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This page provides a summary of my education and lists current papers and publications that I'm involved with.

EDUCATION HISTORY
Queen's

Queen's University in Kingston, ON, CAN

expected 2013:   Ph.D. in Computer Science

Arizona

University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, USA

2009:   M.S. in Computer Science

  • Thesis Title: Implementation and Evaluation of Temporal Representations in XML
  • Thesis Advisor: Dr. Richard T. Snodgrass
  • RASP Scholarship recipient ( $6k )
  • Graduate Tuition Scholarship recipient ( $3k )
  • Member, ACM
  • Member, IEEE
Arizona

New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM, USA

2006:   B.S. in Computer Science

2006:   Minor in Applied Mathematics

  • Crimson Scholar, 2004-2006
  • Dean's List (5 times)
  • Member, Pi Mu Epsilon (Math Honor Society)
  • Member, Team SIGSEGV (Computer Science society)
  • Lab Instructor, ET 262 Spring 2003 (Introduction to C++)


PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
TEMPORAL DATABASES
Faiz Currim, Sabah Currim, Curtis Dyreson, Shailesh Joshi, Richard T. Snodgrass, Stephen W. Thomas, and Eric Roeder, "τXSchema- Support for Data- and Schema-Versioned XML Documents," TempIS TR-91, September 2009, 264+xiv pages. (pdf)
THESES
Stephen W. Thomas, "The Implementation and Evaluation of Temporal Representations in XML," Master's Thesis, March 2009. (pdf)
OTHER WORKS
Stephen W. Thomas, "Learning to Track a Random-Walk Target Motion Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo," (Class Project), Spring 2009. (pdf)
Stephen W. Thomas, "Independent Study Report: Gossamer," UA Independent Study (Dr. Gregory Andrews), December 2008. (pdf)