EMail: richards at cs dot umass dot edu
Phone: (413) 545-5229
Office: 320A
LinkedIn: tim richards @ linkedin

Office Hours: W 11am-12am, Th 1pm-2pm

I accepted a position in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For the past two years I was a visiting assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Trinity College in Hartford, CT spending much of my time teaching many of their systems courses. At the same time, I maintained my research relationship with the architecture and language implementation laboratory during this time. An opportunity to teach some cool classes at UMass CS and be involved in some interesting research prompted my move.

I will be teaching two courses next semester: CMPSCI 230 Computer Systems Principles and CMPSCI 445 Information Systems. My official start date is September 1, but I am hoping to have an office before that time. I can be contacted by email until that time.

My proposal, Accelerating JavaScript with Safety and Reliability, submitted to the Student Research Program at Trinity College was accepted.  This award will be used to fund a single undergraduate student from June 2011 – July 2011 to do research in compilers and code generation related to the JavaScript programming language in V8, SpiderMonkey, and WebKit.

My proposal involving the exploration of tablet technology for enhancing/facilitating course presentation of linked content and the development of a new Computer Science course was approved. The Information Technology in Education Committee (ITEC) at Trinity College provided the iPad for participating in this pilot study to explore educational applications of tablet technology. (Trinity College)