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My Personal Page
My Office hours etc.

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My Teaching is described in a special page. Some pointers to Teaching Resources.
My Research is into how software can be produced. See my research page. This includes pointers and search engines accessing an experimental electronic technical reference manual for software engineers.
My Research Resources.
Topics for Graduate Theses and Projects
My assigned task was once administrating the CS Dept network. Now I keep an eye on the undergraduate curriculum instead.
I support the Center for Democracy and Technology.
I also keep an eye on some local World Wide Web resources and entertainments.
and developments in Java on our CSUSB public WWW server.
and make use of these resources
and other sites.
My vita can be retrieved as a normal web page with tables.
I run a small company. It can't afford a WWW site yet. I do pre-publication reviews, have some books being prepared for publication, and can do local and internet consulting on the methods and techniques of producing software.
I have been monitoring developments in low-cost personal computing for a very long time: My Radio Shack Model 100 (1983?) is still in use. I keep a list of Computer Company Sites.
I prefer fixing what I've to buying the newest and hottest systems, so at home I have a Mac+ and in the office this PowerBook 140 held together with G-clamps (I'd run out of duct tape at the time).
I have time for some music, British beer, mathematics, jokes, and reading.
Please visit our Local Places of Interest.

This page is dedicated to the standard that made it all possible: ASCII
You want lots of useless graphics, do you?
Personally I like ASCII.

Resources

Materials that I Maintain:
Some Early Sites on the World Wide Web.
My entrance onto the Infobahn.
My list of Search Engines
80 local manuals
300 local FAQ.
Links to technical data
and other information
My CSUSB Reference Page
and other sites
California Virtual University
Design Team -- Corporate Partners
Integrated Technology Strategy Website is located at: its at www.calstate and/or its.calstate
Also see: CETI in AIT + CETI at CalState.Edu + CETI Operating Agreement + UIAS Web page
CSU Governmental Affairs website.\.
ASSIST Articulation data
In March and April I need these two links: US Federal Taxes, and California Taxes
Research and Professional Development
- Grants:
  SPIN-WWW and The Grant Advisor
  CSUSB Sponsored Program Office(909-880-5027): Director: Sid Kushner and Margaret Brasch
  NSF Grant Proposal Guide
- MII Proposal
- IEEE Books for Review
- ACM
  ACM Computing Surveys Online
  . . Position Statements on Strategic Directions in Computing Research.
- Bibliographies on software development
- Hot Topics
  LaTeX documentation at Emory.
  C++ Standard
  MATHS
- Publishing
  Subject: IGPL Journal with OUP WWW copy, . . . Volume 5 Issue 2
Teaching:
- CSUSB Teaching Resource Center
- Copyrighted Material on Reserve on the WWW
- WebCT: WWW Tools for Teachers
- Repository of CompSci Lab Materials
- CSAB Web page for accreditation.
Local Places of Interest
- My Pages
  1. How about a Cyber Fortune Cookie?
  2. Some Old Announced WWW Pages
  4. My FreeWWWay Entrance
  6. Software Engineering WWW Pages
  7. Doc Dick's Docs: FAQs and other info by FTP/WWW
- Other People's Pages
  1. A Graphic Tour of the Computer Science Laboratories.
  2. Our UNIX WWW server
  3. The San Bernardino Commercial Server
  4. The County of San Bernardino (museum?)

Music

I enjoy most classical music with a strong liking for Early and Baroque periods. See my Unofficial Inland Empire Symphony Orchestra Page.
Other local musical resources:
Home of the Music Dept .
Redlands Symphony Orchestra
I enjoy folk music, jazz, and the blues but dislike country and western. I haven't made room New Wave and Ambient sounds yet. See Echoes
I try to play strange versions of pop and folk music of the 60's and 70's on electronic keyboards and acoustic guitar. It is probably best that I don't put any audio files of my playing here.
Also see Music on the InfoBahn

British Beer

Once it was hard to find any tasty beer in San Bernardino, but then I found a few places with Ruddles(now, no longer) and Guinness. In the last year however the supermarkets have started to stock Bass, Fullers, Henley Ales, Sam Smith's, NewCastle,... .
Pointers:
A relevant newsgroup and some clippings( en francais ).
Robert & Eric's Beerpage
DeeCee's Beer Page
The British Real Ale Database
The Real Beer Page
More when I have time...

Reading

We've run out of space so I will not buy another book unless I sell one first.

I've read and watched a lot of SF (Speculative Fiction) and other Mythology. Pointers:
- Encyclopedia of Mythology
- Basement Full of Books: SF Authors with books for sale.
- Roger Zelazny and here,
- Dune,
- Blade Runner, and
- The Prisoner(TV Series): See Matthew Crowder's Pages on AOL(25 Dec 1995) and the FAQ.
- Also see some general SF FAQ: Written SF .
- SF Resource Guide at Rutgers.
- FTP archives of SF Lovers at Rutgers.
Also I like Mysteries: Hot: Tony Hillerman, Ellis Peters,
Classics: Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Raymond Chandler, Elery Queen, . . . .
Mysterious Pointers:
- ClueLass
and Spy Stories: John Le Carre, Ian Flemming, The Prisoner(QV),...
For some odd reason I've been reading about Ancient Rome and history recently.