Just a note in response to several requests to say that I am still around, and plan to resume blogging soon. I have been distracted by more pressing concerns, including teaching at the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS), preparing a submission to POPL, visiting the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and trying hard to finish my book (on which I’ve made substantial progress over the summer).
Hey Bob, are you aware that links to your book in progress seem to be spreading around on Twitter?
No, and I’m not sure what that means exactly. Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
I just wanted to say that I’ve been enjoying the blog and I eagerly await more missives as you have the time to post. I also wanted to mention that you taught my CS 212 Data Structures class, and that was one of the highlights of my CS education. Thank you. — Cameron Pope, SCS ’97
Wow, that’s the highest honor a professor can get! I’m glad you found the course useful. Our new 150/210 sequence can be viewed as an amped-up two-semester version of 212, with greater emphasis on parallelism, and a lot more sophisticated data structures and algorithms.