Zack J. Butler

According to our database, Zack J. Butler authored at least 68 papers between 1998 and 2024.

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2024

Analyzing Student and Instructor Comments using NLP.

Zack J. Butler, Ivona Bezáková, Shaoxuan Xu, Angelina Brilliantova

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

2023

CONVERSATIONS: Conversation with a Prominent Propagator: Carl Haynes-Magyar.

David P. Bunde, Zack J. Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, December, 2023

CONVERSATIONS: Conversation with a Prominent Propagator: Frank Vahid.

David P. Bunde, Zack J. Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, June, 2023

Conversations: Conversations with a Prominent Propagator: Barbara Ericson.

David P. Bunde, Zack J. Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, March, 2023

How Do I Get People to Use My Ideas?: Lessons from Successful Innovators in CS Education.

Christopher Lynnly Hovey, David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

Putting a Context in Context: Investigating the Context of Pencil Puzzles in Multiple Academic Environments.

Zack J. Butler, Ivona Bezáková, Angelina Brilliantova

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

2022

CONVERSATIONS: Conversations with a prominent propagator: Beth Simon.

David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, 2022

Conversation with a prominent propagator: Helen Hu.

David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, 2022

CONVERSATIONS: Conversation with a prominent propagator: Monica McGill.

David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, 2022

CONVERSATIONS: Conversation with a prominent propagator: Mark Guzdial.

David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, 2022

Pencil Puzzles as a Context for Introductory Computing Assignments in Diverse Settings.

Zack Butler, Ivona Bezáková, Angelina Brilliantova, Hannah Miller, Kimberly Fluet

Proceedings of the SIGCSE 2022: The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2022

2021

CONVERSATIONS: Conversation with a prominent propagator: Beth Quinn and Stephanie Weber, EngageCSEdu.

David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, 2021

CONVERSATIONS: Conversation with a prominent propagator: Paul Tymann.

David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, 2021

CONVERSATIONS: Conversation with a prominent propagator: Colleen Lewis.

David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, 2021

Puzzles in Many Places: Closing the Loop on Propagation.

Zack Butler, Ivona Bezáková, Kimberly Fluet

Proceedings of the SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021

2020

CONVERSATIONSConversation with a prominent propagator: Michael Kölling.

David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, 2020

CONVERSATIONS: Conversation with a prominent propagator: Sushil Prasad.

David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, 2020

CONVERSATIONSConversation with a prominent propagator: Leo Porter.

Heather Bort, David P. Bunde, Zack J. Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Jaime Spacco, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Inroads, 2020

2019

To Dissemination... And Beyond!: Building Better Propagation Plans for Computer Science Education Innovations.

Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor, Heather Bort, David P. Bunde, Zack Butler

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

Propagating Educational Innovations.

Heather Bort, David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

2018

CS puzzle contest.

Zack Butler, John Barr

Inroads, 2018

Qualitative Analysis of Open-ended Comments in Introductory CS Courses: (Abstract Only).

Zack Butler, Ivona Bezáková, Kimberly Fluet

Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2018

Promoting the adoption of educational innovations.

Cynthia Bagier Taylor, Jaime Spacco, David P. Bunde, Thomas Zeume, Zack Butler, Martina Barnas, Heather Bort, Francesco Maiorana, Christopher Lynnly Hovey

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2018

Propagating the adoption of CS educational innovations.

Cynthia Bagier Taylor, Jaime Spacco, David P. Bunde, Zack Butler, Heather Bort, Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Francesco Maiorana, Thomas Zeume

Proceedings of the Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2018

Analyzing rich qualitative data to study pencil-puzzle-based assignments in CS1 and CS2.

Zack Butler, Ivona Bezáková, Kimberly Fluet

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2018

Model AI Assignments 2018.

Todd W. Neller, Zack Butler, Nate Derbinsky, Heidi Furey, Fred Martin, Michael Guerzhoy, Ariel Anders, Joshua Eckroth

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018

2017

Pencil Puzzles for Introductory Computer Science: an Experience- and Gender-Neutral Context.

Zack J. Butler, Ivona Bezáková, Kimberly Fluet

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2017

2016

Mazes: not just for kids.

Zack Butler

Inroads, 2016

2015

Task allocation for reconfigurable teams.

Zack Butler, Jacob Hays

Robotics Auton. Syst., 2015

On Beyond Sudoku: Pencil Puzzles for Introductory Computer Science (Abstract Only).

Zack Butler, Ivona Bezáková

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2015

2013

Easily-programmable corobots for student use.

Zack Butler, Max Bogue, Ravdeep Johar, Balaji Iyer

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2013

Integrating highly-capable corobots into a computing curriculum.

Zack Butler, Rajendra K. Raj, Minseok Kwon

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2013

2012

Auction-based task allocation for teams of self-reconfigurable robots.

Zack Butler

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, 2012

2010

Hierarchical Distributed Task Allocation for Multi-robot Exploration.

