Biography

Thomas  Kelliher
Department: Mathematics and Computer Science
Title: Associate Professor
Degree: B.E.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D. in Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University
Office: Hoffberger 140
Phone: 410-337-6189
Email: kelliher@bluebird.goucher.edu
Website: http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~kelliher/

Research Interests:

For as long as I can remember, I've enjoyed taking things apart, studying how they worked, and putting them back together again. Fortunately, I'm pretty good at the latter! I enjoy Computer Science because it gives me the opportunity to take problems apart and solve them by applying the techniques of our discipline in novel ways. I use the same techniques in my teaching - breaking problems into pieces so that students may see how everything fits together. Along the way, I've helped to design and build two mainframes and three special-purpose supercomputers. Recent research interests include affordable tera-op computing and applications, new techniques for increasing the instruction throughput in multimedia and general purpose processors, and the World Wide Web as a communication medium.