Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-13T23:24:44+00:00 Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2021-09-17T01:43:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lab3 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-0405/lab3?rev=1631843030&do=diff <html> <h1 id=“lab-3-tables”>Lab 3: Tables</h1> <p>17 September 2021</p><br> <p>In this lab you’re going to be working with tables! The goal of this lab is to give you practice with:</p> <ul> <li>Extracting rows and columns from a table</li> <li>Writing and testing helper functions</li> <li>Filtering data with text/html 2011-05-05T19:17:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) using_the_pickup_script https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/using_the_pickup_script?rev=1304623047&do=diff Using the pickup script with your course What it is The pickup script is a companion to the submit script. Pickup allows you to place files for pickup in your course directories such that those files cannot be read by your students until they run this script. At that time an entry is logged showing the date, time, user and directory that was picked up. If your students attempt to kill the script (say, after it copies the files and before it logs that it has) that attempt will also be logged… text/html 2010-01-25T18:18:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) run_zasm_under_dosemu https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs325-201001/run_zasm_under_dosemu?rev=1264443521&do=diff 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```````````````````````````````````````````````` text/html 2021-09-17T02:57:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lab3.html https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/lab3.html?rev=1631847436&do=diff <html> <h1 id=“lab-3-tables”>Lab 3: Tables</h1> <p>In this lab you’re going to be working with tables! The goal of this lab is to give you practice with:</p> <ul> <li>Extracting rows and columns from a table</li> <li>Writing and testing helper functions</li> <li>Filtering data with 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 2011-02-09T16:47:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) printing_tips https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/printing_tips?rev=1297270048&do=diff 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 &&```````````` text/html 2018-10-05T05:07:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-201804/top?rev=1538716075&do=diff CMPU-101-04 Computer Science I and Lab. (Fall 2018) Overview <html> <center><h3></html> “A computer will do what you tell it to do,<html><p></html>but that may be much different from what you had in mind.” <html><br></h3><h4></html> --- Joseph Weizenbaum text/html 2011-05-10T16:58:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) ewc https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/ewc?rev=1305046736&do=diff Export a window to the Projector Please note, the instructor's workstation in room 105 has a resolution of 1280×1024, the student workstations have screen resolutions of 14450×900. Please resize any window you want to export to fit on the display where you are exporting it. ```````````````````````````````````````````````` text/html 2008-05-07T02:42:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) isohome.script https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/isohome.script?rev=1210128164&do=diff isohome Isohome is a simple script that tries to make an image of your CS home directory that is suitable for burning onto a CD or DVD. It will confirm that you are running it from the machine where your home directory is actually a local disk. If not it will tell you which machine you need to run the script from. text/html 2021-09-24T11:35:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lab4 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/lab4?rev=1632483342&do=diff <html> <h1 id=“lab-4-cleaning-table-data”>Lab 4: Cleaning Table Data</h1> <h2 id=“learning-objective”>Learning Objective</h2> <p>The objective of this lab is to gain familiarity with sanitizing, visualizing, and gaining insights from data.</p> <p>Up until now, the data that you worked with had been sanitized for you (i.e. you could expect Pyret to process the data without any extra work). The data in this lab, however, is being ported directly from Google Forms submissions, so there exists data … text/html 2010-12-06T15:30:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) kill_a_process https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/kill_a_process?rev=1291649428&do=diff 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.$$xfce4-taskmanager$$````````$$gnome-system-monitor$$```````` text/html 2012-09-04T17:12:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) how_to_create_a_listing_for_your_course https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/how_to_create_a_listing_for_your_course?rev=1346778749&do=diff 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 text/html 2009-10-14T17:24:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) isohome https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/isohome?rev=1255541099&do=diff Backup to CD/DVD ---------- * * * * * * ---------- <BOOKMARK:quick> 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 * text/html 2008-05-06T18:34:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) in_the_department https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/ssh/in_the_department?rev=1210098899&do=diff Page in progress This page is not yet compleate. When it is, this will be removed Ssh between machines a CS It is quite simple to get to a machine in the department remotely from another machine in the department. All machines in the labs, classroom and faculty offices should already have an ssh client installed on them and those machines which allow remote access are running an ssh daemon to accept incoming connections.