From my Intellectual Ivory Tower to the Perdition of the Unemployed by James Pate Williams, Jr. BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

I stepped out of my Ivory Tower into the world of the disenfranchised, downtrodden, and chronically poor on Valentine’s Day, Friday February 14, 2015. My menace to males’ girlfriend and myself went through my small remaining inheritance of approximately $80,000 in AFLAC stock in 2012 and 2013. I had a small income of around $16,000 a year beginning in September 2011 as an adjunct instructor in Information and Computer Technology at West Georgia Technical College mainly the LaGrange, Troup County, campus. Now due to my abnormal brain chemistry I am one of the fortunate sometimes insane members of our society to draw a “crazy check” (Social Security Supplemental Income) of $783 USD per month. I don’t see how I am supposed to live on that small federal stipend. I can’t get back on the Housing Voucher Program (formerly known as Section 8) that the Georgia Department of Community Affairs administers for the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Now I must pay all the $550 per month for my one-bedroom studio apartment. I also am not on Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP = Food Stamps) which is usually about $192 USD for a month. Ageism, etc. have gotten me into the vice grip of the chronically underemployed and unemployed.

Thanks,

James Pate Williams, Jr.

Bachelor of Arts Chemistry LaGrange College 1979

Bachelor of Science Computer Science LaGrange College 1994

Master of Software Engineering Auburn University 2000

Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science Auburn University 2005

Gratis Open Source Computer Software Developer Since Summer 1978

1980 – 1983 Graduate Work in Chemistry and Mathematics at Georgia Tech

A Current Website I developed for my friends Wesley “Wes” and Missy Cochran:

http://thecochrancollection.com/Home

 

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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