Information

Ryan Stansifer
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Florida Institute of Technology
150 West University Boulevard
Melbourne, Florida 32901-6975

e-mail: ryan@cs.fit.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.fit.edu/~ryan/
Office: 234 Crawford Science Building
Phone: (407) 674-7156
Fax: (407) 676-0883

Spring 1999 Schedule including office hours.

Students are welcome to send e-mail to me with questions or problems. Former students are encouraged to send e-mail to me, and let me know what they are doing.


Professional interests

The areas of Computer Science I'm most interested in are the following:

more specifically:

Classes

This summer I will be summer faculty fellow at NASA/KSC. Next fall I am teaching CSE 3001: Programming Languages, CSE 3002/5251: Compiler Design, CSE 4401: Computer Practicum, and CSE 5250: Programming Languages

This spring I am teaching CSE 1001: Fundamentals of Software Development I, CSE 4401: Computer Practicum, CSE 4510: Special Topics -- Java, and CSE 3001/CSE 5040: Programming Languages,

Last fall I taught CSE 1001: Fundamentals of Software Development I, CSE 3001/CSE 5040: Programming Languages, CSE 4401: Computer Practicum, and CSE 6000: Functional Programming.

Activities

Research

Sundry papers of mine in gzipped, PostScript format:

Stansifer, Ryan. The study of programming languages. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995.

Miscellaneous

In fact, I do not think that the search for high-level programming languages that are more and more satisfactory from a logical point of view can stop short of anything but a language in which (constructive) mathematics can be adequately expressed.

Per Martin-Löf

Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica, volume 3, second edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1927, page 91.

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege, Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, volume 2, H. Pohle, Jena, 1903, end of section 143 "Aufbau," page 178.

If you use the Web browser "chimera" you may be interested in the origin of the imaginary being called the Chimera as explained by Jorge Luis Borges.

The novel The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco ends with the phrase: "stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus." Eco explains this himself in a postscript.

My favorite city is Munich, Germany.

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Ryan Stansifer <ryan@cs.fit.edu>
Last modified: Fri May 7 09:45:54 EDT 1999