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Biography

Dr. August teaches courses in artificial intelligence, database management systems, and software engineering. Her research interests include cognitive science applications of artificial intelligence including interdisciplinary new media applications, natural language understanding, argumentation, and analogical reasoning. She has several publications in these areas. Dr. August is a 2006 CASTL Institute Scholar (Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning). She is currently developing case studies to use in teaching computer science courses in order to increase the interpersonal orientation of the classroom experience. Her industry experience with the Hughes Aircraft Company (now Raytheon) includes software and system engineering for several defense C3I programs, and applied artificial intelligence research for military and medical applications.

Education

Ph.D., 1991, Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
M.S., 1985, Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., 1972, Slavic Languages, University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching

Publications

August, S.E. (2008) The “Living” Room: A Case Study in Artificial Intelligence, Collaborative Systems, and Language Understanding. The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science Case Collection.
August, S.E., and Johnson, C. Teaching AI as a Lab Science. Poster presentation, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges First Annual Southwest Regional Conference, 18-19 April 2008.
August, S.E. Enhancing Expertise, Sociability, and Literacy through Teaching. Grant proposal submitted to National Science Foundation Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement - Adaptation and Implementation, May 2008.
Tatarinova, T., August, S.E., Kuleck G. Development of Integrated Data Mining Tools for Functional Genomics. Grant proposal submitted to National Science Foundation Advances in Bioinformatics, August 2008.
Dionisio, J.D.N., Dickson C.L., August, S.E., Dorin, P.M. and Toal, Ray (2007). An open source software culture in the undergraduate computer science curriculum. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 39:2, pp.70-74.
August, S.E. (2003). An Effective Interactive AI Resource…does more than teach AI. In Mehdi Khosrowpour (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2003 Information Resource Management Association International Conference. Hershey PA: Information Resource Management Association, pp.17-19.
August, S.E. (2003). Fire and Ice in the City. In M. McCullough Editor, FIRE and ICE: Imagination and Intellect in the Catholic Tradition. Scranton PA: The University of Scranton Press, pp. 149-156.
Whitley, L.C. (author) and August, S.E. (technical editor) (2003). Relational Databases: Design, Tools, and Techniques. Learning Tree International Course 382. Revision T. Los Angeles CA, Learning Tree International. [Notes distributed to all students attending Course 382 in the U.S., Canada, and worldwide.]
August, S.E., and Dolan, C.P. (1992) Hughes Research Laboratories: Trainable Text Skimmer for MUC-4, System Description. In Proceedings of the Fourth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-4). Mc Lean, Virginia, 16-18 June, 1992.
August, S.E. and McNamee, L.P. (1991). ARIEL: A refined model of analogy understanding. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. Kauai, Hawaii, 2-5 June 1991, vol. II, pp.770-779.
August, S.E. and McNamee, L.P. (1990). Integrating analogical reasoning in a natural language understander. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Charleston, South Carolina, 16-19 July, 1990. vol. I, pp.538.
August, S.E. and Dyer, M.G. (1985) Understanding analogies in editorials. In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Los Angeles, California, August 1985, pp.845-847.
August, S.E. and Dyer, M.G. (1985) Analogy recognition and comprehension in editorials. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. University of California, Irvine, 15-17 August 1985. pp.236-241.