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Mehran Sahami Associate Professor (Teaching) of Computer Science Associate Chair for Education and Director of Educational Affairs, Computer Science Robert N. Noyce Faculty Fellow in the School of Engineering Gates Building, Room 180 Computer Science Department Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 Email: sahami at cs.stanford.edu Office Phone: (650) 723-6059

Bio

Previously, I worked for several years as a Senior Engineering Manager at Epiphany. Prior to working at Epiphany, I completed my PhD in the Computer Science Department at Stanford. I was also an undergrad at Stanford and I loved it so much that I didn't want to leave.

Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with family, playing the guitar, going on outdoor excursions, and sleeping (which seems to be getting rarer and rarer these days).

Revised Undergraduate Computer Science Major

• If you are thinking about Computer Science as a potential major, you can find more information here.

• Details of the revised undergraduate major requirements for CS are available in the Stanford Bulletin.
• You might also be interested in an overview of the changes made to the CS curriculum in 2008-09. We think you'll like what you see!

Current Stuff O' Interest (i.e., Professional Activities)

•     Text Mining book now available!

  Ashok Srivastava (NASA) and I have recently published a book entitled "Text Mining: Classification, Clustering, and Applications." The book is available from Amazon or directly from CRC Press.

• Selected Publications

• Classes that I'm currently scheduled to teach this year (2009-10) are:
  • Fall 2009-10: CS106A: Programming Methodology

  • Winter 2009-10: CS109: Introduction to Probability for Computer Scientists.

  • Spring 2009-10: CS109: Introduction to Probability for Computer Scientists.

• Here's a video a former student of mine posted on YouTube about it being a great time to be a computer scientist.

• Stanford has released on-line videos and materials for several courses through the Stanford Engineering Everywhere initiative. The lecture videos are also available through YouTube. Here is a sample of courses:
  • CS106A
  • CS106B
  • CS107

Older Stuff That You Might Still Want Links To

• 2008 AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to motivate greater participation in Computer Science.

• In the summer of 2007 I organized the Google Education Summit. A posting on the Google blog provides more information about the summit and has links to the presentations given there.

• With Thorsten Joachims, Andrew McCallum and Lyle Ungar, I co-organized an IJCAI-99 workshop on Machine Learning for Information Filtering.

• With Ronny Kohavi, I co-organized a panel entitled Integrating Data Mining into Vertical Solutions: Problems and Challenges at KDD-99.

• I organized the ICML/ AAAI-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization with Mark Craven, Thorsten Joachims, and Andrew McCallum. To see what was included in the workshop, you can still obtain the workshop program (including the list of accepted papers). The workshop proceedings are now available as a technical report from AAAI.

• In the days of yore I was a Resident Fellow at Naranja House in Lagunita Court for four years.

• More teaching! Some of the other classes that I may teach from time to time include:
  • CS106A: Programming Methodology
  • CS106B: Programming Abstractions
  • CS106X: Programming Methodology and Abstractions (Accelerated)
  • CS109: Introduction to Probability for Computer Scientists
  • CS121: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  • CS181: Computers, Ethics and Social Responsibility