Eric Berkowitz

Chair, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology

Associate Professor

Roosevelt University

Department of Computer Science and Information Technology

Not just an online library, an Online Librarian.

For information related to the iBrarian project please see the iBrarian Project page.

Location and Contact Information

Address:

Department of Computer Science and

Information Technology

Roosevelt University

1400 N Roosevelt Boulevard

Schaumburg, IL 60173, USA

430 South Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL 60605, USA

Email:

eberkowitz@roosevelt.edu

Web Page:

http://cs.roosevelt.edu/eric/

Phone:

(847) 619-8532

Fax:

(847) 619-8552

Office Hours (Spring 2011):

(SCH) Tuesday 12:15-2:00 4:30-6:30

(SCH) Thursday 12:15-2:00

Please confirm via e-mail since meetings and

other obligations may alter this schedule.

Occasionally you have to look at the results of your brilliant theories.

-Gary Kasparov

What we learn from a great teacher cannot be put into a book, because it is in a look, an inflection, a quirk of personality or a tossed-off comment. The greatest human lessons are found in the power of presence.

-David Wolpe

Eric Berkowitz's Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Eric Berkowitz's (brief) cv

Eric Berkowitz's Research

Keywords to Prof. Eric Berkowitz's recent papers:

Eric Berkowitz on DBLP

Eric Berkowitz on CogPrints and here

Eric Berkowitz on CiteSeer

Eric Berkowitz's Student Research

Prof. Eric Berkowitz is currently supervising student research in the following areas. If you would like to join any of our projects please contact me at eberkowi@roosevelt.edu

Eric Berkowitz's Supervised Research:

Published Paper Web Index

Prof. Eric Berkowitz and his students are currently working on a system to create a map of the published academic papers currently available for free download from the web

Reasoning and Communications for Cooperative Agents and Robots

Prof. Eric Berkowitz and his students are currently working on a grounded concept creation that will facilitate communication and matching reasoning processes for cooperative system.

Eric Berkowitz's Teaching

CST 115

CST 365/465

CST 367/467

CST 376/476

CST 413

CST 402

Click Here to Learn about the programming environments for work at home

Eric Berkowitz's AI and Parallel Programming Lab

Hardware

Sun Microsystems Enterprise servers.

Apple workstations.

Several PC style systems.

A private pipe to the Internet.

A private cloud.

Eric Berkowitz's Collection of Linux Tools

Distros? I've seen them all. Here are my best suggestions of those we use in the lab and our research:

Ubuntu: Without a doubt, this is the only Linux distribution that really works right out of the box.  Kudos to Canonical. That was then; this is now.  Now there is 'Unity'  and it needs work. Let's hope in the next few releases I can recommend it again.

But now, for a really good, up-to-date linux that deals superbly with all that kde vs. gnome hullaballoo in a no-nonsense, get-some-work-done and have some fun desktop environment I recommend OpenSuse http://opensuse.org  Or for a stable, no-nonsense basic working and surfing environment I recommend going back to a a tried and true staple of the Linux world: Debian http://www.debian.org

Centos: still the quickest path to a GUI based Enterprise Server Linux (based on Redhat Enterprise Server) CentOS

Conferences

AI Conferences 2006:

Seventeenth Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, MAICS 2006.

Proceedings of MAICS 2004, Eric G. Berkowitz, editor.

Eric Berkowitz's Collection of Tools for Java and Web Programming

Eclipse Historically the best IDE for Java development. Currently surpassed by Netbeans for Web and J2EE development

How Sun's Java documentation cost me hundreds of hours of wasted work -- a warning about hashed sets in Java -- See the explanation and "equals contract" in Chapter 3 of Effective Java by Joshua Bloch

Netbeans a good platform independent IDE for Java C and C++ (POSIX) with built in facilities for Web and J2EE development

Eric's Java Console for Netbeans and Interactive Java Console (Terminal) Applications

1. •New (beta for now) features in version 3.5 of the Java Application Console:
   

2. ➡It is now possible to pause and resume the Java Console Application output in the scroll window
   

3. ➡It is now possible to terminate the underlying Java Console Application leaving the features of the Java Console active.
   

4. •The features make it much easier to analyze a error messages and program output at intermediate points of program execution.
   

For more information on the Java Console Application library click the link below

Eric Berkowitz's Various Projects that May Help Other People

Apple OS X Portable Home Directories with OpenLDAP on a Linux Server (Centos).  Complete working instructions. Portable Home Directories with NFS and OpenLDAP

Apple File Sharing (AFP) using NetAtalk on Centos. NetAtalk on Centos