Rhonda T. Dunn
489/689 Assignment 2:

Due by end of day on February 10

1. Read through the web pages created by your fellow students -- a link to the list of pages is now available from the course's homepage and here. Read for common interests, reasons for taking the course, etc.

Create a new web page -- linked from your existing web page -- describing these common themes with links to the common elements. Email the new URL to me by the end of February 10.

General Description of Common Themes: For the most part, I only had high level media interests in common with my classmates. It could be the age difference but I do not play computer games; my music genres of interest are different; and I honestly do not know how to TIVO. The media interests I do have in common with the majority of the class are: television, Internet, e-mail, instant messaging, radio, and telephone. 

As far as personal information is concerned, I noticed several students had a double major in Math/Computer Science, as I do. Furthermore, a few students had interdisciplinary interests primarily in the humanities, a key interest of mine, as well. Of course, several students (and I) have taken common graduate courses in the Computer Science Department of TAMU. For details on the commonalities found, please reference the lists below:

Common Interests Detail List
(Domain: CPSC 489/689, 
Spring '04)

*The hyperlinks are not duplicated, if the information exists on the same web page.

Soonil Bae

  • Television -- CNN*

  • WWW

  • E-mail

  • Google

  • Telephone

Paul Logasa Bogen II

Bradley Childs

  • Internet -- WWW*

Shane Crawford

  • Television
  • Radio*
  • Internet
  • Online Banking
  • Instant Messenger
  • Telephone
  • Accounting Software
  • Picture Organization

Khoa Dang

  • Digital Libraries*
  • Telephone
  • Television
  • Instant Messenger

Pratik Dave

  • WWW
  • Magazines*
  • Word Processing
  • FM/AM Radio
  • Automobiles
  • Shoes
  • Glasses

Paul Davis

  • Electric Lights*
  • Paintings
  • Television -- CNN
  • Internet -- Google
  • Radio
  • Dr. Dobbs
  • Instant Messaging
  • Microsoft Certified Professional
  • CPSC 606 Software Engineering

Sarah Davis

Mark Eaton

Tim Faltemier

Matt Fisher

Kristopher Horn

  • CNN*
  • Radio

Hyo Taeg Jung

  • Ph.D. Student*
  • IBM Research Triangle Park (Worked There)
  • CPSC 670 Info Storage & Retrieval
  • CPSC 606 Software Engineering
  • Television -- CNN
  • Newspaper
  • Radio
  • Internet -- E-mail, Instant Messenger

Shreyas Kumar

DoHyoung Kim

  • Television -- CNN*
  • Radio
  • Internet -- E-mail, Instant Messenger

Reuben Marwah

Konstantinos Meintanis

  • Telephone
  • Internet -- E-mail, Instant Messenger*
  • Radio
  • Newspapers
  • Magazines -- National Geographic
  • Television -- News
  • History

Loi P. Nguyen

Chris Okoloise

Youngjoo Park

  • Television -- CSI*

Scott Phillips

  • Radio
  • Speech*
  • Body Language
  • E-mail
  • Television -- CNN, Drama
  • Drive to School

Hartanto Sasongko

  • Telephone -- Cell Phone*
  • Internet -- E-mail, Instant Messenger, WWW

Bridgette Summerfield

  • Telephone -- Mobile*
  • Television -- Drama, News
  • Radio
  • Internet -- E-mail, Instant Messenger

Nathanael Taylor

  • Telephone -- Cell Phone, Home Phone*
  • Television -- News, Sitcoms
  • Radio
  • Internet -- E-mail, Instant Messenger

Ryan Villalpando

  • Internet -- E-mail, Instant Messenger*
  • Broadcast Radio
  • Television
  • Telephone -- Cellular and Land
  • Caller Id

Common Interests Summary List
(Below are the elements I had in common, with at least one classmate.)

Media

Newspaper

  • Houston Chronicle

Television

  • Drama
  • News
  • Local
  • CNN
  • Sitcoms
  • Talk Shows (David Letterman)
Internet
  • World Wide Web
  • E-mail
  • Instant Messenger
  • Google
  • Online Banking
Radio
  • News
Telephones
  • Primarily Cellular
  • Home or Land Line
Magazines
  • Time
  • National Geographic
  • Dr. Dobbs

Personal Computer

  • Quicken Accounting Software
  • MS Word (Word Processing)
  • PaintShop Pro (Too cheap to buy PhotoShop) -- for image processing
     

Personal Information

  • Wears Glasses
  • Enjoys Teaching
  • Lived in Illinois
  • Prefers Warm Climates
  • Values Creativity
  • Loves History
  • Listens to Lionel Richie (Music, I Understand)
  • Drives to School

Academic and Professional

  • Ph.D. Student
  • Microsoft Certified Professional
  • CPSC 606 Software Engineering
  • CPSC 670 Info Storage & Retrieval
  • IBM Research Triangle Park, NC (Worked There)