Margaret Lamb

I am an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Computing at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

E-Mail: (Students, please either use your Queen's e-mail address to avoid spam filters!)
Office: Goodwin 527
Office Phone: 533-6763 (internal extension 36763)

Current Teaching: I am teaching CISC 220 for both fall 2019 and winter 2020. Information for current students in those courses is available through OnQ.

Office Hours for Winter 2020:

Mondays 11:30-12:30
Wednesdays 12-1
Thursdays 12-1

While classes are on I also try not to schedule anything immediately after lectures so I can be available for quick questions in the lobby. Longer questions and confidential issues are best dealt with during office hours.

I expect to have this set of office hours through the last week of classes. I will announce different office hours for the final exam period. If it's ever necessary to change or cancel an office hour during the academic year I will post a note here and also inform my current students via the OnQ announcements. If you're planning to pay me a visit, please refresh your browser to make sure you're seeing the most up-to-date information.

About Office Hours In General:

Office hours are the times when I promise to be in my office and available to talk with students. You don't need to contact me for an appointment to talk with me during my office hours. Just drop in. If there are others waiting to talk with me it's a FIFO queue (First In First Out).
Feel free to drop by at other times as well. If the door is open, please come in and I'll be happy to talk as long as I'm not in a meeting or working on something urgent.
When my office door is closed, it usually means I'm not there. Occasionally it means that I'm there but am working on something confidential or with a tight deadline. Either way, I won't be able to to talk with you so please don't pound on the door!
I will not make individual appointments unless there are very special circumstances or you need to talk about a confidential issue. I have too many students to be able to make individual appointments for everyone. If you have an urgent need to talk with me and all of my office hours in the next several days conflict with your schedule, send me an e-mail and attach a screen print of your class schedule from SOLUS and tell me about any other restrictions on when you could meet.
I am a part-time employee of Queen's and will usually not be available on campus on Tuesdays or Fridays during the winter term.
Murphy's Law guarantees that there will be times when I have to change or cancel an office hour. When this happens I will put a note on this page as far ahead of time as possible and also put a message on the OnQ announcements for my current course.
These office hours are in effect during the 12 weeks of winter term classes. I will not be available on campus during Reading Week. I will post different office hours during the final exam period, depending on the date and time of our exam.

Courses For 2019/2020:
CISC 220 (fall)
CISC 220 (winter)

Other courses I have taught:
    CISC 121
    CISC 124
    CISC 211 (a discontinued course)
    CISC 235
    CISC 323 (a discontinued course)
    2 courses for the Enrichment Mini-Course program at Queen's

Condensed C.V.:
1980: B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Maryland
1983: M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.
1983 - 1984: Computer Scientist at Tartan Laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1984 - 1987: Software Specialist at Andyne Computing in Kingston (now a small part of OpenText)
1992 - 1997: organist at St. James Church
1997-1998: Research Assistant for Professor Terry Shepard
1997-present: teaching at Queens

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