Welcome to the Home Page of
Dr. William J. Pervin
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Dallas
Head, Computer Engineering Program (ret.)
Master, Engineering School (ret.)
Head, Computer Science Department (ret.)
Director, UT Regional Computer Center (ret.)
Chair, Mathematics Department (ret.)
The time is:
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Here are two old pictures from when I wore glasses and shaved!
For a recent picture see my
vita.
I am now Professor Emeritus of Mathematics,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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.
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.
For a complete ERRATA, click here
Another example of recursion beyond what is
in the text is available with code for
the classical
QuickSort.s
program.
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.
For some fifty-six years,
teaching was an extremely important and
satisfying part of my career.
I divided 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.
I will not, however, be taking on any more Ph.D. students
nor do I have any Research Assistantships available.
Please avoid the telephone since I usually
do not get such messages.
As Professor Emeritus I will neither be
teaching nor having regular office hours.
I will often be in my office in ECSN4.626
but interested students should e-mail me
and make an appointment so as to be sure
I will be there at any particular time.
See the following for the home page of my Spring 2009 class:
EE 3300: "Advanced" Engineering Mathematics
Click here
for information about earlier classes.
UTD Software
UTD has available quite a lot of
software for students. For example,
the Adobe Acrobat reader and other
programs
needed for many courses may be
downloaded from
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/local
from a campus computer.
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
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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