Home page for Roy H. Ogawa

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Roy H. Ogawa

Associate Professor

School of Computer Science

Office Hours, Fall Semester, 2009, August 24-December 4

Computer Science Professional Organizations

IEEE Computer Society. [part of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.]
ACM.

UNLV students, from on-campus, you can access all publications of the IEEE and the ACM, online, for free.

Sources for CSC Students

When I started to study Programming and Computer Science, I found a set of authors that wrote important things and wrote them very well. The ideas were important. In addition, they had a style of thinking and writing that was very clear. So I resolved that whenever they wrote anything, I would take the time to read their writings. I fell behind from time to time but always worked to catch up. It has been well worth it. They are:

Per Brinch Hansen. Also Per Brinch Hansen Archive. [The surname is 'Brinch Hansen'] (1938)
Edsger Dijkstra. (1930-1972)
Donald Knuth . (1938) [Make money in your spare time. Find errors in Knuth's books and get $ for each new error found!]
Niklaus Wirth. (1934)

Later I added more names to my list.

Some Links for CSC Students

Here's an article from the Scientific American website (Nov 2006) about a software design problem. Computer glitch limits next shuttle launch.

Some Computer/Society Issue-Oriented Sites

Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Free Software Foundation.
Law, (Look under 'Legal Technology') .
Bit Law .
Software Patent Institute.
Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School. He has become a thoughtful contributor to the Computers and Society scene. He has a web site, www.lessig.org and has written several books, of which one is available online: Free Culture.