Harry Plantinga

Professor
Department of Computer Science
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Office: 299 North Hall
Email:
Phone: x66860

Office hours Fall 2004:

Tuesday, 2:30-3:20
Wednesday, 2:30-3:20
Thursday, 2:30-3:20

or by appointment.

Courses Taught:

I frequently teach the following courses:

Introduction to Computer Science
Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming
Computer Graphics
Database Management Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Social and Ethical Issues

Research Interests:

Computer graphics, multimedia, algorithms, digital libraries

Current Research Area:

Digital libraries and the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. I'm designing the Theological Markup Language for use in the CCEL. This language will represent the semantic information needed for a electronic publication of theological texts and a richly-integrated digital library.

A few papers are available on-line.

We recently took a very interesting trip to Brazil to visit my sister and brother-in-law, who are with Wycliffe there. My trip photos are on line.

A spiritual directory once told Evelyn Underhill that there is more to life than prayer. One should take up a hobby. Gardening? Golf? Been done. How about hovercraft?