Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-13T23:25:33+00:00 Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 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 2011-05-05T19:17:27+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 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 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 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 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 2016-01-21T17:20:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-201651/top?rev=1453396855&do=diff Computer Science II: <html> <h3>CMPU102: Data Structures and algorithms.</h3> <br> <h4>Spring 2016 Syllabus</h4> </html> This syllabus is subject to update throughout the semester. Professor: Jenny Walter (link to my web page) Office: SP 306 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 2022-08-28T19:16:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-202203/top?rev=1661714218&do=diff <HTML> <h1>Computer Science I </h1> <h2>Problem Solving and Abstraction - Fall, 2022 </h2> <h3>Your Professor</h3> <p>Peter lemieszewski</p> <p>Email: pelemieszewski @ vassar dot edu </p> <p>Office: Sanders Physics 104</p> <p>Office hours: Mondays and Fridays, 1-3PM. Other times by appointment. I recommend coming to office hours! </p> text/html 2021-02-22T21:15:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/top?rev=1614028549&do=diff CS1: Problem-Solving and Abstraction CMPU-101 Sections 56-57 Vassar College, Spring 2021 Syllabus / Course Wiki Welcome to our course wiki. It will be updated throughout the semester with important course information, so check here regularly. 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 2020-01-22T03:55:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-202051/top?rev=1579665306&do=diff <HTML> <h1> Data Structures Using Java </h1> <h2>CMPU-102 Section 51</h2> <h2>Vassar College, Spring 2020</h2> <h2>Syllabus & Course Wiki</h2> <p> Welcome to the main section of our course wiki. Use this as a starting point to access the weekly course schedule, lectures, labs, resources, etc. etc. etc. </p> 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. Contact Information Professor: 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 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 2026-06-04T03:36:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) teaching 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 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 2026-04-21T22:57:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top 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 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 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 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 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 2012-07-30T18:55:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2012-08-04_shutdown https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2012-08-04_shutdown?rev=1343674547&do=diff Summer 2012 Power Shutdown On Saturday, August 4th Buildings & Grounds will be performing maintenance and a safety review of electrical equipment on campus. This outage will affect power to Old Laundry Building as well as disable our network access and air conditioning. Because of this all services will be shutdown Friday night at 8:00 pm. Services are expected to be turned on again around 8:00 pm Saturday night, assuming that electricity, network connections and air conditioning are all availa… 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 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. In my example I used a c file, but under the method it should be able to call something from Java or anything else. Instructing on performing this adaptation are as follows: text/html 2013-02-11T16:15:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2013-02-07_creative_computing_and_literary_code https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2013-02-07_creative_computing_and_literary_code?rev=1360599301&do=diff 2013-02-07 Creative Computing and Literary Code <html><style type=“text/css”>div.profile { float: left; padding-right: 0.5em;}</style></html> <html><div class=“profile”></html>[Nick Montfort]<html></div></html> Nick Montfort Associate Professor of Digital Media 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 2013-09-01T20:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) success https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs240/success?rev=1378066915&do=diff How to Succeed in CS 240 (with a bit of effort) CS240 includes a lot of detailed information that supports the “big ideas” that we will gain an understanding of during the course. Here are some suggestions for approaching the course material and lectures that can help guarantee that you get the most out of it. 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 2008-05-06T22:53:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2008-05-06_asprey_lecture_wordnet https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2008-05-06_asprey_lecture_wordnet?rev=1210114403&do=diff 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. text/html 2008-07-02T19:42:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) security https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/ursi_2008/aiptasiabase/security?rev=1215027720&do=diff Security Concerns There are many important things to be concerned about when creating a system like this, and security is one of them. From a systems administration point of view, the following things must be considered. Uploading Executables Allowing any user to upload and run any executable is TERRIFYING. This will require either auditing uploaded programs (and requiring uploaded programs to be sent in the form of source code to be compiled in-house), or carefully making sure that only trus… text/html 2021-12-19T20:08:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-2021-01/top?rev=1639944481&do=diff <HTML> <h1> Data Structures Using