Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-14T22:34:48+00:00 Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2009-04-06T14:00:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) tikkun_passover_2009_supplement_in_plain_text https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/tikkun_passover_2009_supplement_in_plain_text?rev=1239026436&do=diff 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 <http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/seder_2009>.  Below is a version converted to plain text with acroread and then reformatted in emacs.  Use it if you find it useful. text/html 2020-05-01T18:13:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) infinite-trees https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/infinite-trees?rev=1588356833&do=diff Infinite Trees 1 Motivation Up until now, we’ve mostly looked at trees as a data structure, but we haven’t looked at them in the context of any particular problems. Trees are used in many applications in computer science, robotics, and game design. One common application is for representing the possible moves in a game or search problem. Imagine that you were exploring the space that a player (character or robot) could move through. On each move, the player would change position (and possibl… text/html 2008-04-10T20:45:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) rock https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/3d/rock?rev=1207860344&do=diff <html> <pre> X X ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ .......... : : : : : : '''''''''''' '''''''''''' '''''''''''' '''''''''''' '''''''''''' '''''''''' text/html 2008-02-20T19:02:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) z80asm_in_emacs https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/z80asm_in_emacs?rev=1203534166&do=diff 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. text/html 2026-01-21T06:34:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/top?rev=1768977290&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 Spring 2026 * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction * Lectures: Mon/Wed 12$((\lambda(x)\ (x\ x))\ (\lambda(x)\ (x\ x)))$ text/html 2013-05-23T14:24:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top 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 2011-06-20T03:03:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) vss 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 2008-02-21T21:07:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) multihome_dokuwiki_hacks 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 2026-02-09T22:53:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/top?rev=1770677604&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 2011-02-25T04:13:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) er https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/er?rev=1298607189&do=diff Running Notes And Human Evolution * Dennis M. Bramble1 & Daniel E. Lieberman 2004 article in Nature * Travis Rayne Pickeringa and Henry T. Bunna responce to above * The evolution of endurance running and the tyranny of ethnography: A reply to Pickering and Bunn (2007) barefoot running Nature 463, 531-535(28 January 2010) Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners abstract/htmlpdf I'll try to take some pictures of the setup soon. Shoe Attempts text/html 2008-12-16T16:36:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) blackbox 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 2007-12-28T18:56:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) qemu_ubuntu_7.10 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/qemu_ubuntu_7.10?rev=1198868160&do=diff I recently wanted to try a windows only usb device. I deceided to bring up a qemu image and found a few things out that I wonted to put in one place: for win2k make sure to use -win2k-hack when building the system as indicated in the qemu man page text/html 2009-12-07T17:24:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) context_awarness_project 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 2009-12-23T18:23:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) herbeee https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/herbeee?rev=1261592581&do=diff 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