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William Kocay's Home Page

Last update=26 Feb, 2010

"Courage is better than a faint heart for any man who sticks his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago."
Norse saying, quoted from The Norse Myths -- Gods of the Vikings, by Kevin Crossley-Holland.

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William Kocay is a member of St. Paul's College at the University of Manitoba, and a member of the Computer Science Department.

  • Mailing address:
    William Kocay
    Computer Science Department
    University of Manitoba
    Winnipeg, Manitoba
    CANADA, R3T 2N2
     
    or
     
    St. Paul's College
    University of Manitoba
    Winnipeg, Manitoba
    CANADA, R3T 2N2

  • e-mail:
    bkocay at cc.umanitoba.ca
    or
    bkocay at cs.umanitoba.ca

  • telephone:
    (204) 474-6792

  • Bill Kocay is the author of Groups & Graphs, a software package for graphs, digraphs, combinatorial designs, projective configurations, polyhedra, graph embeddings in the torus and projective plane, and automorphism groups. It also constructs fractals. Click for information on downloading Groups & Graphs.

  • Bill Kocay is a co-author, with Don Kreher, of the textbook Graphs, Algorithms, and Optimization, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2005. It is a suitable text for a course at the second, third, or fourth year level in graph theory, graph algorithms, or linear optimization. It is available from the publisher, or from amazon.com and other retailers.

  • Bill Kocay is a former Managing Editor (from Jan 1988 to May 1997) of Ars Combinatoria, a Canadian journal of combinatorial mathematics. Click for information on submitting papers to Ars Combinatoria and for tables of contents of recent volumes.

  • Bill Kocay is a founding fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Application.

  • Bill Kocay is a founding member of the Manitoba Be Users Group.

  • Research interests include algorithms for graphs, the development of mathematical software, the graph reconstruction problem, the graph isomorphism problem, projective geometry, hamiltonian cycles, planarity, graph embedding algorithms, graphs on surfaces, combinatorial designs, etc.

  • Click for info on Software Projects done by some of my students. Currently there are three projects available.

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Visit Bill Kocay's River Running Pages for maps, photos, and information on Manitoba rivers.

 
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Personal Interests

 

Recommended Reading

"Kill Zone -- A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza", by Craig Roberts. Ever wonder who was behind the JFK assassination? Read Craig Roberts "Kill Zone". Roberts was a sniper in Vietnam. When he visited the JFK assassination site, and looked out the window of the warehouse from which Oswald is supposed to have shot, he knew instantly that the official story was a physical impossibility. No sniper could have made those shots. This started him on an investigation for the truth.
"The Mission of Joan of Arc", by Joan Edmunds. The inspiring and heart-rending story of the Maid of Orleans, the 19 year old girl who saved France from the English invasion. Based on the transcripts of her trial and of her rehabilitation proceedings.

Websites of Interest

www.GlobalResearch.ca -- World News -- Research into Globalization -- What the official media will not tell.
Mark Twain: "A man who doesn't read the newspaper is uninformed. A man who does read the newspaper is misinformed". Global Research fills that gap.
Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop -- Instructional fingerpicking guitar videos, hard to find DVD's and CD's of great fingerpicking guitarists -- blues, celtic, jazz, etc.
Chuck Baldwin Live Chuck Baldwin is a defender of Freedom and the American Constitution. Subscribe to his weekly newsletter. He tells it like it is.
The Haiku Operating System The BeOS has returned -- Haiku is a new open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.
William Engdahl In depth analysis of world economics, power-politics, oil, and the financial tsunami. Penetrating insight into where the world is going, cutting through the propaganda.
David McGowan's Center for an Informed America Witty, irreverant articles on some holy cows of our age. Did NASA really land men on the moon? Read his Moondoggie series and make up your mind based on the evidence. Anyone who was a teen in the 60's will love his series on Laurel Canyon, the origin of the hippy movement and hippy music scene. McGowan takes us behind the scenes.

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