Contact me:

E-mail: fox -at- macalester -dot- edu

Phone: 651-696-6553

Find me:

Office: Olin-Rice 230

Lab: Olin-Rice 257

Find my schedule:

Fall 2009

Related pages:

Math/Stats/CS Department

Macalester College

Picture of Susan Fox

Current Courses: Fall 2009

Comp 123: Core Concepts in Computer Science
Textbooks: Guzdial, Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python: A Multimedia Approach, Downey, Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, and others.
Comp 261: Theory of Computation
Textbook: Sipser, Introduction to the Theory of Computation, 2nd edition

Courses taught

Other semesters...
Comp 121: Introduction to Scientific Programming
Comp 221: Algorithm Design and Analysis
Comp 240: Computer Organization and Architecture
Comp 261/Math 361: Theory of Computation
Comp 325: Principles of Compiler Design
Comp/CNS 484: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Comp 494: Bodies and Minds: AI Robotics
various others

Association for Computing Machinery:

I am currently the faculty sponsor for Macalester's student chapter of the ACM, and its chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon. Some related sites include:

Research interests:

I do research in Artificial Intelligence, particularly using robots. My emphasis is on learning systems that perform low level and high level planning and execution in the world. My current research uses a case-based reasoning knowledge core to serve a hybrid robot control system. I also have interests in introspective and metacognitive reasoning. I am always looking for students interested in independent study or working with me on summer research.

Current CV is here

Comp 494: Bodies and Minds: AI Robotics

A great course I taught Spring 2008. We worked with Lego robots, Pioneer robots, robots in simulation, and our course project, developing systems for our Barbie Jeep/Mac Rover/Awesome Bot2 PowerWheels robot.

Picture of Comp 494 class with our robot