I only have my fond memories of my second and first female computer science mentor namely Professor and Chair of the LaGrange College Computer Science Department Dr. Fay Adcock Riddle. She will always be the physically inaccessible to me Amazonian beauty that she was when I first met her in the early 1980s. The fact that she had a brilliant, loving, and successful husband turned off my libido with respect to her immediately. I was a graduate student at Georgia Tech at that time (1980 – 1983) and I would come home to do all my computer related work in BASIC or FORTRAN IV on my old and dear computer friend the college’s Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I later found out the Dr. Riddle had been a store and advertising model for Rich’s Department Store in Atlanta, Georgia. She was just drop dead gorgeous. Dr. Riddle was the only professor that stood by me academically when I went berserk in the Fall Quarter of 1986. I made 3 F’s and 1 C that quarter. I stopped going to class a few weeks before the end of the quarter and did not take the finals. The C was in Professor Riddle’s Numerical Methods CSC 410. I will say a lot more about FAR as soon as my tears dry.
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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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Numerical Explorations 