Douglas W. Jones Associate Professor Emeritus THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Department of Computer Science Retired, 2021 PhD, University of Illinois, 1980 MS, University of Illinois, 1976 BS, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1973

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Doug Jones's Index

Courses

Operating Systems and Security

• CS:4980:0004 Electronic Voting, Spring 2020
• CS:3620 Operating Systems, Spring 2018
• 22C:169 Computer Security , Spring 2011
• 22C:50 Introduction to System Software, Summer 2004
• 22C:216 Seminar on Operating Systems fall 1996, focusing on real-time Systems, with Amulet.
• 22C:294-2 Operating Systems Design Seminar (AcadOS), Spring 2002

Computer Architecture

• CS:2630 Computer Organization, Spring 2024
• CS:4980:4 Computer History/Retrocomputing, Fall 2015
• 22C:122 High Performance Computer Architecture, Spring 2004

Programming Languages

• CS:2820 Object Oriented Software Development, Spring 2021
• CS:4980:1 Compiler Construction, Fall 2018

Research Areas

• Computers in Voting and Elections (including ACCURATE)

• Stepping Motors

• Raspberry Pi

• Arithmetic Tutorials

• Simulation and pending-event-set algorithms

• Compression and encryption algorithms

• Assemblers and linkers

• Ternary Logic and arithmetic (the Ternary Manifesto)

• The Iowa Logic Specification Language

Historical Computer Technology

• DEC PDP-8

• The Friden Flexowriter

• CDC 160

• IBM 701

• An Early Local Area Network 1973-1974

• Hewlett Packard Calculators and Computers

• Modcomp minicomputers

• PLATO

• Core memory

• Punched Cards

Other

• Making Stuff — Tools, Machining, Fixing, Wood, Paper

• the flood of 2008

• Guide to Natural Areas around Iowa City

• A Trip on the Union Pacific

• Targeted political protest on the web

• Congregation Agudas Achim

• Erdös number = 3; Bacon Number = 3; H-index = 17

• An ISFDB entry

• An IMDB entry

The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of Douglas W. Jones. It goes without saying that this well-reasoned and insightful material has not been approved by the Department of Computer Science, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The University of Iowa, or the State of Iowa.

Last Modified: Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 20:40:09 CDT