Computer Science | Vassar College

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-04-14T16:14:51+00:00

Nancy Ide Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science Vassar College 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA tel : (+1) 845 437 5988 fax : (+1) 845 437 7498 e-mail : Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

old_course_pages

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-01-20T16:38:00+00:00

Old Course Pages This page is not readable by the world. It contains links to past course pages on the wiki * cs101-200901 - readable by faculty only * CMPU-102: * cs102-51-200901 - readable by faculty only * cs102-200803 - readable by faculty only * cs102-200901 - readable by faculty only

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-21T18:51:13+00:00

Jennifer E. Walter Professor Emerita Department of Computer Science Vassar College Email: “When you are the only woman in a group, you are no longer a woman; you are THE woman, as if your actions stand for that of your entire gender.”

pubs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-23T19:39:00+00:00

Publications * Dissertation: * Marc L. Smith. View-Centric Reasoning about Parallel and Distributed Computation. PhD thesis, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2362, December 2000. [PDF] Postscript and in the UCF institutional repository, STARS. *

visiting

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-07-16T16:05:46+00:00

Visiting Professor Courses Here are some of the courses previously taught by visiting professors. CMPU 203 - Computer Science III: Software Design and Implementation Develops techniques for design and implementation of complex software systems. Topics include object-oriented modeling, design patterns, component libraries, inheritance, parametric polymorphism, generic algorithms, containers, iterators, function objects and storage management. Development of a software system of significant com…

10-10-2008

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-04-13T15:21:39+00:00

10-10-2008 file name “10-10-2008” --- Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/04/10 17:09

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-05-23T14:24:46+00:00

What am I wearing? New Scientist A few details from decades of daily wear [gerbert in 2013]Please note, this page documents what I was wearing during the last four of the nineteen wonderful years I spent working for the CS Department at Vassar. For the last year and a half I have been wearing modified versions of Google Glass running Glass and Ubuntu. Along with that I am using a Bluetooth version of the Spiffchorder for input. Please see the

how_to_create_a_listing_for_your_course

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-09-04T17:12:29+00:00

Creating a New Namespace for your Course Please follow these conventions for creating your course namespace(directory) and pages(files) in the namespace. One space or many? You have a few choices to make. If you want to use the same pages each time you teach a particular course and make modifications to these pages over time then call your new namespace

2008-10-07_evening_server_maintenance

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-10-08T01:17:52+00:00

2008-10-07 Evening - Web Server Unavailable for an Hour This web server and several others running here at Computer Science will be down tonight, Oct. 7!!th!! They all live on the same xen server and that is the machine I need to work. This maintenance is to clean up the quick fix that was put in place last Saturday Night in the aftermath of the network problems. I hope to keep the downtime to under an hour. -Greg

2008-02-05_services_restored_backups_complete

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-07T11:29:54+00:00

2008-02-05 Services Restored, Backups complete Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 10:00am there was a brief interruption to some of the CS servers as we produced a bare metal backup. The servers that were unavailable were: * Our wiki server (this includes all wikis hosted at CS)

foo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-04-10T17:39:54+00:00

Luke Hunsberger Assistant Professor in Computer Science Vassar College Contact Info Mailing Address 124 Raymond Ave. Box 444, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0444 Email hunsberg@cs.vassar.edu Office OLB 121 Office Hours (Spring 2008) Mondays

server_list

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-12-08T19:20:36+00:00

CS Servers Physical CS Department Servers Date Number installed Disks Space NAME type In Srv CPU & speed memory #xSize,type tot/used Function Pacific x3650 2007.1 Xeon 4x3gig 12gig 6x73g,sas

2008-05-25_114th_commencement

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-08-25T18:27:30+00:00

2008-05-25 114th Commencement

z80asm_in_emacs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-02-20T19:02:46+00:00

Using emacs with z80asm First off, I want to state I am not a lisp podgammer OK, now that that is out of the way, this is what I added to my .emacs when I started using z80asm to work with z80 assembly code. It adds ASM to the list of extensions that will put you into asm-mode for editing assembly code and defines the compile command the way I wanted it. If there is a better way to do these tasks please let me know.

iswc_2007

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-17T20:31:21+00:00

Herbert and me at ISWC 2007 In both videos you can see the dual holster. I am also using the ntsc version of the M1. New Scientist Perhaps it should be called “Old Scientist without enough sleep”. When I was at ISWC 2007 in Boston I had a chat with Phil McKenna of New Scientist Magazine. I am the third person interviewed in the video and at the end of the written article archived at

timeline_of_rigs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-05-23T14:31:34+00:00

Timeline of Herbert [herb one in 1997] [herb three in 1999] [charmerino in 2000] [herb seven in 2008] [gerbert in 2013] Most of my wearables pages are about the changes and modifications I have made over the years. I noticed that it gives the impression I am constantly changing things. On this page you can see just how long particular rigs were or have been in use.

