Welcome to the home page of Dr. Michael Robinson.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
     Thomas Jefferson

"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone."
     Bjarne Stroustrup, originator of C++ programming language

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
     Charles Babbage (1791-1871), designer of the first programmable calculating machine and the first general purpose computer

Background and education

This page is continuously being modified. Check back for changes.

Office:

E283B

Office hours:
(Aug. 25 through Dec. 10, holidays excepted)

Wednesday 1:00-3:00 PM
Tuesday, Thursday 1:30-2:30 PM
or by appointment (see me at the end of class for appointments)

Where is the final exam schedule on the university website? Here.

• Computer Engineering 130 (Fall 2008)
• Computer Engineering 152 (Fall 2008)
• Computer Engineering 294 (Fall 2008). Please follow the instructions on the greensheet to join the class Yahoo group. All the materials you need will be available there.
• Senior Projects (Computer Engineering 195)
  

Interesting links:

Someone else's list of best free software

Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2

The Difference Engine in operation

The Difference Engine at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. On view until May 2009.

Computer History Museum Online Babbage Exhibit

Victorian 'supercomputer' is reborn

The life of a programmer: