Welcome to my home page! I'm an associate professor of computer science at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. My teaching interests include programming, computer organization, the theory of computation, parallel computing, data structures and algorithms.
My research interests include computer architecture, compilers, parallel computing and computer science education. My main research project right now is in the area of making parallel computing easier to accomplish.
You can read more about me on my about page.
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Education: | Ph.D. from Florida State University |
| Office Number: | Farmer B47 |
| Telephone: | 540-654-1714 |
| Email: | ifinlay@umw.edu |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 12:00 Office Hours |
9:30 - 11:20 CPSC 305 |
9:00 - 12:00 Office Hours |
9:30 - 11:20 CPSC 305 |
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| 12:30 - 2:20 CPSC 305 |
12:30 - 2:20 CPSC 305 |
I am available other times besides these. If you want to make an appointment, please just email me.
Our school's course listing page leaves a lot to be desired, so I maintain a more usable one at this address: ianfinlayson.net/umw-courses
I also maintain flowcharts showing the prerequisites of our comp. sci. classes in visual form. These are auto-generated with Graphviz:
I have an introductory programming text book in Python. It is called Exploring Computer Science.
My research is mainly in the areas of compilers, computer architecture, programming languages and parallel processing. I am also interested in computationally difficult problems and the theory of computation.
Projects:
Publications:
You can see some of my side projects and random stuff on my blog.
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