Following are short descriptions in English of courses that I teach or have taught, and link to web pages of current courses.
Annotated publication list (with links to
some on-line available papers).
Martin Tompa's famous article Figures of Merit, a (tongue in cheek)
look at the
ramifications of alphabetising authors' names, as is standard
in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Ian Parberry's referee's guide for theoretical computer science
Advice for session chairs in conferences
Integrity under attack:
the state of scholarly publishing
is an important article by Douglas N. Arnold, SIAM preseident, on the damages caused by
article-counting and citation-counting (combined with the flaws of human nature, in particular greed).
The
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
SCIGEN: An Automatic
Generator of Conference Papers
Computer-Scientific humour,
at least some of which is worth the reading
Maintenant que le génome est á peu près décrypté, on
découvre avec étonnement que les hommes ont pratiquement le
même génome que les vers de terre et les vers de terre sont
vexés.
Boris Cyrulnik, l'Encyclopédie de la
création.
Support Material:
Here is an errata list for the
first printing (2002).
The preface and full contents pages are here.
A Windows-based interactive environment for experimenting with the WHILE
language, a very simple programming language used for teaching theoretical
concepts (inherited from
Neil Jones's
book on Computability and Complexity). This package will help students
to absorb concepts of programming-language theory that we teach using this
language as a vehicle.
Research
Favourite topics:
Computer-Science Links
(my contribution to PageRank)
Beyond Computer Science
Here are links to two groups that stand for important causes:
Monthly Quote
Mailing address
Prof. Amir M. Ben-Amram
School of Computer Science
The Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo
2 Rabenu Yeruham Str.
68182 Tel Aviv
Israel
fax: +972-3-6803342