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Jim McArdle: CS graduate student at Texas State University (2025-present)
About Me
I am a retired software engineer with nearly 50 years of experience developing computational tools to solve complex scientific and business problems.
I am driven by a curiosity about the mathematical structures of the world and have a desire to use computational methods to explore them.
My email is: jedishrfu (at) txstate.edu
Research Interests
Comp Sci: Algorithms, Computational Modeling, Quantum Computing, Robotics, and Board Games (Go, Othello, Chess, Viking Chess, Chinese Chess, Pentominoes, Onitama)
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Physics: Cosmology, Astrophysics, General and Special Relativity, Quantum, EM, and Classical Physics.
Mathematics: Geometric Calculus, Collatz conjecture, Recaman numbers, Sudoku generation, I-Ching King Wen Hexagram ordering mystery (most unsorted sequence), perfect Euler cubes, and discovering Wilson primes.
Education
- Computational Physics 2008: Texas State, San Marcos, TX
- MS Comp Sci 1981: Union College - Schenectady, NY
- Graduate studies in Physics 1977-1978: RPI - Troy, NY
- BS Physics 1974: Union College - Schenectady, NY
Teaching
- 2010-2020: Mentored High School and UT Honors Scholars at ARL:UT, doing acoustics, VR, and machine learning projects in Java, Matlab, and C.
- 2010-2020: ARL:UT summer seminars on how to become an inventor, use Processing for prototyping, and how to build lean Alpine-based Docker images, plus the gotchas you may encounter.
- 1985-1995: Taught IBM Austin employees C/C++ programming and the subtleties of I18n program features.