Mark's home page

Note: I'm no longer at the University of Waikato and now work for the Pentaho open source business intelligence company. Mark Hall Senior Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand mhall[{at}]cs.waikato.ac.nz CV Publications Download a gzipped postscript copy of my thesis. Or, here is a pdf version.

Software:

Here is a screen shot of the Weka KnowledgeFlow - a new JavaBeans based Clementine/KWiz style interface to Weka that I am currently developing.

Other cool Weka related projects:

• Spectral clustering by Luigi Dragone.
• Kea - automatic keyphrase extraction.
• Word sense disambiguation by Ted Pedersen.
• WekaMetal - a meta-learning extension to Weka
• maxdView visualisation tool.
• LocBoost classification demo applet.
• YALE - Yet Another Learning Environment.
• Tertius: a system for rule discovery.
• MARFF: Extension of ARFF for Multi-Relational Applications.
• Weka-Parallel - parallel processing for Weka.

Teaching:

2007

• COMP123a: The Computing Experience.
  
• COMP241a: Software Engineering Development.
  
• COMP314a: Software Engineering Project.
• COMP521a: Machine Learning Algorithms
• COMP321b: Practical Data Mining.
  

2006

• COMP321b: Practical Data Mining.
  
• COMP126b: Computing Media.
  
• COMP434b: Software Design.
• COMP420c: Report of an Investigation

2005

• COMP314a: Software Engineering Project.
  
• COMP209b: Object Oriented Programming.
  
• COMP434b: Software Design.

2004

• COMP209b: Object Oriented Programming.
  
• COMP434b: Software Design.

2003

• COMP209b: Object Oriented Programming.
  
• COMP434b: Software Design.

2002

• COMP314a: Software Engineering Project.
  
• COMP312b: Communications and Systems Software.
  
• COMP434b: Software Design.

2001

• 0657.202a: Systems Analysis and Design.
  
• 0657.312b: Communications and Systems Software.
  
• 0657.413b: Topics in Programming Languages.
  

General Interests:

Windsurfing-

Great fun. I do this as often as possible (but not as often as I'd like). At present I have:

• Boards : Tiga Free-S 271 (9'), Windscene 8'6" sinker
• Sails: Neil Pryde RAF Jet 5.7m, Bugs 5.0m Camber Induced

Guitar-

An excellent way to waste vast amounts of time. My curent set-up is:

• Steinberger GM guitar
• ADA mp1 midi pre-amp
• Korg A3 effects processor
• BBE sonic maximizer
• Parametric eq
• Laney LC15R valve amp
• Marshal Valvestate 40