After twenty years of developing software, I returned to school to pursue a Master of Science in Computer Science. I'm currently a graduate student at the University of Toronto in the Department of Computer Science. My first year and a half of research was with Graeme Hirst in the area of Computational Linguistics. I then spent two years, doing research for Bell University Labs in the area of Requirements Engineering, under the supervision of Steve Easterbrook. I am now back in Computational Linguistics, writing up the results of my original research — the automatic identification of idioms within text — for my thesis. Both Suzanne Stevenson and Graeme Hirst are guiding my efforts.

Throughout my studies, I have been working part-time either as a teaching assistant (TA) or a lecturer. In addition to routine TA jobs, I have worked as head-TA, and automarker TA — creating and running test programs (for Java & C++) to facilitate assignment marking. I've been teaching at U of T for the past three years. Teaching takes up more time than I expected it would — but it can be very rewarding.

In addition to teaching, I plan to finish my thesis this summer, and then return permanently to the workforce.

Contact

Faye Baron

University of Toronto,

Department of Computer Science
10 King's College Road
Room 4301
Toronto Ontario
M5S 3G4
CANADA