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Hugh C. Lauer Adjunct Professor
(Slides include materials from The C Programming Language, 2nd edition, by Kernighan and Ritchie and from C: How to Program, 5th and 6th editions, by Deitel and Deitel)
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Names and Faces
It is in your own interest that I know who you are.
Students who speak up in class usually get more favorable grades than those who don’t
When speaking in class, please identify yourselves
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Ground Rule #1
There are no “stupid” questions.
It is a waste of your time and the class’s time to proceed when you don’t understand the basic terms.
If you don’t understand it, someone else probably doesn’t it, either.
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Ground Rule #2
Help each other!
Even when a project or assignment is specified as individual, ask your friends or classmates about stuff you don’t understand.
It is a waste of your time try to figure out some obscure detail on your own when there are lots of resources around.
When you have the answer, write it in your own words (or own coding style).
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Discussion Board
Use the class list as a Discussion Board
Technical and administrative questions
Answer questions to the list
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6. WPI Academic Honesty Policy
It is a violation of the WPI Academic Honesty Policy to submit someone else’s work as your own.
It is not a violation of WPI’s Academic Honesty Policy to ask for help!
Classmates, TAs, friends, mentors, …
Explanations of things you don’t understand
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Many Resources
Web, previous instances of this course, other courses
Friends, classmates, mentors, etc.
Cite Your Sources
Explain in your own words
So that I can see that you actually understand it
Write in your own coding style
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No Copying!
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Questions?
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10. Instructor — Hugh C. Lauer Adjunct Professor
Ph. D. Carnegie-Mellon,
Dissertation “Correctness in Operating Systems”
Lecturer: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Approximately 30 years in industry in USA
Research topics
Operating Systems
Proofs of Correctness
Computer Architecture
Networks and Distributed Computing
Real-time networking
3D Volume Rendering
Surgical Simulation and Navigation …
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11. Systems and Programming Experience
IBM Corporation
University of Newcastle
Systems Development Corporation
Xerox Corporation (Palo Alto)
Software Arts, Inc.
Apollo Computer
Eastman Kodak Company
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL)
Real-Time Visualization
Founded and spun out from MERL
Acquired by TeraRecon, Inc.
SensAble Technologies, Inc.
Dimensions Imaging, Inc. (new start-up)
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12. Experience (continued)
CTO, Chief Architect of VolumePro™ 1000
World’s first interactive 3D rendering engine for CT, MRI, seismic scans for PC-class computers
7.5-million gate, high-performance ASIC
109 illuminated graphical samples per second
Two seminal contributions to computer science
Duality hypothesis for operating systems (w/Roger Needham)
First realization of opaque types in type-safe languages (with Edwin Satterthwaite)
21 US patents issued
Computer architecture
Software reliability
Networks
Computer graphics & volume rendering
Designed entirely in C++
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13. Continuing Where We Left Off Yesterday
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