Ed's Home Page
Some of My Frequently Visited Sites
- Biblical Sites including some of my own work
- Michael Campbell's MoneyTalks - podcasts about business, economics, finance, and government
- Google, Google Calendar, Google Finance, Google Maps, and Google Translation Services
- Lots of Links to Sites about Business, Finance, and News
- Weather Report - Vancouver (and traffic/weather webcams), Vancouver (Weather Network), Surrey (and traffic/weather webcams), Abbotsford, Calgary, Celista (Shuswap Lake), UBC Campus
UBC Sites
- Computer Science Department including Degree Programs
- UBC Canvas - UBC's Learning Management System for Undergraduate Courses
- Calendar: Computer Science
- Calendar: Computer Science (CPSC) Course Descriptions (change the 4-character course code in the URL to get to BIOL, etc.) Other short-cuts: CPEN, MATH, and STAT
- Calendar: Computer Science (CPSC) Course Offerings, including CPEN, MATH, and STAT
- Calendar: Faculty of Science's Combined Major in Science including CMS Packages and Worksheets
- Calendar: UBC General
- Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative including CWSEI Basecamp (restricted access)
- Career Services
- Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
- Computer Science Student Society
- Faculty of Science's Credit Exclusion Lists
- Faculty of Science's Home Page
- Faculty of Science's Program Requirements
- Science Centre for Learning and Teaching
- IT Services at UBC
- Map of UBC
- Reading Room - CPSC/ICICS
- Room Bookings plus the Lab Calendars and TA Office Hours in Demco and X-Wing
- Transfer Credits - BCCAT: BC Post-Secondary Transfer Guide
- UBC - Centre for Accessibility
- UBC Libraries
- UBC Resources: CSSIS, FSC, SISC, SSC, Webforms, and Webforms Reports (all restricted access)
- UBC U-Town Events in the UBC neighbourhood
- UBC Weather Page
Other Sites of Interest
Biographical Information:
I (Ed Knorr) received my PhD and MSc from the
University of British Columbia,
under the
direction of Raymond Ng. My undergraduate degree (BMath, co-op)
came from the
University of Waterloo (
Alumni News).
My former employers are: (a) Westech Information Systems (a spin-off
of BC Hydro; afterwards, Westech became part of BC Hydro again, and
then it was privatized in 2003, so that computing services were again
provided under contract); (b) Amoco Canada Petroleum
(formerly Dome Petroleum, formerly Hudson's Bay Oil & Gas; Amoco
is now part of BP) where I worked from 1979-1989 including my co-op
days. I also worked
at the Centre for Advanced
Studies in IBM's Toronto Laboratory, and at UBC as a Sessional
Lecturer.
Until June 2021, I was a tenured Associate Professor of Teaching,
and a Computer Science undergraduate advisor. (By the way, we
have about 2,500 students in a CS undergraduate degree.)
After that time, I became an emeritus faculty member.
My teaching portfolio included database systems, data structures,
discrete mathematics, engineering computation and design (in C),
object-oriented programming (in C++), English (i.e., scientific
(evidence-based) argumentation and writing, with peer review),
and Data Science topics in Privacy, Ethics, and Security.
Fields of Interest:
- Computer Science Education (e.g., Best Practices in
Teaching & Learning)
- Database Systems
- Outliers (my PhD thesis was entitled "Outliers and Data Mining")
- Data Mining
- Biblical Eschatology and Apologetics