Dan Knights

danknights "at" gmail "dot" com

Publications and Programs

Dan Knights, Mike Mozer, and Nicolas Nicolov. Detecting Topic Drift. (2009). In N. Nicolov et al. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (Vol. 5, pp. 113-130). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Dan Knights, Mike Mozer, and Nicolas Nicolov. Detecting Topic Drift with Compound Topic Models. 2009 International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. [pdf]

Dan Knights, Todd Mytkowicz, Peter F. Sweeney, Michael C. Mozer and Amer Diwan. Blind Optimization for Exploiting Hardware Features. 2009 International Conference on Compiler Construction. [pdf]

Michael Otte, Daniel Knights, Joseph Pfeiffer III, Jane Mulligan and Gregory Grudic. New Techniques for Path Planning in Image Space. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder. Technical report, 2009. [pdf]

Knights, D. and Lanza, J. Localization and identification of visual landmarks (poster summary) in Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 16, Issue 4 (2001). and in Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, Proceedings of the sixth annual CCSC northeastern conference, Middlebury, VT (2001). [ACM] [alt: pdf]

Das, S., Wu, C., and Knights, D. (Charles River Analytics), and W. Truszkowski (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). Distributed Intelligent Planning and Scheduling (DIPS) by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Agents Division) (1999). [Similar version in Proceedings of the 2001 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Palo Alto, CA (March, 2001)]. [pdf] [alt: pdf]

Dan Knights, Laura Matefy, Victor Dan. Computer-assisted solution of the 15-Puzzle by video stream. Course project, Computer Vision with Daniel Scharstein, 2000. [details]

Dan Knights. Rubik's Cube: 7-Step Solution Guide. Packaged with Rubik's Cube. Copyright 2003. Booklet. (Over 1,000,000 in print). [Cover] [Credits]

Knights, D. Rubiks.com Official Virtual Cube and Cube Solver (web applet) at rubiks.com, 2001-2008. Copyright 2001. [Play online]

Knights, D. mnp Virtual cube - pre-release version (Shockwave movie). Copyright 2003.
Play with any dimension of cuboid puzzle from 1x1x1 to 5x5x5! Requires Shockwave plug-in. This version is only half finished. There are plenty of bugs. [play here]

Knights, D. CubeTimer. Written with Visual Basic. Copyright 2004.
A very simple interface. Provides 3x3x3 Scrambling algorithms. [download]

Knights, D. Rubik's Cube: 7-Step Beginner Solution by Dan Knights (video) at rubiks.com. Copyright 2002.
[Out of production]

Knights, D. Rubik's Cube: The Simple Solution by Dan Knights (video) at rubiks.com. Copyright 2003.
[Out of production]

Knights, D. Revolving Door Solution (pamphlet). Copyright 2004.
My solution to Rubik's Cube using only group theory and the concept of "Revolving Doors". Unlike most solutions, this solution requires no special notation, and it is designed to be fully "understandable" at every step. [pdf]

Knights, D. Beginner/Intermediate Solution (pamphlet). Copyright 2004.
I designed this solution for beginning and intermediate solvers. Beginners can learn just one algorithm per step, intermediate solvers can use the extra algorithms (marked with an asterisk) to solve faster. [pdf]

Contact: danknights "at" gmail "dot" com