P. Oscar Boykin

If you know what’s good for you, you’ve probably already signed up for my queueing theory course. If so, you’ll also want to follow the previous link to see all kinds of information about the course.

I’m trying something new this semester. I’m going to actually try use the wiki as it was intended. There will be a page for each lecture. Students will take turns making notes and posting those as wiki-fied pages. Hopefully this will make it easier for students to follow the course, and generate more valuable content for all.

See you in the classroom!

Starring you!! (pretend there is a little graphic of a finger pointing at the screen in the place of this momentum stopping text).

I extend a very warm welcome back to school to our fine University of Florida students. This semester, some of you will have the dubious honor and privilege to learn Information Theory in a course conducted by myself. This subject is dear to my heart and I find the material to be quite beautiful. I look forward to sharing my enthusiasm and knowledge of the material with you. To put in a vernacular more accessible to today’s youth: I’m totally pumped about this semester!

Please take a look at the website for this Information Theory course. There is also a Google Group for the course. Please join the group and introduce yourself.

See you in the classroom!

Hello All,

Yes: I will be teaching 4834 in the fall.
No: It won’t be C++, it will be in Python
Yes: There is a book: Python Scripting for Computational Science by H.O. Langtangen.

A syllabus will be forthcoming, but the idea of the course is for students to learn common programming tasks for electrical engineers: numerical algorithms, reading and writing binary and text data formats (including XML), concurrent programming, network/sockets programming, GUI programming, web/cgi programming. Examples, homeworks and projects will cover topics relevant to electrical engineers.

If you’re asking “why python”, read this argument for Python as a teaching language. My short answers would be something like: it’s not that different from Matlab, which is popular with engineers, it’s easy to focus on problem solving and not mechanics (compiling and linking for instance), it’s easy to link python to c/c++ code, and lastly, python is just a lot more fun than c++.

I hope it’s a huge class, because it’s going to be incredibly great.

Please see the page on my Wiki: EEL6706 Spring 2007. More information will appear on that page.

Though still hot and humid, the fall semester is upon us. All summer long (or perhaps longer) many of us have dreamed of August 24th; for on that day EEL 6507 begins its semester long journey into the magical world of Queueing Theory and Data Communications.

The excitement is palpable, yet we still have days to wait. In the meanwhile, I hope this electronic world-wide-web site will satisfy you:

EEL 6507: Queueing Theory and Data Communications Website.

There is a basic web page for Fault Tolerant Computer Architecture posted. I am experimenting with using a Wiki. I will encourage students to help me to improve the page.

I am teaching Queueing Theory this semester. There is a (bare bones) website.
The link to it is on the right under “Teaching”. Please sign up for the forum if you are taking this class.