Jerry Breecher

Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Clark University

Phone: 508-793-7396
BioPhysics, Room 343
Email: JBreecher at clarku dot edu

Research

• Performance Engineering of Hardware and Software: How to get the best speed on commercial Proprietary and Open systems
• Operating Systems

Teaching, Fall 2008

• CSCI 110: Diving Into Research.
• CSCI 215: Operating Systems.
• CSCI 250: Software Engineering

Recent Student Honors Projects

• 2007 Peter Stein - 3D Visualization -- See Video of this project
• 2007 Yesh Gunewardena - Analysis of Stock Market Training
• 2006 Ryan_Schenk - Computers_And_Art -- See Video of this project
• 2006 Ryan_Twomey - Network Topologies
• 2005 Jule Slootbeek - Networks - investigating new network protocols
• 2005 Matt Magliocca - Languages - building an assembler for Intel hardware
• 2004 Ben Rubinger - Networks - building a personal music and communication system
• 2004 James Rice - Web Interfaces - exploring new web techniques

Previous Courses

• CSCI 100: Introduction To Computing For Scientists
• CSCI 100: Can Computers Think?.
• CSCI 100: Seeing Is Believing
• CSCI 110: Diving Into Research
• CSCI 140: Computer Organization.
• CSCI 201: System Programming.
• CSCI 215: Operating Systems.
• CSCI 240: Computer Architecture.
• CSCI 250: Software Engineering.
• CSCI 280: Computer Networks.

Other Stuff

General Talks

• A talk on Performance Engineering: Making Computers Go Faster.
• Information on Jobs In Computer Science: Powerpoint ... PostScript ... Adobe Acrobat .

Learning C

• If you know C++ or Java, you can learn C in 15 Minutes: Learning_C.pdf
• A somewhat more intensive C tutorial can be found here: C_Tutorial.html
• This C tutorial shows how to use standard IO function calls: UNIX_And_C.ppt ... UNIX_And_C.ps ... UNIX_And_C.pdf

Debuggers

• Once you've written your first C program, you'll need to be able to debug it. The gdb debugger is an excellent way to do that debugging. There are two references for your use: An introductory Overview: GDB_Tutorial.html ... And more complete Documentation: Debugging_With_GDB.html ...

  Learning UNIX

• This tutorial talks about how to navigate your way around UNIX. Use it to get some idea of what you can do on our LINUX machines: Using_UNIX.ppt ... Using_UNIX.ps ... Using_UNIX.pdf
• This gives a slightly more theoretical view of what Operating Systems do - with particular reference to UNIX: Operating_Systems_And_UNIX.ppt ... Operating_Systems_And_UNIX.ps ... Operating_Systems_And_UNIX.pdf