======  Marc L. Smith ======
**Assistant Professor**\\
**Computer Science Department**\\ 
[[http://www.vassar.edu|Vassar College]]\\

===== Contact Information =====

**Office:** OLB 122 \\ 
**Voice:** 845 437 7497\\
**E-mail:** [[mlsmith@cs.vassar.edu]]\\ 

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===== Teaching =====

  * **On sabbatical:** Fall 2009---Spring 2010

  * **CMPU-377 (Parallel Programming):** Next offered Fall 2010
  * **CMPU-353 (Bioinformatics):** Next offered Spring 2011

===== Research Interests =====

  * Models of Parallel and Distributed Computation
  * Bioinformatics (computational phylogeny)
  * Programming Languages (semantics, paradigms, unifying theories)\\

===== Vassar Paparazzi =====
  * [[http://admissions.vassar.edu/academics_departments.html|Admissions web page]] (scroll down to the Computer Science Department for photo)
  * [[http://computing.vassar.edu/academic/facultyfocus/smith_schwarz.html|Faculty Focus]] ([[http://joschwarz.cs.vassar.edu/|Jodi Schwarz]] and I were interviewed about our team-taught Bioinformatics course) 
  * [[http://vq.vassar.edu/issue/fall_2009|Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly, Fall 2009]] (our Bioinformatics course was the cover story!)