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Conceived originally as a model of human semantic memory, WordNet contains information about tens of thousands of concepts that are lexicalized in English.… text/html 2008-05-08T22:38:09-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2008-05-08_robocomp08?rev=1210300689 Annual Tournament 12 Noon, Villard Room, Thursday, May 8th![Robots face off in a head-to-head, double-elimination tournament] Robots face off in a head-to-head, double-elimination tournament. The Game Explore a lunar landscape, find aliens and ice, and keep the competition from doing the same. text/html 2008-05-06T18:52:24-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2008-05-09_last_day_of_classes?rev=1210114344 text/html 2008-05-12T16:31:06-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2008-05-12_honors_thesis_presentation?rev=1210624266 2008-05-12 Honors Thesis Presentation May 12, 3PM, 105 OLB Mike Lowin’08 will present his departmental honors project, Euterpe: A Dynamic Music Editor. text/html 2008-05-15T10:28:34-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2008-05-12_picnic?rev=1210861714 2008-05-12 Picnic [CS Picnic 2005] Need we say more? 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The Computer Science Department is throwing a preregistration pizza party in OLB 105 (our classroom). Besides eating, you will hear about our new course offering for Spring semester: CMPU 295 - Special Topics in Computer Science, to be taught by Prof. Luke Hunsberger. CMPU 295 will cover the Fundamentals of Computer Science and w… text/html 2008-11-19T14:30:15-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2008-11-13_asprey_lecture?rev=1227123015 2008-11-13 Asprey Lecture The Winifred Asprey Lecture Series in Computer Science Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science in honor of Winifred Asprey’38 Emeritus Professor of Computer Science Dr. James Coplien Software Patterns, Agile Software Development, and Extreme Programming Thursday, November 13, 6:00 PM text/html 2008-12-10T14:26:39-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2008_12_9_have_a_hopper_holiday?rev=1228937199 2008-12-09 Have a Hopper Holiday! Grace Murray Hopper ‘28, the First Lady of Computing, 1906-1992, will be celebrated on her birthday, Tuesday, December 9, in the Computer Science Student Lounge, room 111. Refreshments will be available starting at 8:30am. text/html 2009-02-17T09:24:43-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-02-16_matthew_lang_lecture?rev=1234880683 2009-02-16 Matthew Lang lecture Matthew Lang Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ohio State University Monday, February 16, 2009 OLB classroom 105, 4pm Maximal Software Maximality is a property of software; just as we call software “correct,” “fast,” or “elegant,” we can call software “maximal.” Typically, when we design and reason about software, we are concerned with whether or not the software is correct--that it only does what is permitted by its speci… text/html 2009-02-19T10:22:36-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-02-18_barry_jones_lecture?rev=1235056956 2009-02-18 Barry Jones Lecture Barry Jones Department of Computer Science Vassar College Wednesday, February 18, 2009 OLB Classroom 105, 5pm The Composer’s Intelligent Assistant Composers throughout the ages have used various algorithms or methodologies to help them in the process of creating music. More recently we have begun to see the use of computer-based composition algorithms in the creation of musical works. text/html 2009-02-27T10:11:54-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-02-19_margaret_wright_lecture?rev=1235747514 2009-02-19 Margaret Wright Lecture Asprey Lecture in Computer Science and Mathematics The Remarkable Saga of Linear Programming: the Problem, the Methods, the Continuing Mysteries Margaret Wright Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University text/html 2009-02-27T10:12:11-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-02-20_margaret_wright_lecture?rev=1235747531 2009-02-20 Margaret Wright Lecture Asprey Lecture in Computer Science and Mathematics Non-Derivative Optimization: Mathematics, Heuristics, or Hack Margaret Wright Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University Friday, February 20, 2009 3:30pm 300 Rockefeller Hall text/html 2009-02-27T10:11:31-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-02-23_edward_jung_lecture?rev=1235747491 2009-02-23 Edward Jung Lecture Edward Jung Murray Visiting Professor Dept. of Computer Science at Rutgers University Monday, February 23, 2009 OLB classroom 105, 4pm Information Security: Is this a good field to study? Historically, the need for security goes back to almost 4000 years ago, B.C. 2000. However, it was during World War II when many modern security solutions were developed. The target application was primarily the war-related events. More recently, in the late ‘70s… text/html 2009-03-03T17:31:07-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-03-02_kyle_burke?rev=1236119467 2009-03-02 Kyle Burke Lecture Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science in honor of Winifred Asprey ‘38 Emeritus Professor of Computer Science Kyle Burke Boston University Monday, March 2, 4pm OLB, Computer Science 105 Sperner’s Triangle, a classic combinatorics tool, provides the backdrop for a new board game, Atropos, which we present in this talk. We discuss the rules of the game and play once against the audience! Following this, we use computer science to deter… text/html 2009-03-17T12:55:29-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-03-17_network_upgrade_website_unavailable?rev=1237308929 2009-03-17 Network Upgrade, Website unavailable The morning of Tuesday, March 17 the College is putting new network hardware into our building. Over the time of this work there will be limited or no network connectivity in our building and from our building to the rest of the interweb. 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And Then: 6-7 pm, please plan to stay and enjoy some pizza and conversation with the CS faculty, students and Alumni. text/html 2009-01-28T15:51:50-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009_01_23_your_account_and_you?rev=1233175910 2009-01-23 New CS Account - Required Lecture & Lab  If you do not already have an account on the Computer Science Department lab machines and you will need one for your course work this semester then you must attend one of the New Account Lecture and Lab sessions. If you are enrolled in CS101 or CS102 your instructor will tell you what time your session will be.  If you are not in CS101 or CS102 or you add one of these after the first week of classes than you must ask your instructor to let … text/html 2008-04-23T18:29:23-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/dana_tenneson_dissertation?rev=1208989763 Interpretation of Molecule Conformations from Drawn Diagrams Dana Tenneson April 22 5:00pm 105 OLB Molecules are inherently 3D objects that chemists represent on paper and classroom blackboards with a system of 2D notations. Our project, ChemPad (<http://www.chempad.org>), allows chemists to sketch molecules in a quick and natural fashion on a Tablet PC and have the corresponding 3D models automatically generated. text/html 2009-08-13T10:00:04-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/frr?rev=1250172004 2009-07-28 Google Web Toolkit Tutorial Details TBA. text/html 2009-04-07T06:27:05-05:00 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/video_games_and_21st_century_learning?rev=1239100025 2009-04-02 Video Games and 21st Century Learning Video Games and 21st Century Learning A lecture by James Paul Gee Thursday, April 2nd, 5:30pm Sanders Auditorium James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University and is a member of the National Academy of Education. His books include: Sociolinguistics and Literacies, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy and Good Video Ga…