NWOACM

Hayes 117, BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio
Speaker: Dr. Pete Sanderson

Dr. Pete Sanderson, professor of computer science at Otterbein College near Columbus, will introduce and demonstrate MARS. This lightweight IDE is written in Java and includes an integrated text editor, assembler, runtime simulator, and runtime debugger. It is being used by a number of colleges and universities in their computer organization courses but through recent enhancements is also useful in other courses.

MARS is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed to support MIPS assembly language programming. MIPS Technologies designs and produces processors that are embedded in millions of electronic consumer devices, for instance 70% of all DVD recorders. MIPS is a Reduced Instruction Set (RISC) architecture and the resulting instruction set simplicity and uniformity make it an ideal assembly language for computer science and engineering students to learn.

Dr. Sanderson is the principle developer of MARS and in addition to the demonstration will discuss a number of design and programming techniques he has applied in its development. He also received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from BGSU in the mid 70s.

Sponsored by BGSU ACM student chapter