Jerry Breecher

Adjunct Professor

Email: jb at cs dot wpi dot edu

Teaching

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.

About ten years ago I returned to academia because I wanted to spend more time looking at bigger problems rather than working only on the "problem du jour".  I am now a Professor of Computer Science at Clark University where I teach Systems Courses - Architecture, Networks, Operating Systems, Performance.  Feel free to look at my webpage there   cs.clarku.edu/~jbreecher

Research