Wesley May

I'm an MSc. student, currently in both computational linguistics (with Suzanne Stevenson) and computational vision (with Sven Dickinson).
My BSc. was from Simon Fraser University, largely in AI, theoretical computer science, and numbers with no fractional part.
Slightly more information about me can be found at wesleymay.com.

I can be contacted at wesley [Shift+2] cs.toronto.edu.

Publications

• W. May, S. Fidler, A. Fazly, S. Dickinson, S. Stevenson, Unsupervised Disambiguation of Image Captions, *SEM 2012 (to appear) [pdf]

Teaching

• Spring 2012 - CSC263 (Sam Toueg)
• Fall 2011 - CSC180 (Francois Pitt / Steve Engels)

Here are some things that I think are really important for anybody learning programming for the first time:

• Learn to read error messages. You're going to see a ton of them.
• Until you're very comfortable with what you're doing, print the value of whatever variables you're working with every time you write a few lines.
• Play with programming at home! Try doing random things. Experiment with new commands.

Hobbies

I'm an avid competitor in the annual ACM-ICPC contest. I've been to the Worlds contest once (with SFU), and our team (Jacob Plachta, Qiyu Zhu and myself) placed 2nd in the East Central North America region this year, so we'll be representing U of T at the World Finals in Warsaw in May!

I've started playing contract bridge competitively. I currently fail at it, but I fail slightly less every day (p < 0.05)!

ACBL Masterpoints: 0.24

I recently bought an Arduino and have gone so far as to make some LEDs flash. In the future, hopefully some games will occur.