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Welcome to the Home Page of

Dr. William J. Pervin

Head, Computer Engineering Program (ret.)
Master, Engineering School (ret.)
Head, Computer Science Department (ret.)

Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science, and Mathematics
University of Texas at Dallas

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Courses

See the following for the home page of my Fall 2008 class:

EE 2300: Linear Algebra for Engineers

Click here for information about earlier classes.

During the 2003-2004 Academic Year I was on Special Faculty Development Assignment (Sabbatical). I did research on Digital Signal Processing software and hardware. In addition, I wrote the below mentioned book on MIPS assembler.

The source code for my book "A Programmer's Guide to Assembler" published by McGraw-Hill Custom Publishing, 2005 (ISBN = 0-07-353923-6) is available as a "zipped" file by clicking here.

There is a new (January 2005) version (7.2) of PCSPIM. If your computer does not have MFC71.DLL and/or MSVCR71.DLL installed, download MFC71.DLL and/or MSVCR71.DLL and place them in the directory /WINDOWS/SYSTEM32.

Errata: On page 35 there are nine font substitutions for the "empty set" symbol. On pages 46 and 87 there are font substututions for the "right arrow" symbol. These did not appear incorrectly in the proofs but happened in final printing.

Another example of recursion beyond what is in the text is available with code for the classical QuickSort.s program.

Background

I'm a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). For information on what I've been up to, you may want to take a look at my vita.

Research

I've worked in a wide variety of research areas. For more detailed information, you may want to glance at my list of publications.

Most recently I have written a book titled ``A Programmer's Guide to Assembler'' published by McGraw-Hill Custom Publishing, 2005 (ISBN 0-07-353923-6). Former work includes material for a Web-Based Course in Symbolic Logic being supported by the University of Texas System as part of the Multimedia Educational Information Delivery initiative. A draft preliminary version of the "Sophocles User's Guide" is available here.

Recently, my main interest has been in the development of Digital Signal Processing courses for Computer Science Students. In addition, I hope to develop an advanced assembly language course based on a DSP chip. Refer to DSP for CS Students.

Teaching

For some fifty-five years, teaching has been an extremely important and satisfying part of my career. I divide my teaching effort between individual instruction (such as working with Ph.D. students) and teaching courses. I encourage students to come talk with me in my office. Please avoid the telephone since I usually do not get such messages.

Regular office hours during Fall 2008 will be TR 10:00am-11:00am in ECSN4.626.
Additional hours are possible by appointment.
No regular office hours during Summer 2008.

UTD Software

UTD has available quite a lot of software for students. For example, the Adobe Acrobat reader which is needed for many courses may be downloaded from http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/local/index.html from a campus computer.

Address information

Please send business-related email to:

pervin@utdallas.edu

Please send snail mail to:

Dr. William J. Pervin
University of Texas at Dallas
Electrical Engineering: Mail Stop EC33
800 West Campbell Rd. Richardson, TX 75080-3021

For Fedex, UPS, and other services that require a street address, please use:

Dr. William J. Pervin
University of Texas at Dallas
Electrical Engineering: Mail Stop EC33
2601 North Floyd Road
Richardson, TX 75080-1407

Phone and FAX

Phone: (972) 883-2719 (NOTE: e-mail is better)
FAX: (972) 883-2710

For the Astronomy Picture Of the Day, go to the site APOD. This site was recommended by Dr. Larry Ammann.

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