2008-09-05_cs_account_required_lab

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-09-15T19:37:49+00:00

2008-09-10 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 class this semester then you must attend one of the New Account Lecture and Lab sessions.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-09-23T18:33:58+00:00

URSI 2008 TODO * version control - repository * bioinf upgrades * python 2.5 -> 2.6 * ruby 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6 SERVERS * AiptasiaWiki * AiptasiaBase RELATED LINKS * WikiProteins: * WormBase: * Fly-FISH home: * BioMart: * Open Helix: * * Website for free online bioinformatics resources. Perhaps someday they will …

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-04-30T02:09:00+00:00

cs325 Debugging April 1, 2008 top

printing_tips

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2011-02-09T16:47:28+00:00

Printing Tips Printer Name Changes and your .bashrc If you are having problems with command line printing it may be because your .bashrc is not using the correct printer name. Have a look at your .bashrc file. Near the top there are some lines that set your default printer. If they don't look like the lines below, then cut out everything in your .bashrc from &&````````````

2008-05-08_robocomp08

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-09T02:38:09+00:00

2008-05-08 RoboComp08 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.

blackbox

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-12-16T16:36:44+00:00

Using a ServeSwitch Ultra with a 1U server I have been using a Black Box ServeSwitch Ultra for well over 10 years. At the time it was the perfect choice for our needs as it worked well with the 4 kinds of machines we were connecting to it. It has never given me a moment of trouble in all this time, so when I needed to attach some new servers to it, I called Black Box and ordered the cables. However, when they arrived, the hood on the vga connector end of the cable was too large to fit into t…

grants

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-09-11T05:03:29+00:00

Grants * NSF INSPIRE Grant. Award Date: Sep. 18, 2013. Award No: DEB-1344227. Award Amount: $999,314. Effective Jan. 1, 2014. Expires Dec. 31, 2017. INSPIRE Track 1: Is Evolvability Driven By Emergent Modularity? Biomimetic robots, gene inspired information structures, and the evolvability of intelligent agents. PI Kenneth R. Livingston, Co-PI Jodi Schwarz, Co-PI John H. Long, Co-PI

run_zasm_under_dosemu

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-01-25T18:18:41+00:00

Well, since I took away your windows lab machines, here is an alternative. Doing these steps will let you run the assembler from Prof. Voerman on our linux machines under DOS emulation. - Greg Running Z80 Assembler under DosEmu The Short version Log in on any lab linux box and put the floppy in the drive````````````````````````````````````````````````

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-06-05T03:13:02+00:00

Research Projects Faculty Nancy Ide ? [[http://americannationalcorpus.org | The American National Corpus Project]] : The American National Corpus (ANC) project is a major activity funded by the National Science Foundation that is building a massive corpus of texts and spoken transcriptions of contemporary American English. All of the data are annotated with linguistic analyses of various kinds so that computational linguists can build language models to assist in machine understanding of huma…

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-05-18T15:40:35+00:00

ANC admin log Space for Keith & Greg to keep and share info about the anc server. Currently only accessible by Keith or Greg. --- Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/06/16 19:17 bandwith_tests Keith's notes hardware 2010.03.12 Bonded eth0 and eth1. --- Greg Priest-Dorman 2010/05/18 11:13 2010.05.18 * Replaced x335 single processor machine with x335 dual processor machine. Added more memory as well.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-12-03T19:08:37+00:00

xournal_tips

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-10-24T17:56:03+00:00

Xournal Tips Xournal is a Pen Journal that also allows you to add annotations to PDF files and/or capture and import arbitrary windows on the current screen to use them in xournal. xournal's sourceforge site Documentation for xournal A few common commands and settings INVOKE XOURNAL FROM THE GUI````````````````````````````

nasm_and_gdb

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-11-14T15:30:30+00:00

nasm and gdb problem with nasm version 0.99 It looks like this was fixed in nasm version 2.01, but if you are running version 0.99 you may find that you no longer have debugging information for gdb. The fix is easy, replace ``-f elf`` with ``-f elf32`` or ````

multihome_dokuwiki_hacks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-02-21T21:07:13+00:00

Multihome Dokuwiki Hacks I use the article by Lukas Ruf on setting up dokuwiki on a mutihomed web server to allow multiple separate wikis to run on one machine. The article is available at . These are a few things I have done in addition to the suggestions in the article.

