WR Franklin, Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Dept.,
6026 JEC,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
110 Eighth St,
Troy NY, 12180
USA

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phone: +1.518.276.6077 (let it ring many times)
fax: +1.518.276.6261
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Brief Bio
Long resume
my delicious list

ECSE-4750 Computer Graphics Fall 2008
ECSE-6800 Advanced Computer Graphics Spring 2008
Other courses, advice to students and applicants, teaching philosophy
Famous RPI graphics-related grads

Research interests:    GeoStar   ·   Computational Geometry   ·   Details, incl strategy · computational cartography · computational geometry · other topics · proposal writing notes · misc notes · former masters (61) and doctoral (11) students · new topics.

Misc (things that don't fit anywhere else): textbook selection criteria   ·   Talk Presentation Slide Tools   ·   Usage notes on assorted SW   ·   obligatory quotes   ·   my old non-wiki home page   ·   Hearing Loss Association of America - Albany Chapter   ·   poster on talking to the hard of hearing   ·   RPI Women's Club   ·   Janet Franklin   ·   History

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  1. The Fall Workshop in Computational Geometry 2008 (FWCG2008) will be held at RPI on Fri Oct 31 and Sat Nov 1, 2008. The local arrangements chair is Barb Cutler. More details later. (6/9/2008)
  2. Updated resume-franklin.pdf with links to most papers and some talks. (5/5/2008)
  3. Update home page; new pages: GeoStar, ComputationalGeometry. (4/26/2008)
  4. Updated Proposal Writers Cheat Sheet. (1/9/2008)
  5. My letter to the Albany NY Times Union on state support of private higher education, (12/28/2007)
  6. reorganized home page, (12/13/2007)
  7. NSF And DARPA - talk at RPI, (12/10/2007)
  8. Misc points for my advisees (started 3/13/2007)

HW I have used (at least a little): DEC PDP 1, 8, 10, 11, Vax 11/780; IBM 1620, 7094, 360, 370, 5100; Prime; Lisp Machine; Motorola 6811, 68000, 68010, 68020; Sequent Balance; CM-2; Intel 8051, 8086, Pentium, Xeon; Sun Sparc; AMD Opteron.

Wordlengths: 8, 12, 16, 32, 36 (containing 5 7-bit chars plus 1 spare bit)

How to program a low-level machine:

  1. Toggle in a bootstrap loader on the front panel.
  2. Read in a paper tape with a text editor.
  3. Read in a paper tape with your program, written in assembly.
  4. Use TECO to edit your program on the teletypewriter.
  5. Punch out a paper tape with the new version of your program.
  6. Read in a paper tape with the assembler.
  7. Read in the paper tape with your program.
  8. Punch out your assembled program.
  9. Read in your assembled program.
  10. Run it.
  11. Correct small errors by toggling on the front panel new values for certain words in core.
  12. For big errors, go back to step 2.