```````````````````` 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 2009-05-21T22:04:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) cmu-cam https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/bot-alternative/cmu-cam?rev=1242943463&do=diff Running a CMUCam through a Lisp Program May 2009 State of the project: I have successfully used the foreign-function method in lisp to call a method from another programming language. 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Instructing on performing this adaptation are as follows: text/html 2022-09-23T17:13:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 04 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2022b/labs/04?rev=1663953185&do=diff <html> <style type=“text/css”> .comment { font-style: italic; color: #c0342d; } .name, .variable, code var, pre var { color: #9e5cb1; } .name { font-weight: bold; } .variable, pre var, code var { font-style: italic; } .keyword { color: #abafb3; } .builtin, .string { color: #417fb8; } .constant { color: #e89f27; } table { margin: 1em auto; } table td { padding: 1pt 4pt; } div.dw-content a { text-decoration: underline; } div.dw-content p, div.dw-content li, div.dw-content li p { font-size: 13pt; m… text/html 2010-05-26T14:32:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) todo https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/todo?rev=1274884335&do=diff On The Table Upgrade the wiki - Greg Once done, I can put in the “task” plugin which will do this correctly... but for now if done, tag with <del> </del> (or highlight and use the Strikethrough icon (5th from the left) and add signature (the icon with the pencil on it 4th from the end) for date stamp. text/html 2022-08-31T12:49:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) sshkeysmswindows https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/sshkeysmswindows?rev=1661950198&do=diff SSH Keys on Microsoft Windows using the PuTTY Utility SSH keys are what you will use to establish an encrypted connection over the network, e.g. the internet, between your system and a remote machine. The default type of key to generate is RSA which is good for most purposes. RSA is universally supported among SSH clients. Note that EdDSA performs much faster and provides the same level of security with significantly smaller keys. In general, though, for what you need to do, RSA encryption is … text/html 2010-11-24T23:10:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) acm_jar_applets https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/acm_jar_applets?rev=1290640216&do=diff Using acm.jar The ACM Java Task Force (JTF) created an API framework for Java programs which is distributed in the file acm.jar. Programs using acm.jar may be compiled and executed from the command line, or within your favorite Java IDE (e.g., Netbeans, DrJava). It is also possible to run your JTF programs as an applet within a browser or via the appletviewer. ```````````````````````````````````` text/html 2023-01-26T15:53:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) logging_out_of_a_desktop_or_remote_desktop https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/logging_out_of_a_desktop_or_remote_desktop?rev=1674748402&do=diff Logging out of the Computer Science Computers Leaving files open in editors such as pluma and emacs, or leaving applications running can lead to corrupt files and loss of your work because your files are not local to any computer. Your files are shared from a central server. Therefore, if you leave an application open on one computer and then go to another computer, you have several devices trying to access your files. Applications don’t like this. Firefox, for example, won’t allow you to star… text/html 2021-11-04T18:38:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/top?rev=1636051084&do=diff Problem-Solving and Abstraction CMPU-101 Section 02 Vassar College, Fall 2021 Syllabus / Course Wiki Welcome to our course wiki and syllabus. It will be updated throughout the semester with important course information, so check here regularly. text/html 2008-10-24T17:56:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) xournal_tips https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/xournal_tips?rev=1224870963&do=diff 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```````````````````````````` text/html 2021-09-03T00:02:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-0405/top?rev=1630627356&do=diff Problem-Solving and Abstraction CMPU-101 Sections 04-05 Vassar College, Fall 2021 Syllabus / Course Wiki Welcome to our course wiki and syllabus. It will be updated throughout the semester with important course information, so check here regularly. text/html 2017-02-22T12:24:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-201752/top?rev=1487766244&do=diff Computer Science II: Data Structures and Algorithms <html> <h2>CMPU-102-52</h2> <h2>Vassar College, Spring 2017</h2> <h2>Syllabus / Course Wiki</h2> </html> Professor: Jenny Walter Office Hours: Tues, Wed and Thurs: 10:30 am to noon SP 306 text/html 2016-11-01T16:23:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs203-201602/lab7/top?rev=1478017401&do=diff Lab 7 CS203 Fall 2016 November 1 Goals * This project is intended to be worked on individually * Create a basic banking program utilizing the Comparator interface * Include JUnit tests * Upload your program to your github repository text/html 2007-12-28T00:19:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) books 