https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-11T09:43:53+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2010-04-08T10:58:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/bibtex?rev=1270724318&do=diff Bibtex Templates Here are a few bibtex templates that I use with the dokuwiki bibtex plugin. In time I should have all the entry types done. Entry Types * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Article Entry An article from a journal or magazine. text/html 2011-02-11T11:41:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/software?rev=1297424512&do=diff Essential Software Looking for a little more info? The following is a list of some of what I consider to be essential software I run in Xubuntu on my wearable. Each of these contribute an key part of the experience: ? //software Dectalk// from fonix :: http://www.fonixspeech.com/dectalk_legacy.php .. Yep, this is one of two pieces of commercial software I run. For years I ran a hardware dectalk, then for a while I used pc104 based doubletalk units, as the rigs became more powerful and software… text/html 2026-04-21T22:57:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/top?rev=1776812227&do=diff People Faculty Jacob Erickson Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science Jacob Erickson's research explores how digital platforms shape sociopolitical discourse, focusing on platform governance, online safety, and the downstream impacts of design and moderation decisions. Drawing from human-computer interaction, data science, and computational social science, his work examines how platform affordances influence online communication, community behavior, and user trust. His research … text/html 2011-06-20T03:03:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/vss?rev=1308538985&do=diff Vassar Science Scholars Lecture/Lab Saturday, March 26, 2011 9:30am--12pm Sci Vis Lab, 3rd Floor Mudd Chemistry WeScheme: from Algebra to Animation We will explore selected parts of the Scheme programming language using WeScheme, a browser-- text/html 2021-01-21T18:51:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/walter/top?rev=1611255073&do=diff Jennifer E. Walter Professor Emerita Department of Computer Science Vassar College Email: <jewalter@vassar.edu> “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.” text/html 2009-06-21T20:29:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/usb760?rev=1245616171&do=diff Well, I got my Novatel Wireless usb760 and my Verizonwireless broadband plan. I can report that the device works well but can't be set up entirely under linux. I can also report that VerizonWireless tech folks have much less than no clue about linux. text/html 2026-06-04T03:36:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/teaching?rev=1780544212&do=diff Teaching First-year computer science * Program by Design - The computer science core of a liberal arts education * How to Design Programs - An Introduction to Programming and Computing * Racket - Includes the DrRacket programming environment * WeScheme - Web-based programming environment text/html 2009-12-07T17:24:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/context_awarness_project?rev=1260206695&do=diff 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 text/html 2011-07-02T14:55:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/top?rev=1309618521&do=diff These are my personal pages, if you are looking for system information, please head over to top. -Greg ---------- <http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html> Campaign for Online Freedom of Speech, Press and Association ---------- A point in every direction is the same as no point at all These pages are XHTML compliant: use any browser you choose! Where Am I in the world? text/html 2023-09-11T05:03:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/grants?rev=1694408609&do=diff Grants * NSF INSPIRE Grant. Award Date: Sep. 18, 2013. Award No: DEB-1344227. Award Amount: $999,314. Effective Jan. 1, 2014. Expires Dec. 31, 2017. INSPIRE Track 1: Is Evolvability Driven By Emergent Modularity? Biomimetic robots, gene inspired information structures, and the evolvability of intelligent agents. PI Kenneth R. Livingston, Co-PI Jodi Schwarz, Co-PI John H. Long, Co-PI text/html 2013-05-23T14:24:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/top?rev=1369319086&do=diff What am I wearing? New Scientist A few details from decades of daily wear [gerbert in 2013]Please note, this page documents what I was wearing during the last four of the nineteen wonderful years I spent working for the CS Department at Vassar. For the last year and a half I have been wearing modified versions of Google Glass running Glass and Ubuntu. Along with that I am using a Bluetooth version of the Spiffchorder for input. Please see the text/html 2021-01-23T19:39:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/pubs?rev=1611430740&do=diff Publications * Dissertation: * Marc L. Smith. View-Centric Reasoning about Parallel and Distributed Computation. PhD thesis, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2362, December 2000. [PDF] Postscript and in the UCF institutional repository, STARS. * text/html 2026-06-04T02:45:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/top?rev=1780541125&do=diff Marc L. Smith (he/him) Professor of Computer Science Computer Science Department Vassar College Coordinates Office: SP 104.5 Voice: 845 437 7497 Zoom E-mail: mlsmith@vassar.edu Vassar College, Box 399 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0399 2026 -- 2027 * On Sabbatical$((\lambda(x)\ (x\ x))\ (\lambda(x)\ (x\ x)))$ text/html 2025-12-20T05:25:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/past-courses?rev=1766208338&do=diff Past Courses Courses taught at Vassar College: (2006 - present) * CMPU-101 - Problem-Solving and Abstraction * Fall '06, '07, '10, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '21, '22, '23, '24, '25 * Spring '07, '09, '14, '16, '19, '21, '23, '24, '25 text/html 2008-04-10T01:28:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/ide/publications?rev=1207790892&do=diff Selected Publications (1990-onwards) * Ide, N. and Suderman, K. (2007). GrAF: A Graph-based Format for Linguistic Annotations. Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop,held in conjunction with ACL 2007, Prague, June 28-29, 1-8. * Ide, N. and Woolner, D. (2007). Historical Ontologies. In Ahmad, K, Brewster, C., and Stevenson, M. (eds.), text/html 2020-07-30T04:47:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/concurrency?rev=1596084460&do=diff Concurrency Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) Links * WoTUG - The place for Communicating Processes * The classic text: Communicating Sequential Processes (Hoare) * The modern text: Theory and Practice of Concurrency (Roscoe) * Unifying Theories of Programming text, by Hoare and He: UTP * JCSP - CSP for Java * C++CSP2 – CSP for C++ text/html 2008-12-16T16:36:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/blackbox?rev=1229445404&do=diff 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… text/html 2008-02-21T21:07:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/multihome_dokuwiki_hacks?rev=1203628033&do=diff 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 <http://wiki.lpr.ch/doku.php/multihomed>. These are a few things I have done in addition to the suggestions in the article. text/html 2009-09-11T18:31:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/vnc_inetd_gdm?rev=1252693878&do=diff VNC over inetd with gdm - number of session limitation There are a lot of pages about setting up vnc over inetd.  I had been running such a setup for years with 10 - 20 simultaneous sessions being commonplace, but an upgrade of the server to ubuntu 9.4 broke my configuration.  Eventually all but one problem had been worked out by poking around the changelogs, reading a few man pages and using the standard net searches.  That problem was that only 2 simultaneous sessions were supported.  The fix… text/html 2018-08-19T00:21:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/bio?rev=1534638095&do=diff Bio * Before joining Vassar in Fall 2006, I was an assistant professor at Colby College for five (5) years, beginning Fall 2001. Prior to my transition to academia, I worked for AT&T for fifteen (15) years, in several different internal IT capacities, including applications and systems development and support, and IT infrastructure systems engineering. One of the very special opportunities I had while working for AT&T was to be sponsored in its Doctoral Support Program, which enabled me to go… text/html 2007-12-28T00:19:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/books?rev=1198801150&do=diff My Favorite Books and Stories Limbo by Bernard Wolfe This book may be hard to find, but is worth the hunt. Originally published in 1952. Set in 1990. I am not sure what to say about this one - it had and continues to have quite an effect on me. (Of course that may just be because I had been told I