Steve Kemp's HomePage

Introduction

My name is Steve Kemp. I am a researcher in the Psychology Department at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My principal interest is in situated action and learning. I am currently developing a dynamical approach to mathematical learning theory.

• science: research, including links and downloadable papers and programs.
  • abstracts (with links to papers)
  • memorial WebPage for A. P. Weiss
  • In-Vitro Reinforcement
  • Links, Quotes, Tidbits, etc.
• biography: curriculum vitae and resumes.
  • short research vita (with links)
  • research vita
  • programming resume (statistical programming)
• art: stuff relating to my theatre and film interests, plus some poetry.
  • Links, Quotes, Queries, etc.
• commerce: project ideas looking for partners, stuff to buy and sell, recommendations for fellow consumers.
• history: personal stuff and links to friends' WebSites, etc.
• recreation: just for fun, including my unsolicited opinion on just about anything.
  • recipes
  • restaurants
  • Steve's Forum for Practical Oddities
  • Steve's Forum for Political Oddities
  • Steve's Forum for Popular Oddities

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My research includes:

• current
  1. situated learning
  2. IVR-based neural networks (IVR = in-vitro-reinforcement)
  3. the conjunction fallacy
• recent
  1. applications of Item Response Theory (IRT) to the Minnesota Multi-phasic Inventory (MMPI-2)
  2. abductive inference
  3. language and verbal behavior
  4. behavior analytic theory.

My non-research interests include:

1. theatre
2. popular culture (I'm a couch potato!)
3. Tai Ch'i Chuan
4. the I Ching

Click here for curriculum vitae and resumes.

[11aug2004]: Download material from our presentation at the 2004 ABPMC/ABA conference at Campinas, Brazil on Computational Interpretations of Learning: Situativity without Dogma. E-mail me at steve_kemp@unc.edu if you have problems reading or printing.

[31jul2004]: My first book! Business Statistics Demystified, written with my brother, Sid, from McGraw-Hill. Additional information: We have set up a temporary WebSite to answer questions from our readers, including an errata sheet to correct errors as they arise. Click here for the temporary BSD WebSite. Important news! The answer key to the quizzes contains several errors. (Thanks to Chris Kennedy for catching this!) We have identified and corrected the errors. Click here for a page containing all necessary corrections to the answer key, plus any other errors as we find them.

Please keep the comments coming. No book is free from errors (Thanks to Jim Lant for catching the latest one.), but the World Wide Web means we can have thousands of pairs of eyes helping to make the book better.

[13aug2003]: Brand new WebSite for the InSitu testbed, which includes the InSitu Introductory Guide, an introduction to the principles of situational evaluation of computational models of mind and behavior for general audiences. A must read!

[17may2001]: Download latest paper on Situational testing of Neural Networks. To read it, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Free Reader if you don't already have it. E-mail me at steve_kemp@unc.edu if you have problems reading or printing.

[20aug2000]: Minor update as per various complaints. Eliminated brightly colored backgrounds. (Except for the one on this page. ;-) New info on DAK. Added information on personal background. Expanded links to friends. Minor edits/corrections. smk

[17apr1998]: Major update. Two online research papers. One on neural networks and in-vitro reinforcement. Click here to view online version. Another on action theory and radical behaviorism. Click here to view online version. Lots of abstracts. (Both papers can be reached via the abstracts.) WebPages on In-Vitro Reinforcement and in memoriam to Albert P. Weiss. More links. Added quotations and graphics. smk

• For those who are far from home or new to the internet, here is your key to finding your way through the World Wide Web, my two current favorite search engines: Google and AltaVista: Advanced Query. Start here!
  
  
• For those having trouble finding an out-of-print book, or who enjoy used books, or who are just looking for book bargains, I heartily recommend abebooks, the Advanced Book Exchange. Used bookstores all over the globe list their inventories of used, out-of-print, and collectible books. You can make your purchase directly from the store or online via abebooks. The best part is that, if you can't find the book you want, just put it on your want list and abebooks will contact you by email whenever any one of the thousands of bookstores lists it with them.
  
  
• And speaking of links, I have gone out of my way not only to include lists of links in each category, but also to references within the various texts. Whenever aspects of popular culture have arisen, I have used the Internet Movie Database for matters referring to film and television. All this information is provided courtesy of the InterNet Movie DataBase.
  
  
• Contacting me: And, of course, I am always looking for suggestions, corrections, comments, etc. on anything on my WebSite. You can e-mail me at steve_kemp@unc.edu. I am particularly eager to exchange links with anyone with shared interests, etc. I am always happy to add links to worthwhile pages of all sorts and, if you find something worthwhile on my site, I'd love to have you add a link to that page.