CKNW's Audio Vault - Archives of the Past 30 Days (e.g., Bill Good's morning show, Dan Russell's nightly SportsTalk program, Michael Campbell's Saturday morning MoneyTalks program)
I (Ed Knorr) received my PhD and MSc from the
University of British Columbia,
under the
direction of Raymond Ng. My undergraduate degree (BMath, co-op)
came from the
University of Waterloo.
My former employers are Westech Information Systems (a spin-off of
BC Hydro; Westech is now part of
Accenture, which provides contract services to BC Hydro),
and Amoco Canada Petroleum
(formerly Dome Petroleum and Hudson's Bay Oil & Gas; Amoco
is now part of BP).
I also worked
at the Centre for Advanced
Studies in IBM's Toronto Laboratory, and at UBC as a Sessional
Lecturer.
I'm a tenured Senior Instructor, formerly the Director of the
Bachelor of Computer Science program, and currently the
Chair of the Undergraduate Student Services committee.
My teaching portfolio includes database systems, discrete
mathematics, data structures, engineering computation & design (in C),
object-oriented programming (in C++), and English (scientific
writing).
Fields of Interest:
Computer Science Education
Best Practices in Teaching & Learning
Database Systems
Outliers (my PhD thesis was entitled "Outliers and Data Mining")
