Fall 2005

• CSci 250 Electronic Commerce
  Mon,Wed 14-14:50, Thompson 311
  Tue,Fri 14-14:50, Thompson 120
• CSci 281 Assembly Language and Computer Architecture
  Mon,Tue,Wed,Fri 12-12:50, Thompson 322
• CSci 340 Software Engineering
  Mon,Thur 11-11:50, Thompson 120
  Wed,Fri 11-11:50, Thompson 322
• Students in these classes may make use of this local server.
• Office hours:
  Mon,Tue,Wed,Thur,Fri 10:00-10:50, Thompson 321C
  I should explain that "office hours" only specifies the times that I plan to be in my office. I'm normally in longer than that, and I usually welcome visits any time you see me. You're welcome to stop by any time my door is open to say "I need help with this material" or even just "hi". I may ask you to return later if I cannot be interrupted with what I'm doing at that time.
• Laboratory support: you're also welcome to call or drop in my office on most weekday afternoons to invite me to help you in the Thompson 120 lab
  
• Other times: I also welcome opportunities to meet with students outside the office and laboratory. All I need is an invitation and, schedule permitting, I'll meet with study groups and other student orginizations to talk about Computer Science. One venue is the Take Your Professor to Lunch Program.
• Phone: 253 879 3470
• Email: rbentson@ups.edu
• Calendar

Background

Education

• B.A., Math and Physics, St. Olaf College, 1970
• M.S., Computer Science, Colorado State University, 1982
• Ph.D., Computer Science, Colorado State University, 1994
  Thesis title: The efficient placement and scheduling of tasks in a processor rich environment.

Course material from past classes

• 200309
• 200401
• 200409
• 200501

Research interests

• Amorphous Solid Water Diffusion Modeling

Personal interests and/or past experience

• Electronic voting
• Open source development
• Parallel computing
• Sailing
• playing with computers
• notes on security
• Astronomy at UPS
• Getting to real systems from Microsoft Windows