Mike Laskin's Academic Pursuits @Penn

An overview of my coursework at Penn is well layed-out in my CPG (Course Planning Guide).

Most of the web pages created for classes at Penn are linked from here.

Classes I have taken:

Writing About The Novel: American Women Novelists of the Twentieth Century (English 005) taught by Liza Yukins.
I maintain a set of web pages for the class.
Senior Design Project (CSE 401) taught by Ruzena Bajcsy
Cognitive Psychology (Psychology 151) taught by John Trueswell.
Investment Management (Finance 205) taught by Christopher Geczy

Ordinary Differential Equations (Mathematics 420) taught by Frauke Bleher
Advanced Applied Math (Mathematics 474) taught by Fan Chung. I documented my project status for you. *Check out the cool Java applet*.
Compilers and Interpreters (CSE 341) taught by Richard (Lou) Paul. My compiler (MVCC) beats GCC, and Dr. Paul's in performance benchmarks. Take a look at it. I will probably be adding more to it in the future.
EROS Independent research (CSE 099) taught by Jonathan Smith, advised by Jonathan Shapiro. I was researching implementing UNIX-like commands on EROS.
Europe in a Wider World (History 2) taught by Lynn Hunt

Computer Operating Systems (CSE 380) taught by Insup Lee. We maintained a web page for our TOYX Project
Database and Information Systems (CIS 550) taught by Susan Davidson
Software Engineering (CSE 350) taught by Jonathan Smith. Our project descriptions and code is on-line.
Speculative Markets (Finance 206) taught by Martin Cherkes
Introduction to Law and Legal Process (Legal Studies 101) taught by Nick Constan

Last Modified: Sunday, 10-Jan-1999 23:51:28 PST