Java </h1> <h2>CMPU-102 Section 01</h2> <h2>Vassar College, Fall 2021</h2> <h2>Syllabus & Course Wiki</h2> <p> Welcome to the main section of our course wiki. Use this as a starting point to access the weekly course schedule, lectures, labs, resources, etc. etc. etc. </p> text/html 2020-09-09T01:26:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) syllabus https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu224-202001/syllabus?rev=1599614785&do=diff <html> <h1>CMPU-224-01 Computer Organization - Fall 2020 syllabus</h1> <h2>Course description</h2> <p>This course covers the underlying principles and internal structure of computer systems, with the goal of enabling students to become better programmers and encouraging further study in the area of computer systems. </p> text/html 2018-08-24T18:16:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) use_and_abuse https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/use_and_abuse?rev=1535134614&do=diff From time to time issues of computer privacy, fair use, or appropriate use of the Computer Science Department computer facilities come up. Any discussion must start with an understanding of the campus regulations on computer use. Campus Computer Regulations 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 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 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 2026-04-03T20:40:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/students/top?rev=1775248826&do=diff Student Activities Feedback Form Use this anonymous form to submit any thoughts or concerns you have on a class, a professor, the department, or anything else you'd like to tell the major's committee. <https://goo.gl/forms/SzsEXc7kvjSaDwDE3> Major's Committee Contacts * Zoe LaCheen-Fine text/html 2019-09-20T23:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) syllabus https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu102-201901/syllabus?rev=1569021715&do=diff <html> <h2>Course description</h2> <p>An algorithm is the specification of a method to solve a given problem. A data structure is a specific way of organizing data so that it can be used efficiently by an algorithm. This course approaches data structures and algorithms from a practical perspective, text/html 2019-04-29T18:38:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) syllabus https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu102-201952/syllabus?rev=1556563083&do=diff <HTML> <h1>CMPU-102-52 Computer Science II: Data Structures and Algorithms - Spring 2019 syllabus</h1> <h2>Course description</h2> <p>An algorithm is the specification of a method to solve a given problem. A data structure is a specific way of organizing data so that it can be used efficiently by an algorithm. This course approaches data structures and algorithms from a practical perspective, text/html 2019-01-23T22:42:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) syllabus https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu102-201802/syllabus?rev=1548283344&do=diff <HTML> <h1>CMPU-102-02 Computer Science II: Data Structures and Algorithms - Fall 2018 syllabus</h1> <h2>Course description</h2> <p>An algorithm is the specification of a method to solve a given problem. A data structure is a specific way of organizing data so that it can be used efficiently by an algorithm. This course approaches data structures and algorithms from a practical perspective, using Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and particularly Java, as a framework to learn and experiment wi… text/html 2017-05-01T10:05:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) schedule https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-201752/schedule?rev=1493633145&do=diff Schedule (CMPU-102-52, Spring 2017) [Workshop Invitation by the coaches] Date Topic Lecture Notes 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 2008-07-02T19:45:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) aiptasia_wiki https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/ursi_2008/aiptasiabase/aiptasia_wiki?rev=1215027936&do=diff AIPTASIA WIKI Goals * Build a open resource for the bioinformatics community to access and contribute data and research on the aiptasia genome. * Create a tool for runnning tasks on the “BioInf” cluster from the internet. * Creating a “piping text/html 2009-06-21T20:29:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) usb760 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 2011-09-22T17:43:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) java_system_tips https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/java_system_tips?rev=1316713392&do=diff Java issues and tips Java remote method invocation problem Problem: When running a demo of Java's remote method invocation on our Ubuntu 9.04 based linux machines running java-6-openjdk the client could only attach to a server running on the same host.```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` 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 2008-05-11T23:29:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) hacks https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/hacks?rev=1210548591&do=diff Wear Hacks and Projects pages It became clear during the wiki transition that I had a number of “get 'em on the field” hacks in a variety of formats and locations as well as other wearable related pages and I needed to gather them up. As I clean up my site, this is where they will all be listed.  For now it is a growing list of links to where they currently reside. text/html 2010-02-01T19:26:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) using_dbc https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/using_dbc?rev=1265052409&do=diff Using the script /usr/local/sbin/dbc Dropbox check script Description This script is used to look at information from file names created by the submit script used by the digital drop box. It assumes English month names (January, February, etc.) and cannot deal with spaces. It prints out the encrypted information in a readable format. 