pchapin's Home Page

Spring 2022

My schedule.

For courses I have taught in the past, see the bottom of this page.

Links

Here are some additional resources of potential interest to my students.

Student Resources. If you are a student taking one of my classes, you may find the links here useful.
CIS Home Page. Maintained by the CIS department.
Tutorial on Ada. Source files for the various sample programs used in the tutorial. This is a work in progress.
Tutorial on C. A semester long course in C for first time programmers. This tutorial also covers some advanced topics.
Tutorial on C++. This is a work in progress. This tutorial assumes C experience.
Tutorial on POSIX threads. This tutorial covers both POSIX threads specifically and some thread programming topics in general.
In some classes I use the Open Watcom C/C++ compilers. Here I provide a snapshot of the development version. To install, unzip the snapshot in some suitable location (avoid paths with spaces). To use, open a console and run the useOW script in the root of the distribution to set up the environment of that console.
My Curriculum Vitae.

Projects

Links to projects I'm working on.

pchapin's GitHub. Use this as a starting point to access the various open source projects I'm contributing to or maintaining.
Open Watcom. An open source C, C++, and Fortran compiler suite with tools. I have been an active contributor to this project in the past.
Astronomical Observations. Various observations made by me and the home for "Astronomical Observation Markup Language."
Waterfalls of the New England Region. A page showcasing waterfalls around New England that I have visited.
100 Highest. A list of the 100 highest mountains in New England along with climbing notes.
CubeSat Laboratory is a group of VTC students, faculty, and staff working on CubeSat technology spacecraft. See also the Flying SPARKs blog for updates about their work. Although I was very involved in this project for a number of years, I am now officially no longer actively participating. I still like watching the project and lending assistance now and then as time allows.
Technically Rambling is my blog about various technical things I sometimes think about.

Publications

Work done at Vermont Technical College

CubedOS: A Verified CubeSat Operating System by Carl Brandon, Peter Chapin, Chris Farnsworth, and Sean Klink. Ada User Journal; 38(3), September 2017.
The Use of SPARK in a Complex Spacecraft by Carl Brandon and Peter Chapin. Proceedings of the High Integrity Language Technology workshop (HILT-2016); October 6-7, 2016, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (slides)
High Integrity Software for CubeSats and Other Space Missions by Carl Brandon and Peter Chapin. Proceedings of the 66^th International Astronautical Congress; October 12--16, 2015 (Jerusalem, Israel).
Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK by John W. McCormick and Peter C. Chapin. August 2015 (Cambridge University Press).
A SPARK/Ada CubeSat Control Program by Carl Brandon and Peter Chapin. Proceedings of Ada Europe 2013; June 10--14, 2013 (Berlin, Germany); LNCS 7896, pages 51--64.
Use of SPARK in a Resource Constrained Embedded System by Chad Loseby, Peter Chapin, and Carl Brandon. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Ada and Related Technologies; November 1--5, 2009 (Saint Petersburg Florida, USA); pages 87--90. Slides used for the presentation.

Work done at the University of Vermont

SpartanRPC: Remote Procedure Call Authorization in Wireless Sensor Networks by Peter Chapin and Christian Skalka. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security; to appear.
Trust Management in Distributed Resource Constrained Embedded Systems. A Ph.D. dissertation by Peter Chapin. January 2014.
Scalaness/nesT: Type Specialized Staged Programming for Sensor Networks by Peter Chapin, Christian Skalka, Scott Smith, and Michael Watson. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Generative Programming Concepts & Experiences; October 27--28, 2013 (Indianapolis Indiana, USA). Slides used for the presentation.
SpartanRPC: Secure WSN Middleware for Cooperating Domains by Peter Chapin and Christian Skalka. Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems; November 8--12, 2010 (San Francisco California, USA). Slides used for the presentation.
Authorization in Trust Management: Features and Foundations by Peter Chapin, Christian Skalka, and X. Sean Wang. ACM Computing Surveys; 40(3), pages 1--48. August 2008. (citation)
Risk Management for Distributed Authorization by Christian Skalka, X. Sean Wang, and Peter Chapin. Journal of Computer Security; 15(4), 2007.
Risk Assessment in Distributed Authorization by Peter Chapin, Christian Skalka, and X. Sean Wang. Proceedings of the Workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering; November 11, 2005; Fairfax, Virgina; pages x--y. Slides used for the presentation.

Work done at the University of Illinois

Experimental Study of the Frequency Limits of a Resonant Tunneling Oscillator by Paul D. Coleman, Steven Goedeke, Thomas J. Shewchuk, Peter C. Chapin, Joseph M. Gering, Hadis Morkoc. Applied Physics Letters; 48(6). pages 422--424. February 1986.
Stable and Unstable Current-Voltage Measurements of a Resonant Tunneling Heterostructure Oscillator by T. J. Shewchuck, J. M. Gering, P. C. Chapin, P. D. Coleman, W. Kopp, C. K. Peng, and H Morkoc. Applied Physics Letters; 47(9), pages 986--988. November 1985.
Microwave Admittance Characterization of GaAs-Al_xGa_1-xAs Resonant Tunneling Heterostructures by W. Kopp, H. Morkoc, T. J. Shewchuck, P. C. Chapin, J. M. Gering, P. D. Coleman. Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Conference on High Speed Semiconductor Devices; July 1985 (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)
Resonant Tunneling Oscillations in a GaAs-Al_xGa_1-xAs Heterostructure at Room Temperature by T. J. Shewchuck, P. C. Chapin, P. D. Coleman, W. Kopp, R. Fischer, and H. Morkoc. 46. pages 508--510. March 1985.

Other Courses

The following is a list of courses I have taught in the past along with the semester when I last taught them.

Courses planned for Fall 2022

Contacting Me

Office: BLP-415 on the Williston campus. Office hours are by appointment. Phone: 802-879-2367 (voice mail active). Email: pchapin@vtc.edu. I will usually respond to email within 24 hours, not including weekends or holidays. Email is the best way to contact me. I am also sometimes on the FreeNode IRC network under the nickname pcc.