Barbara Bracken's Home Page

Emeritus Associate Professor

Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Wilkes University

Course Links, fall,2024

Computer Architecture

Hobbies

Golf

A message to my students

Do you think I am too harsh when you receive very little credit for a program that executes to completion but does not produce the results specified by the assignment? If so, please explore this: link. In the real world programs that do not meet specifications have serious consequences.

Family: Husband, Don, and Cats LittleB, Orville, and Wilbur

LittleB is Manx as were the late Flame, the late Candy, the late Beazil Bomb, and the late Arthur Dent.

None were show quality Show quality is no tail vertabrae and a rounded look. The late Arthur Dent's picture is below. He was show quality.

Both Beazil and Arthur had feline diabetes.

Flame and LittleB were brother and sister. Flame and LittleB were born 6/25/2015 to a stray cat

Flame and LittleB were adopted from a wonderful organization, Tailless Rescue. Many of their cats were rescued from kill shelters.

LittleB


Flame died 11/14/2021 from Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP)

Flame was only 5 years old when he died. He probably contracted FIP as a kitten. FIP is a strain of the coronavirus. There is no cure. Our hearts were broken, losing this beautiful, funny cat so young. He was the life of party, so much fun. He and LittleB loved each other. He is greatly missed.


Some Rare quiet time, Flame and LittleB loved each other


After Flame died, Orville and Wilbur, brothers from North Carolina, were adopted on 12/19/2020.

LittleB and Flame were adopted 12/19/2015.

Orville and Wilbur

Orvile and Wilbur were adopted from the same rescue in North Carolina as Flame and LittleB. They were born 8/3/2020 to a feral mother at Fort Bragg, NC. They were in a litter of seven kittens, all either black or tuxedo. They are a mix of American Bobtail and Manx. Orville has a stub tail and Wilbur has a full tail.

LittleB, Orville, and Wilbur

Orville and Wilbur

The late Candy

Candy was adopted from SPEAK (an organization that takes in stray animals). She arrived there in 2000 as a young adult. She lived there until September, 2004. She died November 23, 2015. She is greatly missed. She was our little angel.

The Late Beazil Bomb (born September, 1994, died July, 2010)

(named from an old song about a race horse that always comes in last):

The late Arthur Dent (June, 1992, - August, 2004)

Arthur Dent was named from a very lovable character in "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglø as Adams.

Feline Diabetes Links

Cornell


Don and I

Don and I, Lourdes Ball, 2008


WEBS - 2013

Artificial Intelligence

Check out the Gigadivas

Gigadivas - Summer, 2004

Gigadivas Artificial Intelligence Assignment