Dr. Melissa Danforth

Office: Science Building III, Room 319
Summer 2026 Schedule:
Office hours for CMPS 3600: W 1:00-2:50pm via Zoom, link posted on Canvas

Note: Academic faculty members are not on regular contracts during the summer. Faculty members teaching summer course(s) are on special contracts that only pay for teaching the summer course(s). Students who are not in CMPS 3600 who have questions may email me, but expect delays in response as I'm not actually being paid for advising or related work during the summer.

Current and past courses I have taught can be found in the Teaching section. The Research section contains my research interests, projects, publications and curriculum vitae (CV). Documentation useful for students, links to the CSUB library databases, and links to various computer related organizations are in the Links section. My mailing address and email address can be found in the Contact section.

If you are having any issues with the graphical desktop on Linux, press CTRL+ALT+F1 to drop down to the text-based console where you can log in to the 'student' account with a single terminal session. To go back to the graphical desktop, press CTRL+ALT+F7 (but don't forget to log out of Odin and the 'student' account in the text console first).

Computer Science students wanting to know more about the Cybersecurity/Information Security concentration and students in other majors wanting to know more about how to incorporate cybersecurity skills into their coursework can click on the IS/GINS link in the menu to the left.

I will accept requests to connect on LinkedIn from students in the CEE/CS department. However, to maintain propriety, I will not send requests to connect to students. It might take me a few days / weeks to respond to connection requests on LinkedIn.

I do not have a Facebook, Instagram, or other social media accounts, so any requests claiming to come from me from those sources should be treated as a spam or phishing attempt.

My Eduroam Connection Guide for Linux NetworkManager
My Department Server Connection Guide
CEE/CS Department Homepage
Department Moodle3 Site (old courses)
Department Moodle4 Site (current courses but being phased out)
CS Department Downloads
CSUB main website
Walter W. Stern Library