Contact Information

Dr. Michael L. Haungs
Computer Science Department
California Polytechnic
State University
1 Grand Ave
San Luis Obispo,
California 93407

Office: 226, Bldg. 14
Phone: (805) 756-5531
FAX: (805) 756-2956
mhaungs@calpoly.edu

Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies

The BA degree program in Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies is jointly offered by the colleges of Liberal Arts and Engineering. This program prepares students for a wide range of innovative careers in emerging professional fields that combine skills and interests in engineering, the arts, technology, and culture, and also prepares them for further study in graduate school. This program is open to all students at Cal Poly.

The curriculum allows Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies students, in collaboration with students from all other Cal Poly majors, to participate in development teams working on national and international technology and cultural projects. To further prepare students for work with diverse teams that include participants from across the globe, the program requires students to spend three to six months studying and/or working abroad.

LAES 301 Introductory Course Open to all Cal Poly Students

We encourage second year students and above, who have an interest in LAES, to try out our LAES 301 project-based introductory class. To register for the Fall 2011 or Spring 2012 course, email laes@calpoly.edu for a permission number. View LAES course descriptions (pdf).

For Students

Interactive Entertainment Technology (IET)

Interactive entertainment application design and implementation requires state-of-the-art knowledge of distributed computing, graphics, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, math, and networks. Additionally, the ability to collaborate with multiple disciplines in content generation is paramount. We aim to provide a focused, interdisciplinary study to facilitate the creation of socially responsible, interactive entertainment technology.

Courses

Here's a list of the current set of IET courses:

CSC 123 (Formerly CSCx171)
CSC 471
CSC 476
CSC 478

Example Projects

Simple Flash Games

Flash Animations

Sound-based Animation

Michael Haungs, Ph.D.

Michael Haungs is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at California Polytechnic State University. He received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley, his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Clemson University, and his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.

Student Research

Please fill out this form if you are interested in doing a Senior Project or Master's Thesis with me in the areas of distributed systems, mobile applications, operating systems, gaming, or CS education.

Selected Publications

Brian A. Malloy, Michael L. Haungs, and Mark Smotherman, ``The Construction of a Family of Simulators for the Intel Architecture with ELF Binary Input,'' Proceedings of the 13th European Simulation Multi-conference, June 1-4, 1999, Warsaw Poland. Pages 77 -- 84.(html)(ps)
Michael Haungs, Phil Sallee, and Matthew Farrens, ``Branch Transition Rate: A New Metric for Improved Branch Classification Analysis,'' Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-6), January 8-12, 2000, Toulouse, France. Pages 241 -- 250.
Earl Barr, Raju Pandey, and Michael Haungs, ``MAGE: A Distributed Programming Model'', International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2001), April 2001.
Michael Haungs, Fritz Barnes, Earl Barr, and Raju Pandey, ``A Fast Connection-Time Redirection Mechanism for Internet Application Scalability'', International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2002), December 18-21 2002, Bangalore, India.
Michael Haungs, Earl Barr, and Raju Pandey, ``Handling Catastrophic Failures in Internet Applications", International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2004), January 26-30 2004, Tokyo, Japan.
Jeff Bergamini and Michael Haungs, ``Geotorrent: Optimizing GIS Web Services for Interactive Educational Use", UCGIS Summer 2006 Assembly, June 28-July 1, 2006, Vancouver, Washington.
Mark Gabel and Michael Haungs, "CAMP: A Common API for Measuring Performance", 21st Large Installation Administration Conference (LISA '07), Nov 11-Nov 16, 2007, Dallas, Texas.
Michael Haungs, John Clements, and David Janzen, "Improving Engineering Education through Creativity, Collaboration, and Context In a First Year Course", American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, June 22-26, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA.

Various Pictures

ACM Food Drive Party 1, ACM Food Drive Party 2, Class Blackmail Picture, Long Boarders

Interesting PIctures appearing in Project Presentations (Spring 2007): 1, 2, 3, and 4

Lecture Notes (Winter 2009): 1, 2