Randolph Bentson
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
University of Puget Sound
Fall 2007 classes

Class Periods and Exam Schedule

Section	Class times	Mid-term exam	Final exam
CSCI161C Intro to Comp Sci	_MT_TF_ 1500-1550 TH374	Oct 19	Wed, Dec 19, 16:00-18:00
CSCI250A Electronic Commerce	_MT_TF_ 1400-1450 TH374	Oct 19	Monday, Dec 17, 16:00-18:00
CSCI340A Software Engineering	_MT_TF_ 1000-1050 TH374	Oct 19	Friday, Dec 21, 08:00-10:00

• Office hours:
  
  Thompson 403
  I should explain that "office hours" only specifies the times that I plan to be in my office. I'm normally in longer than that, and I usually welcome visits any time you see me. You're welcome to stop by any time my door is open to say "I need help with this material" or even just "hi". I may ask you to return later if I cannot be interrupted with what I'm doing at that time.
• Laboratory support: you're also welcome to call or drop in my office on most weekday afternoons to invite me to help you in the lab
  
• Other times: I also welcome opportunities to meet with students outside the office and laboratory. All I need is an invitation and, schedule permitting, I'll meet with study groups and other student organizations to talk about Computer Science. One venue is the Take Your Professor to Lunch Program.
• Phone: 253 879 3470
• Email: rbentson@ups.edu
• Term Calendar

Background

I have a varied (some might say checkered) history of working with computers, starting in high school. After I completed my undergraduate education, during which I was introduced to mini-computers, I worked for a decade writing (mostly assembly) code for small computers, at both the application and operating system level. Some of my projects involved real-time data analysis, telecommunication, and operating system development. I then shifted back to an academic setting where I taught operating system theory, software engineering, programming languages, all while studying massively parallel computing. Upon my move to Seattle, I again was involved in commercial software development. I worked on microcode development, signal analysis, protocol design, device drivers, cryptography, and database conversion. Now that I've returned to an academic setting, I'm enjoying exploring, learning, and teaching a wide variety of subjects.

Education

• B.A., Math and Physics, St. Olaf College, 1970
• M.S., Computer Science, Colorado State University, 1982
• Ph.D., Computer Science, Colorado State University, 1994
  Thesis title: The efficient placement and scheduling of tasks in a processor rich environment.

Course material from past classes

• 200309
• 200401
• 200409
• 200501
• 200509
• 200601
• 200609
• 200701

Research interests

• Fair Political Redistricting
• Amorphous Solid Water Diffusion Modeling

Personal interests and/or past experience

• Electronic voting
• Open source development
• Parallel computing
• Sailing
• playing with computers
• notes on security
• Astronomy at UPS
• Getting to real systems from Microsoft Windows
• Greenhouse temperature data collection

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