Kevin G. Luikens

Senior Undergraduate Student
and Undergrad Researcher, working with Saumya Debray.

Biography

Kevin Luikens expects to receive a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona at the end of the Fall 2011 semester.

Interests

GPGPU and Massively Parallel Programming,
Computational Linguistics, Text Mining,
Data Liberation and the intersection of Government and Technology.

Teaching

Compilers: Fall 2011
August 24, 2011: first flex tutorial; replicate wc program	wc.l
September 2, 2011: first bison tutorial; build a calculator	parser.y scanner.l
September 30, 2011: error recovery with the html grammar	html_grammar.y
October 7, 2011: introduced simple symbol table to the calculator	calc_symtable.tgz
October 28, 2011: covered translations from source to code gen; brief overview of managing stack	codegen_10_28.s
November 4, 2011: continued covering translations from source to code gen (new: type conversions and accessing array elements). linked MIPS file is generated by a C-- compiler; this implementation uses stack space to manage its temporary variables (not required -- feel free to use global labels).	codegen_11_04.s
November 16, 2011: question & answer discussion instead of lecture. posting `for loop` and `array reference` examples as shown in discussion.	[for.c] [for.s] [passarray.c] [passarray.s]

Research

GPUs + PostgreSQL.

Software Development Club

The club is currently and indefinitely inactive.

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