Interests

This page contains links to websites related to my interests. It begins with an outline of website categories. Click on the outline items to jump to that section.

Affiliations

Departments, Laboratories, and Universities, Scholarship Programs, Classes Taught or TA-ed.

Accessibility Technology

Conferences and Associations, Deaf Education, Deaf Accessibility Technology, General Accessibility Technology, Research Centers, Legal Issues.

American Sign Language

Sign Language Linguistics, Learning Sign Language.

Computational Linguistics

Conferences and Associations, Sign Language Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Language Generation.

Issues in Higher Education

Diversity in Computer Science, Computer Science Associations, Higher Education Websites.

The Digital Divide

Literacy in Developing Communities, Interfaces Accessible to Illiterate Users, Information Technology in the Developing World, The Domestic Digital Divide.

Fun Stuff

Other Huenerfauths, Hobbies, Favorite Websites.

This is the end of the outline of website categories.  The links to websites appear below.

DEPARTMENTS, LABORATORIES, and UNIVERSITIES:

• The City University of New York - Queens College - Department of Computer Science - Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory (LATLab).

• University of Pennsylvania - School of Engineering and Applied Science - Department of Computer and Information Science - American Sign Language Natural Language Generation and Machine Translation Research Project – Where I studied for my PhD from 2002 to 2006.

• University College Dublin - Department of Computer Science - Media Lab Europe - Fred Cummin's Research Group – Where studied in Ireland during the 2001-2002 academic year.

• University of Delaware - Department of Computer and Information Science - Kathy McCoy's Research Group - ICICLE Project – Where I studied for my B.S. and M.S. from fall 1997 until spring 2001.

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS:

Here is a listing of some scholarship programs to which I’m really grateful… 

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship – Full scholarship and stipend for doctoral study in engineering and the sciences.

• George Mitchell Scholarship – Full scholarship and stipend for 12 American students to spend a year abroad at a university in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.  The scholarship is organized by the US-Ireland Alliance.

• Eugene duPont Memorial Scholarship – Full scholarship to University of Delaware.

• AFCEA Schrader Scholarship – A scholarship for American master’s students.

• USA Today All-Star First Team – A scholarship for graduating college seniors.

• American Association of University Professors Undergraduate Student Award – A scholarship for graduating college seniors who are pursuing a career in academia.

CLASSES TAUGHT or TA-ed:

• Data Structures, Queens College, The City University of New York, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008.

• User-Interface Design and Accessibility, Graduate Center, The City University of New York, Fall 2007.

• Honors Seminar 3: Science and Technology in New York City, Queens College, The City University of New York, Fall 2007.

• Artificial Intelligence, Queens College, The City University of New York, Spring 2007.

• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2005.

• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2004.

• Information Technology and its Impact on Society, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2003.

• Lab: Honors: Introduction to Computer Science, University of Delaware, Fall 1999.

• Introduction to Computer Science, Pennsylvania Governor’s School of Excellence for the Sciences, Summer 1999.

• Laboratory: An Introduction to Massively Parallel Computing, Pennsylvania Governor’s School of Excellence for the Sciences, Summer 1999.

ACCESSIBILITY CONFERENCES and ASSOCIATIONS:

• SIGACCESS, Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing.

• ASSETS, ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.

DEAF EDUCATION:

• Center for Accessible Technology in Sign – A wonderful website designed by the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf’s that is full of interesting sign-based resources.

DEAF ACCESSIBILITY TECHNOLOGY:

• Microsoft Resource Guide for Individuals with Hearing Difficulties and Impairments – An accessibility guide to Microsoft products with a focus on technologies for people with hearing impairments.

GENERAL ACCESSIBILITY TECHNOLOGY:

• Microsoft ENABLE – A general accessibility website from Microsoft.

• IBM ABLE – An accessibility website from IBM.

• AssistiveTech – A website at Georgia Tech that contains a searchable database of accessibility technology.
  

• AccessIT – National Center Accessible Information Technology in Education at the University of Washington.

• Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center – An organization focused on accessibility of computer and telecommunication technology.

• DisabilityInfo – A Federal government website full of information for people with disabilities. 

ACCESSIBILITY RESEARCH CENTERS:

• Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories – A research center at the duPont Hospital for Children and the University of Delaware.

• TRACE Center – An accessibility and usability research center at University of Wisconsin at Madison.

LEGAL ISSUES:

• ADA Website – The Federal government website for the Americans with Disabilities Act.

• Section 508 – A website about Section 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act which requires federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities.

• Section 255 – A website from the Federal Communications Commissions about Section 255 of the Federal Communications Act, which requires telecommunications manufacturers and service providers to make their products and services accessible to people with disabilities.

SIGN LANGUAGE LINGUISTICS:

• ASLLRP, American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project at Boston University.

• Linguistics Department, Gallaudet University.

• Sign Language, Wikipedia Entry.

• Gallaudet University Press.

• Sign Language and Linguistics Society.

LEARNING SIGN LANGUAGE:

• DawnSignPress Books.

• ASL Browser - Learn some signs online.

• ASL Classes in your area.

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS CONFERENCES and ASSOCIATIONS:

• ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics.

• NAACL, North American Chapter of the ACL.

• HLT, Human Language Technologies Conference.

• COLING, International Conference on Computational Linguistics.

SIGN LANGUAGE NLP:

• ASL-NLG-MT, American Sign Language Natural Language Generation and Machine Translation project.

• See links on ASL project page.

MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE GENERATION:

• More links here soon.

DIVERSITY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE:

• Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research.

• Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering.

• Carnegie Mellon Project on Gender and Computer Science

• Sundials in the Shade - A Ph.D. thesis on women and computing.

COMPUTER SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS:

• Computing Research Association.

• Association for Computing Machinery.

HIGHER EDUCATION WEBSITES:

• The Chronicle of Higher Education.

LITERACY IN DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES:

• The Literacy Trust.

• Literacy.org.

• SIL Literacy Fund.

INTERFACES FOR ILLITERATE USERS:

• Workshop on Human Machine Interfaces for Illiterate Users.

• My work on this topic: Master's Thesis, Workshop Paper.

• Other papers: Google Result.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD:

• Intellectual Property vs. The Digital Divide. - Some links I assembled for class.

• More links here soon.

THE DOMESTIC DIGITAL DIVIDE:

• More links here soon.

OTHER HUENERFAUTHS:

• Huenerfauth - Origin, meaning, and history of the name.

• Big Hair - A flattering photo.

• Huenerfauth.DE - Website for a German family with this name.

• Cyclist - A German bicyclist.

• Psychologist - A psychologist in Sarbruken.

HOBBIES:

• Food Network - I'm still learning to cook; this helps.

• Dell Axim Community - Yes, there's a community for PDA owners. :)

• Thanksgiving Dinner Menu, 2001 - This was the year that Jen and I cooked Thanksgiving dinner for all the Americans we knew in Dublin.

• Ikea - Where would my apartment be without it?

• GAP - And where would my closet be?

FAVORITE WEBSITES:

• Animated Sorting Algorithms - I can't be the only one excited about this...

• Fun with Words - A website full of cool online linguistic toys.

• The Language Log - A linguistics blog.

• Piled Higher and Deeper - A good comic for grad students...