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Dr. Robert Silverman Computer Science Department CSU Stanislaus 801 Monte Vista Ave Turlock, CA 95382, USA |
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Under construction for Fall 2009. Read about Furlough and how it impacts our classes. [09/15] My class schedule was changed and so my furlough days are different. See furlough section. [10/09] Furlough days change. If you don't like it, and would like to prevent next year furloughs, contact your congressperson. Next Furlough is Oct 23 (instead Oct 15). Then Nov 6, Then Nov TBD. [11/16] Next Furlough is Nov 24, Tuesday; Dec 4, Friday; Dec 7, Monday. If you want to learn more interesting material, and would like to prevent next year furloughs, contact your congressperson, or ask your parents to contact their congressperson. Nov 17, no OH, I have to see a doctor. |
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CS1500
CS2700 Assembly Language and Computer Architecture.
CS3100 Data Structures and algorithms.
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Winter 2010. NOTE: The Winter term (as we know it) is effectively going away. It is not clear what will happen to this course after Winter 2010. Maybe a last chance. CS4840 Computer Security and Cryptography (satisfies the elective requirement)
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Spring 2010. CS2500 Programming II (required)
CS3740 Computer Organization (required)
CS4410 Automata, Computability, and Formal languages (Satisfies Theory Group Requirement)
CS4960 Seminar (required)
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General Announcements relevant to all my Classes: [09/15] My class schedule was changed and so my furlough days are different. That means I will more quality time with my cs2700 and cs3100. In September my furlough days are Sept 18, Sept 24. The rest of the semester, my furlough days are first Friday of every month. Third Thursday of every month. For example, Oct 2, and Oct 15.
As you know, the state of California has huge budgetary problems. Our salaries are cut about 10% and we are required to take unpaid days off (furlough). What does it mean for you? It means that some material might be skipped and some material might not be covered in depth in the classroom. To compensate for these unfortunate events, you are strongly advised to form study groups and read the book on your own. Even though classes will not be held on some days, I may communicate with you using the web.
If
you do not want to face budget cuts situation again next year,
contact your congresspersons, or your parents and tell them to
contact their congressperson. If
you would like to take action, or simply learn more, I strongly
recommend you contact your congress person, the governor office,
and the Students for Quality Education at CSU at:
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Adding my Class and Staying in my Class Students trying to add my course must attend all class meetings until I decide whether or not to add them (probably by the 3rd meeting). Registered students missing first two class meetings will be dropped. |
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Would you like to build your own computer? It's a lot of fun. These people did it and here are the pictures. http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/index.html |
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Various links transfer-student-ASSIST (http://www.assist.org/web-assist/welcome.html) how-technology-works (http://www.howstuffworks.com/) how-computers-works (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/) |
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Babbage Difference Engine designed 150 years ago. Finally built in UK in 1991 (printer completed in 2000), ... amazingly works. See Science Museum UK. |
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Cost to the country of not using SI (le Système international d'unités) (previously known as the Metric system) It is very hard to evaluate the economic cost to US for not using SI. However, is is easy to grasp SI benefits. Consider a problem given in English units and then same problem in Metric units. Consider a swimming pool with dimensions 15 feet wide, 30 feet long and six feet deep. Consider a teaspoon. How many teaspoons it would take to fill the swimming pool. Answer: .... I am still working on it. Consider a swimming pool with dimensions 5 meters wide, 10 meters long and 2 meters deep. Consider a spoon with volume 4 cm^3. How many teaspoons it would take to fill the swimming pool. Answer: 5 * 10^2 * 10 * 10^ 2 * 2 * 10^2 / 4 = 100 * 10^6 / 4 = 25 * 10^6. |
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ACM Digital Library Thanks to our people in the Library, we now have access to the premier source of information for computer science. Follow these links and look for ACM http://library.csustan.edu/serialsolutions/onlineJournals/jnlsIndex.html |
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Notes About Browsers Sometimes (depending on the configuration) the browser that you use, can get lazy, and when you ask it to go and get a page, it will pull one from its own storage instead going to the real remote page. (caching) While this gives you the information faster, it has the drawback that the page in its storage can be obsolete. If you suspect that a page might be changed, (and you should especially on this website) hit refresh or reload button. |
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Copyright All information on this website is copyrighted by Robert R. Silverman, 2002, ... current date. No part of this system or information presented here can be reproduced using any means, such as: book print, physical, electronic, chemical, biological, mathematical, telepathic, or other not yet discovered means without the explicit permission by Dr. Robert R. Silverman, CSU Stanislaus, rsilverman@csustan.edu An explicit permission is given to all my students to copy this material as needed for educational noncommercial purpose. |