2008-04-24_printer_problems_resolved

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-07T11:25:05+00:00

2008-04-24 Printer Problems Resolved Both lab printers, asprey and loaner are back up and fully operational. Thanks to a visit from NetEffects (our printer repair folks) I can report that as of 11:20 am, asprey is now working. (Loner has been working since yesterday.)

tikkun_passover_2009_supplement_in_plain_text

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-04-06T14:00:36+00:00

Tikkun Passover 2009 Supplement in Plain Text Some folks have had problems with the font size on the 2009 Passover Supplement. The original is from . Below is a version converted to plain text with acroread and then reformatted in emacs. Use it if you find it useful.

ssl_cert_issue_explanation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-03-02T21:18:59+00:00

SSL Site Certification We run two apache2 servers at this site. These two instances of apache2 serve multiple wikis and web sites. They are located in the Computer Science Department of Vassar College. As a result, they all get the same site certificate. In some cases that works just fine. But in some cases your browser will complain about not being sure if it should trust the certificate or not being able to verify the certificate.

context_awarness_project

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-12-07T17:24:55+00:00

the next big thing... Endurance Running Harness for Herbert October 2009 I have been a walker ever since I got my legs back as a teenager. Before that biking is how I covered distance. For a time I did not have use of my legs (the result of a biking accident) and was told I would not walk again. Thankfully that was not the case, but after that the idea of running always seemed foolhardy. All that impact, thud thud thud, not for me and my spine. However, of late I am trying running

herbeee

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-12-23T18:23:01+00:00

herbeee aka "Herbert Lite" Herbert is a wonderful thing, but let's face it, it is not inexpensive. I needed to send it in to Sony for a minor repair So, I built “herbeee” to tide me over... In April of 2008 I got an Asus eeepc with 4gig of flash and 512meg of ram. In short order I installed

site_search_options

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-02T22:19:05+00:00

Searching the CS websites We actually have several publicly viewable websites here at CS. There is the primary site and in addition several projects have their own servers. To further muddle things, we have a content management system, conventional web pages and cgi pages.

recently_installed_software

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-08-31T20:47:29+00:00

Recently Installed Software Linux Labs and Desktops * Google-Chrome yes, chrome is available on the CS system, however, there are a few hoops to jump through. For information and instructions on running google-chrome from within your CS account see: ````````````````````````````````````````````````````

holdeen-adams_prize

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-08T16:05:11+00:00

Computer Science Department Awards Janet Holden Adams Prize Established in 1998 by the gift of Janet Holden Adams, a long-time supporter of computer science at Vassar, this prize is awarded for excellence in the study of computer science and for outstanding participation in the activities of the department. The recipients shall be named each spring by the faculty of the Department of Computer Science. Their names shall be announced at the Vassar Annual Prize Ceremony

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-01-29T21:46:40+00:00

CMPU 325 - Microcomputers and Digital Electronics Spring 2008 Instructor: Lou Voerman (voerman@cs.vassar.edu) Lectures & lab: Tuesday 7 to 10 PM Office phone: 845-437-7293 Home phone: 845-452-8198 Office: OLB 117 Office hours: Mon. thru Thurs. 10:15 - 11:15 AM

2008-04-16_mac_logins

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-07T11:21:39+00:00

2008-04-16 Mac login The osX Macs in the lab now use your CS username and password for login. They do not mount your Linux home space. User space on the Mac’s is not persistent. Every time you log in your directory is recreated from scratch.

2008-05-09_last_day_of_classes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-06T22:52:24+00:00

2008-05-06 Last Day of Classes

2008_12_9_have_a_hopper_holiday

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-12-10T19:26:39+00:00

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.

2008-05-12_honors_thesis_presentation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-12T20:31:06+00:00

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.