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 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 2021-04-28T16:20:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) assign4 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/assigns/assign4?rev=1619626822&do=diff Assignment 4 - Spring 2021 Permutations Assigned: Wed, Apr 21 Due: Wed, May 5 For this assignment you will: * Follow the Design Recipe to design a series of functions that computes all the permutations of a list of numbers * Be sure to write tests for each function as you go, before you move on to the function of your wish list text/html 2022-09-23T19:36:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 03 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2022b/labs/03?rev=1663961798&do=diff <html> <style type=“text/css”> .comment { font-style: italic; color: #c0342d; } .name, .variable, code var, pre var { color: #9e5cb1; } .name { font-weight: bold; } .variable, pre var, code var { font-style: italic; } .keyword { color: #abafb3; } .builtin, .string { color: #417fb8; } .constant { color: #e89f27; } table { margin: 1em auto; } table td { padding: 1pt 4pt; } div.dw-content a { text-decoration: underline; } div.dw-content p { margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 700px; } div.dw-content p, … text/html 2010-02-17T18:32:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) software_for_your_machine https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/software_for_your_machine?rev=1266431539&do=diff Software Version and Download Information Links to the same version of the software we are using in various courses. In most cases, once at the site, you will need to select your operating system and architecture, this is sometimes called your platform text/html 2017-01-31T00:40:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs203-201602/lab2/top?rev=1485823226&do=diff Lab 2: Using Javadoc * Use the code in chapter 1 as your starting point for a Greeter program. * Create the program in a subdirectory of your CS203 directory called Greeter. * Add Javadoc comments to the Greeter Class and the main method. * text/html 2017-03-28T19:05:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs203-201602/lab6.5/top?rev=1490727951&do=diff Lab 7 Comparator CS203 Spring 2017 March 28, 2017 Goals * Set up teams of two students for this project * Create a program utilizing the Comparator interface * Include JUnit tests * Upload your program to the correct ComparatorTeamx repository in github text/html 2017-03-27T14:34:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs203-201602/lab6/top?rev=1490625253&do=diff Lab 6 CS203 Spring 2017 March 27, 2017 Goals * Set up teams of two students for this project. * Enhance the shape icon class in chapter 4 of Horstmann so that it displays multiple moveable shapes. * Include JUnit tests * Upload your program to the correct AnimationTeamx repository in github text/html 2010-03-24T14:31:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) assignment_6_link https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs224-201001/assignments/assignment_6_link?rev=1269441117&do=diff Assignment 6 Due Wednesday, March 31, 2010 a) Design a four bit BCD counter using T flip-flops. The counter will count from 0 to 9, and repeat. In your logic table, if the current state is between 10 and 15 set the next state to 0. This way if the circuit starts in an 'illegal state' it will immediate correct itself. text/html 2017-04-18T19:20:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs203-201602/lab8/top?rev=1492543206&do=diff Lab 8 Alarm Clock We will be designing and building a clock application using the design patterns and principles we learned in class. We will be working in teams of four. You should divide the work when possible to have 2 pairs of programmers working, perhaps one pair working on the Model and one pair working on the View and Controller. 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 2021-03-04T00:22:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) apple https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/x2go/apple?rev=1614817344&do=diff X2Go macOS Installation <https://www.xquartz.org/>may * Step 1: <html><a href=“<https://code.x2go.org/releases/binary-macosx/x2goclient/releases/4.1.2.2/>” target=“blank”>Click here for the latest version</a></html> to go to the download page for X2Go. <html><a href=“<https://code.x2go.org/releases/binary-macosx/x2goclient/releases/>” target=“blank”>Click here for the previous versions.</a></html> text/html 2021-02-11T14:53:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) windows https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/x2go/windows?rev=1613055214&do=diff X2Go Windows Installation * Step 1: <html><a href=“<https://code.x2go.org/releases/X2GoClient_latest_mswin32-setup.exe>” target=“blank”>Click here for the latest version</a></html> to go to the download page for x2go. <html><a href=“<https://code.x2go.org/releases/binary-win32/x2goclient/releases/>” target=“blank”>Click here for the previous versions.</a></html> text/html 2010-08-26T13:12:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) krock https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/krock?rev=1282828323&do=diff kroc install notes * Installed packages on martha listed on the debian install page * then grabbed “latest stable” with svn svn co http://projects.