https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-09T17:42:20+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 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 2011-02-11T11:41:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/software?rev=1297424512&do=diff Essential Software Looking for a little more info? The following is a list of some of what I consider to be essential software I run in Xubuntu on my wearable. Each of these contribute an key part of the experience: ? //software Dectalk// from fonix :: http://www.fonixspeech.com/dectalk_legacy.php .. Yep, this is one of two pieces of commercial software I run. For years I ran a hardware dectalk, then for a while I used pc104 based doubletalk units, as the rigs became more powerful and software… text/html 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 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 2026-06-04T02:45:25+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 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 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 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 2008-04-10T20:51:09+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 2023-03-14T21:54:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/genealogy?rev=1678830869&do=diff Academic Genealogy * My Ph.D. advisors were Rebecca J. Parsons and Charles E. Hughes * Rebecca's advisor was * Matthias Felleisen, whose advisor was * Daniel P. Friedman, whose advisor was * Terrence W. Pratt, whose advisor was * Robert K. Lindsey, whose advisor was * Herbert A. Simon, the father of Artificial Intelligence text/html 2019-08-08T02:27:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/erdos?rev=1565231275&do=diff My Erdös Number My Erdös number is at most 3. Here's how: me --> Charles E. Hughes --> Stanley M. Selkow --> Paul Erdös In other words, * I published with someone * who published with someone * who published a paper with Paul Erdös. Yes, many people have their own Erdös number, but it was still fun finding mine! text/html 2009-09-11T18:31:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/vnc_inetd_gdm?rev=1252693878&do=diff VNC over inetd with gdm - number of session limitation There are a lot of pages about setting up vnc over inetd.  I had been running such a setup for years with 10 - 20 simultaneous sessions being commonplace, but an upgrade of the server to ubuntu 9.4 broke my configuration.  Eventually all but one problem had been worked out by poking around the changelogs, reading a few man pages and using the standard net searches.  That problem was that only 2 simultaneous sessions were supported.  The fix… text/html 2013-05-23T14:31:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/timeline_of_rigs?rev=1369319494&do=diff Timeline of Herbert [herb one in 1997] [herb three in 1999] [charmerino in 2000] [herb seven in 2008] [gerbert in 2013] Most of my wearables pages are about the changes and modifications I have made over the years.  I noticed that it gives the impression I am constantly changing things. On this page you can see just how long particular rigs were or have been in use. text/html 2018-08-19T00:21:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/bio?rev=1534638095&do=diff Bio * Before joining Vassar in Fall 2006, I was an assistant professor at Colby College for five (5) years, beginning Fall 2001. Prior to my transition to academia, I worked for AT&T for fifteen (15) years, in several different internal IT capacities, including applications and systems development and support, and IT infrastructure systems engineering. One of the very special opportunities I had while working for AT&T was to be sponsored in its Doctoral Support Program, which enabled me to go… text/html 2009-12-23T18:23:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/herbeee?rev=1261592581&do=diff herbeee aka "Herbert Lite" Herbert is a wonderful thing, but let's face it, it is not inexpensive.  I needed to send it in to Sony for a minor repair So, I built “herbeee” to tide me over... In April of 2008 I got an Asus eeepc with 4gig of flash and 512meg of ram.  In short order I installed text/html 2009-06-21T20:29:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/usb760?rev=1245616171&do=diff Well, I got my Novatel Wireless usb760 and my Verizonwireless broadband plan. I can report that the device works well but can't be set up entirely under linux. I can also report that VerizonWireless tech folks have much less than no clue about linux. text/html 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 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 2010-04-08T10:58:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/bibtex?rev=1270724318&do=diff Bibtex Templates Here are a few bibtex templates that I use with the dokuwiki bibtex plugin. In time I should have all the entry types done. Entry Types * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Article Entry An article from a journal or magazine. text/html 2021-01-21T18:51:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/walter/top?rev=1611255073&do=diff Jennifer E. Walter Professor Emerita Department of Computer Science Vassar College Email: <jewalter@vassar.edu> “When you are the only woman in a group, you are no longer a woman; you are THE woman, as if your actions stand for that of your entire gender.” text/html 2009-10-20T20:32:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/mlsmith-pubkey?rev=1256070766&do=diff PGP Information * Here is my key fingerprint: “F3BA F7FC 851E 0098 EA61 F980 D6A2 5D7C CE7C 218B” * and below is my PGP Key (in case anyone needs to send me something securely) ---------- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) mQGiBES1B38RBADGsTDGumJCn+kjORlYYvyvJge3YvMtOft1JPCUU+Enh9NEXZQB JSG3ZCkAcqj5zxkHFNBHzvWGFsURpWgxuxnLiSjFtHtheMRdNljpd3FuKDbJ3xHm Pc7zzolrt2txAhObGpXZmdcNLyJfSKXRkLlqEcmEUTtyk2MXl9VovdkR8wCg9kfo DCGL4T2/HQNverTc6s9Zd0UEAIFxMWdSL… text/html 2007-12-28T18:56:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/qemu_ubuntu_7.10?rev=1198868160&do=diff I recently wanted to try a windows only usb device. I deceided to bring up a qemu image and found a few things out that I wonted to put in one place: for win2k make sure to use -win2k-hack when building the system as indicated in the qemu man page text/html 2021-01-23T19:39:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/pubs?rev=1611430740&do=diff Publications * Dissertation: * Marc L. Smith. View-Centric Reasoning about Parallel and Distributed Computation. PhD thesis, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2362, December 2000. [PDF] Postscript and in the UCF institutional repository, STARS. * text/html 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 2025-06-27T18:41:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/andrewmcdonald/top?rev=1751049679&do=diff Contact info for Andrew McDonald Email:<andrewmcdonald@vassar.edu> Phone-Extension:7998 Office:SP-307.2 Position: System Administrator text/html 2013-03-17T20:31:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/iswc_2007?rev=1363552281&do=diff Herbert and me at ISWC 2007 In both videos you can see the dual holster. I am also using the ntsc version of the M1. New Scientist Perhaps it should be called “Old Scientist without enough sleep”. When I was at ISWC 2007 in Boston I had a chat with Phil McKenna of New Scientist Magazine. I am the third person interviewed in the video and at the end of the written article archived at text/html 2011-07-02T14:55:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/top?rev=1309618521&do=diff These are my personal pages, if you are looking for system information, please head over to top. -Greg ---------- <http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html> Campaign for Online Freedom of Speech, Press and Association ---------- A point in every direction is the same as no point at all These pages are XHTML compliant: use any browser you choose! Where Am I in the world? text/html 2008-04-10T17:39:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/hunsberg/foo?rev=1207849194&do=diff Luke Hunsberger Assistant Professor in Computer Science Vassar College Contact Info Mailing Address 124 Raymond Ave. Box 444, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0444 Email hunsberg@cs.vassar.edu Office OLB 121 Office Hours (Spring 2008) Mondays text/html 2024-07-27T01:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/sidebar?rev=1722043052&do=diff Marc L. Smith * Home * Publications * Grants * Past courses * Concurrency * Teaching * Publicity * My Erdös Number * Academic Genealogy * PGP Information * Bio Vassar Content AskBanner OneLogin Reference EoS Time