This is a shot of me on the summit of Mt. Chocorua (elevation 3,475 feet)

Aaron Bloomfield, Ph.D.

I'm an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Virginia (joined August, 2004).  My research interests include computer science education and computer graphics (focusing on virtual reality and haptics).  I went to undergrad at SUNY Stony Brook, and did my Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania under Norman Badler.  For the fall 2008 semester, I'm teaching CS 216 (Data and Program Representation) and CS 441 (Advanced Software Development).  Outside of work, my interests include martial arts (Okinawan karate and Japanese sword), dancing (ballroom and swing), running, brewing beer, and doing just about anything outdoors.  And taking care of my pets: my cats Gin and Tonic, and my dogs Pika (pronounced PEE-ka) and Mila (pictures not yet uploaded).

Teaching

The courses I am teaching, and those I have already taught.  Also see my teaching portfolio, which has a lot more info about my teaching (including my course evaluations).  Also also see my advising page.  Starting in the fall 2007 semester, I started using Collab, so the course websites are there.

• CS 101: Introduction to Computing (spring 05, fall 05, spring 06, fall 06, spring 07)
• CS 101-E: Introduction to Computing, advanced section (fall 04)
• CS 202: Discrete Math (fall 04, spring 05, spring 07)
• CS 216: Program and Data Representation (fall 07, spring 08)
• CS 415: Programming Languages (fall 05)
• CS 441: Object Oriented Design (spring 06 (called CS 494 then), spring 08)
• CS 445: Computer Graphics (fall 06, fall 07)
• ENGR 307/308: Rodman seminar (fall 07, spring 08)

In addition to my teaching, I'm also involved in a number of advisory roles:

• Member of the Board of Directors for Madison House
• Advisor for the UVa Chapter of Sigma Alpha Lambda
• Advisor for the UVa Chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery
• Member of the UVa Sexual Assault Board

Pictures

• My pets: my cats Gin and Tonic, and my dogs Pika (pronounced PEE-ka) and Mila (pictures not yet uploaded).
• More to come some day...

Javascript

A few Javascript pages I've written...

• Dog name generator
• Compute the Julian date

Links

Some useful and interesting links...

• My facebook page
• Humor on the web
  • Calvin & Hobbes on the Web!  My favorite comic strip.
  • IOCCC - The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
  • Despair.com - I think their demotivators are hilarious!
  • The Daily Show
• Google, of course!  And Google Maps, Google Scholar, Google UVa, and Google Local.
• Slashdot - the best site for computer news.
• Professional organizations, etc.
  • ACM - The Association for Computing Machinery
    • SIGGraph - the ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics
    • SigCSE - the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
      
  • IEEE, The Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers, and the IEEE Computer Society.
  • The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

Last updated on Friday, 09-May-2008 10:12:20 EDT