Charles Eric LaForest, PhD Student
	Why I want to understand computers from the silicon up to the user interface. I want to make better and beautiful machines, like starships and samurai, not Buicks and bureaucracies. I want to make it possible again for two hairy dropouts named "Steve" to homebrew something insanely great in their garage. More pragmatically put: I want to be a toolsmith for scientists in non-computing disciplines. Whence 1995 - 1999: Diploma in Computer Engineering Technology, Algonquin College, Ottawa 2004 - 2007: Bachelor of Independent Studies, University of Waterloo Advisor: Chrysanne DiMarco (UW) Thesis Supervisors: Greg Steffan (UoT) and Andrew Morton (UW/Guelph) Thesis: Second Generation Stack Computer Architecture 2007 - 2009: Master of Applied Science (ECE), University of Toronto Advisor: Greg Steffan 2009 - now: Philosophić Doctor (ECE), University of Toronto Advisor: still Greg Steffan What Computer Architecture Currently managing the Compiler and Architecture Reading Group. Asynchronous Circuits Higher-Order Functions (Runtime Code Generation) Shared-Nothing Message-Passing Concurrency (à la Erlang) Writing None yet! (Working on it...) Ways ECE1747 - Parallel Programming ECE1755 - Parallel Computer Architecture CSC2227 - Topics in the Design and Implementation of Operating Systems ECE1754 - Parallelizing Compilers ECE540 - Optimizing Compilers ECE1764 - Algorithms and Data Structures ECE1636 - Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems CSC2232 - Topics in System Performance and Reliability Work TA: ECE1755 - Parallel Computer Architecture TA: ECE540 - Optimizing Compilers TA: APS111 - Engineering Strategies and Practice

Charles Eric LaForest, PhD Student

Why

I want to understand computers from the silicon up to the user interface. I want to make better and beautiful machines, like starships and samurai, not Buicks and bureaucracies. I want to make it possible again for two hairy dropouts named "Steve" to homebrew something insanely great in their garage.

More pragmatically put: I want to be a toolsmith for scientists in non-computing disciplines.

Whence

1995 - 1999:
Diploma in Computer Engineering Technology, Algonquin College, Ottawa
2004 - 2007:
Bachelor of Independent Studies, University of Waterloo
Advisor: Chrysanne DiMarco (UW)
Thesis Supervisors: Greg Steffan (UoT) and Andrew Morton (UW/Guelph)
Thesis: Second Generation Stack Computer Architecture
2007 - 2009:
Master of Applied Science (ECE), University of Toronto
Advisor: Greg Steffan
2009 - now:
Philosophić Doctor (ECE), University of Toronto
Advisor: still Greg Steffan

What

Computer Architecture
- Currently managing the Compiler and Architecture Reading Group.
Asynchronous Circuits
Higher-Order Functions (Runtime Code Generation)
Shared-Nothing Message-Passing Concurrency (à la Erlang)

Writing

None yet! (Working on it...)

Ways

ECE1747 - Parallel Programming
ECE1755 - Parallel Computer Architecture
CSC2227 - Topics in the Design and Implementation of Operating Systems
ECE1754 - Parallelizing Compilers
ECE540 - Optimizing Compilers
ECE1764 - Algorithms and Data Structures
ECE1636 - Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems
CSC2232 - Topics in System Performance and Reliability

Work

TA: ECE1755 - Parallel Computer Architecture
TA: ECE540 - Optimizing Compilers
TA: APS111 - Engineering Strategies and Practice