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Jim Thomas
Office (Virtual): Liquid Narrative Lab, EB2, Centennial Campus, NCSU
Web: http://www4.csc.ncsu.edu/~jmthoma5
Email: jmthoma5@ncsu.edu
Phone: (919) 606-8790
Goal: Ph.D. in Computer Science, NCSU
, "...before this decade is out"
Advisor:
Dr. Michael Young
Support: National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Peanut
Gallery: Liquid Narrative and Mimesis Research Groups
Education In the (Nineteen) Eighties:
Past
Lives Pavilion:
- Strategic Marketing Manager - Nortel Networks (2000-2002)
- Software Design Manager - BNR / Nortel Networks (1992-1999)
- Software Designer - BNR (1987-1992)
- Software Archeologist - IBM (1986-1987)
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Research
Artificial Intelligence in the domain of narrative generation.
- Using plan-based interactive narrative to guide scientific discovery learning
- Facilitating the authoring of plan-based interactive
narrative
Work products to date:
- Bowman: A Collaborative
Authoring Environment for Plan-Based Interactive Narrative
- Mimesis
Protocol Description
Selected Publications and Presentations
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Strengthening
Sociometric Prediction: Scientific Advances in the Assessment
of Children's Peer Relations, DeRosier M.E., Thomas J.M., Child
Development, October 2003, vol. 74, no. 5, pp. 1379-1392(14)
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“The ‘Dangerfield Principle’ in
Voice Over Packet Systems”, Internet Telephony, February 2003,
http://www.tmcnet.com/it/0203/0203nort.htm
- “Let There Be (More Than Just) Light”, Internet Telephony, September 2001, http://www.tmcnet.com/it/0901/0901nnet.htm
Personal
- VP Marketing (Honorary) - 3-C ISD 3-C Institute For Social Development
- Member ACM
- Hyrulian Expat
Political
Compassionate Libertarian / Pragmatic Socialist
At the first session of our legislature after the Declaration of Independance,
we passed a law abolishing entails. And this was followed by one abolishing the
privilege of Primogeniture, and dividing the lands of intestates equally among
all their children, or other representatives. These laws, drawn by myself, laid
the axe to the root of Pseudoaristocracy. And had another which I prepared been
adopted by the legislature, our work would have been compleat. It was a Bill
for the more general diffusion of learning. This proposed to divide every county
into wards of 5. or 6. miles square, like your townships; to establish in each
ward a free school for reading, writing and common arithmetic; to provide for
the annual selection of the best subjects from these schools who might receive
at the public expense a higher degree of education at a district school; and
from these district schools to select a certain number of the most promising
subjects to be compleated at an University, where all the useful sciences should
be taught. Worth and genius would thus have been sought out from every condition
of life, and compleatly prepared by education for defeating the competition of
wealth and birth for public trusts.
(Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 1813)
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Jim Thomas
120 Killingsworth Drive
Cary, NC 27511
(919) 363-2399
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