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 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 2015-08-27T14:13:27+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). Depending on the network speed, the load on the server, the speed of your machine and the protocols vnc is trying to follow, the speed of … text/html 2008-04-10T01:28:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) publications 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 2023-09-11T05:03:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) grants 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 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 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 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 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 2026-06-04T02:45:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top 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 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 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 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 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 2021-01-21T18:51:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top 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 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 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 2022-10-27T19:58:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 06 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2022b/assignments/06?rev=1666900684&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; } code, code.pyret { color: black; } table { margin: 1em auto; } table th, table td { padding: 1pt 4pt; font-size: 13pt; } div.dw-content a { text-decoration: underline; } div.dw-content … 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 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 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 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 2017-04-18T19:20:06+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 2012-12-05T17:11:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) adjuncts https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/adjuncts?rev=1354727518&do=diff 2013 Adjunct Professor Courses CMPU 145 - Foundations of Computer Science Introduces the theoretical, structural and algorithmic foundations of computer science. Topics include: sets, relations, functions, recursive data structures, recursive functions, induction, structural induction, probability, logic, Boolean algebra, proving program correctness, and the lambda calculus. Concepts are reinforced in programming exercises in the laboratory. text/html 2009-08-13T17:38:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) gate_tips https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/gate_tips?rev=1250185129&do=diff Gate tips Help! I still get GATE 5.0 Beta, not GATE 5.0 When you run gate you should see that you are running GATE Developer 5.0 build 3244. If you are not, then to use the new version you need to do the following 2 steps: * Delete your existing user configuration file, do that with the command: ```````````````````` text/html 2018-08-29T16:24:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) syllabus https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu241-201801/syllabus?rev=1535559858&do=diff <HTML> <h1>CMPU-241-01 Analysis of Algorithms - Fall 2018 syllabus</h1> <h2>Course description</h2> <p>An algorithm is the specification of a method to solve a given problem. This course covers fundamental algorithm design and analysis techniques. These techniques shall provide students with a solid knowledge base, which will allow them to develop correct and efficient algorithms to solve whatever practical computer science problems they may encounter in the future.</p> text/html 2020-04-16T21:17:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week11 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-202051/week11?rev=1587071877&do=diff Week 11 Tuesday * the meeting id for tues/thurs lectures * <https://vassar.zoom.us/j/5845469406> * We will talk about sets today, even if you haven't taken cmpu-145 (!) * We'll implement sets in our Wednesday lab. (Please contact me if you haven't finished the linked list lab.) text/html 2020-04-02T12:54:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week9 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-202051/week9?rev=1585832075&do=diff Week 9 Tuesday * [Java node implementation, from slides] * [Today's Lecture Notes] * Oracle's tutorial on Java Interface * from last week's lab, fizzbuzz is a thing! * I added the Tuesday lecture (audio only and video+audio) to moodle. (9:59 pm local time, sorry for the late notice) Wednesday * The zoom meeting link for labs * <https://vassar.zoom.us/j/880032011> * [Instructions for the linked list lab (LLL)] * I'm separating out the individual source files here. Pl… 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 2021-09-09T18:40:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week2 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-2021-01/week2?rev=1631212805&do=diff Welcome to Week 2 Tuesday * Last Friday's lab: any questions? * Let's review the “Extra” section. We can also review our vehicular class design. * Lecture notes for some important Java language specifics * Any interest in handouts for Java language-specific syntax/notes? text/html 2021-02-08T06:12:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) style https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/style?rev=1612764779&do=diff The Style Basics In addition to following the design recipe, all code must adhere to the following basic style guidelines: * Organize your program top-down, regardless of how you actual work through your wish list. The phrase “top down” means that project files consist of a general purpose statement, a data definition and a constant definition section, a main