John Hawley, Zack Butler

Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, 2010

2009

Adaptive expert systems for indirect coverage control.

Gregory Von Pless, Zack Butler

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2009

2008

Distributed and Cellular Robots.

Zack J. Butler, Alfred A. Rizzi

Proceedings of the Springer Handbook of Robotics, 2008

Million Module March: Scalable Locomotion for Large Self-Reconfiguring Robots.

Robert Fitch, Zack J. Butler

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2008

Reconfigurable Teams: Cooperative Goal Seeking with Self-Reconfigurable Robots.

Zack Butler, Eric Fabricant

Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8, 2008

Corridors for Robot Team Navigation.

Zack Butler, Carlos Bribiescas

Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8, 2008

2007

Scalable Locomotion for Large Self-Reconfiguring Robots.

Robert Fitch, Zack J. Butler

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007

2006

From Robots to Animals: Virtual Fences for Controlling Cattle.

Zack J. Butler, Peter I. Corke, Ronald A. Peterson, Daniela Rus

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2006

Corridor Planning for Natural Agents.

Zack J. Butler

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006

2005

Reconfiguration Planning Among Obstacles for Heterogeneous Self-Reconfiguring Robots.

Robert Fitch, Zack J. Butler, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005

2004

Generic Decentralized Control for Lattice-Based Self-Reconfigurable Robots.

Zack J. Butler, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus, Kohji Tomita

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2004

Dynamic Virtual Fences for Controlling Cows.

Zack J. Butler, Peter I. Corke, Ronald A. Peterson, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the Experimental Robotics IX, 2004

Controlling Mobile Sensors for Monitoring Events with Coverage Constraints.

Zack J. Butler, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004

Virtual Fences for Controlling Cows.

Zack J. Butler, Peter I. Corke, Ronald A. Peterson, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004

In-Place Distributed Heterogeneous Reconfiguration Planning.

Robert Fitch, Zack Butler, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 6, 2004

2003

Event-Based Motion Control for Mobile-Sensor Networks.

Zack J. Butler, Daniela Rus

IEEE Pervasive Comput., 2003

Distributed Planning and Control for Modular Robots with Unit-Compressible Modules.

Zack J. Butler, Daniela Rus

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2003

Tracking a moving object with a binary sensor network.

Javed A. Aslam, Zack J. Butler, Florin Constantin, Valentino Crespi, George Cybenko, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2003

Reconfiguration planning for heterogeneous self-reconfiguring robots.

Robert Fitch, Zack J. Butler, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 27, 2003

Distributed locomotion algorithms for self-reconfigurable robots operating on rough terrain.

Zack J. Butler, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation: Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation for the New Millennium, 2003

2002

Self-reconfiguring robots.

Daniela Rus, Zack J. Butler, Keith Kotay, Marsette Vona

Commun. ACM, 2002

Distributed Motion Planning for 3D Modular Robots with Unit-Compressible Modules.

Zack J. Butler, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics V, 2002

Distributed systems of self-reconfiguring robots.

Zack J. Butler, Robert Fitch, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2002

The Crystal Robot: Implementation and Demonstration.

Robert Fitch, Zack J. Butler, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the AAAI Mobile Robot Competition 2002, Papers from the AAAI Workshop, 28 July, 2002

Experiments in Distributed Control for Modular Robots.

Zack J. Butler, Robert Fitch, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the Experimental Robotics VIII [ISER 2002, 2002

Experiments in distributed locomotion with a unit-compressible modular robot.

Zack J. Butler, Robert Fitch, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 30, 2002

Generic Decentralized Control for a Class of Self-Reconfigurable Robots.

Zack J. Butler, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus, Kohji Tomita

Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002

Distributed Goal Recognition Algorithms for Modular Robots.

Zack J. Butler, Robert Fitch, Daniela Rus, Yuhang Wang

Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002

Distributed replication algorithms for self-reconfiguring modular robots.

Zack Butler, Satoshi Murata, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 5, 2002

2001

3D rectilinear motion planning with minimum bend paths.

Robert Fitch, Zack J. Butler, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2001

Distributed motion planning for modular robots with unit-compressible modules.

Zack J. Butler, Sean Byrnes, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2001

2000

Simulation and Experimental Evaluation of Complete Sensor-Based Coverage in Rectilinear Environments.

Zack J. Butler, Alfred A. Rizzi, Ralph L. Hollis

Proceedings of the Experimental Robotics VII [ISER 2000, 2000

Cooperative Coverage of Rectilinear Environments.

Zack J. Butler, Alfred A. Rizzi, Ralph L. Hollis

Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2000

1999

An Integrated Interface Tool for the Architecture for Agile Assembly.

Jay Gowdy, Zack J. Butler

Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1999

1998

Integrated Precision 3-DOF Position Sensor for Planar Linear Motors.

Zack J. Butler, Alfred A. Rizzi, Ralph L. Hollis

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1998