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	Andrew Thall, Ph.D.
	Asst. Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Alma College 614 W. Superior St., Alma, MI 48801, USA Office: Swanson Academic Center (SAC) 223 Tel: +1-989-463-7177 (New number!!)

News!

Fall 08:

I have joined the computer science faculty at Alma College in Alma, Michigan. Lots of excitement in store!
We will be introducing a Python-based media computation approach in introductory CS, based on the success
of the courses at UM Morris. I will also be involved in developing a major in New Media and in creating
a digital learning commons. In support of this, I attended the wicked cool New Media Consortium conference
(NMC '08) in June at Princeton U. along with a contingent of faculty and staff from Alma.

Fall 07:

I am a visiting faculty member at the University of Minnesota's Morris Campus for the 2007/2008 academic year.
I will be teaching introductory computer science courses using a media-computation framework and methodology,
(see GA Tech's Media Computation Teachers website.) and continuing my research on high-precision computation
on parallel graphics processors.

Research Interests

GPGPU: general purpose programming on graphics hardware computer graphics and visualization, subdivision surfaces and medial modeling 3D medical image analysis numerical and scientific computing realtime rendering; computer art, animation and game design games, puzzles and media computation for introductory computer science education

Email:

(If a webcrawler can figure this out, I'll admit to being impressed.)

Recent Work

Coming soon (August 2007):

GPGPU tutorial and downloads
(for now, see Dominik Goeddeke's excellent tutorial and the gpgpu.org website)
df64 and qf128 extended-precision GPU libraries for Cg
Extended-precision FFT code for GPGPU

ACM SIGGRAPH 06 Poster -- A. Thall

ACM SIGGRAPH 04 Poster -- Zumpella and Thall

Downloadable (free stuff)

Workshop: 3D Modeling, Animation, and Game Design

Subjects Taught

Freshman Seminar: The Computer as a Mirror of the World
Introduction to Computer Science I/II
Theory of Computation and Formal Languages
Analysis of Algorithms
Programming Language Concepts
Introduction to Compiler Design
Modern Computer Graphics
Junior Seminar: How to Conduct Computer Science Research
Senior Comprehensive Project

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." -- Plutarch

Miscellaneous

M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 2004, Dept. of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

MIDAG website (Medical Image Display & Analysis Group, my research group at UNC-Chapel Hill)
Some possibly useful cullings from my WWW bookmark file

"You are a lost generation." --Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway, in conversation
"You have confused the true and the real." --George Stanley to Samuel Delany, in conversation
"Those were good beers. Manly beers." --The Tick to Arthur, in conversation

Last revision: August 11, 2007
Last content review: August 2007

War without end.

The new website of Andrew Thall. (Not the physics-and-chess-and-rare-coins-in-Texas Andrew Thall, but the guitar-and-bagpipes-and-computer-science Andrew Thall.)