Marge Coahran

Instructor
Department of Computer Science
Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa 50112-1690
USA

Office: Science 3827
Email: coahranm{at}cs.grinnell.edu
Phone: (641) 269-3127

Office hours:

  • Mon-Fri: 2:15-4:15 pm
  • or by appointment
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Teaching: Current (Spring 2008):
CSC105: The Digital Age
CSC201: Memory Management, Data Representation, and Formal Methods

Past:
Department of Computer Science, Grinnell College
CSC105: An Algorithmic and Social Overview of Computer Science (Spring 2007)
CSC152: Fundamentals of Computer Science II (Fall 2006, Spring 2007)
CSC201: Memory Management, Data Representation, and Formal Methods (Spring 2007)
CSC211: Computer Organization and Architecture (Fall 2007)
CSC301: Algorithms (Fall 2006, Fall 2007)

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
CSC180: Introduction to Computer Programming, Fall 2005
CSC180: Introduction to Computer Programming, Fall 2004
Posters: Coahran, M., and C. Manders, "Hands-on laboratory projects for Computer Organization courses", ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (March 2008).
Publications: Computer-Assisted Bargello Quilt Design, M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, September, 2005. Supervised by Eugene Fiume.

Coahran, M., and E. Fiume, "Sketch-based design for Bargello quilts", Eurographics Symposium Proceedings: Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (Sept. 2005), Takeo Igarashi, Joaquim Jorge (Eds.), 165-174.

Coahran, M., and Colbourn, C.J., "Maximum and average access cost in double erasure RAID disk arrays", Proc. 35th Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing (April 2004), Congressus Numerantium, 167, 209-219.
Education: M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2005
B.S. Physics, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 1987
Last modified: Mon Mar 3 20:28 CDT 2008