Keith Douglas' Web Page
| About me | Find out who I am and what I do. |
| My resumé | A copy of my resumé and other documentation about my education and work experience for employers and the curious. |
| Reviews, theses, articles, presentations | A collection of papers from my work, categorized and annotated. |
| Current research projects | What I am currently working on, including some non-research material. |
| Interesting people | People professionally "connected" to me in some way. |
| Interesting organizations | Organizations I am "connected" to. (Some rather loosely.) |
| Intellectual/professional influences | Influences on my work, including an organization chart. Here you can also buy many good books on philosophy and other subjects via amazon.com. I have included brief reviews of hundreds of books. |
| Professional resources | Research sources, amazon.com associates programs, etc. |
| What is the philosophy of computing? | A brief introduction to my primary professional interest. |
| My intellectual heroes | A partial list of important people. Limited to the dead. |
| My educational philosophy | As a sometime teacher I've developed one. Includes book resources. |
This section page of professional influences is an annotated edition of my library database. While I certainly I have been professionally influenced by books that I do not own (see the bibliography here for some of them) as well as by the novels and other indirectly professional sources, a primary source of my professional influence has been my books. These are ones that have been assigned to me in classes I have taken, books I have been given that fit into the professional category, books I have bought or found myself that do, and so on. I start many a professional project by thinking what sorts of materials I have on the subject in my existing collection that might help. I also enjoy rereading exisitng volumes now and then to better remember them, to see current problems in a new light and so forth. I have used my own categorization system to categorize my collection and this might not reflect either the author's intent or the usual library means. Some titles fall under several categories. I have placed them under serveral of them, though usually not under more than two. The categories are: