Greetings! In the spirit of my friend Robert Duvall of Duke University I want to make sure you are in the right place. "Mike Scott" is a very common name. I am not the lead singer of the Waterboys,  nor am I the former major league pitcher. I am not that other computer scientist. And I am not the fictional character from the television show The Office. I am a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin in the Computer Science Department. 

I was raised in St. Charles, Missouri.  I was an undergraduate at Stanford University receiving a B.S. in Industrial Engineering.  I later attended Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute and received a M.S. in Computer Science.  I love to cycle, although I have been known to pull a Wilson.

Curriculum Vitae

My office is T. S. Painter Hall 5.68.   Click for a map to T. S. Painter Hall

How to contact me:

Email:              scottm@cs.utexas.edu
Office phone:   (512) 471-9785 (email is preferred)

Office Hours for Fall 2008 - Mondays and Wednesday, 3 pm - 4:30, Fridays, 8:30 am - 9:45, 5th floor Painter Microlab

Fall 2008 classes:

• CS305j, Introduction to Computation
• CS307, Foundations of Computer Science

Links:

• Presentations and resources for high school computer science teachers
• Texas UIL Computer Science Information
• First Bytes Programming Labs

Various quotes on life and a few on computer science. Many of them are from Garrison Keillor of A Prairie Home Companion who, in the words of my friend Tim Hullar, "Speaks to my condition."