Ray S. Babcock

Personal Information

Ray S. Babcock

EMAIL: babcock@cs.montana.edu 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Software for INEEL (MISR, MOCUP) Paper (unpublished) “The SB Circle

Algorithm” with J. Denbigh Starkey Book (unpublished) “PEXLIB By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)