Rob Patro

@robp.bsky.social

Professor of CS @ University of Maryland. Proud Rust advocate! I ♥ science & compiled, statically-typed programming languages! Views are my own. Tech stack: https://github.com/rob-p/tech-stack.

President's letter informing promotion to the rank of Professor in the Department of Computer Science, effective July 1, 2026.

$Teacher at a blackboard: "Thus, for any nondeterministic Turin machine M that runs in some polynomial time p(n), we can ddevise an algorithm that takes an input w of length n and produces E_{m,w}. The running time is O(p^2(n)) on a multitape deterministic Turing machine and..." Student sitting in the front row with a thought bubble: "WTF, man. I just wanted to learn how to program video games."$