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/kroc/svn/kroc/branches/kroc-1.5 kroc-svn which claims to be revison 6412 text/html 2015-08-26T21:09:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) logs https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/logs?rev=1440623371&do=diff System Status Workstations Problem, Tues 12/17 System CS129 in OLB104 had a power supply issue. A ticket has been opened with user services. --- Rob Casinghino 2013/12/17 15:59 Workstations Update, Tues 9/17 I have done a non-critical update to our automated filesystem mounting for home directories. These will time-out after 90 minutes (beyond the typical class/lab sessions) to clear up resources on systems. While the connections are still active and in use, there will be no issues. If… text/html 2025-09-30T20:45:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) password https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/password?rev=1759265121&do=diff First Time Login The first time you log into a CS workstation with a temporary password, the login page will help you reset your password. First, enter your username (this will be the same as your Vassar email address, before the @-symbol): Enter your temporary password, which should have been given to you by your professor or sysadmin: text/html 2008-04-10T20:51:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/3d/top?rev=1207860669&do=diff Plain text 3d? Yep. Here are some simple examples to warm you up for the more complex pages to come. Look at the screen (or page if this has been printed out) and see if you can get the 2 X's below to look like like 3 X's. This is the basic skill needed for viewing the images. text/html 2010-03-01T15:08:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) find_cs https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/find_cs?rev=1267456128&do=diff Directions for March 5th MHVLUG Meeting To Find campus or see the full map that the one here was modified from try the visitors section of the Vassar College Website: <http://www.vassar.edu/visitors/index.html> On the above page you will find several maps. Computer Science is Building #24 on the PDF text/html 2010-01-25T16:16:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) losetup https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/losetup?rev=1264436200&do=diff out of loopback devices As a result of a power related issue our Xen server crashed. When it came back up it could not create its full complement of loop back devices. I saw errors like: Error: Device 770 (vbd) could not be connected. Backend device not found```` 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 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 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 2009-06-05T03:13:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/top?rev=1244171582&do=diff 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… text/html 2015-08-27T14:13:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2013_winter_updates https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2013_winter_updates?rev=1440684807&do=diff 2013 Winter Updates Welcome back. There has been some good quiet time in January which works well for pushing out updates. All of the workstations remain on Ubuntu 12.04.1, but several components have been updated. So that you are aware here are the bigger updates to have occurred. text/html 2010-05-04T13:36:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) speed_tips https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/vnc/speed_tips?rev=1272980194&do=diff Improving VNC Performance This page is a work in progress, use the information here if it helps, but do not consider it in any way authoritative. * -- Greg Priest-Dorman 2010/05/04 09:36 Why is my session so slow? VNC is sending the image of your screen over the network between the server (here at CS) and your client (the machine where you are working). 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If you n… text/html 2019-01-22T04:28:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs145-201951/top?rev=1548131336&do=diff Foundations of Computer Science CMPU-145 Section 51 Vassar College, Spring 2019 Syllabus / Course Wiki Welcome to our course wiki. It is the main page from which our course materials will be accessed. 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Contact Information text/html 2009-03-03T22:31:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2009-03-02_kyle_burke https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-03-02_kyle_burke?rev=1236119467&do=diff 2009-03-02 Kyle Burke Lecture <html><center></html>##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 ###Atropos: A Sperner Triangle Game### text/html 2011-05-03T16:42:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2011-04-30_servers_going_down https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2011-04-30_servers_going_down?rev=1304440925&do=diff 2011-04-30 Some Servers are Down Due to a failure of the Cooling System we had to shut down several of the CS servers. The remaining systems should be able to stay up and running. 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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 ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` text/html 2022-09-02T18:02:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) account.size https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/account.size?rev=1662141739&do=diff Account Size Here are a few tips for managing the size of your Computer Science Unix account. How Much Space does My Account Use? du -s -h /home/YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME This command will give you your total account size. The “-h” stands for “human readable text/html 2023-03-06T19:51:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) jump https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/jump?rev=1678132316&do=diff SSH Proxy Jump (Might as Well Proxy Jump!) 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