Mike Scott's Home Page

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 this computer scientist. And I am not the fictional character from the television show The Office. I am a senior 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.  Before becoming a full time teacher I spent some time doing something completely different.

My office is Gates 6.304 in the north tower, Dell Computer Science Hall

How to contact me:

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

Office Hours for Summer 2013 - MW 4  pm - 5:30  pm and F 11:30 am - 1:30 pm. If you cannot make these hours email me to request an appointment.

Summer  2013 class:

• CS314 - Data Structures

Interests:

• Computer Science Education
• UIL Computer Science
• CSTA
• First Bytes Camp
• First Bytes for Teachers / CS4HS Workshop 2008, 2009, 2010
• Scratch Programming - Girl Scouts Workshop
• Presentations and resources for high school computer science teachers

Links:

• First Bytes Programming Lab - LabVIEW
• Crypto Resources

Extended CV

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."