Michael P. Conlon

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Office hours:

Note that I do not have regular office hours during exam weeks, Christmas break, spring break, the summer, or other times when classes are not in session. If you need to see me during such times, send me an email to request an appointment. Note, however, that I may not check my email regularly during breaks and vacations. I almost never check voicemail during breaks and vacations.

Why should you come to Slippery Rock University to study computing?

What is the ACM Code of Ethics?

Top ten reasons not to print your project just before class

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Activities

• Author, RockTest, programming contest management software
• Python programming
• Member: Association for Computing Machinery and Association of Information Technology Professionals

Professional Interests

• The SRU Sousa Project, a project to digitize the marches of the March King, John Philip Sousa, with all instrumental parts, in the beautiful LilyPond format.

• Free (Open Source) Software
• The Linux Operating System
The K Desktop Environment
• Programming Competitions
• Author, computer software for elementary and middle school mathematics
• Advocacy for Secondary School Computer Science (or, PowerPoint is not an Academic Subject)
• Various free language processors (compilers, interpreters, integrated development environments) If your school cannot afford enough licenses, and if you are frustrated by the fact that your students are using a different language processor at home than they are at school, these might be for you!

These are things I used to do for a living:

• I tried being an elevator operator, but the job had its ups and downs.
• I was an author for a while, and it was all write.
• I was quite busy as a sanitation worker. Business was always picking up. Our mottos: Always at your disposal! Service with a smell!
• Next, I tried selling brushes, because I wanted to have a Fuller life.
• Later, I got a job as a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the axe.
• I worked for a while with a seismologist, but my position was too shaky.
• Then I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn't suited for it.
• My job in a muffler factory was simply exhausting.
• As an astronomer, I found that things were always looking up.
• I had my life's greatest accomplishment when I installed a local network in Australia: the famous LAN Down Under!
• I tried being a deep-sea fisherman for a while, but that life is a drag.
• I got depressed and wanted to hide from life. I got addicted to doing the Hokey-Pokey. But fortunately, I was eventually able to turn myself around.
• I worked for a while with a dentist who was married to a manicurist. I never could get my work done: they were always fighting tooth and nail.
• I got a good job in a jumper cable factory, but it didn't last. I just couldn't get started.
• Then I got a job in a factory making camoflage clothing, but that didn't work out well, either. Every time I put my work down, I couldn't find it again.
• I made eyeglasses on the Alaskan islands, but people said I was just an optical Aleutian. I quit when I fell into my lense-grinding machine and made a spectacle of myself.
• When I worked in a nuclear power plant, I got atomic ache.
• Then I worked in an upholstery factory. The first day, I fell into the machine, and found myself completely recovered!
• I worked in an orange juice factory for a while, but I got canned. I just couldn't concentrate.
• So, finally, I decided that I needed to forget about the whole thing, so I drank some Milk of Amnesia.

• I was a high-fidelity technician for Pioneer Electronics.
• I was a professional photographer.
• I taught junior high school mathematics, then high school math and computer programming in the East Meadow (NY) public schools.
• I taught as an adjunct instructor at Nassau County Community College.
• I taught computer science at the State University of New York College at Potsdam.

• Amateur Radio

Member, American Radio Relay League, Inc Member, Butler County Amateur Radio Association Call sign: N2EM, Amateur Extra Class  Interests: Morse Code (CW), contests, DX, homebrewing and kit-building, hidden transmitter hunting

• Camping
• Sailing: Certified U.S. Sailing begining sailing instructor
• Astronomy
• Carpentry
• Girl Scout volunteer

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