Associate Professor Luke K. McDowell

lmcdowel@usna.edu
(note the unfortunate lack of a final 'l' in that email address)

Mail:
    Dept. of Computer Science
    United States Naval Academy
    572M Holloway Rd. Stop 9F
    Annapolis, MD 21402-5002

Phone:
    410-293-6811
Fax:
    410-293-2686

Teaching: Current Courses

IC 220 (Spring 2011) -- Computer Architecture and Organization (calendar)
IT 452 (Spring 2011) -- Advanced Web and Internet Systems (calendar)

Research

My Ph.D. in Computer Science is from the University of Washington. My advisors were Oren Etzioni and Alon Halevy.

I have been at USNA since 2005, as a tenured Associate Professor since 2010. It's not often up to date, but you can check out my CV.

Collective Inference (learning in graph-based/networked data)

Investigating Markov Logic Networks for Collective Classification. Robert Crane and Luke K. McDowell. To appear, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2012), February 2012. An earlier version of this work (Evaluating Markov Logic Networks for Collective Classification) appeared at the MLG 2011 workshop.
Meta-Prediction for Collective Classification. Luke K. McDowell, Kalyan Moy Gupta, and David W. Aha. 23rd International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-23), May 2010. (22/58 accepted = 38%)
Cautious Collective Classification. Luke K. McDowell, Kalyan Moy Gupta, and David W. Aha. Journal of Machine Learning Research 10(Dec):2777-2836, 2009.
Cautious Inference in Collective Classification. Luke K. McDowell, Kalyan Moy Gupta, and David W. Aha. 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), July 2007. (251/923 papers accepted = 27%)
Case-Based Collective Classification. Luke K. McDowell, Kalyan Moy Gupta, and David W. Aha. 20th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-20), May 2007.

Information Extraction from the Web (for the Semantic Web)

Ontology-driven, Unsupervised Instance Population . Luke K. McDowell and Michael Cafarella. Journal of Web Semantics 6(3): 218-236, 2008.
Ontology-driven Information Extraction with OntoSyphon . Luke K. McDowell and Michael Cafarella. Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006), November 2006. (52/215 papers accepted = 24.2%)

Dimensionality Reduction

Enhancing Text Analysis via Dimensionality Reduction. David Underhill, Luke McDowell, David Marchette and Jeff Solka. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, August 2007.

Mangrove and Semantic Email: Making the Semantic Web Real

Preparing Semantic Agents for an Unsuspecting and Unreliable World. Luke McDowell. First International Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web (AAAI Fall Symposium Series), November 2005.
Meaning for the Masses: Theory and Applications for Semantic Web and Semantic Email Systems. Luke McDowell. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Washington, August 2004.
Semantic Email: Theory and Applications Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, and Alon Halevy. Journal of Web Semantics 2(2):153-183, 2004.
The Specification of Agent Behavior by Ordinary People: A Case Study. Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, and Alon Halevy. Third International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004), November 2004. (48/205 papers accepted = 23.4%)
Semantic Email. Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Alon Halevy, and Henry Levy. Thirteen International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), May 2004. (74/506 papers accepted = 14.6%)
Mangrove: Enticing Ordinary People onto the Semantic Web via Instant Gratification. Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Steven Gribble, Alon Halevy, Henry Levy, William Pentney, Deepak Verma, and Stani Vlasseva. Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), October 2003. (49/262 papers accepted = 18.7%)
Semantic Email: Adding Lightweight Data Manipulation Capabilities to the Email Habitat. Oren Etzioni, Alon Halevy, Henry Levy, and Luke McDowell. Sixth International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2003), June 2003. (17/67 papers accepted = 25.4%)
Evolving the Semantic Web with Mangrove. Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Steven Gribble, Alon Halevy, Hank Levy, William Pentney, Deepak Verma, Stani Vlasseva (UW Tech Report February 2003).
Crossing the Structure Chasm. Alon Halevy, Oren Etzioni, AnHai Doan, Zachary Ives, Jayant Madhavan, Luke McDowell, Igor Tatarinov. First Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2003), Jan 2003.
An Evolutionary Approach to the Semantic Web (ISWC 2002, poster)

Computer Architecture

Improving Server Software Support for Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors. Luke McDowell, Susan Eggers, Steven Gribble. ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 03), June 2003.
An Evaluation of Speculative Instruction Execution on Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors. Steve Swanson, Luke McDowell, Michael Swift, Susan Eggers, Henry Levy. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 21(3): 314-340 (2003).

Computer Science Education

Use of Classroom Presenter in Engineering Courses. Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Luke McDowell, and Beth Simon. 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 2005.

Teaching: Past Courses

IT 452 (Fall 2010) -- Advanced Web and Internet Systems (calendar)
SI 413 (Fall 2010) -- Programming Languages (calendar)
IC 220 (Spring 2010) -- Computer Architecture and Organization (calendar)
SI 204 (Spring 2010) -- Intro to Computer Science
IC 210 (Fall 2009) -- Introduction to Computing (calendar)
IT 452 (Fall 2009) -- Advanced Web and Internet Systems (calendar)
IC 220 (Spring 2009) -- Computer Architecture and Organization
IT 350 (Fall 2008) -- Web and Internet Programming.
IT 452 (Fall 2008) -- Advanced Web and Internet Systems
IC 220 (Spring 2008) -- Computer Architecture and Organization
IC 210 (Fall 2007) -- Introduction to Computing
IT 452 (Fall 2007) -- Advanced Web and Internet Systems
IC 220 (Spring 2007) -- Computer Architecture and Organization
IT 350 (Fall 2006) -- Web and Internet Programming.
SI 232 (Spring 2006) -- Computer Architecture
SI 232 (Spring 2005) -- Computer Architecture (most content behind Blackboard)
IT221 -- Data Structures: Main IT221 page (defunct) or Dr. McDowell's section only
IT 350 (Fall 2005) -- Web and Internet Programming
CSE 413 -- Programming Languages and Compilers
CSE 326 -- Data Structures and Algorithms

Diversions

I enjoy running, squash, and croquet, but none as often as I would like.