1990 - 1993 NSF grant #9015552 "Undergraduate Curriculum Development in Advanced Computing" to San Diego Supercomputer Center to provide my summer salary for 3 years to develop and then present Summer Workshops at SDSC for faculty from the U.S. to develop courses at their home institutions in advanced computing at the undergraduate level.
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9015552&HistoricalAwards=false
ScrCap of original NSF award
May 1991 Tenure/Assoc Professor, right at the 7 year deadline
19 July 1991 Dr. George A. Spinka writes brief clinical history of my MS for NIH tryptophan study by Dr. David Michaelson. Price Club, now known as Costco, told NIH of my purchases of tryptophan. Dr. Spinka first saw me Jan '87 when I told him of optic neuritis in left eye Christmas 1984.
Spinka report stated:
Sept '97 4 weeks cognitive impairment due to impaired memory, but no difficulty with problem solving tasks. Electroencephalogram was normal, MRI brain scan revealed diffuse bilateral supratentorial white matter lesions plus legions in the mid-pons and left middle cerebrellar pinnacle, concistent with demyelinating disease.
August 1990 numbness in left lower extremity. These symptons completely resolved within several weeks and no new symptoms since then.
MS remains the best explanation.
Nov '91 - Supercomputing '91 in Albuquerque has Kris at SDSC booth promoting Computational Science at Undergraduate Level at San Diego State University
16 Jan '92 - Clapton MTV Unplugged performance recording with March TV broadcast of show. Highlights for me were acoustic Layla and My Fathers Eyes. Clapton won 6 Grammy Awards at 35th Annual in 1993 based on album. Record of Year, Album of Year, Song of year - Tears in Heaven, version from movie Rush, Best Pop Vocal-Male, Best Rock Vocal-Male, Best Rock Song - Layla
11 Sept 1992 Iniki, category 4 Hurricane, demolishes Kauai Turners and Kitches were vacationing there at the time.
July'93-STEP, Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program, first summer workshop at SDSC
Notes available -
only available through Wayback Machine Internet Archive. 27Oct2021
For historical interest, click on following link to see index to files still available from a "TAR" archive of original notes in Microsoft Word.
STEP FTP Tar. Download this file and use a TAR extracting app for your particular system. Successfully used
PeaZip, free archiver utility. 27Oct2021
Intro as pdf 6 page Introduction handout for July 1993 4 week workshop as PDF and
STEP Syllabus detailed syllabus of topics to be covered for the high school science teachers in 4 weeks at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, SDSC 6-30 July 1993
17 Jan 1994 Northridge earthquake (ML=6.4) recorded by 65 stations
Spr 1994 www.stewart.cs.sdsu.edu, my web page starts. This is first faculty page at SDSU, thanks to Lloyd Fosdick, CU Boulder Computational Science Project, for showing me NCSA Mosaic when I visited Boulder CO.
Wayback Machine 27 Nov 1996 or you can view my current page, with slight URL change dictated by SDSU network requirements:
https://www.stewart.sdsu.edu/ 27 Oct 2021
Apr 8, 1994 Kurt Cobain Dies The body of Kurt Cobain, front man for the band Nirvana, is discovered in his home near Seattle, Washington. Autopsy reports conclude that Cobain died approximately three days earlier of a "self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head."
July 1994 2nd workshop at SDSC - STEP shifts gears to change focus to browser use for teaching in high school classrooms, along with visualization tools online.
March 1995 Education Issues in Scientific Computing, Minisymposium organized by Kris Stewart, International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations, Stanford, California
July 1995 3rd workshop at SDSC - STEP teachers preview their curricula using browsers, which they plan to share at Supercomputing '95 at San Diego Convention Center. Dr. Sid Karin, SDSC founder & director, is Chair of SC'95. STEP demos are a hit for SD county high school teachers
October 1995 HPC Curriculum Development: Web Browser for Developing, Presenting and Sharing Resources MUSPIN Users Conf, Morgan State U, Baltimore MD
19 March 1996 Wild World of Supercomputers: It's Not Just FLOPs, invited presentation for - Computers: The Machine, The Science, The People and The Careers, Fourth Annual Computer and Computational Sciences Program for Minority Youth at the California Institute of Technology, CRPC, Pasadena CA 1996 June 04 STEP Joins Computerworld/Smithsonian IT Collection STEP Joins Computerworld / Smithsonian Information Technology Collection Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program (STEP) Developed By: San Diego Supercomputer Center, Inservice training of secondary school science teachers reduces the time lag from when science is created at the supercomputer center to when it becomes part of the curriculum.Summer 1996 I turn 45 years old, a new age group for summer swims, named US Masters Swim all American distance swimmer. https://www.usms.org/comp/aa/indaa.php?SwimmerID=D1SNY
1996 July23 Lesson Learned from In-Service Teacher Enhancement in Computational Science, SIAM Annual Conf., Kansas City MO; visit Prairie Village KS
1996 Nov College of Sciences Dean Don Short does NOT support my promotion to Prof
1997 I start using Picasaweb for online photo albums, now called Google Album Archive https://get.google.com/albumarchive/111394571419397359138 You'll have to wait for me to log in to see the albums these days.
