https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-14T03:33:34+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2020-05-01T18:13:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2013-05-23T14:24:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/top?rev=1369319086&do=diff What am I wearing? New Scientist A few details from decades of daily wear [gerbert in 2013]Please note, this page documents what I was wearing during the last four of the nineteen wonderful years I spent working for the CS Department at Vassar. For the last year and a half I have been wearing modified versions of Google Glass running Glass and Ubuntu. Along with that I am using a Bluetooth version of the Spiffchorder for input. Please see the text/html 2026-04-21T22:57:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/top?rev=1776812227&do=diff People Faculty Jacob Erickson Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science Jacob Erickson's research explores how digital platforms shape sociopolitical discourse, focusing on platform governance, online safety, and the downstream impacts of design and moderation decisions. Drawing from human-computer interaction, data science, and computational social science, his work examines how platform affordances influence online communication, community behavior, and user trust. His research … text/html 2026-06-04T03:36:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/teaching?rev=1780544212&do=diff Teaching First-year computer science * Program by Design - The computer science core of a liberal arts education * How to Design Programs - An Introduction to Programming and Computing * Racket - Includes the DrRacket programming environment * WeScheme - Web-based programming environment text/html 2011-06-20T03:03:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/vss?rev=1308538985&do=diff Vassar Science Scholars Lecture/Lab Saturday, March 26, 2011 9:30am--12pm Sci Vis Lab, 3rd Floor Mudd Chemistry WeScheme: from Algebra to Animation We will explore selected parts of the Scheme programming language using WeScheme, a browser-- text/html 2009-04-06T14:00:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2010-01-25T16:16:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2008-05-11T23:29:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2009-12-07T17:24:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/context_awarness_project?rev=1260206695&do=diff the next big thing... Endurance Running Harness for Herbert October 2009 I have been a walker ever since I got my legs back as a teenager.  Before that biking is how I covered distance.  For a time I did not have use of my legs (the result of a biking accident) and was told I would not walk again.  Thankfully that was not the case, but after that the idea of running always seemed foolhardy.  All that impact, thud thud thud, not for me and my spine.  However, of late I am trying running text/html 2008-02-21T21:07:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/multihome_dokuwiki_hacks?rev=1203628033&do=diff Multihome Dokuwiki Hacks I use the article by Lukas Ruf on setting up dokuwiki on a mutihomed web server to allow multiple separate wikis to run on one machine. The article is available at <http://wiki.lpr.ch/doku.php/multihomed>. These are a few things I have done in addition to the suggestions in the article. text/html 2021-01-21T18:51:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/walter/top?rev=1611255073&do=diff Jennifer E. Walter Professor Emerita Department of Computer Science Vassar College Email: <jewalter@vassar.edu> “When you are the only woman in a group, you are no longer a woman; you are THE woman, as if your actions stand for that of your entire gender.” text/html 2010-03-01T15:08:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2008-04-10T20:51:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2008-04-10T01:28:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/ide/publications?rev=1207790892&do=diff Selected Publications (1990-onwards) * Ide, N. and Suderman, K. (2007). GrAF: A Graph-based Format for Linguistic Annotations. Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop,held in conjunction with ACL 2007, Prague, June 28-29, 1-8. * Ide, N. and Woolner, D. (2007). Historical Ontologies. In Ahmad, K, Brewster, C., and Stevenson, M. (eds.), text/html 2011-02-25T04:13:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2007-12-28T00:19:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/books?rev=1198801150&do=diff My Favorite Books and Stories Limbo by Bernard Wolfe This book may be hard to find, but is worth the hunt. Originally published in 1952. Set in 1990. I am not sure what to say about this one - it had and continues to have quite an effect on me. (Of course that may just be because I had been told I text/html 2026-06-04T02:45:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/top?rev=1780541125&do=diff Marc L. Smith (he/him) Professor of Computer Science Computer Science Department Vassar College Coordinates Office: SP 104.5 Voice: 845 437 7497 Zoom E-mail: mlsmith@vassar.edu Vassar College, Box 399 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0399 2026 -- 2027 * On Sabbatical$((\lambda(x)\ (x\ x))\ (\lambda(x)\ (x\ x)))$ text/html 2023-09-11T05:03:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/grants?rev=1694408609&do=diff Grants * NSF INSPIRE Grant. Award Date: Sep. 18, 2013. Award No: DEB-1344227. Award Amount: $999,314. Effective Jan. 1, 2014. Expires Dec. 31, 2017. INSPIRE Track 1: Is Evolvability Driven By Emergent Modularity? Biomimetic robots, gene inspired information structures, and the evolvability of intelligent agents. PI Kenneth R. Livingston, Co-PI Jodi Schwarz, Co-PI John H. Long, Co-PI text/html 2009-06-21T20:29:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/usb760?rev=1245616171&do=diff Well, I got my Novatel Wireless usb760 and my Verizonwireless broadband plan. I can report that the device works well but can't be set up entirely under linux. I can also report that VerizonWireless tech folks have much less than no clue about linux.