2008-05-12_picnic

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-15T14:28:34+00:00

2008-05-12 Picnic [CS Picnic 2005] Need we say more? Watch your email for time and place.

2008-05-06_asprey_lecture_wordnet

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-06T22:53:23+00:00

2008-05-06 Asprey Lecture : WordNet WordNet: An Electronic Dictionary for Humans and Computers Christiane Fellbaum, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University May 6, 5:00PM, Rockefeller 300 This talk provides an overview of the contents, structure and uses of WordNet, a large lexical database developed and maintained at Princeton. Conceived originally as a model of human semantic memory, WordNet contains information about tens of thousands of concepts that are lexicalized in English.

2008-04-30_spring_convocation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-02T00:02:37+00:00

2008-04-30 Spring Convocation Spring Convocation @ 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel.

2008-09-18_careers_in_computer_science_alumni_panel

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-10-03T14:01:04+00:00

2008-09-18 Careers in Computer Science Alumni Panel Careers in Computer Science Alumni Panel Thursday, September 18th 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Multipurpose Room College Center, 2nd Floor Main Bldg. Don't miss this opportunity to meet Vassar Computer Science Alumni, learn about the career paths they've taken, get some valuable job search tips, and more!

2008-04-21_open_house_for_admitted_students

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-04-22T13:35:30+00:00

2008-04-21 Open House for Admitted Students Open House For Admitted Students 2:30 - 3:30pm Villard Room

2008-11-07_prereg_pizza_party

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-11-12T18:22:19+00:00

2008-11-07 Preregistration Pizza Party To Computer Science majors, correlates, and students: Mark your calendars for Friday, November 7th (this Friday!!) at 4:30 pm. 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…

2008-11-13_asprey_lecture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-11-19T19:30:15+00:00

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

2009-02-19_margaret_wright_lecture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-02-27T15:11:54+00:00

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

2008-03-27_unscheduled_reboot_of_remote_access_server

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-07T11:26:57+00:00

2008-03-27 Unscheduled Reboot of remote access server I had to reboot our remote access ssh server at 4:10PM EST today. I will be monitoring it a little more closely. Sorry for the hassle - Greg

2008-04-18_department_lunch

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-04-21T11:34:58+00:00

2008-04-18 Department Lunch Students, faculty, staff invited to a (free!) Departmental lunch, 12pm Friday April 18. We will meet at the department at 11:50 and walk over to Babycakes. Please send email to by Thursday midnight if you plan to attend.

dana_tenneson_dissertation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-04-23T22:29:23+00:00

2008-04-22 - Asprey Lecture 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 (

drjava

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-08-27T14:15:04+00:00

DrJava reports No Compiler Available Problem: when staring DrJava the Compiler Options window reports “no compiler available” To fix this you need to set the tools.jar location in the drjava preferences. Start drjava and follow these steps: ````````````

jedit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-08-26T21:23:27+00:00

Jedit tip -. End of line codes When using jedit to edit files that will be saved on a remote linux or unix system, you may run into problems if you don't change the code jedit puts at the end of the line to indicate a return. Jedit calles this the ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

isohome

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-10-14T17:24:59+00:00

Backup to CD/DVD ---------- * * * * * * ---------- The really short version of the instructions If you just want to do this without delay and can get to the CS lab... * Bring a blank CD or DVD to the lab *

kill_a_process

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-12-06T15:30:28+00:00

Monitoring and Killing Processes Any process you own you can kill (this is not a moral judgment, just a fact of life in Unix and Linux). Killing an offending process graphically If the machine itself is still responsive (but one or more windows perhaps aren't) you can try one of the Graphical Process Managers on our system.$$xfce4-taskmanager$$````````$$gnome-system-monitor$$````````

2008-01-28_password_problem_resolved

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-07T11:34:27+00:00

2008-01-28 Password Problem Resolved The problem we had in yesterday’s lab (Monday Jan. 28) has been resolved. The problem was that one of the server maps needed to be manually rebuilt after changes made to our system. The other maps are all dealt with in an automated fashion so I did not notice at first that one of them needed to be built manually. It is all fixed now. -Greg

2008-04-15_open_house

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-04-21T11:34:01+00:00

2008-04-15 Open House for Admitted Students Open House For Admitted Students 2:30 - 3:30pm Villard Room

2009-02-20_margaret_wright_lecture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-02-27T15:12:11+00:00

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