1997 Nov SC'97 San Jose - 50 year birthday of computers - STEP success for SDSC
www.stewart.sdsu.edu/SC97/ STEP: A Case Study on Building a Bridge between HPC Technologies and the Secondary Classroom, by Kris Stewart and Janet Bowers
1997 Oct10 Ed Center on Computational Science & Engineering has its open house at SDSU. This is the CSU / SDSU Partnership activity in the NPACI at SDSC. NPACI starts (thanks Dr. Sid Karin for inviting me to be part of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Instructure) Way Back Machine record of SDSC pub, scroll down to find 'Enhancing Undergraduate Curriculum through NPACI's Ed Center' http://www.sdsc.edu/pub/envision/v14.1/edcenter.html Enhancing Undergraduate Curriculum thourhg NPACI's Ed Center
online award: Kris is co-PI for SDSU on our NSF Award#9729574 for access to the vBNS (high-speed network or Internet 2). Our award text CalREN-2 California Research and Education Network-Phase2'98/99 promoted to Professor [Steve Roeder, Dean of Sciences, Nancy Marlin, Provost]
10Aug1999 Kris Stewart invited by Prof Osman Yasar SUNY Brockport to present Template for Group in Undergraduate Supercomputing Class, HPC Users Group invited presentation, SUNY Stonybrook NY 10Aug19992000 Kris Stewart, Ilya Zaslavsky, High-Performance Computing Technologies, and Pre-Service Teacher Preparation: Is There an Overlap? (Post-Evaluation Thoughts), Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, San Diego, 2000 paper.
April 2000 NSF, National Science Foundation, Nifty 50 celebration:
#37 is The PACI Program The PACI - NCSA and NPACI, that I was part of; my other favorite is
#28
The Internet NSFNET until 1995, then allowing public use of the network.
2002 Kris receives Northrup Grumman Excellence on Teaching Award
2002 (also in 1989)
May 2004, Kris is elected to the SDSU University Senate.
Each Senator is asked to participate in a Senate Committee and it is suggested that IT would fit me best. I was aware enough of campus life to ask to verify - IT = Instructional Technology, not Information Technology, right? Yes
10Aug2006 Computer Game Programming Engines for Computational Science Curriculum Development, SUNY Brockport. Rochester is near Buffalo, conference included dinner ride on Erie Canal boat and a tour of George Eastman Museum
2nd Annual MADGD (Microsoft Academic Days Game Programming) papers, Ian Parberry, Program Chair - 99 pages
Agenda for Conference glad I downloaded copy (no longer online)
Pic of Kris w Sailor Goofy & Capt Hans Stewart summary from Microsoft Academic Days on Game Development
11 June 2008 How 3D Game Programming can Benefit the TeraGrid, TeraGrid08, Las Vegas NV, pdf
30 June 2009 - Clapton Winwood Hollywood Bowl (with Dave and Judie S) 30June2009 Band & Set List 06 Nov 2010 - Kaiser MS symposium-met Dr. Jaffe (rehab doctor - exercise+MS good29 April 2011 UNM Cyberinfrastructure Day Johann Van Reenen invites Kris to speak on "From Supercomputers to 3D Game Programming: The Impact of CyberInfrastructure on our Youth" Stewart CI UNM
11aug2011 - Keb' Mo' at Humphrey's with Gunnar/Scarlett - WOW! reviewed Honeydripper and Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? 14Oct2011 - Glen and I go to the Pasadena Heritage Week for Bus Tour of Greene & Greene homes with tour of Bolton House interior [Glen's work] - fantastic! 18Oct2011 - Pearl Jam 20 - KPBS Producers Club event at Stone Brewery with the gang to see Matt Cameron 2013 March 15 - Dr. Ivan Sutherland won Kyoto Prize 2012, lecture SDSU. Not only did Professor Sutherland give a fascinating viewpoint as "Father of Computer Graphics" in his lecture on campus, he also presented at workshop at CalIT2/UCSD the following Friday on Asyncronous Computing which I attended along with several students from CS 583 3D Game Programming course. Included SDSC tour from Jeff Sale
Bear
Ted & the Cat
SDSC J Sale tour