Ray S. Babcock
Personal Information
Ray S. Babcock
EMAIL: [email protected] Url:
http://www.cs.montana.edu/~babcock Office: 360 EPS Work Phone: 406-994-4810 Home Phone: 406-586-4160
Claim to fame at MSU:1968
From “The Montanan” 1968 (with some minor corrections)
Radio Station
KATS, located at 590 kilocycles on your dial began broadcasting on October 2nd. Four months later, on January 28, it was joined by KGLT, an FM station located at 90.1 megacycles. The stations are housed in special, sound-proofed, rooms in the basement of the SUB. The facilities involved represent and investment of $38,000 in equipment and building renovation costs. The large dials, called “pots,” regulate the relative volume of microphones, tape decks, and turntables.
KGLT 1968
In case you missed it, me.
My First Computer
Circa 1963-1965 (41 Years Ago!) IBM 1620 Console TTY 80 column cards in/out Line Printer (card input, not online) 1K Memory (Yes, K!) FORTRAN
My First Program
Correlation Coefficient Written in FORTRAN Approx. 2 pages of code Compile Cycle: Approx. 20 minutes Development Time: 2 weeks Debug Time: 2 days IT WORKED!
Programming Languages
FORTRAN: 41 years C: 25 years C++: 13 years Ada: 6 years 32 bit assembler: 6 years Java: 4 years
Other languages I know
LISP APL BASIC Pascal Modula-2 Z-80 assembler
Past Research Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT)
treatment planning software project (now called ARTP Advanced Radiotherapy Treatment Planning)
Software for INEEL (MISR, MOCUP) Paper (unpublished) “The SB Circle
Algorithm” with J. Denbigh Starkey Book (unpublished) “PEXLIB By
Example” with J. Denbigh Starkey Number of papers with graduate
students
Current Research: CAMC
Computer Aided Music Composition
Unfunded Music Composition toolkit Input: Manipulation of 3D graphics Output: Synthesized sounds
Family Wife: Sally Larson, married 38 years
She is a mental health counselor, Life Coach, and Course Leader for Maria Nemeth “Mastering Life’s Energies”
Daughter: Mary E.B. Son: Stephen Ray 1977-1998
Died December 22, 1998 at age 21 from injuries received in a skating accident at Valley Ice Garden
Cat: Fuzzy, unknown breed, 21 years old!
AND, Granddaughter!! Marina Daun, born 1/19/04 Almost 1 year old.
Courses I Teach
CS221 and CS222 (rarely) CS210 (old C++ course) (often) CS201 (new C course) CS351/2 Software Engineering
(always) CS425 Computer Graphics (always) CS430 Image Processing (always)
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