6, 2012. Phrasal restrictions on noncontrastive topic: The case of Japanese. [Paper] [Presentation]

Publications

• In press. Applying formalized aboutness conditions to Japanese topic structures. LSO Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 9, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Presentations

• April 2, 2011. Applying formalized aboutness conditions to Japanese topic structures. 9th Workshop in General Linguistics (WIGL), University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Manuscripts

• May 10, 2012. Probabilities without paradigm-shifting: Recognizing gradience in natural language syntax. [PDF]