function, followed by sections for handler functions, and wrapped up by general utility functions. text/html 2021-04-05T15:53:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) programmer-poet https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/programmer-poet?rev=1617638030&do=diff The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself... O… text/html 2021-12-12T22:04:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) final-exam-email https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/final-exam-email?rev=1639346690&do=diff e-mail sent to you on Sunday 12/12: Dear students, This email contains important updates and information about the final exam. Please read it carefully. What has not changed is the exam time. It is still as originally scheduled: this Thursday, December 16, between 9–11am. text/html 2019-12-13T02:10:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) syllabus https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu375-201901/syllabus?rev=1576203016&do=diff <html> <h2>Course description</h2> <p>Computer networks, in the form of the Internet, have revolutionized society in the last 3 decades. This course provides an introduction to the design and operation of the Internet and computer networks in general. Topics include layered communication text/html 2020-01-14T20:08:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) syllabus https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu224-202051/syllabus?rev=1579032484&do=diff <HTML> <h1>CMPU-224-51 Computer Organization - Spring 2020 syllabus</h1> <h2>Course description</h2> <p>This course covers the underlying principles and internal structure of computer systems, with the goal of enabling students to become better programmers and encouraging further study in the area of computer systems. </p> text/html 2015-09-02T19:10:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs240/top?rev=1441221059&do=diff CMPU 240: Language Theory and Automata Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:15pm, Room 105 Sanders Physics Instructor: Professor Nancy Ide Office: 104.6 Sanders Physics Phone: (845) 437-5988 Email: ide [at] cs.vassar.edu Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11am - 12pm and by appointment text/html 2017-08-25T12:40:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu-224_f17/top?rev=1503664816&do=diff CMPU-224 Computer Organization Fall 2017 This course examines the hierarchical structure of computing systems, from digital logic and microprogramming through machine and assembly languages. Topics include the structure and workings of the central processor, instruction execution, memory and register organization, addressing schemes and caching. Our aim is to help you become a better programmer by teaching you the basic concepts underlying all computer systems. We want you to learn what reall… text/html 2016-05-20T15:49:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) linux_tutorial_seven https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_seven?rev=1463759351&do=diff Linux Tutorial Seven 7.1 Compiling Linux software packages We have many public domain and commercial software packages installed on our systems, which are available to all users. However, students are allowed to download and install small software packages in their own home directory, software usually only useful to them personally. 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 2016-01-24T19:47:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) schedule https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/schedule?rev=1453664861&do=diff cmpu 240 Schedule Approximate schedule, subject to change. You are responsible for keeping yourself informed of the schedule and any changes that may occur over time. The assigned readings should, ideally, be read before the corresponding class. You are responsible for keeping up with the reading and for all material covered in class. I 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 2025-06-27T18:46:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) frozen https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/frozen?rev=1751049974&do=diff Frozen Machine! If you have a process, a window, or a machine that seems to have “frozen” while you were working on it, became “stuck,” is not responding to the keyboard or mouse, or is spewing out garbage into a window here is what you can try. If the steps below don't work, please get more help! Either ask a coach, an instructor or find or write me. text/html 2022-01-17T21:07:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) operating_systems https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/operating_systems?rev=1642453646&do=diff <HTML> <h1> Operating Systems </h1> <h2>CMPU-334 Section 01</h2> <h2>Vassar College, Spring, 2022</h2> <h2>Syllabus & Course Wiki</h2> <p> Welcome to the main section of our course wiki. Use this as a starting point to access the weekly course schedule, lectures, labs, resources, etc. etc. etc. </p> text/html 2016-01-24T19:43:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) schedule https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs240/schedule?rev=1453664605&do=diff CS 240 Schedule Slides for each week's lectures are available by clicking on the topic for that week. The following schedule roughly estimates the day we will cover given material and is subject to change. You are responsible for keeping yourself informed of the possible evolution in content and schedule. The assigned readings should be read before the corresponding class. You are responsible for keeping up with the reading and for all material covered in class (some of which may not be in the… text/html 2023-03-27T16:58:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs241-2023-51/top?rev=1679936304&do=diff Analysis of Algorithms (CMPU-241-51, Spring 2023) CMPU-241-51: Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2023) Instructor: Prairie Rose Goodwin Location: Sanders Physics (SP) 105 Hours: Tue/Thu - 