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\begin{document}

\name{Alan L. Ritter \vspace*{.1in}}

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\section{\sc Contact Information}
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{\it E-mail:}  aritter@cs.washington.edu \\       
{\it WWW:} http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/aritter/ \\     
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%\section{\sc Research Interests}
%Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Parallel Computing, Operating Systems.
%Distributed Operating Systems, Device Drivers, Parallel Computing, 
%Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics.

\section{\sc Education}
{\bf University of Washington}, Seattle, WA USA\\
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\item[] Pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Science \& Engineering
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%\item Dissertation Topic:  ``Hierarchical Models for Multiple Ratings
%  in Performance-Based\\ \hspace*{1.23in} Student Assessments.'' 
\item Adviser: Oren Etzioni
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{\bf Western Washington University}, Bellingham, WA USA\\
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\item[] M.S. Computer Science, December 2006
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%\item Dissertation Topic:  ``Hierarchical Models for Multiple Ratings
%  in Performance-Based\\ \hspace*{1.23in} Student Assessments.'' 
\item Overall GPA: 4.00
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\item[] B.S., Computer Science,  December 2005
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    \item Minor in Mathematics
    \item Overall GPA: 4.00
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\section{\sc Publications}
Alan Ritter and Sumit Basu \\
``Learning to Generalize for Complex Selection Tasks'' \\
{\bf Best Student Paper Award} \\
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2009)

Alan Ritter, Doug Downey, Stephen Soderland, and Oren Etzioni \\
``It's a Contradiction -- No, It's Not: A Case Study using Functional Relations'' \\
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008)

Alan Ritter, James W. Hearne, Philip A. Nelson \\
``Distributional Word Clustering in Parallel'' \\
ISCA PDCS 2006

J. Michael Meehan, Alan L. Ritter \\
``Machine Learning Approach to Tuning Distributed Operating System Load Balancing Algorithms'' \\
ISCA PDCS 2006

J. Michael Meehan, Alan Ritter \\
``Using a Genetic Algorithm to Tune Parameters of Modifications of the openMosix Load Balancing Algorithm'' \\
MFCSIT 2006

Alan Ritter \\
``NDIS Network Driver'' \\
Dr. Dobb's Journal \\
January 2006

\section{\sc Presentations, Seminars and Training Classes}
``Finding Contradictions in Text Using Functions'' \\
Boeing Research \\
Feburary 2008

``Profiling NAVDAS'' \\
Naval Research Laboratory Monterey, CA \\
August 2006

``Profiling Fortran/MPI programs using TAU on the NRL Linux cluster'' \\
Naval Research Laboratory Monterey, CA \\
August 2006

\section{\sc Professional Experience}
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{\bf Microsoft Research},
Redmond WA USA

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{\em Summer Research Intern} \hfill {\bf June 2008 - August 2008}\\
Investigated new methods for Smart Selection in the file browser domain.  
Proposed the idea of {\em Learning to Generalize} in Interactive Machine
Learning.  This work resulted in a best student paper award at IUI 2009

Supervisor: Sumit Basu

{\bf Turing Center, University of Washington}, Seattle WA USA\\

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{\em Research Assistant} \hfill {\bf September 2007 - Present}\\
Worked independently on several research projects
\begin{list1}
\item[] Automatically solving analogy problems using {\sc TextRunner}
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  \item \url{http://turingc.cs.washington.edu:7125/TextRunner/cgi-bin/analogy.pl}
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\item[] Contradiction detection (EMNLP 2008)
  \begin{list2}
  \item \url{http://turingc.cs.washington.edu:1234/conflict.pl?pred=invented&n=100000}
  \end{list2}
\item[] Anaphora resolution in Wikipedia
\item[] Hypernym Extraction on the Web
\end{list1}

{\em Software Engineer} \hfill {\bf April 2007 - September 2007}\\
Software Engineer in support of Turing Center scientists.
Implemented updates and maintained {\sc TextRunner}, an Open IE based search
engine.  Developed
a web-scale hypernym extractor.

{\bf Microsoft}, Redmond WA USA\\

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{\em Software Design Engineer} \hfill {\bf January 2007 - March 2007}\\
Windows Media DRM group.

{\bf Western Washington University}, Bellingham, WA USA

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{\em Teaching Assistant} \hfill {\bf March 2006  - June 2006}\\
Taught an introductory programming lab. \\
Supervisor: Garry L. Eerkes

{\em Grader} \hfill {\bf January - March and
			 September - December 2006} \\
Graded programming assignments for a UNIX software development class. \\
Supervisor: Philip A. Nelson

{\bf Naval Research Laboratory},
Monterey, CA USA

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{\em Summer Research Intern} \hfill {\bf June 2006 - August 2006}\\
Used TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities) to instrument, profile, analyze,
and improve scalability of research and operational NRL Data Assimilation 
Fortran/MPI code.  Taught a class on automatic instrumentation of parallel 
programs for NRL scientists.  Presented a Seminar on scalability enhancements
to NAVDAS.\\
Supervisor: William F. Campbell

{\bf The NetBSD Project}

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{\em Google ``Summer of Code'' Grant} \hfill {\bf June 2005 - August 2005}\\
Ported FreeBSD's NDIS Compatibility Layer to NetBSD. \\
Mentor: Philip A. Nelson

\section{\sc Honors and Awards}

IUI 2009 Best Student Paper Award
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NDSEG Fellowship (2008)
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WWU Outstanding Graduating Senior in Computer Science for 2006
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Graduated Magna Cum Laude
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Departmental Tuition Waiver (2003-2004)
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ASEE/ONR NREIP Summer Research Internship
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Golden Key International Honor Society
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Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

\section{\sc Grants}
Google \emph{Summer of Code} Grant
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Ross Travel Grant
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%\section{\sc Professional Memberships}

%International Society for Computers and their Applications
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%Association for Computing Machinery
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\section{\sc Skills} 
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\item Languages:  C, C++, C\#, Java, Perl, Python, bash, Lisp, R, x86 assembly, Fortran, etc\ldots
\item APIs: MPI, POSIX, Win32, .NET, Lucene, etc\ldots
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