Jared R. Nichols

4225 Lincoln Swing Apt. 11

Ames, IA 50014

(515) 296-2088

jnichols@cs.iastate.edu

Education

Iowa State University Fall 2002 - Present

M.S. candidate in Computer Science

Luther College Fall 1998 – Spring 2002

B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics with a minor in Psychology

Graduated magna cum laude

Honors and Awards

PACE Award - Iowa State University Fall 2002 – Present

Regents Scholarship – Luther College Fall 1998 – Spring 2002

Presidential Scholarship – Luther College Fall 1998 – Spring 2002

Robert S. Jacobsen Prize in Mathematics – Luther College Spring 2001

Teaching Experience

Computer Science Teaching Assistant at Iowa State University Fall 2002 - Present

Responsibilities – answering students’ questions concerning homework, teaching recitation sections, and grading homework, quizzes, and exams

Industry Experience

Intern at IBM in Rochester, MN Summer 2000

Responsibilities: assisted in the redesign of my department’s website and helped stress test OS/400, the operating system used for IBM’s AS/400 line of servers

Programming Languages

Java, C++, Smalltalk, True Basic, ML, Assembly Language, HTML

Project Work

Com S 572 – a multilayer feed-forward neural network that plays checkers

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence

Operating Systems

Research

None

Publications

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