Mike's World


This is a simple home page to give links to various things I'm (mike slattery) interested in at the moment. Here's a photo of me.

Some day this may look more official, but in the meantime I guess I should at least mention that I'm an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin U.S.A.

This link to MathSciNet is just here for my own use. It won't work from unauthorized sites.

Classes

For Fall 2008 I'll be teaching Calculus 1 and MATH135, Foundations of Geometry. I'll also be coaching the Putnam Problem Solving team.

In Spring 2007 I taught COSC 174, Programming Computer Games and MATH 215, Advanced Linear Algebra.

Here's a list of previous courses taught.

Programming Computer Games

Since my presentation at SIGCSE 2005, people have been looking for information about my games class.

How to HTML

I gave a talk to the Marquette Webmasters' Guild on how to setup and maintain a Simple Web Site.

Second Magma Conference on Computational Algebra

Here's the web site for the Magma Conference on Computational Algebra which was held here at Marquette from May 12-16, 1996. This web site serves as an electronic, pictoral supplement to the conference report for the funding agencies. More importantly, it gives anyone who missed the conference a chance to see what went on.

ArtsWeb!

I created an art/architecture site called ArtsWeb for a special colloquium that we had on the architecture and music of Bruce Goff. As luck would have it, the system was down that afternoon, but here's the site for anyone who's interested.

TechnoFest

The Discovery World TechnoFest 1996 is over, but, here's the TechnoFest Home Page.

Miscellany

The Friends of Kebyar is an interesting group of architects many of whom are related in some way to Bruce Goff and his work. The book Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler is a thoughtful look at the inevitable consequences of our developing technology (esp. in nanotechnology and artificial intelligence). It's particularly interesting to read his description of the World Wide Web, many years before it existed. Drexler's current work and thoughts can be found at the Foresight Institute website.

The multimedia aspect of the Web lets a lot of individuality and beauty come through. A nice example of this is the "illuminated manuscript" website of Christ in the Desert.

Now the AMS has some neat stuff. Here is their Web page .

Visit San Francisco's Exploratium through their website ExploraNet.

Folkbook is a great collection of folk music stuff.

Here are some of the first Java applets I ever wrote.

Here's a silly calculator that I built as a joke for a friend. It is written in JavaScript.


This site created and maintained by Dr. Michael C. Slattery of Marquette University.
You can contact me at mikes@mscs.mu.edu.