Jerry Breecher

Adjunct Professor

Email: jb at cs dot wpi dot edu ( preferred ) OR breecher at wpi dot edu

Teaching

  • CS 502  Operating Systems
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    Fun Stuff

  • I've recently become interested in a puzzle called "Capsules" and have written code to generate those puzzles. Lots of interesting algorithms and mathematics along the way.
  • Capsule Puzzles
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    Biography

    Long ago, in a distant universe, I had lots of training as a physicist.  While doing physics research, I was bitten by the "software Disease".  It became more and more fun to play with computers - I loved the instant response they gave.  And it was so much fun digging into the innards of what made them work.  Soon after this realization, I left the academic world and have worked for industry for 25+ years.  I discovered that my real passion is a combination of computers and science and I ended up for many years working in Performance Analysis - specifically building models and measuring the behavior of computer systems.  Thus I came back to my physics training, using that model-building and measurement experience in the world of computers.  This work has typically been done in the areas of Operating Systems, Networks, and Computer Architectures.

    I've most recently been in the academic world as a Professor of Computer Science at Clark University. Currently I've been engaged in a combination of free-lancing and consulting in areas of system software.

    Research