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Notes: You can not enroll yourself in this course. text/html 2019-05-24T11:55:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) windows https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/windows?rev=1558698954&do=diff Secure Shell on Windows Installation To log in to the CS Department computers, you will need a SSH client. There are several free SSH clients available for Windows. We have used PuTTY with great success. We have also used WinSCP to copy files between Windows and Unix computers. text/html 2012-03-26T14:50:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2012-03-24_vc_squared_-_entrepreneurship_program https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2012-03-24_vc_squared_-_entrepreneurship_program?rev=1332773437&do=diff 2012-03-24 "VC Squared" - Entrepreneurship Program Event date: March 24, 2012 3:00 PM ET Location: Vassar College College Center 237 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie NY 12604 Description: “VC Squared” The Office of Alumnae/i Affairs and Development and the Vassar College Venture Co-op host text/html 2020-07-04T21:02:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) vnc https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/vnc?rev=1593896566&do=diff Using VNC What is VNC? NOTE: VNC is deprecated. For all remote desktop access, we ask that you use X2Go (found here). 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If you want to access these bastion servers then you need to be on the text/html 2016-05-18T15:53:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) info https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/info?rev=1463586832&do=diff Bash Shell Resources a few articles and tutorials on the web for learning the bash shell * <http://www.arachnoid.com/linux/shell_programming.html> * <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html> * <http://www.panix.com/~elflord/unix/bash-tute.html> * <http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles2/043.html> * <http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/linux/docs/uniqlinuxfeatures/lsst/> System Info - User Help ---------- Help for New Users Unix information and help Examples for … text/html 2015-08-26T20:52:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) backups https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/backups?rev=1440622373&do=diff FIXME update, convert to wiki, add link to isohome Backup With Tar ---------- * Overview * Creating a tar file of your entire directory * Copying the file to another location * Tar Documentation ---------- Overview While I make regular backups of the home directories on the Computer Science Unix machines, there are times when you want to have your own copy of your account. 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Contact Information Professor: text/html 2009-02-27T15:11:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2009-02-23_edward_jung_lecture https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-02-23_edward_jung_lecture?rev=1235747491&do=diff 2009-02-23 Edward Jung Lecture <html><center></html> 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? text/html 2009-02-17T14:24:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2009-02-16_matthew_lang_lecture https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-02-16_matthew_lang_lecture?rev=1234880683&do=diff 2009-02-16 Matthew Lang lecture <html><center></html> Matthew Lang Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ohio State University Monday, February 16, 2009 OLB classroom 105, 4pm Maximal Software <html></center></html> Maximality is a property of software; just as we call software text/html 2008-11-12T18:22:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2008-11-07_prereg_pizza_party https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2008-11-07_prereg_pizza_party?rev=1226514139&do=diff 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… text/html 2022-01-17T21:13:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/operating_systems/top?rev=1642454012&do=diff <HTML> <h1> Operating Systems </h1> <h2>CMPU-334 Section 01</h2> <h2>Vassar College, Spring, 2022</h2> <h2>Syllabus & Course Wiki</h2> <p> Welcome to the main section of our course wiki. 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Contact Information text/html 2020-12-07T20:12:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) assigns https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs381-2020/assigns?rev=1607371929&do=diff Assignments Student Workstations Student Workstation Samira A. al101 Eura C. al102 Thomas D. al103 Margaret L. al104 Mehr N.-M. al105 Wesley O. al106 Ryan H. al107 text/html 2019-09-08T18:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs381-2019/top?rev=1567967982&do=diff Relational Databases and SQL CMPU-381 Vassar College, Fall 2019 Syllabus / Course Wiki Welcome to our course wiki. It will be updated throughout the semester with important course information, so check here regularly. Contact Information text/html 2020-01-21T18:33:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) final-project https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs366/final-project?rev=1579631624&do=diff Final project The full description of the final project is here. The final project is the main assignment of the second half of the course. Final projects can be done individually or in groups of 2 people. Group projects are expected to be more substantial than individual ones. All projects are required to be related in a substantive way to at least one of the central topics of the course. The main components are as follows: text/html 2022-01-17T23:04:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs334-202251/top?rev=1642460653&do=diff <HTML> <h1> Operating Systems </h1> <h2>CMPU-334 Section 51</h2> <h2>Vassar College, Spring, 2022</h2> <h2>Syllabus & Course Wiki</h2> <p> Welcome to the main section of our course wiki. 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