Philip A. Nelson, Professor

Computer Science Department at WWU

Education

I earned my BS from Pacific Union College, my MS from University of California, Davis, and my PhD from University of Washington.

Classes

My Winter 2026 class is CSCI 512

Office

I intend to be in my office most days in Fall quarter. If you need to visit virtually my zoom office ID is 308916020. Please send me an e-mail to request a time to visit.

Areas of interest

Parallel Programming
Distributed Computing
Compilers
Computer Networks
The Chapel programming language.
The NetBSD project
The GNU Project
UNIX information.

My personal links ...

My personal web server.

Office: Communications Facility 473
Phone Number: (360) 650-3035
other: phil.nelson at the domain wwu.edu.

Last updated: January 5, 2026