Welcome to a tangible medium.

Hello!

This is a home page for David Dailey. I'm a professor of Computer Science at Slippery Rock University. My teaching and research interests are in areas of information technology, mathematics, linguistics, imagery, cognition, and interdisciplinary studies. I can be reached at david.dailey@sru.edu. Here's a curriculum vita. Here are links to some recent research. research that is ongoing

Spring   '13 courses:   CpSc130 , CpSc207 , CpSc300

Some interests:  JavaScript,  my numbers, a program for drawing graphs, 

SVG:

• SVG animation, (links to about 1000 pages of examples)

• An SVG Primer for Today's Browsers (my version, frozen October 2009);

• An SVG Primer for Today's Browsers  (W3C* version, still evolving).

• a new book on SVG (from O'Reilly and Microsoft Press)
  

Other work (in progress):

the engraver's insight , something vaguely seasonal. &  graph drawing for mobile networks

Fun stuff:

Curiosités JavaScript	Jane Austen's Randemma.	arts & crafts
Here are some public domain images,  from the 1911 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary  (by Merriam Webster, Springfield, MA):

Words & Such

Hyper-hyphen : a hypertext dictionary  -- every word is a hyperlink (for IE, Netscape, Firefox) . Look up in Hyper-hyphen Lexical Command Center- using synonymy and morphological co-occurrence:   random crossword puzzles Voici:  Quaint lists of words . The ever popular aphorisms
Random place names -- sorta like in the US
Exercise in mapping (AJAX, SVG and PHP)

Copyright

While intellectual property law might seem a dull subject,  it is the place where the information age runs smack into feudalism. (Remember how the Saxons used the alphabet to claim ownership of all things Pict?) It is the branch of the law that allows me to reverse-engineer your thought process, then to patent it and charge you royalties for your continued use. It is a collection of inconsistencies spawned by committees and lobbyists, in perpetuity and throughout the universe. What could be more fun?

Dailey on copyright
You might also take a glance at Grazing rights in the public domain to investigate some of the  legal curiosities concerning imagery and the law. Also: copyright vs. public interest

This sort of speculation together with my recent foray into working with W3C web standards, have gotten me to thinking a bit more about democracy, consensus, and decision making.

Postscript and quote

Send comments to David.Dailey@sru.edu . See copyright notice. Images on these pages are drawn (or otherwise created) by the author, except for these reliances on public domain work:

*Science, composited from two works by Edwin Abbey (commissioned as work by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the state capitol building): one of a photo of the finished work in Harrisburg (© 1911); the other a scan of an engraving of Abbey's sketches (© 1907-08) contained in Life and Work of Edwin Austin Abbey, R. A. by E.V. Lucas(© 1921).

Small red fire engine: false colorized from  Webster's 1911 engraving of a fire engine.

and Impressionism scanned from the Webster's 1911 definition of the term..

The (3,3,4,3,4) tiling employed as background, while embodied as a particular and original expression here, dates from early in the previous millenium, appearing in North African architecture.